Tar Sands/Oil Sands
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CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Finance & InvestmentLow-Carbon TransitionPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
BREAKING: Desjardins Suspends New Pipeline Investments
Montreal-based Desjardins Group, North America’s biggest association of credit unions, decided Friday to suspend new investments in energy pipelines, citing concerns about their environmental ... -
CanadaEconomic Analysis/Energy and Carbon PricingJobsLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Quebec, Ontario Ask Ottawa to Delay Energy East Hearings
Quebec and Ontario are asking the federal government to delay hearings on TransCanada Corporation’s controversial Energy East pipeline until the process of modernizing the ... -
CanadaEnergy Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentJobsLow-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil Sands
THE END OF GROWTH: Industry Data Show Tar Sands/Oil Sands Entering Managed Decline
The fossil industry’s own data shows Canada’s tar sands/oil sands entering a period of managed decline, with no commitments at all to new project ... -
Tar Sands/Oil Sands Tailings Ponds Leak 70,000 Barrels Per Day, Could Cost Alberta Taxpayers $44.5 Billion to Clean Up
Alberta is unprepared for the tens of billions of dollars in costs its taxpayers may face to clean up the vast tailing ponds along ... -
Execs Look to ‘De-Manning’ to Take Work Force Out of the Tar Sands/Oil Sands
With oil hovering stubbornly below US$50 per barrel and pundits asking whether Canada’s tar sands/oil sands can stand another price crash, the country’s fossil ... -
Canada’s Oilpatch Begins to Take the Electric Car Seriously
Even pro-fossil media are waking up to the threat to the petroleum industry posed by the explosive growth in electric passenger cars—a threat that ... -
CanadaCOP 21/COP 22Finance & InvestmentInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesLow-Carbon TransitionOil & GasTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Fossils Face $2.3 Trillion in Stranded Assets Under 2.0°C Carbon Budget
US$2.3 trillion in “upstream” oil and gas projects—about a third of the projects fossils would expect to complete by 2025 under a “business as ... -
AustraliaCanadaChinaEuropeFinance & InvestmentHuman Rights & EquityInternational Agencies & StudiesOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Canadian Banks Get Failing Grades as ‘Extreme Fossils’ Nab $290 Billion World-Wide Over Three Years
Three dozen major private banks from Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, China, and Australia funneled US$87 billion into “extreme fossil fuel” projects in ... -
‘Splinters Are Showing’ as a Half-Dozen Mid-Sized Fossils Quit CAPP
More than a half-dozen mid-sized fossils have quit the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, with some of them concerned that CAPP has focused too ... -
U.S. Fossils Cut Their Oil Reserves in 2016 for Second Year in a Row
Publicly-traded oil companies in the United States reduced their estimates of available reserves in 2016 for the second year in a row, partly as ... -
CAPP Touts More Pipelines, Fossil Production Despite Prospects for Falling Demand
While forecasts pile up predicting a drop-off in demand for fossil transportation and heating fuels, Canada’s oil and gas producers see nothing but open ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"First PeoplesPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Indigenous, Green Groups Warn Banks Against Kinder Morgan Loans
More than two dozen Indigenous and environmental organizations have written to 28 major lenders to U.S.-based Kinder Morgan Inc., warning them against the “ethical, ...
