Saskatoon scientist breaks silence about muzzling - Saskatchewan. Is the oil sands industry undermining Canadian democracy? Exxon's Skies: Why Is Exxon Controlling the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill?
13Apr13. Five Oil Spills in. ForestEthics. Canada’s tar sands is one of the largest industrial projects on the planet, and its environmental footprint is growing by the second.
At a time when the world needs to transition to cleaner energy, the tar sands is the poster child of what we should not be doing. It’s time to put a healthy environment above corporate profit and the endless drive for more oil. At each step of the process, turning tar sands into oil undermines the local and global environment. CKNW interview on opposition motion to protect science by Kennedy Stewart, MP. Usually, I catch on fire The ecologist who has to detonate thousands of methane bubble grenades trapped in frozen lake. Katey Walter releases methane trapped in frozen Alaskan lakesPart of her research into global warming and climate change By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 10:48 GMT, 25 March 2013 | Updated: 13:25 GMT, 25 March 2013 This is the incredible moment ice became fire when a frozen lake released a deadly gas that exploded in a massive fireball.
Canada’s pipeline preacher will not slow down: Tim Harper. OTTAWA—Stephen Harper’s pipeline preacher has not lost any of his zeal.
Joe Oliver takes to his pulpit daily, spraying statistics and “fact-based” arguments at his opponents, refusing to be slowed by recent heart surgery, perhaps the loudest and most determined environmental protest ever mounted on both sides of the border or native leaders who promise a long, hot summer followed by potentially years of court challenges. He is unbowed by his government’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol, its international vilification, the oilsands “branding” battle that, by his own admission, his government was losing when Harper tapped him as his natural resources minister. He soldiers on resolutely in what has arguably become the country’s most important portfolio as his government ties the country’s economic future to the export of its deep oil reserves, but doesn’t even pay lip service to climate change in its budget.
A U.S. The Keystone decision is expected by June. Feds ‘blackmailing’ First Nations into signing away their power over water, resource development for continued funding. Former Liberal deputy prime minister Herb Gray dies at age 82: some photos from his life on the Hill April 22, 2014 The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright Herb Gray, the former Liberal MP, Cabinet minister, and deputy prime minister, pictured here with his daughter Elizabeth Gray-Smith, died on Monday, April 21 at the age of 82.
Oil spill response ship runs aground en route to Vancouver news conference. File this under oops: The largest oil spill response ship along B.C.’s coast ran aground on its way to an appearance at a news conference in Vancouver on Monday.
According to Western Canada Marine Response Corporation, Burrard Cleaner No. 9 ran into a previously uncharted sandbar off Sand Heads. Research on oil-sands impact cost centre its funding, scientists say. Closing of freshwater research station called a 'travesty' as feds move to dismantle buildings. Idle No More and Defenders of the Land join to call for sustained campaign of action. March 19, 2013.
Musings of A Canadian government scientist from behind the muzzle. 2013 ONCA 158. 114 O.R. (3d) 401 Court of Appeal for Ontario, Sharpe, Gillese and Juriansz JJ.A.
March 18, 2013. Logging permits can be issued on First Nations land: court - Thunder Bay. The Ontario government has won an appeal of a landmark ruling involving First Nations treaty rights.
In a decision released Monday, the province's court of appeal said the Ontario government has the authority to issue logging permits on Grassy Narrows First Nation's traditional territory. The government argued it had "exclusive proprietary jurisdiction over public lands and in forests in the province. " The First Nation maintained a treaty with Canada protected its hunting and trapping rights. This latest ruling overturns a 2011 Superior Court decision that sided with Grassy Narrows. Second project approved for Mandarin-only miners. A partner in HD Mining was granted permission to bring in nearly 100 temporary foreign workers using documents listing Mandarin as a language requirement, a Freedom of Information Act request has revealed.
In the first half of 2012, Canadian Dehua Mines International received positive Labour Market Opinions, a prerequisite required by Service Canada. The approval from the government body allowed the company to use foreign workers for their Gething coal project near Hudson Hope in northeastern B.C. Canada's environmental activists seen as 'threat to national security' Canadian government agencies have been accused of conflating extremism with peaceful protests, such as the ongoing campaign against Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project.
Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Monitoring of environmental activists in Canada by the country's police and security agencies has become the "new normal", according to a researcher who has analysed security documents released under freedom of information laws. Security and police agencies have been increasingly conflating terrorism and extremism with peaceful citizens exercising their democratic rights to organise petitions, protest and question government policies, said Jeffrey Monaghan of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Protests and opposition to Canada's resource-based economy, especially oil and gas production, are now viewed as threats to national security, Monaghan said.