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Cooking up a National Energy Strategy in Kananaskis

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Will ministers let oil industry dictate the recipe? And thumb their nose at the world? By Matt Price  TheTyee.ca July 16, 2011 Here's a puzzler for you:Why are both the oil industry and the Alberta Government, who usually use the word "Ottawa" as an insult, suddenly calling for a national energy strategy? The provincial and federal energy ministers gather today in Kananaskis, Alberta, and on ... [click title to continue]

The Worst Environmental Disaster in the World, the Canadian Tar Sands

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The Truth Report 101July 4, 2011The Canadian tar sands are probably the worst environment disaster in the World today. The area of the tar sands takes up a territory of a small country and generates more yearly green house gases than the entire country of Switzerland. But the real damage is being done in the refining process. To get one barrel of oil out of the tar sands, the refining process creates ... [click title to continue]

People’s Assembly Fair in Toronto

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The People’s Assembly Fair on August 27th, 2011 at Dufferin Grove Park By torontopeoplesassemblyJune 30, 2011 Since the G20, the Toronto People’s Assembly has formed three times as a space where the climate and social justice community converges. In our first Assembly, we identified several key components of how climate and environmental justice related to our city. For the second Assembly, we ... [click title to continue]

In BC, Pipes Spell Double Trouble

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KSL gas pipeline is low profile, high threat By Dawn Paley The DominionJune 20, 2011VANCOUVER—The struggle against the proposed Enbridge pipeline, which has galvanized First Nations throughout northern BC and earned popular support from people across the country, has become one of the highest profile Indigenous and environmental issues in Canada. Concerns are mounting that in Enbridge's shadow, ... [click title to continue]

International Stop the Tar Sands Day: A guide to the disaster

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By Michelle MechRabble.ca June 17, 2011Info on Tar Sands Day HERE. For many Canadians, the image of the oil sands as a boost to the economy, providing a bounty of jobs and ensuring a continuing supply of fossil fuel, overshadows anything they may hear about its environmental and human impacts.This image is perpetuated by the Alberta and Canadian governments and by most of the oil sands industry, who ... [click title to continue]

National Energy Board: Captured Regulator?

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What happens when watchdog becomes lapdog? By Andrew NikiforukTheTyee.caJune 17, 2011 The Economist magazine once described "regulatory capture" as a simple case of a gamekeeper behaving like a poacher.Whenever industry captures the power of the state to foster private goals (and it's an occupation older than prostitution), regulators get captured and corruption surely follows.And that's now a big ... [click title to continue]

Canada must prepare now for climate change impacts

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NUPGE NewsJune 15, 2011Climate change impacts across Canada are become more apparent all the time. Studies are emerging warning us of imminent threats to our safety and well-being. It has become clear that many regions across Canada need to be better prepared to deal with these impacts; from sea level rise on our coasts, floods in central Canada, and water shortages in the west.New Brunswick towns ... [click title to continue]

Northern Communities Discuss Nuclear Waste

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By Mark MelnychukThe Meadow Lake ProgressSaskatchewan, Canada June 10, 2011 Jim Harding addresses the meeting in Beauval, Sask. Both the benefits and risks of storing nuclear waste were up for discussion at an open forum in Beauval.The Northern Forum for Truth on Nuclear Waste Storage was hosted by the Committee for Future Generations, and was held on June 2. More than 200 people attended the event.Mayors ... [click title to continue]

New report shows total oil sands emissions close to double widely used figures

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Green Party of Canada8 June 2011 OTTAWA - A new comprehensive report by an independent researcher, Michelle Mech, is garnering attention as it shows that total production-related greenhouse gas emissions from the Alberta oil sands are close to double the National Inventory Report figure for 2008, which is often loosely misinterpreted as representing the total emissions from oil sands production. ... [click title to continue]