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18/6/2013
Enbridge Inc. has rejected the national energy regulator’s demand to have almost $1-billion in liability coverage set aside for the
Northern Gateway project, and is calling for the creation of an industry-bankrolled fund that would help pay for ...
31/5/2013
Efforts to expand production from the Alberta
tar sands suffered a significant setback on Friday when the provincial government of British Columbia rejected a
pipeline project because of environmental shortcomings.
In a strongly worded ...
31/5/2013
News broke today that the British Columbia government in Canada has rejected a proposal from Enbridge to build the
Northern Gateway pipeline which would pump
tar sands through the province for export. Government officials cited a lack of evidence ...
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 ...
2/4/2013
TransCanada Corp (TRP.TO: Quote) on Tuesday pushed ahead with plans to take Western Canadian crude to eastern refineries and Canada's busiest oil port as it seeks new markets beyond those it wanted for its stalled Keystone XL
pipeline ...
21/3/2013
Late on a Friday afternoon in early March, the State Department released a 2,000-page draft report downplaying the environmental risks of the
northern portion of the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline, which would ferry oil from Canada`s
tar ...
21/3/2013
Late on a Friday afternoon in early March, the State Department released a 2,000-page draft report downplaying the environmental risks of the
northern portion of the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline, which would ferry oil from Canada`s
tar ...
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 ...
13/3/2013
Prominent Canadian economist Robyn Allan [3] made waves in Canada last year with papers claiming that rapid oil
sands growth would do more economic harm than good for her country.Allan's controversial analyses [4] focused on the
Northern ...
13/3/2013
Prominent Canadian economist Robyn Allan made waves in Canada last year with papers claiming that rapid oil
sands growth would do more economic harm than good for her country.Allan's controversial analyses focused on the
Northern Gateway ...
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 ...
26/2/2013
As concerns rise over plans to pipe Canadian
tar sands oil to the East Coast for the first time, a dormant effort to clean up the region's fuels is showing new signs of life.
The Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management [3] ...
16/2/2013
On Sunday, Natural Resources Defense Council and Waterkeeper Alliance will join 350.org, Sierra Club and many other partners in holding the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C. This will be the largest climate rally in American history, ...
16/2/2013
Canada's environment minister says it won't take much work to boost the country's credibility in the United States when it comes to climate change.
Peter Kent made the remark in Montreal on Friday, a couple of days after the Obama ...
10/2/2013
Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL
pipeline, which, if built, is slated to ...
31/1/2013
Opponents of the
Northern Gateway pipeline are threatening to turn their sights on CN Rail, as at least one Alberta oil company explores the possibility of transporting oilsands crude to the B.C. coast by rail car.
Sixteen environmental ...
25/1/2013
U.S. President Barack Obama's emphasis in his inaugural address on fighting climate change may not bode well for the contentious project to build the Keystone XL oil
pipeline, Canada's finance minister said on Friday.
The Canadian ...
17/1/2013
[Editor's note: Today, scientists and advocates speaking at the National Press Club in Washington unveiled new research showing that the Keystone XL
tar sands pipeline would damage the climate much more than previously thought, by dramatically ...
8/1/2013
The wake up call that Hurricane Sandy gave us was but one of many just in the last year. We can see that climate change is happening all around the country after the wildfires, droughts, floods and violent storms of 2012. So when President Obama ...
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 ...
21/12/2012
A top risk-management analyst warned on Friday that a decision by Washington on TransCanada Corp's (TRP.TO) Keystone XL
pipeline could get delayed again into next summer, adding more pressure to already deeply discounted Canadian oil ...