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Researchers map risks posed by Northern Gateway pipeline to BC parks
A Canadian-based team of scientists have produced the first peer-reviewed study on the threat Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline poses to B.C. parks and protected areas, finding 34 spots under threat of spills downstream of the pipeline. Read more…
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Wildrose may revisit climate policy after stunning election defeat
After losing an Alberta election many pollsters expected her to win, Wildrose leader Danielle Smith said her party might be taking another look at its skeptical position on global warming. Read more…
University of New Brunswick researchers raise concerns over shale gas fracking
FREDERICTON - Researchers at the University of New Brunswick say shale gas fracking should not proceed in the province unless there is an environmentally sound option for the disposal of waste water that is a by-product of the process. Read more…
Oil industry workers oppose drilling near their Calgary suburb
Will next week's Alberta election resolve one Calgary suburb's fight to keep an oil well out of its backyard? Read more…
New Prosperity plan puts lake on 'life support': Tsilhqot'in chief
The reconfigured proposal for the Prosperity copper and gold mine wouldn't save Fish Lake, but merely put it on "life support," claims Tsilhqot'in Tribal Chair Chief Joe Alphonse. Read more…
Ottawa unveils plan to speed up environmental project reviews
Ottawa is getting set to change environmental-assessment rules for what it calls major economic projects. Read more…
New Norwegian virus in farmed salmon: Morton
Wild-salmon advocate Alexandra Morton says B.C. supermarkets are now selling farmed salmon that tests positive for a new virus that may also be harming wild salmon. Read more…
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Cheakamus Community Forest to sell carbon credits
Managers of Whistler's Cheakamus Community Forest will find out shortly if the B.C. government will allow them to earn money by selling carbon credits. Read more…
Kinder Morgan plans major expansion of pipeline to Vancouver
Kinder Morgan plans to expand the Trans Mountain Pipeline from 300,000 to 850,000 barrels per day. The Wilderness Committee has called the plan "outrageous." Read more…
Canada a patchwork of climate change plans, lacks leadership: report
A leading environmental advocacy group says Canada's provinces are trying to address climate change with a patchwork of individual plans while the federal government is failing to take a lead on the issue. Read more…
Survey says...fracking is causing earthquakes
A new report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) says that the increased seismic activity taking place in certain areas of the United States is almost certainly the result of oil and gas drilling activities. Read more…
Whistler council stands up to northern pipeline project
Speaking up for tourism, Whistler council is taking its politics to a whole new level — unanimously opposing the Northern Gateway pipeline. Read more…
Oliver comfortable with pipeline timelines; Aboriginals consider lawsuit
The federal government's decision to put a cap on how long environmental assessment hearings can drag on isn't expected to affect the Northern Gateway pipeline project, but Aboriginal reaction to the change probably will. Read more…
Critics question carbon tax grants for greenhouse sector
The British Columbia government announced today it will give greenhouse businesses back what it collects from the sector in carbon tax, a move critics say will have other industries wanting the same treatment. Read more…
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Company amassing options on protected Delta farmland
A development company has quietly put together $100 million in options to purchase 226 hectares of Delta farmland now protected in the agricultural land reserve, independent MLA Vicki Huntington said today. Read more…
Heiltsuk statement: Protest in Bella Bella was 'very respectful'
The Tyee received this afternoon an emailed press release from the Heiltsuk Tribal Council in Bella Bella responding to the Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel's cancellation of the day's hearings in the community. According to press reports, the JRP cancelled the hearings because of security and logistical concerns, after protesters greeted their arrival at the airport. Read more…
Northern Gateway panel scrubs first of four hearings in Bella Bella
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - The first day of a planned four-day hearing by the joint review panel examining the Enbridge (TSX:ENB) Northern Gateway Pipeline project was cancelled in Bella Bella, British Columbia. Read more…
Harper budget has $8M to restrict 'political activities' of charities
Stephen Harper's conservative government intends to spend $8 million over the next two years to restrict the political activities of Canadian charities. The move is being perceived as an attack on Canada's environmental movement, which receives a portion of its funding from American charitable organizations. Read more…
Speculation about PetroChina 'premature in the extreme': Enbridge
Enbridge didn't rule out the possibility that China's largest state-owned oil company, PetroChina, could one day build the Northern Gateway pipeline, but said in a statement that such speculation is "premature in the extreme." Read more…
PetroChina to build Northern Gateway pipeline?
China's largest state-controlled oil company, PetroChina, is reportedly interested in building Enbridge's $5.5 billion Northern Gateway project. Read more…
