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us/Alberta Approves Suncor Tailings Plan Despite Reliance on ‘Unproven Technology’
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The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has approved a tailings management plan from oilsands giant Suncor, despite the plan relying on “newly patented, unproven technology” that will require decades of...
us/How Oil Hijacked Alberta’s Politics: Behind the Curtain With Former Liberal Leader Kevin Taft
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For decades, Kevin Taft has served as a thorn in the side of Alberta’s provincial government. In his new book, Taft, who served as a Liberal MLA between 2001 and 2012, and as leader of the Alberta...
us/Five Things You Need to Know About the Cancellation of the Energy East Oilsands Pipeline
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TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline is officially dead. Announced via press release on Thursday, the news confirmed long-held suspicions that the $15.7 billion, 4,500 km oilsands pipeline simply wo...
us/Where Are Canada's Missing Electric Cars?
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The race is on for electric vehicle supremacy. Last week, China — the world’s second largest economy and consumer of about one-third of new cars — announced it will set a deadline for automakers t...
The Problem With Climate Doomsday Reporting, And How To Move Beyond It
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It’s not often that an article about climate change becomes one of the most hotly debated issues on the internet — especially in the midst of a controversial G20 summit. But that exact thing happe...
What The Oilsands Sell-Off Actually Means
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The last few months have been marked by some massive shifts in the oilsands. In December, there was the $830 million Statoil sale to Athabasca Oil, followed in January and February by the writing ...
us/Three Reasons Why Keystone XL May Never Get Built
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Almost a full decade since first applying for a presidential permit, TransCanada looks set to finally receive go-ahead in the U.S. for its massive $8-billion Keystone XL pipeline. But here’s the t...
us/Fracking Fluid Caused Months-Long Earthquake Events In Alberta: New Study
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Fracking has induced earthquakes in northwest Alberta, some of which have lasted for months due to residual fracking fluid, according to a new study published in Science today. Earthquakes induced...
us/Sinking Tarballs, Whale Collisions: Potential Impacts of Energy East on the U.S. Coast Detailed in New Report
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You know you’ve got the attention of the fossil fuel industry when the Financial Post’s Claudia Cattaneo pens a dismissive column about your efforts. On Tuesday, Cattaneo — recently dubbed “everyo...
us/Hawaii Utilities Commission Shoots Down Plan To Import LNG from B.C.
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Count on Hawaii — tied for No. 1 as the the state with the highest percentage of renewable energy — to deliver yet another blow to B.C.’s lofty liquefied natural gas (LNG) ambitions. On July 15, t...
us/Think Facts Matter? Try Attending a Friends of Science Event Headlined by Ezra Levant
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We’re only a minute into watching a brief low-budget video — one that begins by alleging U.S. President Barack Obama is a bully because he suggests that climate change deniers should be “called out...
us/Enbridge and Kinder Morgan Lobby Hard As Feds Change Tune on Pipelines
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It’s been a month of mostly good news for Enbridge and Kinder Morgan, the two companies pushing to build major pipeline projects from Alberta’s oilsands to British Columbia’s coast. Quick recap: on...
us/Vancouver Port Regulator Under Conflict of Interest Fire Over Coal Lobby Membership
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With news of the Port of Vancouver ruffling the feathers of the federal government by issuing a permit for a jet fuel pipeline without so much as a heads up, the port authority’s integrity has been...
us/Ethics Complaint Filed Against Alberta Minister Turned Coal Lobbyist
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A complaint filed with Alberta’s Office of the Ethics Commissioner on Tuesday argues that the president of the Coal Association of Canada contravened the Conflict of Interest Act by lobbying for th...
us/Alberta Climate Announcement Puts End to Infinite Growth of Oilsands
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The days of infinite growth in Alberta’s oilsands are over with the Alberta government’s blockbuster climate change announcement on Sunday, which attracted broad support from industry and civil soc...
us/Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change?
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Smokey haze, intense heat, encampments of evacuated residents next to the highway: these were the conditions that greeted Renee Lertzman when she recently drove through Oregon. It’s no wonder why t...
us/Has Stephen Harper Helped or Hindered The Oil Industry?
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At an estimated 2,700 litres, the bunker fuel spill in English Bay was relatively small — yet the stakes of that spill couldn’t be much higher. With Enbridge and Kinder Morgan both hoping to build ...

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