Tar Sands

17/05/18
Author: 
Sarah Beuhler

[Website editor: Note the interesting account of ENGO strategy re the Kinder Morgan pipeline detailed in this post to a US site.]

A confrontation is brewing on Canada’s west coast, and the stakes could not be higher.

13/05/18
Author: 
Kevin Taft
Photograph by Andrew S. Wright for National Observer of Alberta oilsands tailings ponds May 2014

A primary lesson in political communications is that there is room in the public mind for only one big political news story at a time, and whoever drives that one big story wins twice: their story sets the headlines, and stories they don’t like are pushed to the margins.

02/05/18
Author: 
Paul McKay

April 26,  2018 - It’s a good bet few business journalists currently working in Canada would recognize the name Ida Tarbell.

01/05/18
Author: 
Clark Williams-Derry

Firm faces steep costs and “unlimited liability” for a Trans Mountain spill.

30/03/18
Author: 
Emma Gilchrist
Illustration: Carol Linnitt with imagery from Richard Elzey via Flickr

[Editor: This is a great article! A must read.]

 

March 29, 2018
 
On a certain level, Vivian Krause and her cadre are right when they accuse Canadian non-profits of taking foreign money. American philanthropists do give money to Canadian non-profits.

There’s just one thing: it’s neither surprising nor clandestine.

29/03/18

Private banks around the world are back to funneling more money into the global fossil fuel sectors in 2017, according to a report released today by Rainforest Action Network

29/03/18
Author: 
PRIMARY AUTHOR MITCHELL BEER

The gap between Canada’s climate action plan and its 2030 commitments under the Paris agreement is actually 161 megatonnes—nearly three times more than the 66 Mt the Trudeau government 

21/03/18
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk

March 21, 2018 - Alberta’s Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have repeatedly claimed that the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will secure higher prices for Canada’s heavy crude and therefore is in the national interest.

16/03/18
Author: 
Joe Oliver

[Russians, foreign (US) radicals  . . . or maybe concerned Canadians?!] 

March 13, 2018

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