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6/6/2013
Canada’s crude output will more than double to 6.7 million barrels a day by 2030, provided new
pipelines such as Keystone XL are built to transport growing oil-sands production, an industry group representing the country’s petroleum producers ...
31/5/2013
The B.C. government has officially expressed its opposition to a proposal for the Northern Gateway
pipeline project, saying it fails to address the province's environmental concerns. Special Report: Northern Gateway
PipelineThe ...
23/5/2013
British Columbia, the Canadian province whose official slogan to its own beauty is “Super, Natural,” is invoking another saying: “No more supertankers.”
That’s potentially big trouble in a nation where oil exports amount to $73 billion ...
16/5/2013
Environmentalists suffered a setback on Tuesday when British Columbia re-elected a premier who left the door open for approval of two oil
pipelines that would carry tar sands oil across B.C. to the Pacific Coast, where it could be exported to the ...
6/5/2013
For a climate organizer, the ongoing British Columbia election campaign has been a rare treat. For the first time in a very long time, climate change and fossil fuels are taking centre stage in an election campaign.
The past two federal ...
27/4/2013
At a time when Canadian officials are aggressively defending TransCanada's Keystone XL
pipeline project, Alberta's Energy Department is quietly considering an Arctic alternative to carry their bitumen to market.
The department is ...
23/4/2013
B.C. New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix's criticism Monday of
Kinder Morgan's proposed $5.4-billion oil
pipeline marks the latest twist in an election campaign that, for the first time in B.C.'s modern history, has the oil-and-gas industry ...
7/4/2013
Tom Steyer is a man at odds with himself. He made his fortune by founding a hedge fund with a keen interest in the energy sector, including leading oil,
pipeline and mining companies. The firm also gobbled up stock in BP a year after its ...
20/3/2013
An alliance of Canadian and U.S. aboriginal groups vowed on Wednesday to block three multibillion-dollar oil
pipelines that are planned to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands, saying they are prepared to take physical action to stop ...
7/3/2013
A U.S. decision on whether to approve TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL
pipeline has the potential to accelerate -- or slow --investments in Canada’s oil sands.
A decision on the 875-mile (1,408 kilometer) U.S. portion of the ...
5/3/2013
A top Canadian cabinet minister tried to persuade the United States on Tuesday that it should approve a controversial oil
pipeline and said Canada is also looking to other markets to sell its oil.
The remarks by Natural Resources ...
28/2/2013
TransCanada Corp. (TRP) still fully expects to receive approval for its controversial cross-border Keystone XL
pipeline expansion within the next several months, a company executive said Thursday.
TransCanada, which has been waiting for ...
17/2/2013
In a last-ditch effort to block construction of a controversial natural gas
pipeline in northeastern Pennsylvania, campaigners urged an interstate regulator on Friday to review the project’s environmental impact.The 44-mile section of ...
6/2/2013
With an election coming this spring, environmental groups, unions and other provincial organizations are pushing to get the issue of climate change on the political agenda.
Judging by what happened during the U.S. presidential election, ...
6/1/2013
Concerns south of the border over oil tanker traffic from British Columbia have spurred a U.S. Coast Guard review of proposed increases in Canadian oil exports.A legislative amendment proposed by Washington state Sen. Maria Cantwell and ...
30/12/2012
Yes, elections do have consequences, and those associated with a likely continuation of disastrous Obama administration energy policies will be huge. Now in this coming new year, with his hold on the Oval Office secure for a final term, the ...
27/12/2012
Five years ago, when Greg Toth was working on a Trans Mountain
Pipeline expansion project along the Alberta-B.C. border, the terms public engagement and consultation meant talking to a handful of landowners, holding open houses in ...
21/11/2012
The surge in Canadian oil production must now face a new reality: The biggest mover of crude says the pipes out of the country are full.
In recent years, estimates by analysts and energy consultants predicted that Canada stood to run out ...
17/11/2012
Railroads,
pipeline companies and refiners stand to do especially well from a U.S. drilling bonanza that is upending the energy trade balance for the world's largest economy.
An anticipated surge in U.S. oil output to the highest levels ...
1/11/2012
Ahead of Hurricane Sandy, refineries along the East Coast shut down and braced for the worst. With the storm gone, about half those refineries have come back on line, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. That will surely help motorists. ...
23/10/2012
And so they came in their thousands to gather on the front lawn of the legislature of British Columbia yesterday to protest against the controversial Northern Gateway
pipeline.
More than 3,000 people braved the rain and cold to protest ...
22/10/2012
With the sound of drums and voices raised in song, hundreds of First Nations have arrived at the legislature to defend our coast and their traditional lands. Their walk forms a human chain, and the crowd separates to allow them to kick off the ...
22/10/2012
A U.S. appeals court on Monday ruled that federal wildlife authorities improperly certified the Ruby
Pipeline Project without taking into account its impact on groundwater wells and certain fish species along the route.
The natural gas ...
10/10/2012
The ability to detect leaks along the proposed Northern Gateway
pipeline won't be known until the
pipeline is built and pumping oil through the remote wilderness of northern British Columbia, a lawyer for the province noted at a hearing deciding ...
8/10/2012
We’ve talked a lot at DeSmogBlog about oil (and tar sands crude)
pipelines. Like the Keystone XL, which TransCanada is currently ramming through Texas, using whatever means necessary (including violence), and Enbridge`s Northern Gateway, which ...