BC and Alberta Premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford (CP photo) Read this Nov. 5 story from The Globe and Mail on the deal reached today by BC Premier Christy Clark and her Alberta counterpart, Alison Redford, on moving Tar Sands bitumen by pipeline to BC’s coast. B.C. Premier Christy Clark
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The Common Sense Canadian: Canadian communities to rally for climate as BC, Alberta pen pipeline deal
Last year’s “Defend Our Coast” rally in Victoria (photo: TJ Watt) Just this morning, BC Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Premier Allison Redford have announced that they have penned a deal to ram a pipeline from Northern Alberta’s oil sands fields to the West Coast. And according to news reports, there is
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Ontario skips provincial review of Enbridge Line 9
TORONTO – Ontario won’t conduct its own environmental assessment of a plan to reverse the flow of the Line 9 oil pipeline that runs through the province, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli said Monday. Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) wants to reverse Line 9 and increase its capacity to move 300,000 barrels
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Pipeline incidents on the rise: Over 1,000 since year 2000
2011 Rainbow Pipeline leak in Alberta (Rogu Collecti/Greenpeace) Read this new report from CBC.ca based on Access to Information documents, detailing a sharp rise in pipeline incidents over the past decade. Pipelines regulated by the federal government — which include some of the longest lines in the country — have
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Burnaby residents complain of fumes from Kinder Morgan oil terminal
Some Burnaby residents are noticing intense fumes emanating from Kinder Morgan’s oil terminal Read this Oct. 22 story from the Burnaby Now, profiling several residents of the city’s Westridge neighbourhood who have been affected by intense fumes coming from the nearby Kinder Morgan oil terminal. Westridge residents are sounding the alarm after
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe Mair: Enbridge pipeline should face BC referendum
Thousands of citizens spoke out against Enbridge at last year’s “Defend Our Coast” rally” (TJ Watt photo) The cynicism of both our senior governments regarding tankers and pipelines is appalling. The pact between Premier Clark and Alberta Premier Redford – followed two days later by the Harper government’s Speech from the Throne
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Risks to Democracy from Harper’s Pipeline Agenda (Vancouver – Oct.22)
Townhall Meeting: Risks to Democracy from Harper’s Pipeline Agenda ForestEthics Advocacy is hosting a forum in Vancouver tonight (7 PM – Marpole Place Neighborhood House) to discuss what Tar Sands Campaign Director Ben West refers to as Stephen Harper’s “systematic attack on environmental regulations and public participation in consultation processes, and …undermining if
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Kinder Morgan president: Harper’s heavy-handed tactics hampering pipelines
Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson at a Vancouver Board of Trade talk (photo: Kinder Morgan) Read this Oct. 17 story from The Vancouver Observer on comments made by Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson to a business crowd in Calagary, criticizing the Harper government’s ham-fisted intervention in pipeline politics. Ian Anderson, speaking in
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Koch Brothers could make $100 Billion from Keystone XL pipeline
American oil billionaires David and Charles Koch A new study released today concludes that Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is given the go-ahead by U.S. President Obama. The report, titled Billionaires’ Carbon Bomb, and produced
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Final day of Enbridge Line 9 hearings cancelled for ‘security concerns’
Protestors at Line 9 hearing in Montreal last week (photo: Erin Sparks) TORONTO – The final day of hearings on a proposal to reverse the flow of a pipeline that runs between southern Ontario and Montreal were cancelled Saturday due to security concerns. But that didn’t deter dozens of protesters
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Fix is in on Enbridge as Clark and Redford put on show
BC and Alberta Premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford (CP photo) I assure you that his will not take long. We’ve been screwed, blued and tattooed folks. You may have read the story last week that First Nations have charged that the Enbridge pipeline has already started. At the same
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper’s Keystone XL lobbying trip funded by $65,000 in tax dollars
by Carol Linnitt – Originally posted on DeSmog Canada The hotel rental for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s September visit to New York City cost Canadian taxpayers a total of $56,582.91, according to documents recently released by CTV News. “Canada and the U.S. are making important progress on enhancing trade, travel and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Greenpeace activists block oil pump at Kinder Morgan terminal
BURNABY, B.C. – Greenpeace protesters have set up a blockade at the Kinder Morgan oil pumping facility in Burnaby, B.C. Spokesman Peter Louwe says two protesters have climbed onto the oil pumping mechanism and 14 other demonstrators are also on the scene and have unfurled a banner. Louwe says the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Clark, Redford getting closer on Enbridge, energy export plans?
B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta’s Alison Redford (photo: Dan Riedhuber/Reuters) VICTORIA – British Columbia Premier Christy Clark and Alberta’s Alison Redford have appointed a team of senior bureaucrats to develop an energy export plan, barely a year after a high-profile disagreement over the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline strained the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Enbridge Line 9 concern heating up as hearings begin
Watch this informative video from OperationMaple.ca, describing Enbridge’s plan to ship 300,000 barrels/day of Alberta bitumen east by reversing the flow of a 37-year old line from Montreal to Sarnia, Ontario – to be carried out in two phases. Phase 1 of the reversal, Line 9A, was approved by the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Billionaire Tom Steyer blasts Harper’s agressive Keystone lobbying
Billionaire Keystone XL pipeline opponent Tom Steyer (photo: Getty Images) OTTAWA – An anti-Keystone XL pipeline crusader has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, suggesting Canada’s aggressive lobbying for the project played a part in the ongoing government shutdown south of the border. Tom Steyer, a San Francisco billionaire who’s
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: First Nations energy company floats oil refinery near Prince Rupert
Eagle Spirit Energy’s Calvin Helin speaking the Vancouver Board of Trade A new energy company with partial aboriginal ownership is floating the idea of an oil refinery at Grassy Point, near Prince Rupert on BC’s north coast, according to a letter sent to members of a local First Nations band.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: First Nation bans pipelines for BC LNG
While much has been made of partnerships between First Nations and companies proposing to build natural gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals on BC’s coast, the position being taken by one particular nation could have a chilling effect on the nascent industry. Hereditary Chief Na’moks of the Wet’suwet’en
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Stephen Harper “won’t take ‘No’ for an answer” on Keystone XL pipeline
Photo: Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press Read this story from the Associated Press on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s bold statement on Keystone XL at a talk in New York. Harper’s true climate policy has been hard to follow of late. On the one hand he’s agreeing to US carbon emissions targets to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper getting desperate to move Alberta oil as pipelines stall
Stephen Harper has been trying to win over Barack Obama on the stalled Keystone XL pipeline (Adrian Wyld/CP) Prime Minister Stephen Harper looks increasingly desperate to find ways for expanding the Alberta Tar Sands. While his government wants to ramp up bitumen production dramatically in Alberta, it faces export challenges at
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