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Coastal GasLink Suspends Work After Unist’ot’en Recover Ancient Artifacts at Man Camp Site
Construction of the contentious Coastal GasLink pipeline was suspended late last week after members of the Unist'ot'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation found two ... -
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Canada Drags on Promise to Phase Out Fossil Subsidies
Ottawa is being accused of dragging its feet on its 2016 promise to phase out “inefficient” fossil subsidies by 2025, two years after then-auditor ... -
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Analysts See Oil Industry’s Twilight, But Not Soon Enough to Hit Climate Targets
Two different analyst reports this week show the oil industry moving into its twilight, but the projected rate of decline is still far too ... -
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Supreme Court’s Redwater Decision Could Make Credit More Costly, Less Available for Canadian Fossils
Lenders are paying attention to the recent Supreme Court decision holding bankrupt fossils responsible for cleaning up the production sites they abandon. The result ... -
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Los Angeles Shifts Billions of Dollars from Gas Plants to Storage, Efficiency, and Solar
Los Angeles is walking away from a plan to spend billions of dollars rebuilding three natural gas power plants along the coast, in what ... -
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Stewart: CAPP is Asking Albertans to ‘Vote for Climate Destruction’
Albertans this spring and Canadians this fall should not be fooled into voting for climate destruction just because Big Oil wants them to, Greenpeace ... -
Atmospheric Methane Increases Could ‘Negate or Reverse Progress’ on CO2 Cuts
Increases in atmospheric methane between 2014 and 2017 could put the targets in the Paris Agreement out of reach, and point to the “urgent ... -
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Fossils’ Poor Stock Performance Makes Case for Divestment: IEEFA
Pouring more dollars into the fossil sector no longer makes sense for investors paying attention to a decade of poor stock performance, the gradual ... -
Declining Production, Wall Street Skepticism Could Produce Death Spiral for U.S. Shale Oil
Despite headline-grabbing production numbers, the shale oil industry in the United States may be heading into a death spiral, according to a recent analysis ... -
CoalDrive to 1.5Energy PoliticsJobsNational Plans & ResponsesOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingUnited States
Green New Deal Draft Commits to Net-Zero GHG, Leaves Out Fossil Phaseout Deadline
With Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey set to outline Democrats’ Green New Deal legislation within days, a recent draft includes a commitment ... -
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Supreme Court Holds Bankrupt Fossils Responsible for Cleaning Abandoned Sites
A Supreme Court of Canada ruling that holds bankrupt fossils responsible for cleaning up their abandoned oil and gas wells will produce lasting impacts ... -
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Oilfield Services Giant Sees Future in Renewables
The world’s third-biggest oilfield services provider is looking to expand its offerings for wind and solar energy suppliers, as it begins to contemplate a ... -
TransCanada Tries to Offload Majority Share of Coastal GasLink Pipeline
TransCanada Corporation is trying to sell off a majority share of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, the controversial, C$6.2-billion project that has faced sustained opposition ... -
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2019 Set to Deliver Big Jump in Atmospheric CO2
Scientists are looking ahead to a “worrying” jump in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations this year, right on the heels of a report declaring 2018 ...