Canada Oilsand Lawsuit Launched

onJul 28, 2008 @ 09:55 PDT

A lawsuit against Canada’s oilsands has been launched by the Cree First Nations in Northern Alberta.

The lawsuit (pdf) pits the Beaver Lake Cree band against the governments of Canada and Alberta, asking the court to rule invalid the government authorization for thousands of petroleum projects on the band’s core territory.

The lawsuit is just the latest in a string of opposition to the massive oilsands projects. Last week, 11 Greenpeace activists were arrested after trying to block a pipeline dumping tailings waste into one of the giant toxic tailings lakes.

For more information on the Alberta Oilsands check out DeSmog’s “Top 10 Facts About the Alberta Oilsands” page.

By Emily Murgatroyd

us/Rio Grande LNG’s Developer Led Ghostwriting Campaign to Get Federal Approval

ByNick Cunningham

onJun 1, 2023 @ 13:32 PDT

NextDecade, a company hoping to build an $11 billion LNG project in south Texas, submitted letters to FERC on behalf of nearly two dozen public officials.

us/Effort to Give Oil Companies $97 Million Tax Break in Louisiana Halted

BySara Sneath

onMay 31, 2023 @ 12:53 PDT

The latest vote was postponed after state senators considered shoring up the budget with a natural gas tax.

Opinion

Princeton Maps Reveal US Plans for Massive CO2 Pipeline Buildout

ByKert Davies

onMay 31, 2023 @ 11:14 PDT

The amount and scale of new pipelines envisioned to transport CO2 to planned carbon storage sites is hard to fathom — let alone the environmental justice impacts they foretell.