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CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Calgary Chamber of Commerce President Pitches Fossils at UN Climate Action Summit
With delegates and protesters from around the world gathered to push toward faster, deeper greenhouse gas reductions, the president of the Calgary Chamber of ... -
Energy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesJobsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil SandsTransit
Election Wrap: International Poll Flags Climate as Canadians’ Top Concern
As Canada’s federal election campaign entered its third week, a new international opinion poll identified climate change as Canadians’ leading concern, Green Party leader ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementEnergy PoliticsJobsOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
Election Wrap: Climate Hawks Set Expectations While Scheer Promises Streamlined Fossil Development
Though the climate crisis has been pushed off the campaign agenda over the last 36 hours, climate and energy organizations have been laying out ... -
CanadaClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalEnergy PoliticsHeat & TemperatureOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Unlike 2020 Democrats, No Canadian Politician is Spotlighting Big Oil’s Climate Influence
Although three of the major parties running in Canada’s federal election have put forward serious climate plans, “none of them explicitly names the oil ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy PoliticsLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Ecojustice Threatens Legal Action Over Alberta’s ‘Foreign Interference’ Inquiry
Ecojustice is giving Alberta 30 days to respond to concerns about its C$2.5-million inquiry into supposed foreign interference in the province’s fossil sector, asserting ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBitumen BubbleCanadaCollateral DamageEnergy PoliticsHealth & SafetyLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Pollution Controls Will Decline as Alberta Shutters Monitoring Office, Ex-Official Warns
The former chief monitoring officer of Alberta's Environmental Monitoring and Science Division (EMSD) is raising the alarm about the province’s decision last week to ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsHeat & TemperatureMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSevere Storms & FloodingTar Sands/Oil Sands
Canada’s Climate Change Election: Will Extreme Weather Drive the Vote?
As Canada’s federal election moves into its first full week, one of the looming questions is how and whether voters’ concerns about climate change, ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatCanadaCitiesClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHealth & SafetyLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
‘Time to Pull the Plug’: Report Shows Construction Delays, Safety Issues Delaying Trans Mountain, Making Pipeline a Financial Loser
Construction challenges, steadfast opposition from landowners along the route, shocking safety and health risks at two tank farms, and the looming risk of construction ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionTar Sands/Oil Sands
Toronto Stock Exchange May Dump Seven Canadian Fossils Over Low Share Prices
Plummeting share values may soon drive up to seven small Canadian fossil companies out of the Standard & Poors/Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index, a ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaBitumen BubbleClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Finance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesOceansOil & GasPathways to 1.5Post-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil Sands
Fossils Could Lose $2.2 Trillion by 2030 if Countries Get Serious About Carbon Cuts
The world’s most colossal fossils have invested US$50 billion in less than two years in new oil and gas projects that undercut the fight ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCitiesCollateral DamageDrought, Famine & WildfiresHealth & SafetySub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
One-Third of Fort McMurray High Schoolers Show Signs of PTSD
More than one-third of high school students in Fort McMurray are showing signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), three years after the wildfire known ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaFirst PeoplesHot SpotsLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Bold Nebraska, Ponca Tribe Undeterred as State Supreme Court Approves Keystone XL Route
Bold Nebraska, Nebraska landowners, and tribal nations are vowing to carry on their fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, after the state Supreme Court ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxCarbon Levels & MeasurementLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingSupply Chains & ConsumptionTar Sands/Oil Sands
New Federal Assessment Rules Exempt Cement Plants, Fracking, In-Situ Tar Sands/Oil Sands
New cement plants, fracking fields, and in-situ tar sands/oil sands projects should not be exempt from review under the federal government’s new Impact Assessment ... -
Elections Canada’s ‘Overly Broad’ Ruling Suppresses Free Speech: CAN-Rac
Elections Canada must clarify the specific circumstances under which climate change communication would be considered election advertising once the federal election campaign gets under ...
