Coming Down the Pipeline
*This post has been amended from it’s original content, due to SK NDP Leader Cam Broten coming out in favour of Keystone; the ** denotes the area where the editing…
Keystone XL
5 things you need to know about the State Department’s Keystone XL environmental impact assessment
By: Hannah McKinnon | Published by Environmental Defence on March 2, 2013: When the State Department in the U.S. released a draft environmental impact assessment of the Keystone XL tar…
Check out my interview on last week’s Green Majority show on CIUT!
Last week I was interviewed by Daryn Caister of The Green Majority, which is a weekly environmental news program produced live at CIUT in Toronto and broadcast on campus and…
State Department’s Keystone XL Project Review Upsets Environmentalists
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | March 2, 2013: Environmentalists have soundly condemned the U.S. State Department’s Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) report on TransCanada Corp’s proposed…
EG Radio February 28 2013: ‘Forward on Climate’ special with Bill McKibben, Van Jones, Naomi Klein, Michael Brune and Jacquie Thomas
Download: earthgauge-podcast-feb28-2013-final.mp3 This week on Earthgauge, we hear speeches and interviews from the huge ‘Forward on Climate‘ rally in Washington D.C. on February 17. We have speeches by Van Jones…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Molly Ball writes about the false assumptions underlying far too much political discussion – with one looming as particularly significant for Canadian…
Tomorrow on EG Radio: our ‘Forward on Climate’ special show!
I attended the huge Forward on Climate rally in Washington D.C. last week and tomorrow I’ll be playing speeches from the rally by Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream, Bill…
The Education of Tim McMillan
Saskatchewan Minister of Energy and Resources Tim McMillan has seen fit to respond to last week’s column on Keystone XL and its connection to climate policy. But it’s well worth…
Adbusters: Why Harper Gets Away With It
In Canada, the environment dies while the press stands by. By Dugan Nichols | Adbusters | Feb. 20, 2013: Thanks to a hyperactive press, the energy baron agenda continues unabated.…
Keystone XL: Massive Civil Disobedience is Next
Check out my latest article for the Common Sense Canadian on the massive climate change rally last weekend in Washington D.C. Here’s the link: http://thecanadian.org/item/1950-keystone-xl-massive-civil-disobedience-is-next-mark-brooks I am pleased to be…
Will John Kerry reject Keystone XL?
A very interesting post today by Joe Romm at ThinkProgress.org. Based on the recent comments of the new U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, Romm is speculating that Kerry “shows…
About Those Keystone XL Jobs
Keystone pipeline boosters have argued the project will create jobs, lots of jobs. US Chamber of Commerce president, Tom Donohue, has estimated the pipeline will create 20,000 jobs immediately and…
Deep thought
Brad Wall’s contrived outrage over foreign interference in domestic policy might be a bit less laughable if he didn’t make so much of a show of trying to dictate the…
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…
Keystone XL Pipeline To Take Center Stage At Republican National Convention
money-pipeline.jpg Over the next few days, Republican lawmakers, Party officials, delegates, and supporters will gather in Tampa, Florida for the Republican National Convention. During their weeklong convention, we can expect…
Media Fails Again On Climate Change Coverage During Massive Heat Waves
corporate media ball chain.jpg North America just witnessed the hottest month in the history of record keeping (about 117 years). The month of July shattered every previous record, but was…