Oil - Pipelines

29/06/25
Author: 
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Edited by Chris McDermott
Activists from Rise and Resist, Truth Tuesdays and Extinction Rebellion gathered in the public space in front of Fox Headquarters in Manhattan to protest the network's ongoing propagation of dangerous climate lies, as part of Earth Week on April 19, 2022. Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images

June 23, 2025

Unchecked climate misinformation has been turning crisis into catastrophe, according to a new report from the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).

27/06/25
Author: 
Lauren Vanderdeen
Premier David Eby says he would consider a pipeline to B.C.'s north coast if it didn't rely on public subsidies. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

June 22, 2025

Eby says his position is more nuanced than a hard no, but opposes public funding for project

As Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a crude oil pipeline to British Columbia's north coast, B.C. Premier David Eby says he's not simply saying no.

Instead, Eby said he's against the public funding of such a pipeline.

26/06/25
Author: 
Ian Urquhart
The actual number of tonnes of GHGs sent into the atmosphere by the oilsands keeps going up. Photo of Alberta’s oilsands by Kris Krug, Creative Commons licensed.

June 26, 2025

How Alberta Fudges Its Climbing Oilsands Emissions

The province crows about a drop in ‘intensity’ while rising GHGs fuel the climate crisis.

24/06/25
Author: 
The Breach
Carney CEO of Canada

6-minute video summarizes an unfolding nightmare for many Canadians and immigrants/refugees. Relief at keeping Poilievre from becoming PM is revealed as an illusion.

    -- Gene McGuckin

Jun. 19, 2025

Mark Carney’s first 100 days a blitz of pro-corporate, Trump-friendly moves

 

Carney has seized on Trump’s tariff crisis to push through a pro-corporate agenda that attacks Indigenous peoples, workers, and the environment

Now, it’s up to social movements to respond as quickly.

17/06/25
Author: 
David Thurton
Prime Minister Mark Carney has stressed that this moment requires the government to move quickly on 'nation-building projects.' (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

June 14, 2025

Sweeping powers, level of consultation questioned as bill races through Parliament

Liberals are attempting to bulldoze their mega projects bill through Parliament, according to critics who say the legislation interferes with Indigenous rights, environmental protection and democracy itself.

The government's One Canadian Economy Act is generating controversy inside and outside the House of Commons, with some arguing it confers king-like powers to rush projects deemed in the national interest to completion.

13/06/25
Author: 
Bruce McIvor
tunnel

Jun. 12, 2025

In a misguided frenzy of ‘cutting red tape’ and fast-tracking major infrastructure projects, governments across Canada are creating the conditions for their own failure. 

 

Ontario and British Columbia have been the first to jump off a cliff without a parachute. The federal government is inching towards the edge. 

 

13/06/25
Author: 
Arno Kopecky
David Huntley on his home patio overlooking Burrard Inlet, where Aframax tankers pass by almost every day to load up on bitumen from the Trans Mountain pipeline's terminus at Westridge Marine Terminal, just out of sight below the treeline. Photo by Arno Kopecky/Canada's National Observer

Jun. 10, 2025

Every morning, David Huntley checks on the oil tanker traffic outside his home. He can see them cruise up Burrard Inlet from his living room window a few hundred metres above Westridge Marine Terminal, where the Trans Mountain pipeline ends. When I popped by for a visit on June 3, an Aframax called the Tyrrhenian Sea had just docked and was partly visible through a thicket of trees. Last time Huntley saw it here was April 20; since then, it has been to China and back. 

10/06/25
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
The server mills that run AI need vast amounts of energy and water. You can expect higher monthly utility bills. Photo via Shutterstock.

Jun. 10, 2025

The energy appetite of data centres is boundless and ruinous. But Alberta and BC are eager to cater.

08/06/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
This photo provided by the Manitoba government shows wildfires in Sherridon, Man., on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Government of Manitoba)

Jun. 8, 2025

It takes a lot to make Simon Donner lose his cool. The co-chair of the feds’ advisory group on climate policy has a daily practice of swimming in the Pacific and braves the frigid water all winter long. But he couldn’t bear the blather about “decarbonized oil” spilling from the first ministers’ meeting this week.

08/06/25
Author: 
Bridget Stringer-Holden
Geophysicist Ralph Keeling in his lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, where carbon dioxide levels are tested. ( Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego)

Jun. 7, 2025

The CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii has passed 430 parts per million

When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's atmosphere was 325 parts per million (ppm).

By 9/11, it was 369 ppm, and when COVID-19 shut down normal life in 2020, it had shot up to 414 parts ppm.

This week, our planet hit the highest levels ever directly recorded: 430 parts per million.

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