Tar Sands

21/05/18
Author: 
WAL VAN LIEROP

There is growing consensus that the world is going through an energy transition. Everybody has heard politicians or CEOs of large energy companies making that statement.

18/05/18
Author: 
Travis Lupick

Part one - Stewart Phillip reflects on his roots and the fight ahead

May 14, 2018 - A crowd of hundreds had come together in downtown Vancouver very quickly.

18/05/18
Author: 
Robert Billyard

Rachel Carson is a voice from the past.

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

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