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Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science Canada’s leading climate conspiracy theorists, the Friends of Science, are out this week with a critique on climate change that would make even Chicken Little blush. In a press release issued Thursday, the Friends of Science state that if plans proceed to move our country away from carbon-intensive fuel sources like oil and coal, “Canada […]
Another 4.4 Magnitude Industry Reported Quake in Alberta
Another 4.4 Magnitude Industry Reported Quake in Alberta Chevron shuts down operations following seismic event near Fox Creek. Chevron Canada has confirmed that “a magnitude 4.4 seismic event was recorded by seismic monitoring arrays operated by Chevron Canada and Natural Resources Canada” in the Duvernay shale near Fox Creek, Alberta on Saturday. It’s the second […]
Missing from Canada’s Political Debate: Natural Security
Missing from Canada’s Political Debate: Natural Security 25-year review of Canada’s eco-stewardship reveals neglect across party stripes. Canada’s prime minister is pre-campaigning with a strong-on-security message. His government is taking measures designed, among other goals, to protect energy infrastructure from what the RCMP has called “violent environmental extremists.” As I write, enormous forest fires burning out of control across […]
Alberta forest fire forces evacuation of oilsands facilities
Alberta forest fire forces evacuation of oilsands facilities Cenovus and CNRL shut down operations as precautionary move Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources Limited have evacuated their facilities within the Cold Lake Air Weapons range, close to Alberta’s eastern border, due to an out-of-control forest fire in the area. “Yesterday, CNRL evacuated their plant facilities in the Primrose area […]
Oil industry pushing for carbon tax in Alberta
Oil industry pushing for carbon tax in Alberta But if heavy emitters are going to pay, they want consumers to share the burden The biggest players in Canada’s oil and gas industry are urging Alberta’s government to step up its environmental policies and introduce a carbon tax. Alberta already has carbon pricing, but the program […]
Alberta Health Board Fires Doctor Who Raised Cancer Alarms
Alberta Health Board Fires Doctor Who Raised Cancer Alarms ‘I am stunned,’ says Dr. John O’Connor, a veteran presence in First Nations community An Alberta health board has fired Dr. John O’Connor, the physician who came to national prominence after raising questions about rare cancers in the tarsands region. The Nunee Health Board Society send […]
Landmark Fracking Case Gets a Supreme Court Hearing
Landmark Fracking Case Gets a Supreme Court Hearing Oil patch consultant Jessica Ernst alleges Alberta has intimidated landowners. The Supreme Court of Canada said today that it will hear thelandmark case of Jessica Ernst, which squarely challenges how the Alberta government has treated landowners and regulated hydraulic fracturing. The decision both stunned and exhilarated the 57-year-old Ernst. […]
Emails: How State Department Secretly Approved Expanding Piece of Enbridge’s “Keystone XL Clone”
Emails: How State Department Secretly Approved Expanding Piece of Enbridge’s “Keystone XL Clone” DeSmogBlog has obtained dozens of emails that lend an inside view of how the U.S. State Department secretly handed Enbridge a permit to expand the capacity of its U.S.-Canada border-crossing Alberta Clipper pipeline, which carries tar sands diluted bitumen (“dilbit”) from Alberta to midwest markets. The State Department submitted the emails […]
Harper’s Folly: Canada Losing $30+ Billion/Year on Tar-Sands Oil
Harper’s Folly: Canada Losing $30+ Billion/Year on Tar-Sands Oil Oil is our most-precious commodity as fuel for the global economy. It is also becoming a scarce commodity, as global production has flattened, while global demand continues to climb relentlessly, everywhere in the world except for the dying economies of Europe and North America. It is a classic […]
Wolves Scapegoated While Alberta Government Sells Off Endangered Caribou Habitat
Wolves Scapegoated While Alberta Government Sells Off Endangered Caribou Habitat Culling Alberta’s wolves without prioritizing caribou habitat protection and restoration is like “shoveling sand,” according to Mark Hebblewhite, associate professor of ungulate habitat biology at the University of Montana. Hebblewhite says the Alberta government is sponsoring a wolf cull without doing the one thing that could possibly scientifically justify it: […]
Canada Housing, Office Market Mauled by Oil, Layoffs – but Vancouver Bubble Still Soars
Canada Housing, Office Market Mauled by Oil, Layoffs – but Vancouver Bubble Still Soars Back in December, the Bank of Canada said home prices were overvalued by as much as 30% and posed an “elevated” risk to the Canadian financial system. In January, Deutsche Bank found that Canada’s housing market was, more realistically, 63% overvalued. In greater […]
Low Oil Prices Not Enough To Kill Off Oil Sands, Yet
Low Oil Prices Not Enough To Kill Off Oil Sands, Yet On Friday I visited the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where falling oil prices have brought a record provincial budget deficit despite aggressive tax increases and spending cuts. Here I pass along some of what I learned about how the plunge in oil prices is affecting […]
The Canadian Housing Bubble Has Begun To Burst
The Canadian Housing Bubble Has Begun To Burst Don’t look now but slumping crude prices are hitting the Canadian housing market like a freight train. Energy accounts for 10% of Canadian GDP and around 25% of exports and the swift fall in oil prices is having a profound effect in the nation’s oil producing regions. Take […]
Energy companies on the ropes as investors look for deals
Energy companies on the ropes as investors look for deals Behind the scenes of the oil shock So far 2015 has not been a banner year for the energy sector. Budgets have been slashed, earnings are down and jobs are being cut. The mood in Alberta is tense. Behind the scenes though, it’s a different story. Opportunities […]
Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record?
Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record? Hydraulic fracturing, a technology used to crack open difficult oil and gas formations, appears to have set off a swarm of earthquakes near Fox Creek, Alberta, including a record-breaking tremor with a felt magnitude of 4.4 last week. That would likely make it the largest felt […]
