Tar Sands

18/11/16
Author: 
Kennedy Stewart
Jim Carr addresses supporters on election night. (Photo: CP)

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr recently declared the federal government will not require the full, prior and informed consent from First Nations when it decides whether or not to allow Kinder Morgan to build a new crude oil pipeline through British Columbia.

05/11/16
Author: 
Elizabeth McSheffrey

Nov 3, 2016 - The Canadian boss of a Texas multinational energy company promoting a major oil industry expansion project says he's not "smart enough" to say how much human activity is contributing to climate change.

03/11/16
Author: 
Claudia Cattaneo

[Wepage editor's note: A law to INCREASE emissions from 66 to 100 megatons is not a cap, it is legalized climate vandalism.]

 

Nov 1, 2016 - Alberta’s NDP government moved to put into law Tuesday the costliest aspect of its climate leadership plan – a 100 megatonne-a-year cap on emissions from the oilsands.

The hope is the hard cap that will strand some of the resource will win federal permits for pipelines and Alberta recognition for sacrificing its most valuable asset.

01/11/16

Download this Nov 2016 report by the Iron and Earth organization of tradesworkers in Alberta from their web page.

31/10/16
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

85 FIRST NATIONS AND TRIBES CONDEMN ENBRIDGE’S ROLE IN THE VIOLATIONS AT STANDING ROCK AND CALL ON TRUDEAU TO SPEAK OUT

For Immediate Release

14/10/16
Author: 
Jeff Lewis AND Kelly Cryderman
 "President Ian Anderson said Kinder Morgan Canada has been in “deep” conversations with policing authorities, including the RCMP."
 
Oct 12, 2016 - Major pipeline companies are grappling with blockades and repeated disruptions to operations as hardline activists demand an accelerated transition away from fossil fuels.
12/10/16
Author: 
Jeff Lewis and Kelly Cryderman
Protestors march to a construction site for the Dakota Access Pipeline to express their opposition to the pipeline, at an encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's to protest against the construction of the new oil pipeline, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on September 3, 2016. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

A small group of climate activists on Tuesday forced the shutdown of five major pipelines carrying crude from Canada to the United States, stepping up opposition to Alberta’s oil industry as it seeks support for major export projects.

25/09/16
Author: 
Ethan Cox

Historic Indigenous alliance aims to shut down tar sands expansion

“Kinder Morgan is now my fight,” explained Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Simon, adding that his fight with Energy East “is now also the fight of my treaty allies to the west. That’s what this is all about.”

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