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Enbridge Spills

A Decade of Enbridge Oil Pipeline Spillsby Joyce Nelson, part of a feature Pipeline Safety, Dilbit, Captive Regulators and Smart Pigs coming in the March-April Watershed Sentinel2000: 7,513 barrels....

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Enbridge Pipeline - 26 jobs in return for $13 billion a year in exports

This startling submission from the Alberta Federation of Labour explains why the Enbridge pipeline is not in Alberta or Canada's best interest. Most startling is their emphasis that the pipeline will...

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Bitumen - Alberta Tarsands' Friend

The unsatisfactory track record of Enbridge and the high acidity concentrations of DilBit raise environmental concerns.by Miranda HolmesA dark stranger is heading British Columbia's way. We're told...

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Court Allows Beaver Lake Cree to Challenge Tar Sands

Breaking news: AB Court gives green light to BLCN's constitutional challenge of the tar sands developmentsread more

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Northern Gateway Pipelines, Comox, March 30

Amazing, knowledgeable passionate oral testimony this afternoon at the Joint Panel Review hearings in Comox. Speakers receiving standing ovations from the crowd. One speaker  was almost cut all because...

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Pipeline Update - The Freedom Train

by Susan MacVittiePrime Minister Stephen Harper's government is determined to speed up and streamline the government-approval process for pipelines, recently cutting federal environmental-oversight...

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Watershed Sentinel at Defend Our Coast, Victoria, October 22, 2012

Watershed Sentinel put one of its video cameras in the hands of a reporter who poses no threat to Steven Spielberg or Damien Gillis.read more

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Pipelines, Tankers and Tar Sands

Tar sands oil pumped via the Keystone XL Pipeline will increase greenhouse gas emissions.by Ben WestLast week, I sat in my office in the Gastown district of Vancouver and learned that the most powerful...

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Kinder Morgan Pipeline Safety

by Joyce NelsonBC Energy Minister Rich Coleman appears to be ignoring the fact that corporate ownership of the Trans Mountain Pipeline changed hands in 2005, when the Canadian owner, Terasen Inc., was...

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Chairman Harper Selling Tar Sands, Selling Canada with Canada-China Foreign...

Andrew Nikiforuk today in the Tyee unveils the depths of Harper's economic treason in the Asian trade deal. Almost too painful and horrifying to read. This is the total sell out of our resources and...

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Coastal First Nations Ask: Have You Heard the Radio Call from the Exxon Valdez?

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Elizabeth May Nails It in Her Discussion of Pipelines West, East, and South

Writing for Island Tides, Elizabeth May discusses the issues around all the pipeline proposals, eastern Canada's reliance on foreign oil, and comes to the only sensible solution -- slow down the...

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Harper's War on Science

by Joyce Nelson Canada’s Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, agreed at the end of March to launch an investigation into the extensive muzzling of federally-funded scientists at the Department of...

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The Price of Oil - Tar Sands' Impact on Global Agricultural Production

by Karen Wristen The impacts unchecked climate change could have on global food security might accurately be described as apocalyptic. As detailed in the most recent assessment by the...

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NonViolent Direct Action Shuts First US Tar Sands Mine

"Respect existence or expect resistance"Earlier this week activists converged at PR Springs, site of the first proposed tar sands mine in the United States. They shut down work at the mine, and road...

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