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Air & MarineCanadaDemand & DistributionJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
South Portland, Maine Votes to Block Crude Bitumen Exports
If Enbridge decides to move Alberta oil through its Line 9 pipeline to the U.S. east coast, it won’t be able to ship that ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail Transport
BREAKING: Canadians Show ‘Little Enthusiasm’ for Northern Gateway Pipeline
A $135,000 public opinion research contract by the Canadian Department of Finance revealed “little enthusiasm” for the Northern Gateway pipeline, the CBC reported July ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Tar Sands/Oil Sands ‘More Economically Marginal’ Than Analysts Believed
The Natural Resources Defense Council is tracking a series of industry announcements that are “pouring cold water on the argument that tar sands development ... -
Climate & SocietyFinance & InvestmentNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
Fossil Fuel Industry Must Face the Reality of Carbon Constraints
Fossil fuel and financial industry analysts must take a closer look at the “eventual reality” that carbon-intensive energy development will be constrained, writes Grandia, ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
Ontario Would Lose Out in Energy East Approval: Rubin
Ontario would see few benefits if TransCanada won approval to build its proposed Energy East pipeline, writes noted economist Jeff Rubin. Ontario’s natural gas ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"First PeoplesHuman Rights & MigrationJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National Governments
First Nations Launch Nine Constitutional Challenges to Northern Gateway Pipeline
First Nations in British Columbia will mount at least nine constitutional challenges to federal approval of the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, CBC reported earlier ... -
Great Lakes Pipeline Spill Would Contaminate 85 Miles of Shoreline in 20 Days
Oil from a 61-year-old Enbridge pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac, at the junction between Lakes Huron and Michigan, could contaminate shorelines 35 to ... -
Climate & SocietyForests & DeforestationJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
ForestEthics Map Puts 25 Million Americans Inside Oil Train ‘Blast Zone’
More than 25 million Americans live within a one-mile “blast zone” that would have to be evacuated in the event of an oil train fire ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"JurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
Vermont Police Nab Knitter in ‘Most Civil of Disobediences’
South Burlington police broke up a “knit-in” at the offices of Vermont Gas late last week, after officials declined to meet with five women ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail Transport
‘New World of Energy Development’ Creates Roadblocks for Harper’s Energy Superpower
Eight years after newly-elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared Canada an energy superpower, Canada is “more a country with an energy ‘super-problem,’” writes Gattinger, ... -
Air & MarineCanadaClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
Enbridge ‘Unwelcome’ on Site of Northern Gateway Marine Terminal
Officials from Enbridge Inc. “are unwelcome on the land where they hope to build a new marine terminal at the end of their proposed ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
No Nation-Builder: Northern Gateway Will Bring ‘Clash of Civilizations’
In this piece of opinion and research piece in The Tyee, veteran journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk demolishes any notion that the Northern Gateway ... -
Keystone Loses South Dakota Permit, Faces New Public Hearing
TransCanada Pipeline is about to lose its permit to build sections of the Keystone XL pipeline through South Dakota. When the permit expires June 29, ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyFirst PeoplesHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportWater
25% Odds of a Northern Gateway Spill Are ‘Worse Than Russian Roulette’
During public hearings on the Northern Gateway pipeline, lawyers based at the University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre spent 25 hours cross-examining Enbridge’s expert ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
Harper’s ‘Energy Superpower’ Vision Now Depends on Enbridge
With federal Cabinet ministers and Conservative MPs from British Columbia hiding out from media following approval of the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, “the power ...
