City of Burnaby, Media Release, September 2, 2014
The City of Burnaby has directed Kinder Morgan to stop work in the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area. This morning, Kinder Morgan arrived with chainsaws and other tree-cutting equipment and began marking trees for removal in the Burnaby...
BRUCE ERSKINE, The Chronicle Herald, September 3, 2014
There will be no fracking in Nova Scotia.
Energy Minister Andrew Younger announced Wednesday that the Liberal government plans to introduce legislation in the fall prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in shale oil and gas projects...
Duncan Cameron, Rabble.ca, September 2, 2014
Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) can still win the next election, scheduled for October 2015. Yes, opinion polls have turned against the CPC. It's true many Canadians cannot abide Harper. And there is no great economic...
Leila Conners, Huffington Post, August 22, 2014
Ahead of the 2014 UN Climate Summit on Sept. 23, "Carbon" attempts to move the debate forward, exploring how governments worldwide are putting a price on carbon through carbon trading or carbon taxes. "Carbon" is the first film in Green...
Margaret Munro, Canada.com, August 18, 2014
Federal scientists who keep a close eye on the Arctic ice would like to routinely brief Canadians about extraordinary events unfolding in the North.
But newly released federal documents show the Harper government has been thwarting their...
Joseph Boutilier rides his unicycle from Victoria, BC to Ottawa to promote unity for the climate http://unityfortheclimate.ca/tagged/blog
John Bonnar, Rabble.ca,...
Kevin Smead - Renewables - Aug 04, 2014
The bill that could set France on the path to renewable energy has passed the cabinet and will make its way to Parliament this fall.
Energy Minister Segolene Royal said that France will mobilize about €10 billion ($13.41 billion) for a...
'Our simple model shows that...the pipeline's effect on oil prices could substantially increase its total GHG impact,' finds a peer-reviewed study.
By John H. Cushman Jr., InsideClimate News
Building the Keystone XL pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in the...
Aug 6, 2014 by PressProgress
Well, this is unfortunate timing for the Harper government.
Under the cover of an omnibus budget bill in 2012, the Conservatives stripped 99% of lakes, rivers and streams of protection under the Navigable Waters Protection Act.
The gutting of the...
Dene Moore, The Canadian Press 08/05/2014
Concerns raised in a report three years before a massive tailings pond breached at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine in central British Columbia were "basically ignored," said a First Nations leader whose territory has been soiled by the...