Environment
Appeal court upholds ruling on protection of orca habitat
By February 10, 2012 04:45 pm 2 commentsA federal appeal court ruled yesterday that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans failed in its legal responsibility to protect habitat for orcas, the sleek, black and white killer whales that swim off the coast of B.C. Read more…
Filed inGreens exaggerating fracking fears 'to control you': Santorum
By February 10, 2012 12:15 pm 2 commentsGreen groups opposed to hydraulic fracturing are merely trying to raise money for "their reign of environmental terror" says Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Read more…
Filed inEnviros want BC premier to protect more of Great Bear sooner
By February 7, 2012 03:36 pm 3 commentsThree environmental groups are calling on British Columbia Premier Christy Clark to accelerate protection of the Great Bear Rainforest on the province's northwest coast. Read more…
BC Hydro urges Clark to follow 'self-sufficiency' shift by halting private river projects
By February 7, 2012 10:30 am 2 commentsThe union representing workers at BC Hydro today publicly approved of Premier Christy Clark's downgrading of how much power generation capacity is needed to meet "self-sufficiency" for B.C., saying the old framework was "a significant factor in Hydro's current financial problems." But COPE Local 378 wants the B.C. government to go further by cancelling a number of proposed private run-of-river power generation projects. Read more…
MLA vows to fight BC plan to use farm land for foreign trade zone
By February 6, 2012 05:00 pm 3 commentsThe British Columbia government is likely eyeing precious agricultural land in the Lower Mainland for one of two proposed foreign trade zones, said independent Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington. Read more…
No independent agency, but increased monitoring in oilsands
By February 3, 2012 03:32 pm 2 commentsEDMONTON -- A long-awaited new plan from the federal and Alberta governments on how to gauge the environmental effects of the oilsands will watch for more contaminants, in more places, more often. But monitoring will be run — at least at first — by bureaucrats instead of an independent agency. Read more…
Filed inAlberta, Ottawa to release plan for oilsands environmental monitoring
By February 3, 2012 08:44 am 2 commentsAlberta and the federal government are expected to reveal some of the details of their long-awaited plan to track the environmental impact of oilsands development later today. The plan is considered crucial to answering critics who charge that the multibillion-dollar industry is being allowed to charge ahead far in advance of government's ability to regulate it. Read more…
Filed inAlberta launches legal action against logging protesters
By January 31, 2012 02:53 pm 3 commentsPeaceful protesters stood in front of logging machinery last week on a public road, government officials issued a flurry of legal paper including a development notice, a trespass notice, an enforcement order and now a court order.
The enforcement order, which the group is appealing as an infringement of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, even banned protestors from occupying or using "any other public lands in the Province of Alberta unless otherwise authorized to so." Read more…
Filed inFormer AB premier Stelmach advises Ukraine on shale gas: report
By January 30, 2012 01:55 pmFormer Alberta premier Ed Stelmach has been giving tips to the Ukrainian government on how to sell controversial shale gas development to a skeptical public, according to a story in the English-language Kyiv Post. Read more…
Filed in'Radical' federal remarks boost fundraising, support for enviro groups
By January 27, 2012 09:19 am 8 commentsTough talk from Ottawa about radical environmentalists and foreign-funded adversaries seems to be actually strengthening support for those groups under attack. Read more…
Keystone XL fight not over yet: Nebraska State Sen.
By January 25, 2012 03:42 pm 1 commentsThe fight over TransCanada's Keystone XL is far from over, argues a Nebraska State Senator who helped oppose it, even though President Barack Obama rejected the pipeline earlier this month. Read more…
Filed inPMO threatened environmental charity, affidavit alleges
By January 24, 2012 03:34 pm 10 commentsA former employee of an environmental group critical of a proposed oilsands pipeline says the Prime Minister's Office threatened a funding agency if it didn't pull its support for the group. A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper denies the allegations. Read more…
Hydro carbon emissions drastically underestimated: report
By January 18, 2012 10:53 am 5 commentsA study by an environmental group suggests the federal government may be underestimating greenhouse gas emissions from hydro developments by a factor of 20. Read more…
Filed inObama rejects Keystone XL pipeline
By January 18, 2012 10:26 am 2 commentsGreen groups are celebrating today the Obama Administration's decision to reject TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. Read more…
Canadian coal, oil and petroleum production grew in 2010
By January 13, 2012 05:04 pmBoth Canada's production and use of energy grew in 2010, with refined petroleum products and coal seeing the fastest growth, according to Statistics Canada. Read more…
Northern Gateway hearings on move to Terrace, B.C.
By January 12, 2012 09:13 am 3 commentsKitimat area residents were almost unanimous in their rejection of the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline project during two days of public hearings, and now it's time for other northwest B.C. communities to provide their views on the development. Read more…
Federal fisheries minister visting salmon enhancement projects
By January 11, 2012 01:48 pmFisheries and Oceans Minister Keith Ashfield is in the Sea to Sky Corridor today to check out salmon fisheries projects in the area, the Whistler Pique reports. Read more…
Redford, Bacon anti-oil crusaders in Enbridge pipeline drama
By January 11, 2012 08:38 am 3 commentsHollywood heavyweights are weighing in on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, just like Joe Oliver feared. But environmentalists say celebrities are only reacting to the concerns of everyday B.C.ers. Read more…
Joe Oliver says he's only opposed to foreign environmentalists
By January 10, 2012 01:09 am 14 commentsNatural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says he isn't opposed to all environmentalists — just the foreigner ones who are trying to damage Canada's interest. Read more…
Filed in'Environmentalists, other radical groups,' threaten pipeline: Joe Oliver
By January 9, 2012 09:10 am 13 commentsJoe Oliver, the federal minister of natural resources, has attacked "environmentalists and other radical groups" because they "threaten to hijack our regulatory system" and kill projects like, presumably, the Northern Gateway pipeline. Read more…
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Northern Gateway hearings start in Kitimat on $5.5 billion oil pipeline proposal
EthicalOil.org attacks 'foreigners and their puppets' questioning Northern Gateway pipeline
Oil producers could lose $72 billion without Northern Gateway pipeline: Report
Right group given wrong oil and gas question, says BC MLA
Cohen Commission hears explosive testimony on salmon disease
Premier Clark says jobs-environment conflict consumes her government
Oil industry fighting for 'weak' BC-style clean fuel law in California
Quebec to start cap-trade climate plan with California and perhaps nobody else
Canada becoming global laughing stock: Guardian
Poor monitoring of pipelines could harm Canadians: watchdog
Encana demands review of EPA report on Wyoming groundwater pollution
National law organization joins call to ban asbestos
Federal government gives green light to $9-billion Joslyn oilsands mine project
BC NDP right to look closely at fracking, says enviro lawyer
Six Canadian youth kicked out of Durban climate talks after protest
BC First Nations community split over Northern Gateway pipeline
Man-made cooling could rescue planet from global warming or help destroy it: study
Indigenous leaders to pressure Obama on Keystone XL
Native leader to Harper: 'We will be the wall that Enbridge cannot break through'
Report indicates seven-year coverup of Infectious Salmon Anemia in BC salmon
The page after that contains:
Desmond Tutu, other South Africans take Canada to task over climate policy
Canadian enviros shift strategy in fight against Enbridge
Major ad company refuses to run anti-coal billboard, says enviro group
Harper govt meeting in secret with UK to sell oil sands: docs
Durban climate talks open; report says Canada to abandon Kyoto
BC woman forces pesticide safety review
UN: Global concentrations of CO2 at record level, exceed worst-case projections
BC consulting on changes to carbon neutral plan
BC gives gas industry violators gentle treatment
McKibben takes on Harper at Occupy Vancouver
BC reviewing oil and gas industry health risks
'Ethical Oil' campaigner joins Stephen Harper's office
StatsCan aquaculture numbers show fall in BC wages, salaries
Shale gas subsidies threaten BC water supply: CCPA report
U.S. orders TransCanada to find new route for Keystone XL pipeline
Alberta oil sands information comes down online pipe
Correction: Ottawa, Victoria say no ISA in BC salmon
Old growth logging could end in 20 years: Community Forest Chair
Thousands surround White House to protest TransCanada pipeline
Unions use Occupy movement rallying cry to sell Keystone XL
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Have you noticed all the "game-changing" in the news recently?
Premier Christy Clark's plan to build two liquified natural gas export facilities in B.C.? "Game changer."
Former ICBC president Robyn Allan's damning report on the economic risks of Northern Gateway? "Game changer."
Mitt Romney's new debate coach? The coming Nintendo console? Kickstarter?
All "game-changers," my friends.
Are we on the cusp of some serious status-quo shake-up, or something? This week, count on The Tyee to scope out and debunk the latest game changers -- whatever that means -- here in B.C. and beyond. -- Robyn Smith
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