Two and a half years after the costliest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the company responsible for the disaster is balking at digging up oil that still remains in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. The cleanup has been long and difficult because the ruptured pipeline was carrying bitumen, a heavy oil
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Justin Trudeau Is NOT Opposed To Pipelines
Just this pipeline…and this one…and this one over here. Clever strategy, actually. Don’t attack the tar sands in the abstract, just any concrete manifestation of the tar sands.
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Alberta oil selling at 50% discount to world price…
…which explains why the Canadian government is Hell-and-High-Water-bent on building a pipeline, any pipeline, anywhere. First, the stats Over the past few months, new stories have noted that Canada’s oil sector isn’t getting full price for its heavy oil — in large part because American pipelines are well-supplied with newly-flowing
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: To All My Progressive Friends, You Dwindling Few
Progressivism is now pretty thoroughly scrubbed out of the Liberal Party and it’s in a state of respiratory distress even in today’s Tony Blairified NDP. Fortunately there are still progressive voices and progressive minds. If you’re one of them I’d like to introduce you to a wonderful offshore newspaper, Island
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Emissions From Northern Gateway And Kinder Morgan
I think these graphs speak for themselves: But if they don’t. Simon Donner of UBC says: …the pipeline expansion would completely undermine not just B.C.’s emissions reduction policy, but the entire country’s emissions reduction policy. The second graph shows the estimated gap (i.e. necessary reductions) between the most recent national
Continue readingArt Threat: Oil makes for a slippery slope
Today marks the start of a five day hearing process about the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. About 330 speakers will have 10 minutes each to address the panel responsible for reviewing the $6-billion Enbridge project. A couple years ago Canadian musician City and Colour wrote the song “At The
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Vancouver Islanders Have Spoken
Vancouver Island’s round of faux public hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline have wrapped up. The panel heard 253 presentations. When they were done, the tally was 253 opposed edging out 0 in support of the supertanker initiative. That’s 253 to nil. Sort of gives you an idea
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Here’s What We’re Up Against
There are a number of differences between the grounded Royal Dutch Shell oil drilling platform ship, Kulluk, and the sort of supertankers the Chinese are planning to run into and out of Kitimat. That said the Kulluk does provide a useful glimpse into what can go wrong in northern coastal
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Jack Knox It Straight Out of the Park
Victoria Times Colonist scribe Jack Knox has it right. It’s not eco-hippies who will stop Harper’s Northern Gateway pipeline, it’s the heart of middle-class Canada who will do that job. The panel reviewing Enbridge’s proposal to build a 1,150-kilometre pipeline from Alberta to a terminal at Kitimat will spend until
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: First Nations and BC Mayors stand together against threat of oil tankers and pipelines
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 In December 2010, representatives of sixty-one Indigenous nations came together in an historic alliance to protect the Fraser watershed and our coastal waters from the threat of oil spills.The result was the Save the Fraser Declaration, which bans tar sands projects, like the Enbridge pipeline and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Pipeline to be Built on Lies
A University of British Columbia study finds just one tanker spill from the Northern Gateway supertanker project could more than wipe out any financial benefits accruing to the province from the pipeline. Just one. Remember, local Coast Guard personnel have warned that, when it comes to a supertanker disaster on
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Heather Sticks Her Bitumen Boot Up Harper’s Backside
It’s gradually setting in. Harper’s capitulation to China’s Communist rulers on Nexen is an admission of how much trouble the Tar Sands are really in. The Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick wades into the Bully Boy’s blunder on Nexen. Harper couldn’t say no to China because he wants quick money for
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant Forced To Deny Rumors Of EO Shutdown
Rumours surrounding the death of Ethical Oil, arguably Canada’s most vocal and controversial pro-oilsands lobbying group, are greatly exaggerated, says movement founder and Sun Media personality Ezra Levant. […] Murmurs that Levant’s brainchild [Ethical Oil] was shutting down have been swirling on social media and in online forums since early
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life On Mars?
Last week Curiosity was able to use its SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) device to confirm the discovery. A robotic arm with a complex system of Spectral Analysis devices was able to vaporize and identify gasses from the sample, concluding that it is in f…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Two Near Misses in Two Days
Two shipping near misses off Kitimat in two days. Thursday the deep sea freighter, Tern Arrow, lost engine power and wound up drifting for three hours in Laredo Sound south of Kitimat. You won’t see this in any Enbridge ads but …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: And Another Leak For Enbridge!
Nov 23 (Reuters) – About 900 barrels of crude oil leaked from an Enbridge Inc pipeline near Chicago late on Wednesday before the line was isolated, federal and state officials said.
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Liberal Leadership 2013: Deborah Coyne Interview (44:29)
Vincent sat down with federal Liberal leadership candidate Deborah Coyne (website, wikipedia) on Wednesday to get a better feel about her ideas, her policies, and her vision for Canada. In this interview she touches on important issues like what it tak…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Poor Wording
…got David McGuinty sacked. And indeed we must not begrudge Alberta MPs their championing of local tar mines to the exclusion of all other methods of powering the national economy. That’s all the ruling current federal government sees whe…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Let’s Make a Deal
What worries me whenever I see a poll suggesting that the Harper Cons might be toppled in 2015 is how far off that day is and what impetus that gives Harper to finish his dirty deeds.Long have I suspected that Harper has calculated that, like a sneak t…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: All Canada Agrees: Alberta Is Bent On Screwing B.C.
Last month, B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s Liberal government announced five conditions – including a larger chunk of revenue – would have to be met for Northern Gateway to proceed.The poll found 71 per cent of Canadians believed Ms. Clark was righ…
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