Tar Sands

23/01/17

January 18, 2017 - Toronto – New research released today reveals disturbing new evidence on how locking-into new long-lived tar sands production undermines global efforts to address the global climate crisis far beyond Canada’s borders.

08/01/17
Author: 
James Munson

Jan 2, 2017 - As oil prices rose and fell, the federal government somehow wrestled a national agreement on climate change — with two notable exceptions. The fates of pipelines that had consumed public interest for years were drawn, while others were punted into the future. Canada’s beleaguered oil and gas industry faced an uncertain year with a new Liberal government in Ottawa, and 2017 looks like it will have its own share of big shifts.

22/12/16
Author: 
Canadian Climate Network

OVERVIEW • 

WHAT’S MISSING • 

To view this 6 page, Dec 12, 2016  summary click here: 

22/12/16
Author: 
James Wilt

Dec 13, 2016 - On Dec. 9, after much deliberation and political theatre, the federal government, eight provinces and three territories signed the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba were notably absent from the list of signatories.

20/12/16
Author: 
Mike De Souza
Scientists have found 15 ways that Alberta's oilsands industry can alter the oceans. Photo of oilsands facility in Fort McMurray by Kris Krug

When Stephanie Green and a team of seven other scientists first began their latest research study more than two years ago in Vancouver, she said they were driven by curiosity.

 

Green, a Canadian, is a Banting post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University in California. She specializes in marine ecology and conservation science.

05/12/16
Author: 
Brennan Field, Kalowatie Deonandan, Raywat Deonandan

A policy path forward, then, is to include aboriginal women as decision-makers in all stakeholder engagement practice, not just as token voices in the formulation of impact agreements.

PUBLISHED : Monday, Dec. 5, 2016 

03/12/16

[Webpage editors note: Two articles below, one about powering the tar sands with BC hydro (Site C!) and the other about 'benefits' for BC from the Kinder Morgan pipeline]

Vaughn Palmer: Clark pushes hydro intertie now that Alberta's pipeline is approved

VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark hopes the progress made this week on bringing more Alberta oil to the West Coast will help clear the way for our neighbouring province to take more of B.C.’s electricity.

02/12/16
Author: 
Eric de Place

Sightline report documents Kinder Morgan’s extensive track record of wrongdoing

01/12/16
Author: 
Carol Linnitt
https://www.desmog.ca/2016/11/29/federal-approval-kinder-morgan-pipeline-would-be-misguided-says-justice-minister-newly-surfaced-letter

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said the federal government holds the constitutional power to force through the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline but that doing so would follow the “misguided position of the Conservatives.”

28/11/16
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Prime Minister Trudeau's climate policies are being swamped by his simultaneous push for massive expansions in climate pollution.
 

The numbers speak for themselves. Here they are along with a chart to put them all into context.

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