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Federal Carbon Tax Rebates Would Put Money in Canadian Voters’ Pockets, New Analysis Shows
A carbon pricing think tank led by Stephen Harper’s former policy director may be about to “transform the debate” on the issue that Conservative ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBitumen BubbleCanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsFirst PeoplesHot SpotsPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National Governments
Trans Mountain Opponents Gear Up as NEB Launches 22-Week Review
Pipeline fighters are gearing up for another round and questioning just how much meaningful engagement the Trudeau government expects to deliver, following Natural Resources ... -
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Sabia Urges Big Investors to Seize Multi-Trillion-Dollar Climate Opportunity
Major institutional investors must begin looking at the new climate economy as “what you start doing,” rather than a constraint on their activities or ... -
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NEB Sees No ‘Immediate Danger’ in Hundreds of Faulty Pipeline Fittings
Hundreds of steel fittings currently in use in major Canadian pipelines are at risk of swelling or breaking if they’re put under enough pressure, ... -
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B.C. Caribou Plan Ignores Oil and Gas as Factor in Habitat Loss, Forest Destruction
Wildlife scientists are expressing “profound” concern about a government discussion paper that was supposed to chart a course to a woodland caribou recovery plan ... -
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B.C. Scrambles to Square LNG Development with GHG Reductions as Investment Decision Nears
As a group of investors led by Royal Dutch Shell moves toward a final investment decision on the massive, C$40-billion LNG Canada liquefied natural ... -
CN, CP Go on Hiring Spree as Oil-By-Rail Shipments Hit New Record
Canadian freight rail companies CN and CP are on a “hiring spree” to keep up with oil-by-rail demand that hit a record 200,000 barrels ... -
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Trudeau Admits Trans Mountain is a Fossil Subsidy as Report Urges Clean Energy Shift
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as much as admitted this week that the federal bailout of Kinder Morgan’s troubled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion amounts ... -
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Ottawa Weighs Hiring Retired Judge to Guide Trans Mountain Consultations While Kinder Morgan Plots Canadian Asset Sale
While Houston-based Kinder Morgan made moves to sell off the last of its Canadian assets, federal sources say the Trudeau government—Kinder Morgan’s C$4.5-billion benefactor ... -
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CARE Canada: Fighting Plastics Pollution No Substitute for G7 Action on Climate Impacts
G7 countries’ initiative to attack plastic pollution during this week’s environment and energy ministers’ meeting in Halifax is no substitute for faster action to ... -
B.C. Fire Tornado Grabs Firefighters’ Hose, Pulls It 100 Feet in the Air
A team of responders in British Columbia had a recent close encounter with a wildfire that grabbed their hose…and wouldn’t let go.
