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Enbridge Gets Another Federal Tar Sands Crude Pipeline Permit As Senate...
On January 16, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave Enbridge a controversial Nationwide Permit 12 green-light for its proposed Line 78 pipeline, set to bring heavy tar sands diluted bitumen (“dilbit”)...
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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...
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Emails: How State Department Secretly Approved Expanding Piece of Enbridge's...
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...
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Has Stephen Harper Helped or Hindered The Oil Industry?
At an estimated 2,700 litres, the bunker fuel spill in English Bay was relatively small — yet the stakes of that spill couldn’t be much higher.With Enbridge and Kinder Morgan both hoping to build oil...
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California State of Emergency: Up To 105,000 Gallons of Oil Spill in Santa...
Up to 105,000 gallons of oil obtained via offshore drilling have spilled from a pipeline owned by Plains All American at Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County in California. At least 21,000...
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Appeals Court Rules Keystone XL South Approval Was Legal, Lifting Cloud Over...
In a 3-0 vote, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Tenth Circuit has ruled that the southern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline was permitted in a lawful manner by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers....
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Enbridge Stuffs Provision into Wisconsin Budget to Expedite Controversial...
On Thursday, July 3 on the eve of a long Fourth of July holiday weekend, Canadian pipeline company giant Enbridge landed a sweetheart deal: a provision in the 2015 Wisconsin Budget that will serve to...
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Emails: Enbridge Attorney, Lobbyist Wrote Provisions into Wisconsin Budget...
Emails reveal that an attorney and lobbyist for Canadian pipeline company giant Enbridge helped draft the controversial provision placed into the 2015 Wisconsin Budget set to fast-track expansion of...
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Nexen’s Brand New, Double-Layered Pipeline Just Ruptured, Causing One of the...
A pipeline at Nexen Energy’s Long Lake oilsands facility southeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, spilled about five million liters (32,000 barrels or some 1.32 million gallons) of emulsion, a mixture of...
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River Supplying Water To Alberta Oil Sands Operations At Risk From Drought
A new study casts doubt on the long-term ability of the Athabasca River to supply the water Alberta’s oil sands industry relies on. Water is allocated to oil sands operations based on river flow data...
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Is it the Beginning of the End for the Alberta Oilsands?
A new report from Oil Change International challenges industry’s common assumption that the continued production of oilsands crude is inevitable.The report, Lockdown: The End of Growth in the Tar...
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TransCanada's Next Move After Keystone XL: Flood Mexico with Fracked Gas with...
TransCanada, the owner of the recently-nixed northern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, has won a bid from Mexico's government to build a 155-mile pipeline carrying gas from hydraulic...
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Ethics Complaint Filed Against Alberta Minister Turned Coal Lobbyist
A complaint filed with Alberta’s Office of the Ethics Commissioner on Tuesday argues that the president of the Coal Association of Canada contravened the Conflict of Interest Act by lobbying for the...
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'Failed Experiment': Alberta Folds Oilsands Monitoring Agency
The Alberta government has shuttered its arm’s length environmental monitoring agency after a report concluded the program was a “failed experiment.” Minister of Environment Shannon Phillips announced...
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Will Alberta’s Last-Ditch Effort to Save the Caribou Be Enough?
When the Alberta government released its draft plan to save the province’s dwindling caribou populations from local extinction earlier this month, it was heralded as a major step forward — but big...
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