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Northern Gateway

Enbridge oil pipeline project an affront to Canadians

People rallying against the proposed oil pipeline through Northern B.C. aren't foreign environmentalists -- they are average thinking Canadians, says a Northern B.C. resident.

Keystone XL oil pipeline to be defeated: is Enbridge next?

It's a sour day for big oil. The Obama administration is set to reject the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, according to news reports. Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin reported Obama's...

Salmon, economy and oil: Smithers mayor explains opposition to Enbridge pipeline

Smithers mayor explains why, despite job promises, the community remains opposed to the Northern Gateway oil pipeline.

Harper government overstepped big time

The carbon belongs to Canada, VO climate change blogger Barry Saxifrage wrote me in an email this morning.  He said he noticed that David Suzuki quoted a stat from an article saying that 40 per...

Unethical oil and its Canadian friends

 A year ago Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel announced a new foreign partner for its Northern Gateway Pipeline project. Daniels told a meeting in Whistler, BC that Sinopec, China’s second largest oil...

Canada and the environment: key events from 2011

From Greens in Parliament to tar sands opposition and the Kyoto Protocol, here's a summary of some of the year's most important environmental issues and events.

Nathan Cullen calls for progressive voters to re-think party line politics

2011 NDP race: BC candidate wants Liberals, NDP to hare ridings to defeat Tories.

Environmental activists back Keystone XL pipeline delay

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday that delaying approval for the Keystone XL pipeline could end the project entirely. “I’m not sure this project would survive that kind of delay,” Flaherty...

Naomi Klein after Keystone XL pipeline protest arrest

Harper government "global advertising agency" for oil industry, author Naomi Klein says after Keystone XL pipeline protest arrest.