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B.C. Leaders Plan Mass Rally Against Enbridge Gateway Pipeline October 22
Next month, Canadians will launch one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in the country’s history. Over 80 influential leaders from across the country, representing a wide cross-section of...
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All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: Enbridge Looks East for Export Pipeline Route
According to Enbridge’s application for the Northern Gateway Pipeline the company expects a staggering 217% growth in tar sands production by 2035. If built, the Enbridge pipeline would provide the...
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No Price Tags on West Coast Paradise
This is a guest post by Nikki Skuce, and originally appeared in the Edmonton Journal. In Edmonton this week, experts and lawyers have gathered again at the Joint Review Panel hearings on Enbridge’s...
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Exporting Canada's Oil Means Exporting Canada's Jobs: Why the Enbridge...
The arguments in favor of the Enbridge-proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline often stress the economic benefits the pipeline will bring to Canada. Economists and trade organizations emphasize the...
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See What the Exxon-Valdez Would Look Like on BC's Coast
Principally, I oppose the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Like a lot of other people I think it's reckless to develop the tar sands at the rate we currently are. I think it's reckless to look to export our...
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Mining Corporation Looks to BC for Frac Sand Open Pit Mine
Stikine Gold Mining Corp. will provide unconventional gas producers with British Columbian silica sand for fracking operations if the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations approves...
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Shell Abandons Fracking Plans For BC's Sacred Headwaters
Shell Canada announced that the company will immediately abandon plans to frack for natural gas in an area of British Columbia known as the Sacred Headwaters on Tahltan Nation traditional territory....
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Why it Takes a Whale to be Heard: Public Blocked From Enbridge Hearings
by JODI STARK, one of the independent artists who created Hope the Whale, and an environmental public engagement specialist.The most striking part of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway community hearings in...
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4000 Reasons Not to Build the Northern Gateway Pipeline
The Northern Gateway Pipeline Community Hearings are nearly complete, with two remaining sessions scheduled in Kelowna and Vancouver at the end of this month. Come February, the Joint Review Panel will...
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Retreat from Science: Interview with Federal Scientist Peter Ross Part 2 of 2
On April 1, 2013 Canada will lose its sole marine contaminants research program. The loss comes as a part of a massive dismantling of science programs at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans...
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Keystone XL North: TransCanada's Controversial Shale Gas Export Pipeline Plan
The battle continues over the future of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, with the Tar Sands Blockade continuing and a large forthcoming President's Day anti-Keystone XL rally set to take...
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Canadian Scientists Must Speak Out Despite Consequence, Says Andrew Weaver
“If people don’t speak out there will never be any change,” says the University of Victoria’s award-winning climate scientist Andrew Weaver. And the need for change in Canada, says Weaver, has never...
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BC's Fracking Problem: Northern Gateway Not Only Concern for BC Residents
The British Columbia government has plans to double or even triple the amount of natural gas produced in the province in order to meet growing international demand. Although the proposed Enbridge...
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BC LNG Exports Blow Climate Targets Way, Way Out of the Water
This post is the second of a two part series. Read the first installment, Unreported Emissions From Natural Gas Blow Up BC's Climate Action Plan.Methane leaks from British Columbia's natural gas...
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B.C. Ought to Consider Petronas’ Human Rights Record Before Bowing to...
It should come as no surprise that Petronas expects B.C. to cave in to its demands to expedite the process of approving its Pacific NorthWest LNG terminal and natural gas pipeline, lowering taxes and...
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