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Canada Takes First Step to Cut Fossil Fuel Handouts – Thanks to People Power
The clean energy picture got a little bit brighter in Canada last week, after the 2017 budget started chipping away at the $1.6 billion in federal subsidies to oil and gas companies each year.
Due to KXL’s “Hefty Financial Risk”, Will it Ever be Built?
For those fighting the KXL pipeline, there are important lessons to learn from recent events. First that Trump is defeatible. The man who has made a career of being an Alpha-male bully in business is now finding the reality of politics very different.
Trudeau Has a “Choice Between KXL and Canada’s Climate Commitments”
As we enter Trump’s second full week in office, one thing has become extremely clear: we face the most hard-line anti-environmental, anti-women, anti-LGBT, anti-immigrant, xenophobic and inherently racist administration in decades in the US.
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Might be Canada’s DAPL
In the end, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, for all his suave talk of being a new progressive politician, who would era in a new type of politics, turned out disappointingly to be like all the rest. His suit is cut from the same old cloth.
Activists Shut Down Tar Sands Pipelines Crossing US-Canada Border
Last night 10 climate activists, support team members, and videographers spent the night in jail across four US states after five of them shut down all the tar sands pipelines crossing the Canada-U.S. border.
Managed Decline: A Just Clean Energy Transition and Lessons from Canada’s Cod Fishing Industry
There’s a clear logic to the global challenge of addressing climate change: when you’re in a hole, stop digging. If we’re serious about tackling the global climate crisis, we need to stop exploring for, developing, and ultimately producing and consuming fossil fuels.
“Red Flag” Over The Tar Sands’ “Elephant in the Room”
New concerns have been raised over the ecological impact of in-situ tar sands mining after research was published yesterday revealing that high pressure steaming can discharge pollutants into the environment
Tar Sands Advisory Panel Formed Amid Controversy
After the Canadian province of Alberta announced last week that it was establishing an “Oil Sands Advisory Group” (OSAG), to advise the government on the tar sands aspects of its Climate Leadership Plan it immediately caused an out-cry from opposition groups and some parts of the oil industry.
Northern Gateway Ruling Puts Tar Sands “At Risk”
The political and economic reverberations of last week’s Canadian court of appeal judgement against the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline are continuing.