The NDP’s Megan Leslie reviews the spring sitting in Parliament while the National Citizens Coalition’s Stephen Taylor gets asked: Is it time the Conservatives took the New Democrats — ahead or tied with the Tories in several recent polls — more seriously? Continue reading Is it personal between Joe Oliver and Megan Leslie? Leslie says: "Yeah."
Category: Environment
Getting oil from Kitimat to the open ocean: Can we do that?
I’m looking to tap the brainpower of the blogosphere for a very specific question:
Can we safely move oil from Kitimat, B.C., down the Douglas Channel, and into the open Pacific Ocean?
Continue reading Getting oil from Kitimat to the open ocean: Can we do that?
Oil sands monitoring: Some positives but some opportunities missed
Queen’s University environmental scientist John Smol was among the scientific advisors that contributed to the creation of the Oil Sands Monitoring System, announced in Edmonton Friday by Environment Minister Peter Kent and his provincial counterpart Diana McQueen.
As my colleague Tanara McLean reported:
The program aims to create a more “transparent” and cohesive monitoring system. All oilsands Continue reading Oil sands monitoring: Some positives but some opportunities missed
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver avoids the key question on Northern Gateway
The federal government, you may have noticed, is frustrated at what amounts to filibuster of the Northern Gateway Pipeline review by individuals and groups opposed to the project.
This week, both Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Davos, Switzerland and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver here at home vowed to introduce legislation that would streamline regulatory review processes to avoid, in Harper’s words, “delay for the sake of delay.”
Ok, then: Does that mean the government will introduce legislation to short-circuit/streamline the Northern Gateway Pipeline review. Continue reading Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver avoids the key question on Northern Gateway
Reuters analysis: Winners on Keystone? No one, really
Robert Campbell is a New York-based market analyst for Thomson Reuters. His analysis of the Obama decision to nix the Keystone XL pipeline based on its current route seems quite sensible to me. A chunk that stands out: Continue reading Reuters analysis: Winners on Keystone? No one, really
New 'green group' poll: Foreign oil patch money a bigger concern than foreign money in green groups
For the last month or so, there has been increasing attention (partly, I’d like to think based on some of the reporting our organization has done on the issue) of the influence foreign, mostly U.S., organization have had on what could broadly be termed the Canadian environmental lobby. This PR war is now heating to a fever pitch as the three-member independent review panel gets set to start hearings tomorrow into a proposal to build a $5.5 billion 1,177-kilometre from the Alberta oilsands to a port on the northern B.C. coast, from where supertankers would take Alberta bitumen to markets in Asia and the U.S.
Today, the green groups started firing back, Continue reading New 'green group' poll: Foreign oil patch money a bigger concern than foreign money in green groups
BC Premier Christy Clark on resource development and foreign money flowing to Canadian green groups
BCLocalNews.com published yesterday a year-end interview Tom Fletcher did with British Columbia Premier Christy Clark. Here’s some excerpts, in which Clark stays on the sidelines of the debate on a Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific but frowns on U.S. groups mobilizing and funding Canadians: Continue reading BC Premier Christy Clark on resource development and foreign money flowing to Canadian green groups
Daily Brief Video Gallery: Environment Minister Peter Kent "Absolutely" we can do something about global warming
WTO analyst says Harper, Hitler and Mussolini now in the "wreckers club"
Canada’s decision to pull out of Kyoto has sparked a great deal of sharp reaction on all sides but a Canadian working as a policy analyst at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland makes the case that we are a “nice country” gone very, very bad… Continue reading WTO analyst says Harper, Hitler and Mussolini now in the "wreckers club"
Verbatim: Environment Minister Peter Kent pulls Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol
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Here is the text of the statement Environment Minister Peter Kent (left) delivered in the House of Commons foyer late this afternoon:
I have just returned from Durban, South Africa where countries of the world, Canada included, made it clear: Continue reading Verbatim: Environment Minister Peter Kent pulls Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol