LNG - Fracking

Energy giant Enbridge is plotting a multibillion-dollar expansion to its gas network in Ontario that would lock the province into a fossil fuel future for decades to come.

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TC Energy takes $1.4-billion hit over Coastal GasLink pipeline's skyrocketing costs

15/02/23

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John Woodside

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National Observer

Wet'suwet'en nation Hereditary Chief Na'Moks leaves the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto for the Royal Bank of Canada annual general meeting, on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Photo by Christopher Katsarov/Canada's National Observer

Feb. 15, 2023

Calgary-headquartered energy giant TC Energy took a $1.4-billion loss this past quarter, driven by the skyrocketing costs of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

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Chart: LNG expansion plans threaten global climate progress

15/02/23

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Canary Staff

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Canary media

LNG expansion plans threaten global climate progress

Feb. 3, 2023

The gas industry aims to dramatically expand capacity for exporting liquefied natural gas. That would be very bad news for the climate.

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.

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Why The Narwhal is suing the RCMP

13/02/23

Author:

Emma Gilchrist

Feb. 13, 2023

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Alberta is on a blitz to promote B.C.’s LNG industry. Critics say it’s time to ‘keep out’

11/02/23

Author:

Sarah Cox

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The Narwhal

Alberta's energy war room is promoting the expansion of liquefied natural gas projects in B.C. as construction continues on Canada's first LNG export project in Kitimat, B.C. Photo: LNG Canada

Feb. 7, 2023

Alberta’s energy war room campaign to promote the carbon-intensive LNG industry comes as B.C. admits it will miss emissions targets, even without accounting for new LNG

The BC Natural Resources Forum attracts a who’s who of the forestry, mining and oil and gas sectors to its annual gathering in Prince George.

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DFO quietly backed off monitoring Coastal GasLink while the company killed fish

11/02/23

Author:

Matt Simmons

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The Narwhal

Feb. 8, 2023

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‘Monster profits’ for energy giants reveal a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence

11/02/23

Author:

Oliver Milman

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The Guardian

Offshore oil and gas production in the Cook Inlet oilfield of Alaska. Photograph: PA Lawrence, LLC./Alamy

Feb. 9. 2023

Last year’s combined $200bn profit for the ‘big five’ oil and gas companies brings little hope of driving down emissions

While 2022 inflicted hardship upon many people around the world due to soaring inflation, climate-driven disasters and war, the year was lucrative on an unprecedented scale for the fossil fuel industry, with the five largest western oil and gas companies alone making a combined $200bn in profits.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

A First Nation Sued BC. Then Came a Gas Drilling Frenzy

10/02/23

Author:

Ben Parfitt

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The Tyee

Blueberry First Nations Chief Judy Desjarlais, centre, signed a historic partnership agreement last month with BC’s Energy Minister Josie Osborne, left, and Premier David Eby, right. But it comes after years of ramped up gas extraction. Photo via BC government Flickr.

Feb. 10, 2023

Now that the Blueberry River First Nations have won a historic agreement, they face thousands of wells greenlit by the regulator.

When the Blueberry River First Nations took the provincial government to court in March 2015, arguing that cumulative industrial developments had robbed them of their ability to hunt and fish, oil and gas companies could see trouble lay ahead.

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It's not easy to measure methane, say energy companies told to reduce emissions

03/02/23

Author:

Cathy Bussewitz

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National Observer

A flare burns off methane and other hydrocarbons as oil pumpjacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. File photo by The Associated Press/David Goldman

“The minute we release a policy," - - - - - “they’re going to jump at it with 50 lawyers and look at any loopholes, gaps, mistakes, unclear sentences.”

Feb. 1, 2023

The doors of a metal box slide open, and a drone rises over a gas well in Pennsylvania. Its mission: To find leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, so that energy companies can plug the leaks and reduce the emissions that pollute the air.

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LNG - Fracking

The gas industry aims to dramatically expand capacity for exporting liquefied natural gas. That would be very bad news for the climate.

Alberta’s energy war room campaign to promote the carbon-intensive LNG industry comes as B.C. admits it will miss emissions targets, even without accounting for new LNG

Last year’s combined $200bn profit for the ‘big five’ oil and gas companies brings little hope of driving down emissions

Now that the Blueberry River First Nations have won a historic agreement, they face thousands of wells greenlit by the regulator.

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