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CanadaEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Alberta Pundits Pitch Separation While Foundation Director Calls for Unity
As the rhetoric began to fly in the dying days of #elxn43, with some voices hinting at a new push toward western Canadian separation, ... -
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Canadian Fossils Stall Out in Bid to ‘Scrub’ the Record on Carbon Emissions
However hard they may be trying, Canada’s tar sands/oil sands aren’t moving far enough, fast enough to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, Maclean’s magazine ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Climate Remains a Top Issue, Minority Government a Near-Certainty as Election Day Looms
After six weeks of campaigning, months of preparations, and years of advance political positioning, Canada is just three days away from a national vote ... -
Ex-Fossil Workers Call for Fast Transition to Clean Energy Jobs
The climate crisis can unite Canadians rather than dividing us as long as the country can “move forward in a way that leaves no ... -
Thunberg to Attend Edmonton #ClimateStrike Today as Kenney’s ‘Bonesaw Argument’ Falls Flat
#FridaysforFuture founder Greta Thunberg is scheduled to join a climate strike at the Alberta legislature today at 11:00 AM local time, in an event ... -
Finance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
New Lawsuit Accuses Exxon of Masking Tens of Billions in Climate-Related Costs
Colossal fossil ExxonMobil will stand accused of misleading investors by masking tens of billions of dollars in climate-related costs when proceedings get under way ... -
CanadaClimate DenialClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEuropeFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionMiddle EastOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Colossal Fossils Plot 35% Oil Production Increase Through 2030
With climate scientists, the United Nations, and millions of #ClimateStrike protesters around the world demanding faster, deeper carbon cuts, the world’s colossal fossils are ... -
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Oil Lobby Wish List Would Drive Up Canada’s Fossil Emissions 60% by 2030, Analysis Shows
The overheated wish list that Canada’s oil industry is putting forward in this month’s federal election would use up 60% of the entire country’s ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaEuropeFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentOceansOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionTar Sands/Oil Sands
Norway’s Biggest Pension Fund Dumps All Tar Sands/Oil Sands Investment
Norway’s biggest pension fund, Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP), has sold off US$58 million in stocks and bonds in Canadian tar sands/oil sands companies and declared ... -
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Canada Risks Missing the Cleantech Revolution as Politicians, Fossils Haggle Over Climate Policy
While Canadian politicians and fossil executives haggle over national climate and energy policy, a global wave of technological disruption is emerging as a “real ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisTar Sands/Oil Sands
Beer: Emissions Are Set to Rise Through 2050. And Fossils Think Climate Protesters Are the Naïve Ones?
With the latest trend report for fossil fuel consumption projecting higher carbon dioxide emissions through 2050, Canadian fossils are expressing the odd view that ... -
Teck, Suncor, CNRL Take Top Spots in Annual Ranking of Mining Company Revenues
Mining and tar sands/oil sands producers Teck Resources, Suncor Energy, and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. took three of the four top spots in an ... -
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New Alberta-New Brunswick Pipeline Proposal Aims to ‘Succeed Where Energy East Failed’
A Montreal-based company is proposing to build a C$23-billion pipeline from Alberta to New Brunswick that it says can succeed where the controversial Energy ...
