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'Kitimat Clean' promises new refinery to serve Northern Gateway
Kitimat Clean, a company founded by newspaper publisher David Black, is promoting a "world scale" new refinery to process all the bitumen delivered to the B.C. coast by the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Read more…
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Enbridge Northern Gateway: 'Are activists misleading the public?'
Enbridge Northern Gateway this week suggested activists may be misleading the public about the safety of Douglas Channel for supertankers. Read more…
Vancouver lights up with 'greenest fleet' boast
The City of Vancouver claims to have the greenest municipal fleet in Canada after the purchase of 13 new electric cars. Read more…
Only two per cent of Canadians don't believe in climate change: poll
Only two per cent of Canadians don't believe climate change is happening, and British Columbians are among the Canadians most likely to believe that it is due to human activity, a new poll says. But almost none of us support a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse emissions. Read more…
Harper says panel not politics will decide pipeline fate
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says science, not politics, will decide the fate of a controversial pipeline project between Alberta and B.C. Read more…
BC will ask 'tough' questions at pipeline review: environment minister
VANCOUVER -- The B.C. government has released what it calls the tough questions it will ask the panel reviewing the proposed Northern Gateway panel. Read more…
Tyee's Anderson on CBC radio today discussing Norway's oil wealth lessons for Canada
Mitchell Anderson, who travelled to Norway to report for The Tyee how that country of under five million people has managed its oil wealth differently than has Canada, will be a guest this afternoon on the CBC radio show On the Coast, which airs from three to six on AM690 and FM 88.1. Read more…
Is Enbridge's fate tied to Gateway? New analysis suggests otherwise
Is Enbridge truly "beleaguered", as one recent Los Angeles Times story described it? Not according to a new Bloomberg analysis, which reveals the pipeline company's shares to be trading at their highest level in nearly thirty years. Read more…
For car sharing, Vancouver tops Seattle and Portland
On the same day The Tyee publishes Adam Pez's look at the growing success of car-sharing in Vancouver, a Seattle-based think tank releases its three-city comparison of who is best served by car sharing options. Read more…
Enbridge reports pipeline spill in Wisconsin
Two years after a serious pipeline spill in Michigan, Enbridge Energy Partners today reported a new spill -- this one in Wisconsin. Read more…
Premier Clark derails bid to forge national energy strategy
HALIFAX - British Columbia Premier Christy Clark said Friday that she couldn't sign onto a national energy strategy before resolving a dispute over the Northern Gateway pipeline. Read more…
Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson leaves Germany; destination unknown
TORONTO -- The Sea Shepherd Society environmental group confirms its founder, Paul Watson, has left Germany and is now in an undisclosed location. Read more…
Chinese bid for Nexen 'politically unthinkable' five years ago: Rubin
The $15 billion bid by a Chinese state-owned company to acquire Nexen, a major oil sands producer, indicates just how far Canada's economic priorities have shifted, argues acclaimed energy thinker Jeff Rubin. Read more…
Feds met privately with oil execs to discuss 'communications effort'
Top federal government policymakers met with several oil industry executives during the summer of 2009 to discuss an oil sands "communications effort", according to internal documents. Read more…
BC Liberal government unveils its position on heavy oil pipelines
VANCOUVER -- British Columbia's environment minister has outlined what the province needs to support the controversial Enbridge pipeline, saying answers to questions about Northern Gateway have so far been "insufficient." Read more…
Alberta energy minister to announce launch of pipeline safety initiative
The Alberta government is launching a pipeline safety initiative. Energy Minister Ken Hughes is to make an announcement about it later Friday in Calgary. Read more…
Alternatives to Gateway pipeline 'might make more sense': Danielle Smith
Enbridge's Northern Gateway proposal may not be the best way to get Alberta's bitumen to the west coast, said Danielle Smith, the libertarian-leaning leader of Alberta's official opposition. Read more…
2,900 from around globe sign petition against Tory science cuts
More than 2,900 people from around the world have signed an online petition aimed at saving a unique open-air freshwater laboratory from federal government budget cuts. Read more…
Koch Industries-linked group hosts pro-carbon tax meeting
The American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank with ties to Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, is taking intense heat from conservative commentators.
Why? For meeting in private with such "liberal" groups as the Union for Concerned Scientists and the Brookings Institution to discuss how to enact a national U.S. carbon tax. Read more…
Call for pipeline safety review in Alberta grows to include 50 groups
EDMONTON - Calls for an independent review into pipeline safety in Alberta are growing, with some saying it's even more urgent now that a U.S. investigation has sharply criticized a Calgary company's efforts to clean up a major oil spill. Read more…
