Industry Spin

Managers at Tyson meat plant had betting pool on how many workers would get Covid, lawsuit alleges

22/11/20
Author: 
Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business
Link: 
CNN Business   

November 19, 2020

New York (CNN Business)Tyson supervisors at a pork processing facility in Waterloo, Iowa took bets on how many workers would get infected with Covid-19, even as they took measures to protect themselves and denied knowledge of the spread of the illness at work, according to new allegations in a lawsuit against the company and some employees.

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Trans Mountain expansion project has been a COVID-free zone, says CEO

19/11/20
Author: 
David Thurton ·
Link: 
CBC News

At an annual public meeting, the government-owned project was accused of holding back information

 
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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
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Trans Mountain will be forced to re-drill under Thompson River

02/11/20
Author: 
Jessica Wallace
Link: 
Kamloops This Week
A Trans Mountain worksite along Mission Flats Road, where pipe from across the Thompson River at Kamloops Airport will be pulled through. Photograph By MICHAEL POTESTIO/KTW

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Trans Mountain will be re-drilling under the Thompson River, following what it called “technical challenges” encountered while installing pipe during its pipeline twinning project.

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Trans Mountain expansion hits snag, must re-start drilling beneath Thompson River in Kamloops

01/11/20
Author: 
James Peters
Link: 
CFJC Today
Trans Mountain expansion - File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)

Oct 29, 2020

KAMLOOPS — Trans Mountain (TMX) has had a major setback in its expansion project through Kamloops.

The pipeline twinning includes a segment beneath the Thompson River that must be installed after Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is completed.

In a statement emailed to CFJC Today, Trans Mountain says installation of the pipe in the segment beneath the river encountered “technical challenges” that require the entire HDD process to be restarted.

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Canada
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Trans Mountain expansion may not be economically viable, says think tank report

30/10/20
Author: 
David Thurton
Link: 
CBC News
Oct 29, 2020
Workers unload pipe to start right-of-way construction for the Trans Mountain expansion project in Acheson, Alta., Dec. 3, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson)
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Mark Carney says smart money needs better tools to measure climate risk

28/10/20
Author: 
Don Pittis
Link: 
CBC News
Mark Carney

[This article might bring some comfort if it put a timeline on WHEN such risks could be quantified and then outlined how exactly that process would lead to creating a socially just and environmentally sane transition. Will knowing the investment risks make capitalists decide to do this? Will it create effective regulatory enforcement to compel capitalists to do this? Will it do anything at all that will begin the required transition SOON ENOUGH?

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Canada
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'Scale is important' Cenovus CEO says of massive deal for Husky

28/10/20
Author: 
Chris Varcoe
Link: 
Calgary Herald
The Bow building headquarters for Cenovus Energy was photographed on Sunday, October 25, 2020. Cenovus Energy is buying Husky Energy for $23.6 billion the companies said in a joint announcement on Sunday. PHOTO BY GAVIN YOUNG/POSTMEDIA

Oct 26, 2020 

A new wave of oilpatch consolidation has been widely expected since oil prices cratered this spring, undercutting share prices and piling debt onto Canadian petroleum producers.

Some smaller deals have unfolded this fall, but Cenovus Energy’s mammoth $3.8-billion acquisition of integrated producer Husky Energy on Sunday lit the fuse on the biggest corporate takeover in Canada’s oilpatch in several years.

And there will likely be more deals to come.

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Alberta
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Solving the Climate Crisis - 5 areas that could make a difference

12/10/20
Author: 
BofASecurities
Link: 
BofASecurities

For the future of the world’s economies and the people who live in them, climate change can no longer be ignored—and investors may have a role to play.

 

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Capitalism
Climate Change
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Ottawa Set to Declare Plastics as Toxic Substance

07/10/20
Author: 
Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
Link: 
Energy Now

March 12, 2020

 

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Canada
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How the Corporate Media Helps the Fossil Fuel Industry Dupe the American Public on Climate

01/10/20
Author: 
Aman Azhar
Link: 
The Real News
Rebels from Extinction Rebellion DC (XRDC) set off smoke flares and dumped ash outside CNN’s DC offices on Friday, September 18, in protest at news outlet's coverage of the wildfire crisis. Credit: Gabe Cowan (XRDC)

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The views of large businesses and opponents of climate action are given outsized coverage to sway climate debate.

For nearly three decades, mainstream American news outlets duped the public on climate change by publishing significantly more news stories that denied climate science compared to those that said it was occurring, according to a recent study.

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Climate Change
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