Author: Andrew Nikiforuk

Kinder Morgan’s decision to suspend work on its controversial $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline looks like a another corporate attempt to blackmail Canadian governments. Tags:  Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Rachel Notley John Horgan national energy board Andrew Nikiforuk

This article originally appeared on The Tyee. At least seven of 51 large dams built by the province’s shale gas industry in northeastern B.C. were not safe and required “enforcement orders” to comply with the law. Almost six months after an independent report raised serious questions about the legality and safety of earth

This article originally appeared on The Tyee. A study commissioned at the request of a First Nation says the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has not reported accurately on the scale or impact of daily crude oil and salt water spills in the petro province.
 The regulator has not provided “the public

This article originally appeared on The Tyee. A study commissioned at the request of a First Nation says the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has not reported accurately on the scale or impact of daily crude oil and salt water spills in the petro province.
 The regulator has not provided “the public

This article originally appeared on The Tyee. Two University of Calgary law professors have demanded Alberta’s energy regulator withdraw its “inaccurate and misleading” statement on a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that a landowner couldn’t sue it for alleged rights violations. The court ruled Friday, in a split decision, that Jessica Ernst couldn’t

This article originally appeared on The Tyee. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled Jessica Ernst can’t sue the powerful and controversial Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) over alleged violations of her Charter rights. The split ruling Friday — five justices rejected her claim, with four supporting it — is a setback for the protection

This article originally appeared on The Tyee. Another U.S. study has found that hydraulic fracking, which triggers small- to medium-sized earthquakes, can change the chemistry and quality of groundwater. The report comes at the same time the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the final version of its five-year-long study on fracking, which

By Andrew Nikiforuk for The Tyee. Every day, methane promoters in British Columbia’s government manage to out-trump Donald Trump. The hoopla over the $1.6-billion Woodfibre LNG terminal, which will industrialize Howe Sound and the city of Squamish,illustrates just how far the Christy Clark-led BC Liberal government will go to subvert the truth.

By Andrew Nikiforuk for The Tyee. Every day, methane promoters in British Columbia’s government manage to out-trump Donald Trump. The hoopla over the $1.6-billion Woodfibre LNG terminal, which will industrialize Howe Sound and the city of Squamish, illustrates just how far the Christy Clark-led BC Liberal government will go to subvert

This article originally appeared on The Tyee.

Politicians who advocate for more bitumen pipelines and LNG exports are making a “have your cake and eat it too argument” because there is no way Canada can meet its climate change commitments under su…

This article originally appeared on The Tyee.

Politicians who advocate for more bitumen pipelines and LNG exports are making a “have your cake and eat it too argument” because there is no way Canada can meet its climate change commitments under su…

This article originally appeared on The Tyee.
Water experts across the country have reacted with anger and surprise to the closure of one of the nation’s most celebrated and effective water study programs at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of …

By Andrew Nikiforuk for The Tyee.
The B.C. budget claims the province is making money from shale gas. But last month The Tyee showed the province is pouring more cash into the industry than it is getting back.
In fact the only time the B.C. governm…