“We don’t want this black snake within our Treaty boundaries”
One of the most important battles against pipeline expansion in North America is happening right now in North Dakota.
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North Dakota Pipeline Protest Heads to Court
The growing protest against the highly controversial North Dakota Access pipeline will end up in court tomorrow in Washington DC, when the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers will be heard.
Senate Energy Bill Fails the Climate Test
If a climate test were to be applied to this bill, there’s little doubt it would fail.
Introducing the Climate Test
We must assume success in achieving our climate safety objectives, and work from that assumption when assessing proposed fossil fuel projects. We must apply the climate test.
Tar sands and the myth of tidewater access
If you are paying attention to the tar sands pipeline conversations, you have no doubt heard industry proponents argue that Alberta needs another pipeline to get its oil to tidewater (i.e. the east or west coast of Canada in this...
New Trade Deals Will Undermine Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground
A new report, entitled Climate Roadbloacks, released by the Sierra Club today reveals how efforts across the United States to protect the climate could be threatened by two proposed trade deals, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
More Response to Alberta’s Historic Climate Announcement
And so the climate movement marches on. The last couple of months have been pretty amazing for those working towards a healthy climate future. The controversial Keystone XL pipeline is dead; Exxon is being investigated for lying about climate change;...
How low can it go? Collapsing crude in election season
In the lead up to the Canadian federal election, the economy is front and centre, but not in the way the incumbent government would have liked. The Conservatives have gone to great lengths to brand themselves as good economic managers,...
Lock Down: Report Preview
The end of growth in the tar sands? Oil Change International is poised to release a groundbreaking new model of the North American tar sands pipeline system. In the coming weeks, Oil Change International will publish a report based on...
Kayaktavists Try to Stop Shell Igniting Arctic “Carbon Bomb”
As dawn broke over Seattle yesterday, dozens of kayakers paddled out to confront Shell’s vast Polar Pioneer drilling rig and tried to prevent it from leaving port.