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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 […]
How this man’s legal challenge could stall LNG Canada
Smithers resident Michael Sawyer is arguing to the National Energy Board that a pipeline that would serve the LNG Canada plant should have undergone a federal environmental assessment. Photo: Dan Mesec / The Narwhal IN-DEPTH How this man’s legal challenge could stall LNG Canada A massive new fracked gas export plant in Kitimat may have […]
Canada’s Top Court Dismisses Burnaby Case Against Trans Mountain Pipeline
Canada’s Top Court Dismisses Burnaby Case Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Canada’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the City of Burnaby—the planned end point of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in British Columbia on the Pacific coast, clearing another legal hurdle for the project, which still faces several lawsuits at various Canadian courts. […]
Canada Bets On Trans Mountain Expansion To Sell Oil In Asia
Canada Bets On Trans Mountain Expansion To Sell Oil In Asia Canada may be the fourth largest producer and third largest exporter of oil in the world, but it has one sole customer of its oil—the United States. At the end of last month, Canada took a step toward ensuring that its oil would have […]
Politics versus the future: Canada’s Orwellian energy standoff
Politics versus the future: Canada’s Orwellian energy standoff There is no denying the utility of fossil fuels, which meet 85% of the world’s energy needs. And consumption is rising along with emissions. Even in Canada, the second largest hydropower producer in the world, 76% of end use energy is provided by fossil fuels. We are told […]
Canada Is Facing A Heavy Crude Crisis
Canada Is Facing A Heavy Crude Crisis Canada’s benchmark heavy crude oil widened its discount to WTI to the largest in six trading sessions on Thursday, as additional storage capacity in Alberta and data about lower crude-by-rail shipments added concerns over the domestic oil glut, as TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline has yet to return to normal […]
Five Things You Need to Know About the Cancellation of the Energy East Oilsands Pipeline
Five Things You Need to Know About the Cancellation of the Energy East Oilsands Pipeline TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline is officially dead. Announced via press release on Thursday, the news confirmed long-held suspicions that the $15.7 billion, 4,500 km oilsands pipeline simply wouldn’t cut it in today’s economic context. But that hasn’t stopped commentators on all […]
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 […]
TransCanada announces major contract for Energy East pipeline
TransCanada announces major contract for Energy East pipeline Project is controversial, with Montreal and nearby mayors opposed on environmental grounds TransCanada’s proposed pipeline project would carry 1.1 million barrels a day from Alberta through Quebec to an export terminal in Saint John. (Canadian Press) (Note: CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the […]
Pipeline Reforms ‘Great Step’ but Don’t Account for Most Emissions, Say Climate Critics
Pipeline Reforms ‘Great Step’ but Don’t Account for Most Emissions, Say Climate Critics Does ignoring downstream impacts export Canada’s responsibilities? Canada’s minister of the environment and climate change Catherine McKenna at the COP21 climate summit in Paris, France in December. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa. The Trudeau government’s newly announced reforms to pipeline environmental assessments still fail […]
Kinder Morgan pipeline review by NEB loses 35 participants over ‘flawed’ process
Kinder Morgan pipeline review by NEB loses 35 participants over ‘flawed’ process ‘We can’t abide by the system any more. It’s too flawed,’ says former participant Dozens of participants have dropped out of the controversial National Energy Board review of Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, saying they can no longer support a “biased” and “unfair” process. Thirty-five […]
Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth
Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth The financial pages of Canadian newspapers have been full of headlines lately announcing the potential of two large shale oil fields in the Northwest Territories said to contain enough oil to rival the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana. The report by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) evaluated, for the […]
BC Natural Gas Reserves Inflated, Revenues Overstated, Report Finds
BC Natural Gas Reserves Inflated, Revenues Overstated, Report Finds Analyst David Hughes offers another challenge to the province’s nascent industry. A new report on liquefied natural gas prospects for British Columbia challenges government claims that gas exports will lower greenhouse gas emissions, or generate $100 billion in profits for the province. The report published today by David […]
Trans Mountain pipeline expansion ‘disastrous,’ says Mayor Gregor Robertson
Trans Mountain pipeline expansion ‘disastrous,’ says Mayor Gregor Robertson ‘My mind is clearly made up. I think this is a bad deal for Vancouver,’ he said after reading new report Mayor Gregor Robertson says new evidence proves the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline presents a grave threat to the City of Vancouver’s health, […]
