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Mitch Anderson

Mitch Anderson

Mitch Anderson is a Vancouver-based journalist covering climate and extraction industries.

Articles by Mitch Anderson

Analysis
Alberta’s Oil Sands Operators Still Won’t Pay for Their Own Cleanup
ByMitch Anderson
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Taxpayers are on the hook as the bitumen extraction industry continues to play by its own rules.
Aerial view of a Syncrude oil sands mine and tailings dam in northeastern Alberta.
Analysis
Why Alberta Should Scrap Its Misleading $7 Million Ad Blitz
ByMitch Anderson
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The province launched its ‘scrap the cap’ campaign while burdening every Albertan household with $70,000 in oil industry liabilities.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
Analysis
Oil Companies Insist Carbon Capture Is Safe – So Why Are Albertans Saddled with the Risks?
ByMitch Anderson
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Proposed new rules for CCS projects transfer long-term liabilities to the province.
Are oil companies willing to play with their own money on CSS? Credit: Buchsbaum Media
Analysis
Canadians Are Still Paying for Trudeau’s Trans Mountain Pipeline
ByMitch Anderson
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Below-market pipeline tolls amount to an extra $18.8 billion subsidy to the oil industry, report finds.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government bought the costly Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in 2019.
Analysis
Canada’s Oil Patch Blames Anti-Greenwashing Law for Delayed Sustainability Reports
ByMitch Anderson
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The global push for climate transparency is just getting started.
Cenovus president and CEO Jon McKenzie
Analysis
Trudeau’s Trans Mountain Expansion Hasn’t Delivered Tidewater Benefits
ByMitch Anderson
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Overseas demand for Alberta bitumen has yet to materialize as Asia transitions to electrified transport.
The Trudeau government bought the ailing Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in 2018. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Analysis
Strathcona CCS Announcement Another Billion Dollar Handout to Canada’s Oil Industry
ByMitch Anderson
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Canadian taxpayers fund the fossil fuel sector more than any other G20 nation.
Canada gave billion per year to the fossil fuel sector between 2018 and 2020 – the most in the developed world
Analysis
Alberta’s Energy ‘War Room’ Lost a Doomed Battle Against the Future
ByMitch Anderson
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With new federal requirements for accuracy in oil industry advertising on the way, the Canadian Energy Centre has folded like a wet cardboard box.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
Analysis
Canada’s LNG Pipe Dream Is an Unsustainable, Bad Investment: Report
ByMitch Anderson
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Natural gas industry faces price glut and falling demand triggered by global transition to renewables.
LNG Canada facility in Kitimat
Analysis
The Real Cowboys of Alberta Battle Zombie Coal Mine
ByMitch Anderson
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The province’s politicians are trying for an end run around regulators and the courts. Ranchers are fighting for records to find out why.