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Enbridge fined $3.32 mln for failings in Line 3 replacement project
Enbridge fined $3.32 mln for failings in Line 3 replacement project Protest signage on display at a camp established by indigenous leaders and water protectors at the Mississippi headwaters, one body of water the Line 3 pipeline will cross following a series of demonstrations in protest of the Line 3 pipeline, built by Enbridge Energy, […]
Environmental Demonstrators vs Militarized Police
Environmental Demonstrators vs Militarized Police The movement against climate chaos is running up against intense repression funded by private corporations as well as the federal government, writes Shea Leibow. A huge column of smoke from the Bootleg Fire in Oregon could be seen for miles on July 8. (National Interagency Fire Center, Wikimedia Commons) This […]
Everyone has a role to play in stopping the Line 3 pipeline
Everyone has a role to play in stopping the Line 3 pipeline Indigenous water protectors and allies are effectively engaging all four roles of social change — just what’s needed to beat a company as powerful as Enbridge. On Monday, July 19, in a red shirt and long black skirt, Sasha Beaulieu strode toward the […]
Hundreds Arrested at Line 3 ‘Treaty People Gathering.’ Water Protectors Vow To Continue Until the Pipeline is Canceled
Hundreds Arrested at Line 3 ‘Treaty People Gathering.’ Water Protectors Vow To Continue Until the Pipeline is Canceled Indigenous activists in Northern Minnesota occupied sites of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, seeking to disrupt construction. The action puts national attention on an issue that President Biden has tried to ignore. Water protectors are seeking to stop […]
Exclusive: Enbridge Is Behind This Front Group Pushing the Company’s Line 3 Oil Pipeline Project
Exclusive: Enbridge Is Behind This Front Group Pushing the Company’s Line 3 Oil Pipeline Project Minnesotans for Line 3, a group established last year to advocate for an Enbridge oil pipeline project, presents itself as a grassroots organization consisting of “thousands of members.” But a DeSmog investigation has found that behind the scenes, the Calgary-based energy […]
Calling for ‘Unprecedented and Urgent Action’ to Solve Climate Crisis, Four Organizers Shut Off Valves at Enbridge Lines 3 and 4
Calling for ‘Unprecedented and Urgent Action’ to Solve Climate Crisis, Four Organizers Shut Off Valves at Enbridge Lines 3 and 4 “This is some serious climate leadership.” Four Catholic Workers shut off valves at Enbridge Energy Line 3 and 4 in northern Minnesota on Monday. (Photo: @4necessity/Twitter) Condemning “the imminent and irreversible damage being done […]
“Environmental Extremism” or Necessary Response to Climate Emergency? Pipeline Shutdown Trials Pit Activists Against the Oil Industry
Still: Steve Liptay “ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM” OR NECESSARY RESPONSE TO CLIMATE EMERGENCY? PIPELINE SHUTDOWN TRIALS PIT ACTIVISTS AGAINST THE OIL INDUSTRY AN ACTIVIST IN Montana was sentenced on Tuesday in a case that has become both a touchstone for industry-friendly legislators pushing to increase penalties for pipeline protest and a measure of the U.S. legal system’s […]
NEB approves Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement
NEB approves Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement Conditions include consultation with First Nations Enbridge is proposing to replace its Line 3 pipeline from Hardisty, Alta., to Superior, Wis. If approved, it will approximately double the amount of oil shipped daily. (Canadian Press) The National Energy Board will allow Enbridge to replace an aging pipeline across the […]
‘Northern Gateway Will Never Happen’: Oil Spill Consultant
‘Northern Gateway Will Never Happen’: Oil Spill Consultant Activists cheered Trudeau’s tanker ban Friday for ‘effectively stopping the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.’ Photo by Jackie Dives. Trudeau-ordered ban on north coast oil tankers expected to kill Enbridge pipeline. Conservationists are heralding the federal government’s decision to ban crude oil tanker traffic along British Columbia’s north […]
A New Era For Canadian Oil And Gas, For Better Or Worse
A New Era For Canadian Oil And Gas, For Better Or Worse Canadian voters kicked out the conservative government in the October 19 election, a party that had been in power for a decade. Polls had predicted a slight lead for the Liberal Party, but in a surprise result, the Liberals actually won a majority of […]
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 […]
Enbridge Gets Another Federal Tar Sands Crude Pipeline Permit As Senate Debates Keystone XL
Enbridge Gets Another Federal Tar Sands Crude Pipeline Permit As Senate Debates Keystone XL On January 16, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave Enbridge a controversialNationwide Permit 12 green-light for its proposed Line 78 pipeline, set to bring heavy tar sands diluted bitumen (“dilbit”)from Pontiac, Illinois to its Griffith, Indiana holding terminal. The permit for the pipeline with the capacity to carry 800,000 barrels-per-day of tar […]
Will Ontario miss the boat on energy conservation? | – Environmental Defence
Will Ontario miss the boat on energy conservation? | – Environmental Defence. Energy conservation is the cheapest and easiest way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Research shows that reducing energy use creates jobs, increases our GDP, lowers government deficits, and cuts carbon pollution. It’s for these reasons that the Ontario government adopted the principle of “Conservation […]
