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Path to a Strong Economy ‘Paved with Strong Climate Policies’, Climate Hawks Assert
The Canadian politicians now negotiating to mollify Kinder Morgan investors by buying a $7.4-billion pipeline are right that the country can take action on ... -
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Pipeline Roundup: Criminal Charges, Provincial Posturing, Kinder Morgan’s Endgame, and Ottawa Investing in ‘Zombie Infrastructure’
Over the last two days…More than two dozen pipeline protesters arrested at Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby Mountain construction site learned Monday they might face criminal ... -
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Ottawa Opens Talks with Kinder Morgan, Promises Legislation to ‘Remove Uncertainty’ on Trans Mountain Pipeline
The federal government is in negotiations with Kinder Morgan to “remove the uncertainty” surrounding its contested Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, and will soon table ... -
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Sisk: Canada Glossed Over Peer-Reviewed Science to Approve Trans Mountain, Line 3 Pipelines
The Prime Minister’s Office and Natural Resources Canada glossed over peer-reviewed science they had in hand when they announced approval of the Trans Mountain ... -
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Walkom: On Climate, ‘Half-Measures Only Get You Half-Way’
The climate impact of Alberta’s tar sands/oil sands production is the “deal-breaker” that should stop Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in its tracks, ... -
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May: ‘Choking on the Lies and Hypocrisy’ in Kinder Morgan Approval
In a guest post for Policy Magazine, federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May takes aim at four misconceptions about Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline ... -
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Deverell: Horgan is Standing Up for the National Interest
As I write, the country is in a frenzy over the Kinder Morgan decision to stop investment in the pipeline from Alberta, through B.C., ... -
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Exclusive: Outside the Bitumen Bubble
Despite new ultimatums from Ottawa, Alberta, and Kinder Morgan, take a deep breath, Premier Horgan. Hold your ground. Follow the molecules, not the money. ... -
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BREAKING: Kinder Morgan Suspends ‘Non-Essential’ Work, Sets May 31 Ultimatum for B.C.
Kinder Morgan’s decision yesterday to suspend “non-essential” work on its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion “is the correct and appropriate economic decision” for shareholders ... -
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Banks’ Fossil Investment Rises 11% in 2017, Tar Sands/Oil Sands Finance Up 111%
Private banks around the world, including all of Canada’s “Big Five”, are ramping up their fossil fuel investment and “backsliding” on the goals of ... -
Fossil Recovery Won’t Bring ‘Huge Spike’ in Jobs
With the fossil industry largely in recovery—and the Trudeau government under intense pressure to amp up its support for new fossil infrastructure—North Americans had ... -
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Canada, Alberta Consider Exempting New Tar Sands/Oil Sands Projects from Impact Assessment
The Canadian and Alberta governments are looking at ways to exempt many new tar sands/oil sands projects from review under revised federal environmental assessment ... -
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Canada’s Oil Export Capacity Still Constrained by 2017 Keystone Pipeline Spill
With Canadian heavy oil companies continually complaining about a lack of pipeline volume to export their product, a new research note by industry analysts ...