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UK Ban Adds to the Tremors Taking Down the Fracking Industry
UK Ban Adds to the Tremors Taking Down the Fracking Industry How long can BC and Alberta ignore the financial and geological realities facing them? The dramatic decision by the British government to ban the disruptive technology of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is just one of two volatile storms now shaking the industry. And both […]
Politicians Offered a Choice between Climate Fantasies as Our Future Grows Bleaker
Politicians Offered a Choice between Climate Fantasies as Our Future Grows Bleaker Greta Thunberg is right — across Canada we are acting like ‘spoiled irresponsible children.’ Now that we can open the windows again and clear the air of political flatulence, perhaps we can acknowledge the realities that remain like ghosts in our troubled house. […]
The Green New Deal Battles Business as Usual. Both Will Doom Us
The Green New Deal Battles Business as Usual. Both Will Doom Us We’re clinging to fantasies while the world crumbles. And we like it that way. The stories we tell ourselves become the reality of our experience. Global elites are now offering ordinary people two salvation stories for our digital entertainment. Both delusional stories are […]
Alberta Imposes New Fracking Restrictions Near Dam after Quakes
Alberta Imposes New Fracking Restrictions Near Dam after Quakes Restrictions come as industry-related tremors have rattled nerves and raised concerns. The regulator’s new regulations follow a wave of tremors set off by Canada’s oil and gas industry, as well as the release of major scientific papers documenting how fracking and other forms of fluid injection […]
Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words
Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words How techno-speak is robbing us of our feelings and our future. The word sustainability, were it up to me, would be extinct, wiped out, kaput. It is hard to escape the word’s tyranny. Economists promise “sustainable economies” while business types explore “sustainability accounting.” Greens promise a “sustainable future,” and […]
A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay
A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay Auditor general says oil and gas commission hasn’t ensured companies will pay cleanup costs. The polluter-pay approach isn’t working in British Columbia’s oil and gas patch. The province’s energy regulator hasn’t secured enough money from companies to cover the estimated $3-billion cleanup costs for 10,672 inactive […]
More Frack Quakes Rattle Alberta, Cause Deaths in China
More Frack Quakes Rattle Alberta, Cause Deaths in China Regulator shuts down operations near Red Deer. Thousands protest in Sichuan. On Monday Albertans living around the oil-service city of Red Deer, got an early morning wake-up call – a 4.6 earthquake. Vesta Energy, a privately owned oil and gas company, halted its fracking operations west […]
Alberta’s Mega Oil and Gas Liability Crisis, Explained
Alberta’s Mega Oil and Gas Liability Crisis, Explained A Supreme Court ruling now forces firms to clean up abandoned wells before paying creditors. That doesn’t solve much. Just how will an increasingly indebted industry, hobbled by low energy prices and rising costs, find the up to $260 billion needed to clean up its inactive pipelines, wells, plants […]
Will BC’s Budding LNG Industry Spark More Quakes and Shake Northeast Housing Prices?
Will BC’s Budding LNG Industry Spark More Quakes and Shake Northeast Housing Prices? Look at Oklahoma as a possible preview of things to come. B.C. Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could barely contain their glee last year when LNG Canada declared its $40-billion Kitimat export terminal and related pipeline were going ahead. But neither […]
When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police
When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police It’s become routine, but ignores latest law on rights and title, say experts. RCMP action against the Wet’suwet’en last week was intended to send a message, says professor Jeffrey Monaghan. Photo by Michael Toledano. The use of heavily armed RCMP to enforce a court injunction and tear […]
Is Coastal GasLink an Illegal Pipeline?
Is Coastal GasLink an Illegal Pipeline? Challenge to energy project’s approval brings threats to Smithers activist. Smithers resident Michael Sawyer claims the Coastal GasLink project lacks the required federal approvals and wants the National Energy Board to review it. Photo by Dan Mesec. The $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline may face a bigger threat than the […]
Oil’s Wild Price Swings Set to Create Global Chaos
Oil’s Wild Price Swings Set to Create Global Chaos Volatility is here to stay — and the political and economic implications will touch us all. Oil once gushed from the ground for drillers, like these workers in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1901. Now costly fracking and oilsands mining produces lower-quality oil at far higher costs. […]
Alberta’s Problem Isn’t Pipelines; It’s Bad Policy Decisions
Alberta’s Problem Isn’t Pipelines; It’s Bad Policy Decisions Bitumen prices are low because the province has ignored at least a decade of warnings. In 2007, an Alberta government warned that bitumen prices could eventually fall so low that the government’s royalty revenues — critical for its budget — would be at risk. Photo via Government […]
Politics: The Cancer that must be Eradicated once and for all
Politics: The Cancer that must be Eradicated once and for all In the United States two political parties have now divided the nation with the kind of violent partisan rhetoric that erupted just before the Civil War. The 2016 election of Donald Trump as president set off a tidal wave of anger and resentment that […]
Tree Teachings: How Forests and Wildfires Are Critically Linked
Tree Teachings: How Forests and Wildfires Are Critically Linked First in a series about the work of famed botanist . Diana Beresford-Kroeger: The global forest ‘forecasts our future in every breath it takes.’ I have called up Diana Beresford-Kroeger, the famed Irish botanist and bestselling author, to ask about the megafires that carpeted much of […]
