Oil - Pipelines

Leaked 2018 Strategy Proposed ‘Broader Than Oil’ Coalition To Undercut Ottawa's Clean Fuel Standard

09/10/20

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Primary author Mitchell Beer

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

A top communications and government relations firm led by long-time Conservative Party strategist Jaime Watt developed a confidential plan to undercut support for the federal Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) by convincing Canadians that “fighting climate change is a losing battle,” according to leaked documents released this week by Greenpeace Canada.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Industry has known for decades that most plastic just can't be recycled, says investigative journalist Social Sharing

08/10/20

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Written by Padraig Moran. Produced by Jodie Martinson and Paul MacInnis.

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The Current - CBC

Oct 08, 2020

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Why recycling efforts don’t save certain plastics from landfill

08/10/20

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CBC the Current

Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR

Oct. 9, 2020

[Editor: This is really a must listen to!]

The federal government announced plans Wednesday to ban six kinds of single-use plastics by the end of next year. Laura Sullivan, investigative correspondent for NPR, discusses why — despite the hype — recycling isn't keeping that plastic out of landfills.

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Ottawa Set to Declare Plastics as Toxic Substance

07/10/20

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Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press

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Energy Now

March 12, 2020

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Three Indigenous Land Defenders Imprisoned Today

07/10/20

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Mountain Protectors

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Oil Pipeline Operators Offer New Discounts as Demand Craters

06/10/20

Author:

Sheela Tobben - Bloomberg News

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Financial Post

Oct 05, 2020

(Bloomberg) — U.S. oil pipeline operators are slashing fees to encourage customers in Texas to keep using their networks to ship barrels to the Gulf Coast as the pandemic wreaks havoc on profits.

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Oil - Pipelines

USA

Permanent protest camp established near Trans Mountain work site in Kamloops

06/10/20

Author:

Michael Potestio

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Kamloops This Week

Secwépemc protestors arrive at the Mission Flats camp on Oct. 3, where they vow to remain during their bid to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. photo by Facebook

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Miranda Dick, a spokesperson for the camp, told KTW the sole goal of the encampment is to stop the pipeline twinning project. Asked what protesters are prepared to do to achieve that, Dick replied: “Everything.”

[more photos here.]

Secwépemc protesters have settled in for the long haul in a bid to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project from being completed in Kamloops.

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Bad Dreams on Burnaby Mountain: Threats of Oil Spills, Explosions and Killer Firestorms

05/10/20

Author:

Tom Sandborn

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National Observer

This photo shows Elan Gibson (seated), author, actor, activist and a spokeswoman for Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion, on the day of her arrest at the Kinder Morgan tank farm gates on May 16, 2018. Photo by Susanne Jackson

October 5th 2020

“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”
— Lord Farquaard in Shrek, the animated classic

“Fossil fuels require sacrifice zones: they always have.”
— Naomi Klein, 2016

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Canada Pension Plan fuels the climate crisis with our own retirement savings

05/10/20

Author:

Patrick DeRochie & Adam Scott

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National Observer

Recent analyses of CPP’s investments in oil, gas and coal raise red flags about the fund’s alignment with Canada’s climate commitments and mandate to invest in the best interests of Canadians. Photo by Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health

Last month, Mark Machin, CEO of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), wrote that climate change is the crisis beyond COVID-19 that we can’t afford to ignore, stating that “the full effects will depend on the actions we take now and in the future.”

We strongly agree.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

How the Corporate Media Helps the Fossil Fuel Industry Dupe the American Public on Climate

01/10/20

Author:

Aman Azhar

Link:

The Real News

Rebels from Extinction Rebellion DC (XRDC) set off smoke flares and dumped ash outside CNN’s DC offices on Friday, September 18, in protest at news outlet's coverage of the wildfire crisis. Credit: Gabe Cowan (XRDC)

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The views of large businesses and opponents of climate action are given outsized coverage to sway climate debate.

For nearly three decades, mainstream American news outlets duped the public on climate change by publishing significantly more news stories that denied climate science compared to those that said it was occurring, according to a recent study.

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Oil - Pipelines

Miranda Dick, a spokesperson for the camp, told KTW the sole goal of the encampment is to stop the pipeline twinning project. Asked what protesters are prepared to do to achieve that, Dick replied: “Everything.”

The views of large businesses and opponents of climate action are given outsized coverage to sway climate debate.

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