…or, more precisely, the cuts in Carbon Emissions. Simon Donner of UBC has it right: @tyler_bryant @StephenLeahy Right. Climate value of “trading” pipeline for GHG reduction elsewhere will depend on the numbers— Simon Donner (@simondonner) September 6, 2013 …which is to say that a deal is doable, if whatever Keystone
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Looks Like Keystone XL Faces Another Delay
The investigation of an alleged conflict of interest by a U.S. State Department contractor reviewing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline won’t be complete until January. The State Department’s Office on the Inspector General announced today that it was reviewing whether recommendations it made in a separate February 2012 report into
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Commercial NBC Refused To Air
According to Salon.com, this anti-Keystone pipeline ad was pulled at the last minute by NBC. I guess the CBC isn’t the only network that has grown sheepish of late. Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Obama Teases on Keystone XL, But Continues to Dodge Climate Peril
President Obama acknowledges that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline’s ability to create jobs is exaggerated, but won’t publicly acknowledge the pipeline’s climate impact. The post Obama Teases on Keystone XL, But Continues to Dodge Climate Peril appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Environment Ministers And Petcoke
From Impolitical: CTV was reporting that Peter Kent may be moving on and therefore would be out as Environment Minister. Not sure there’s much a new Canadian minister might do to sway the Obama administration but Keystone has got to be figuring into Harper’s thinking. Is Rempel, currently the Parliamentary Secretary
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Is Trudeau’s Poll Lead Such A Good Thing?
The latest polls show the Trudeau-led Liberals leading the Harper Conservatives 36% to 29%, with the NDP at 23%. Coincidentally, this petition from Forest EthicsEthics suggests it is not necessarily an occasion for celebration: WHOSE SIDE IS JUSTIN ON, ANYWAY? Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has been in office just a
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Obama’s Climate Action Plan a “Full-Throttle Endorsement” of Fracking: Experts
by: Institute for Public Accuracy | Press Release: STEVE HORN, @steve_horn1022: Horn is a research fellow for DeSmogBlog. He wrote yesterday: “President Obama announced his administration’s ‘Climate Action Plan‘ for cutting carbon pollution in his second term in the Oval Office at Georgetown University and unfortunately, it’s a full-throttle endorsement of every aspect
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I’m Sure It Is Just A Coincidence …
…but if I were paranoid, I might see a connection between this and this. Recommend this Post
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: We’re #1 (In Oil Spills((Especially Alberta)))
A toxic waste spill in northern Alberta has killed off roughly 42 hectares of boreal forest, in what could be the biggest environmental disaster in North America in recent history. The Tar sands…salting everything they touch.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Has Christy Clark Outmanouevered the BCNDP and PM Harper on Enbridge?
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Well it appears that Christy Clark may have pulled off a magnificent move leaving the BC NDP, PM Harper and Alberta Premier Alison Redford in the dust over the Northern Pipeline. If it holds the BC NDP will be able to possibly claim some credit for their part in
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Oil Spilling, Redux
From Jansen, Sask.: The oil industry suggests they will move their product by train if their pipelines don’t get approved. They should really be made to use safe rail cars.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Keystone XL–Not Coming Soon
This (story through link) just confirms what I’ve argued for awhile. The Obama administration will take its own sweet time over the Keystone XL decision, especially if they are leaning towards approval. You don’t want angry enviros arguing before a judge that you short-circuited the process. I’m betting on nothing out of the Whitehouse
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Dear Americans: Don’t Approve Keystone XL Because Of US
Because, try as they might, our government has failed to convince the majority of Canadians outside Alberta that we need a pipeline to the Gulf (or to the West Coast, for that matter): Astounding, really, most polls of Americans show a mirror image of this result. Mind you, their pipeline
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Bitumen bubble deflates as Redford visits Washington D.C.
TweetRemember the “Bitumen Bubble?” The “bitumen bubble” spin was unleashed by Premier Alison Redford during her January 24, 2013 televised address that claimed our province was in the midst of a fiscal crisis caused by the so-called “bitumen bubble” — the difference between the price Alberta can get for its
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: CIBC: Keystone XL Not Enough
“…it’s increasingly important that Canada move on one or more of the alternative pipelines to get our product headed Asia’s way. Canada’s own central and eastern oil markets are another option, but longer term demand growth there is also likely to be lackluster.”Its worth noting TransCanada Corps. stock price after
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Enbridge Springs Another Leak
I mentioned this a week or so ago; it was the fourth leak since February, and it looks like there will finally be some consequences: The National Energy Board has ordered Enbridge Pipeline Inc. to perform an engineering assessment on the Wrigley to Mackenzie section of the Norman Wells pipeline.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: Occupy Love (2013): Official Trailer (Video)
We recommend:Occupy Wall Street 1 Year Later: A Roundtable DiscussionOccupied Ottawa to celebrate one year anniversaryOn Wednesday in Ottawa, Occupy This!Liberal leadership race: Garneau calls on Trudeau to take a stand FBI knew of plot to kill OWS activists, remained silent The post Occupy Love (2013): Official Trailer (Video) appeared
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Few Days To Spill, Part II
More on that Canadian oil wrecking what looks to be a pretty little residential street in the Arkansas Town of Mayflower. Don’t worry, American friends, there’s plenty more where that stuff came from.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Its Ethical…
…its from Canada, and its come to town with a few days to spill.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: In Texas, An Activist Climbs Flagpole, Hangs Banner Denouncing Alberta Tar Sands
LyondellBasell recently announced its plans to nearly triple its tar sands refining capacity from the Keystone XL pipeline as protests escalate across the continent By: Tar Sands Blockade | Press Release: HOUSTON, TX – An activist with Tar Sands Blockade climbed a 50 foot flagpole in front of LyondellBasell’s downtown Houston office
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