Oil - Pipelines

Their next mission? Punch another pipeline through Indigenous lands

Canadians can shake our heads at police brutality in the United States, but the same tactics and equipment are used in our country, with alarming numbers of Black and Indigenous people hurt and killed.

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British Columbia

Photos prove failure of physical distancing at Trans Mountain construction sites on the same day WorkSafeBC told the City of Burnaby they found “no concerns.”

02/06/20

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Mountain Protectors

Mountain Protectors

For Immediate Release: June 2, 2020

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Jim Leyden and Mountain Protectors – 236.788.6764

contactmountainprotectors@gmail.com

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Why an Alberta court decision to quash an oilsands project affects Treaty Rights cases in B.C.

30/05/20

Author:

Ben Parfitt

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The Narwhal

Fort McKay First Nation member Michael Bouchier, middle, takes his friends on a boat ride toward a Suncor Energy operation on the Athabasca River. The Fort McKay recently won a legal battle against a new oilsands project near Moose Lake. Photo: Aaron Vincent Elkaim

May 28, 2020

A recent ruling by three Appeal Court justices has transformed the nature of Treaty 8 First Nations’ legal battles against the Site C dam and oil and gas development, finding the Crown must consider the cumulative impacts of industrial projects

When Woodland Cree Chiefs met with commissioners of the Crown at Lesser Slave Lake in June 1899 to sign Treaty 8, it’s likely no one completely understood the full scale of industrial development that lay ahead.

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A New Idea: Introducing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

29/05/20

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C&C Climate Voices - Tzeporah Berman and Mark Campanale

Link:

Climate & Capital Media

May 28, 2020

It’s time for governments to work together to end the reign of fossil fuels

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Report shows 70 percent of Canadian oilsands production is owned by foreign companies and shareholders

27/05/20

Author:

Charlie Smith

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Georgia Straight

The Christina Lake oilsands facility south of Fort McMurray is owned by one of the big five, Cenovus, which all are majority foreign-owned. CENOVUS

May 11th, 2020

The Canadian fossil-fuel sector and its political allies, including Alberta premier Jason Kenney, repeatedly drive home the point that Canadian environmental groups receive foreign funding.

But some of these same groups have turned the tables on the industry with a new report showing that foreign-controlled operational profit from the Canadian oilsands nearly doubled from 2012 to 2016 to 58.4 percent.

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Shell Game

22/05/20

Author:

Andrew Nikiforuk

Link:

The Tyee

May 20, 2020 - Alberta’s oil patch regulator made history of a sort last week by saying the word no. The reasons it did pitted a crusty cowboy against a wealthy ballet aficionado, and exposed a gambit by one of the world’s oil giants to offload its responsibilities in a way, the ruling said, that would have defied provincial law.

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Alberta

Oil - Pipelines

This Energy Analyst Says the Oilsands Are ‘Done’

14/05/20

Author:

Geoff Dembicki

Link:

The Tyee

Deborah Lawrence, formerly Deborah Rogers, warned of the shale gas and oil crashes, and called Teck Frontier’s proposed new oilsands mine ‘uncommercial even at relatively high oil prices’ years before it was cancelled. Photo: submitted.

May 11, 2020

COVID-19 is making many bearish about bitumen. Deborah Lawrence’s past pessimism has proven unpopular, and correct.

Geoff Dembicki reports for The Tyee. His work also appears in Vice, Foreign Policy and the New York Times.

Deborah Lawrence used to be a stockbroker with Merrill Lynch. Over the past decade, the independent economic analyst has developed a reputation for telling oil investors what they don’t want to hear.

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