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Canada’s tar sands lobbying gets murky
News Articles Featured | EurActiv.com | Wednesday, December 07, 2011
A row has broken out over a Canadian lobbying mission to the British Foreign Office that opposes the EU’s proposed Fuel Quality Directive. The dispute involves apparently inaccurate information about California’s fuel quality regulations and threats of legal action.
NEB decides Enbridge’s Line 9 Reversal application will go to an oral public hearing
News Articles Featured | Canada NewsWire | Monday, December 05, 2011
CALGARY, Dec. 5, 2011 /CNW/ - The National Energy Board (NEB or the Board) announced today its decision to assess the Line 9 Reversal Phase I application (the Project) submitted by Enbridge Pipelines Inc. (Enbridge) in an oral public hearing.
Kill the pipeline: A path to real energy security
News Articles Featured | The Hill | Monday, December 05, 2011
President Obama’s decision to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline is a clear demonstration of U.S. leadership on both the domestic and international stage. It demonstrates that the U.S. is moving away from an insecure energy pathway. Resisting the pipeline, and future projects like it, will be critical for ensuring that the security of the United States is not compromised by reliance on oil and that the U.S. plays a global leadership role in building a renewable energy economy.
Shell accused of lowballing environmental impacts of oil sands expansion
News Articles Featured | Winnipeg Free Press | Monday, December 05, 2011
EDMONTON - Newly filed documents say Shell Canada's environmental study of its proposed oilsands expansion should be rejected because it is woefully out of date and lowballs probable industrial development by a factor of 12.
Legitimacy of Gitxsan deal with Enbridge questioned
News Articles Featured | Globe and Mail | Monday, December 05, 2011
The backlash to an announcement of Gitxsan support for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway has raised questions about the legitimacy of the pact between the native group and the company that wants to build the project.
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation sues Shell for tar sands destruction
News Articles Featured | UK Tar Sands Network Press Release | Wednesday, November 30, 2011
London - On the eve of the 17th COP of the UNFCCC, the world’s climate summit, the UK Tar Sands Network will serve papers to Shell UK executives on behalf of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN). ACFN plans to sue Shell for failure to meet contractual agreements made between Shell and the First Nations regarding existing tar sands projects within ACFN traditional territory and Canada’s pristine Athabasca, a UNESCO heritage site. Later today, Chief Allan Adam along with the entire council of ACFN will rally outside Shell Canada corporate headquarters in downtown Calgary and hold a press conference.
New report highlights dangers associated with tar sands pipeline to British Columbia
Media Releases Featured | Pembina Institute, Living Oceans Society, NRDC | Tuesday, November 29, 2011
VANCOUVER — A new report released today shines a light on the dangers associated with transporting tar sands oil by Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway project, both along the pipeline pathway and on B.C.'s sensitive coast, which massive oil tankers would be navigating for the first time. The report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Pembina Institute and Living Oceans Society has also been endorsed by nine British Columbia organizations.
Canada’s ‘ethical oil’ push gets tarred in British papers
News Articles Featured | Globe and Mail | Monday, November 28, 2011
Canada made the front pages in Britain today, but not in a way that will do much for the national image.
UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project
News Articles Featured | guar | Sunday, November 27, 2011
The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Canada's campaign against European penalties on its highly polluting tar sands fuel, the Guardian can reveal.
Stockpiled Keystone pipes troubling, NDP MP says
News Articles Featured | CBC | Friday, November 25, 2011
It's troubling that TransCanada is sending pipes to the U.S. before the State Department approves the Keystone XL extension, an NDP critic said Wednesday.
COASTAL FIRST NATIONS REAFFIRM OPPOSITION TO ENBRIDGE PIPELINE
News Articles Featured | Coastal First Nations | Wednesday, November 23, 2011
"The Coastal First Nations categorically oppose Enbridge's Northern Gateway Project," says Art Sterritt. Sterritt, the executive director of Coastal First Nations, added that "we unequivocally maintain our ban on oil tankers on the coast."It was Mr. Daniels, of Enbridge, who spoke of wanting a fresh start with the Coastal First Nation. Sterritt, on behalf of the board, told Daniels that a fresh start from the Coastal First Nations perspective meant having Enbridge ask the Joint Review Panel (JRP) to stand down.
Exposing the Blind Side of the Ethical Oil Campaign
News Articles Featured | Huffington Post | Saturday, November 19, 2011
It's unethical to allow caribou in Alberta to disappear under the boot print of unchecked tar sands developments. But the ethical oil campaign wants you to ignore that.
