Today the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) will argue in the Alberta Court of Appeal that Shell Canada’s proposed Jackpine Mine expansion is in violation of their Constitutional rights and…
The Canadian government is working hard behind the scenes to cover up the negative effects that tar sands extraction is having on the local environment, wildlife, communities and the global…
Standing within the throng of demonstrators at last month’s Defend Our Coast rally it became clear to me that a palpable shift in the collective expectations of Canadians had taken…
The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) may be ratified as soon as tomorrow, November 1. This despite a massive demonstration of Canadian opposition to the investment trade…
Earlier this month British Columbians were surprised to hear that Enbridge, the main proponent of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline, was unable to explain how the company’s world-class spill prevention…
By 2035 operators in Alberta’s tar sands expect to produce 5 million barrels of the world’s most environmentally dirty and energy intensive oil per day. Current daily production hovers around…
This post is a part of DeSmog’s investigative series: Cry Wolf. Five years overdue in a legal sense and ten years after caribou were officially listed as ‘threatened’ according to…
This past weekend trade investment lawyer, Gus Van Harten, spent his time in his basement, rifling through old files. He knew that somewhere, buried in piles of international investment and…
If there was one message that stirred me during Monday’s Defend Our Coast action, it was this: First Nations need you to join the fight to protect British Columbia’s forests…
Today the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) is arguing that Shell Canada’s proposed expansion of the Jackpine Mine in the tar sands is in violation of constitutionally protected aboriginal rights…
Principally, I oppose the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Like a lot of other people I think it’s reckless to develop the tar sands at the rate we currently are. I think…
This is the third and final post in the series China-Canada Investment “Straitjacket:” Exclusive Interview with Gus Van Harten. You can access Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Canada…
This post is second in a series on the Canada-China Investment “Straitjacket:” Exclusive Interview with Gus Van Harten. You can read the first segment here. Right now Canadians stare down…
This post is the first of a series on the Canada-China Investment “Straitjacket:” Exclusive Interview with Gus Van Harten. I recently picked up a copy of Francis Fukuyama’s 2011 book,…
Enbridge recently launched a renewed attack on Canadian environmental organizations, demanding the panel overseeing the Northern Gateway Pipeline hearing squeeze funding information from the project’s critics. In early 2012, a…
This week, the Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA), an industry-funded consultancy group in Alberta, released the End Pit Lakes Guidance Document to the Government of Alberta for review. The 434-page…
The news of Royal-Dutch Shell’s recent decision to hold off on Arctic drilling until next season offers some relief to those keeping track of the company’s shoddy performance in Alaska…
Yesterday the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) announced their plans to constitutionally challenge Shell Oil Canada’s expansion of the Jackpine Mine tar sands project. The project expansion would threaten the…
This post is a part of DeSmog’s investigative series: Cry Wolf. Yesterday, the Canadian government told the nation’s federal court that it will not release its long-awaited Woodland Caribou Recovery…
For those concerned about the future of shale gas development in the U.S., water contamination present in a monitoring well in Wyoming is about to become the lynchpin in the…
