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‘Humiliated’ Kenney Demands Trade Sanctions, Could Sell Pipeline for Scrap as TC Shuts Down Keystone Construction

A “humiliated” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney demanded trade sanctions against the United States, TC Energy cut 1,000 construction jobs, Fox Business and the Wall Street Journal falsely claimed 10,000 to 11,000 jobs lost, and the Keystone XL pipeline was at risk of being sold off for scrap after President Joe Biden signed a Day One executive order cancelling the presidential permit for the intensely controversial fossil megaproject.

“The Canadian province that invested US$1.1 billion (C$1.5 billion, or $7.42 billion including loan guarantees) of taxpayers’ money in the controversial Keystone XL project is now considering the sale of pipe and materials to try to recoup some funds,” Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, after news of Biden’s plans began to circulate last weekend.

“If the project ends, there would be assets that could be sold, such as enormous quantities of pipe,” Kenney told an online news conference Monday. “That would offset construction costs.”

But in a performance in which he “lectured, hectored, and pleaded with the Biden administration,” writes CBC News analyst Graham Thomson, “it was like watching a tap dancer trying to juggle as he set his hair on fire.” In political terms, “Kenney was at times on his knees begging, on his toes dancing, shaking his fist, shaking his head, and bending over backwards,” professing surprise at a decision that Biden promised last May and has been building up to ever since.

“I’ve been against Keystone from the beginning,” he said on the campaign trail. “It is tar sands that we don’t need, that in fact is a very, very high pollutant.”

And now that he’s learned that no means no, “Kenney faces headache and humiliation as Biden prepares to kill Keystone XL,” CBC writes, in its headline for Thomson’s Tuesday post.

Thomson goes through the red flags that should have heralded Kenney’s ill-advised plan to prop up the pipeline, from his description of his own “bold” initiative to the $7.5 billion in public dollars required to get construction rolling. “Whenever politicians describe something they’re doing as ‘bold’, they mean controversial or contentious or risky,” he says. “Kenney, it turns out, meant all three.”

But that didn’t stop the Alberta premier from demanding the federal government retaliate against the U.S., in a follow-up news conference after the executive order was signed.

“If, however, the U.S. government refuses to open the door to a constructive and respectful dialogue about these issues, then it is clear that the Government of Canada must impose meaningful trade and economic sanctions in response to defend our country’s vital economic interests,” he said.

(Multiple other analysts and observers over the last several months have had a more reality-based take on those interests, ranging from cross-border opportunities in electric vehicle manufacturing and electricity trade, to the powerful economic transition potential for Alberta fossil workers and communities.)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Tuesday to keep up the federal government’s fight to defend the pipeline, then issued a follow-up statement Wednesday, after Biden had made his way through a stack of 17 Day One executive orders. “We are disappointed but acknowledge the President’s decision to fulfill his election campaign promise on Keystone XL,” he said. But “despite President Biden’s decision on the project, we would like to welcome other executive orders made today, including the decisions to rejoin the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization, to place a temporary moratorium on all oil and natural gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and to reverse the travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries.”

Trudeau added: “I look forward to working with President Biden to reduce pollution, combat climate change, fight COVID-19, create middle class jobs, and build back better by supporting a sustainable economic recovery for everyone.”

In a refreshingly candid, respectful and, let’s just overuse this adjective, reality-based media briefing Wednesday evening, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Trudeau will be first on Biden’s list today when he begins a series of introductory chats with foreign leaders. “I would expect his early calls will be with partners and allies,” she said. “He feels it’s important to rebuild those relationships and to address the challenges and threats we’re facing in the world.”

The executive order had Bold Nebraska founder Jane Kleeb issuing an emotional video to mark the win, acknowledge the campaigners who made it happen, thank Biden, and point to the other U.S. pipeline projects that are still awaiting cancellation. “Thank you, Joe Biden, for hearing regular people and standing with us instead of Big Oil,” she said.

Bloomberg News, meanwhile, is asking whether Biden’s decision marks the end of the mega-pipeline era in the U.S. “Even before Biden’s inauguration Wednesday, the oil and gas industry was on its back foot when it came to building major new infrastructure,” the news agency noted in the hours leading up to the signing. Now, “Joe Biden’s move to block the US$9-billion Keystone XL project is the clearest sign yet that constructing a major new pipeline in the U.S. has become an impossible task.”

“No one is going to announce a new pipeline while Joe Biden is the president,” agreed FiscalNote Markets Managing Director Katie Bays.

“I can’t imagine going to my board and saying, ‘we want to build a new greenfield pipeline’,” said Alan Armstrong, CEO of Tulsa, Oklahoma-based gas pipeliner Williams Companies, which abandoned a big project in New York State in 2020 after years of legal wrangling. “I do not think there will be any funding of any big cross-country greenfield pipelines, and I say that because of the amount of money that’s been wasted.”

And after Calgary-based Keystone proponent TC Energy suddenly came up touting a net-zero plan for the doomed project, analysts said the move was unlikely to sway anyone who’s serious and knowledgeable about environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) criteria for investments, The Canadian Press reports.

“Generally, ESG considerations do not automatically exclude certain industries,” said Olaf Weber, research chair in sustainable finance at the University of Waterloo. “But there is definitely a high risk for the oilsands, in particular, that they will have less investment in the future.”

In the Globe and Mail, columnist Gary Mason declares the death of Keystone—and the many dollars a cash-strapped Alberta stands to lose as a result—a political disaster for Kenney, who was already hemorrhaging voter support before the pipeline folded.

“There is no sugar-coating just how devastating this is for Mr. Kenney, his government, and the province,” Mason writes. “It represented billions in royalty revenues to the Alberta treasury. It also represented a ray of hope at a time when they are difficult to find in the province.”

“Why Mr. Kenney would have sunk $1.5 billion on a dicey proposition ahead of the U.S. election, and with an unstable and unpopular president in office, is bewildering and was grossly irresponsible,” Mason continues. “The premier is an intelligent person with an impressive political resume. But some of the decisions he’s made in the past two years are beyond perplexing.”

In the U.S., meanwhile, another brand of pipeline politics is beginning to play out. After TC Energy said it would axe 1,000 construction jobs in light of the executive order, conservative media previously aligned with the Trump White House inflated the number by a factor of 10 or 11.

“The conservative climate fear-mongering begins,” headlines climate journalist Emily Atkin, publisher of the excellent Heated newsletter. [Subs here. Yes, we’re reminding you again…]

The lost jobs are “nothing to be celebrated. But it’s also not something that should be exaggerated for political gain,” Atkin writes. “The 10,000 union jobs Republicans and the fossil fuel industry claim Biden killed were, first and foremost, hypothetical. Keystone XL was still awaiting permits in several states before it could begin construction,” so the jobs fossil media say have been lost had never been created.

Moreover, those jobs were almost all temporary, save the 35 permanent employees and 15 temporary contractors who would have been engaged to operate the pipeline. “The pipeline was expected to be a boom, however, for the climate crisis,” she adds. So “the Biden administration rejected Keystone XL’s permit because it asserts the enormous economic consequences of climate change outweigh the economic benefits” of 35 new permanent jobs.

“Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives,” Biden said in the executive order. “At home, we will combat the crisis with an ambitious plan to build back better, designed to both reduce harmful emissions and create good clean energy jobs.”

Reprinted with permission from The Energy Mix

July 2020, Kenney Reannounces Keystone Subsidy

A faster corporate tax cut, a C$600-million infrastructure investment, and reannounced funding that was already allocated in the province’s spring budget are key elements of a highly-touted, $10-billion recovery plan for Alberta that is already taking fire for being far more tame and fuzzy than its architects claim.

Premier Jason Kenney said his government expected to create 50,000 jobs by 2022 with a program that he described as the “largest infrastructure build” in Alberta history, CBC reports. The plan was also touted as a bold move toward a long-overdue diversification of Alberta’s fossil-dependent economy.

Graham Thomson of the Globe & Mail observed that some of the big-ticket items in the announcement—including Alberta’s lavish, $1.5-billion subsidy to the Keystone XL pipeline—are not new investments. “Re-announcing the project doesn’t change the fact that it is a gamble,” he writes. “Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, has vowed to scrap the scheme should he win this year’s election.”

Kenney’s Statement on Joe Biden Repealing the Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL Border Crossing Next Week

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Alberta Inquiry Touts ‘Junk Climate Denial’, Conspiracy Theories in Fossil Industry’s Defence

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Alberta’s C$3.5-million inquiry into supposed foreign-funded interference with the province’s fossil industry is advancing “junk climate denial science, bizarre conspiracy theories, and oil industry propaganda,” according to critics who’ve reviewed a series of commissioned studies now available on the inquiry’s website, CBC and the Globe and Mail report.

“If you read any of this stuff, it really strays into Marxism and conspiracy theory and George Soros and Bill Gates,” University of Alberta energy and environmental economist Andrew Leach told the national broadcaster. “It is astounding to me.”

A packet of documents the commission assembled and sent to reviewers for comment contained “textbook examples of climate change denialism” that “minimize or outright dismiss the reality and seriousness of climate change” and are “replete with generalizations, speculation, conjecture, and even conspiracy,” added Martin Olszynski.

Provincial opposition leader Rachel Notley said commissioner Steve Allan was using taxpayer dollars to “support and solicit anti-science, climate-denying ridiculousness,” and urged Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party government to cancel the inquiry. “I think that it sends a horrible message to international investors. It undermines our energy industry,” she said. “Quite frankly, there should be an inquiry into the inquiry, except for the fact that that itself would be another waste of money.”

The latest controversy swirling around Allan’s work began when the Public Inquiry Into Funding of Anti-Alberta Campaigns “posted on its website that it had invited 47 people or organizations to apply for standing as a ‘participant for commentary’ in the inquiry,” CBC explains. The 11 who were granted standing received a package of review materials, including several reports Allan had commissioned.

CBC and the Globe both have detail on some of the materials. A report by University of Calgary political scientist Barry Cooper falsely questions the scientific consensus on climate change. And a missive by historian Tammy Nemeth, a home-school teacher in England, “claims that a ‘transnational progressive movement’ is attempting to overthrow the ‘modern western industrial capitalist society’ by infiltrating institutions such as the United Nations and the World Bank, as well as university departments and corporations,” CBC writes.

Nemeth received $28,000 for her efforts, while Energy In Depth, an attack-PR operation associated with the Independent Petroleum Association of America, received US$50,000 for a study titled “Foreign Funding Targeting Canada’s Energy Sector”.

It wasn’t a good look for an inquiry for which the Kenney government has already had to dial down expectations, and is now less than two weeks away from its January 31 reporting deadline. “This is a multi-million-dollar inquiry with subpoena power and public inquiry power,” Leach told CBC. “And what we are getting, the first indication of any kind of research they have gathered, is commissioned reports from industry front groups and people with a questionable history on exactly the types of topics they are trying to look into.”

“The fact Commissioner Steve Allan thought it relevant to commission and consult reports denying the reality of the climate crisis is just another example of how deeply flawed and biased Premier Jason Kenney’s inquiry into so-called ‘anti-Alberta’ campaigns is,” Ecojustice Executive Director Devon Page said in a release.

“Commissioner Allan has already demonstrated time and again that Albertans should not take his findings seriously,” he added. “If it wasn’t already obvious, the commissioner’s latest update of climate denier reports makes it clear: This inquiry lacks any shred of credibility.”

Ecojustice, one of the named targets of the inquiry, will be in court February 11-12 challenging the “partisan political purposes” behind the process.

This article is reprinted with permission from The Energy Mix.

Climate-change denial, bias, and a Marxist under every bed of leaves characterize papers commissioned by energy campaigns inquiry

Steve Allan

Martin Olszynski

An “engagement process update” published Wednesday night by the so-called Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns reveals inquiry head Steve Allan commissioned reports by climate-change skeptics and a fossil fuel industry advocacy group in the United States.

A critical submission to the $3.5-million inquiry by University of Calgary law professor Martin Olszynski called the three commissioned reports “textbook examples of climate change denialism.”

“All of them minimize or outright dismiss the reality and seriousness of climate change, even though none of their authors appear to be trained in climate science,” Prof. Olszynski wrote in his submission, which was published yesterday on the U of C Law Faculty’s blog.

“These reports are replete with generalizations, speculation, conjecture, and even conspiracy,” he said. “The matter of climate change denial is particularly important because it underpins the rest of the narrative in these reports, i.e., that other interests have opposed the oil and gas industry – including Alberta’s – not out of genuine concern for the climate or other environmental impacts but rather for some nefarious – perhaps even Marxist … purpose.”

A bluntly worded CBC story yesterday summarized the paid work as “junk climate-denial science, bizarre conspiracy theories and oil-industry propaganda.”

Source: Climate-change denial, bias, and a Marxist under every bed of leaves characterize papers commissioned by energy campaigns inquiry – Alberta Politics

How we respond to threats against democracy

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People looking for democracy

Christina Warner
1 day ago

I was horrified by the scenes of violence that unfolded earlier this week in Washington, D.C. Witnessing the violent interruption of democratic proceedings so close to home is unsettling, and the continued presence of white supremacy in our society is deeply disturbing.

These actions, motivated by white supremacy and hatred, are reprehensible but could have been predicted. They come after years of downplaying the resurgence of organized white nationalist groups in the United States, while leaders sowed mistrust of public institutions through misinformation and gutting public services until they were unreliable.

As a former Washington, D.C. resident, I watched first-hand the growth of the Tea Party’s influence in state and federal governments, as well as in local communities. The Tea Party was only one of many groups normalizing white supremacy in mainstream social, political and economic life over the past few years.

The culmination of ongoing wars, deepened inequality from austerity and ongoing racism, and flagrant fearmongering from politicians like Donald Trump – but not Trump alone – created the perfect context for the brazen insurrection we saw this week. White, wealthier America has dismissed the deepened and violent presence of white nationalist groups for the past decades, and now, as I watch the news, I am conscious of how these same risks are deeply intertwined with the interest of powerful forces that also threaten Canadian society.

Indeed, many of those who stormed Capitol Hill are aligned with the Proud Boys, a white nationalist organization with roots in Canada. In Canada, several pro-Trump rallies broke out on Wednesday. And some of our political leaders have stoked the same fires of hatred and division.

At the Council of Canadians, we understand the direct link between austerity, racist violence and the erosion of democratic processes. The U.S. is bearing the fruit of decades of cruelty — breaking up unions, cutting public services and siphoning public resources and wealth into the hands of the very elite. These policies, also present in Canada, inevitably deepen racial divisions because our systems already marginalize Black, Indigenous and people of colour. Combined with explicit scapegoating, this creates fertile ground to justify political power for white leaders while targeting state and communal violence toward racialized peoples.

We see these divisions when the RCMP targets Indigenous land and water defenders, as they did with the Wet’suwet’en, and with the double standard in policing when RCMP inaction emboldened non-Indigenous fishers in their violence towards the Mi’kmaq peoples. We see it in the disproportionate representation of Indigenous, Black and brown individuals in the Canadian carceral systems. We see it in the fact that communities of colour have borne the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. And we also see it when Premier Jason Kenney tries to break unions, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promotes an agenda of privatization, and when Opposition Leader Erin O’Toole declares the need to “take Canada back” (from whom?!?).

This is the impact of scarcity politics. Cuts to public institutions in wealthy countries like Canada (or the U.S.) make it harder for people to meet their most basic needs like health care, housing or food security. This austerity is often presented as tax and spending cuts as a means of economic growth. We know this doesn’t work — tax and spending cuts funnel wealth needed for effective public institutions into the pockets of a few. This is cyclical: budget cuts mean institutions can’t provide as many services; people go without; people get frustrated with the institutions that are supposed to help them; there is less political support for those institutions and budget cuts continue.

In countries like Canada and the U.S. where colonization and racism are part of our histories, people trying to cope with increased suffering under inequitable policies are often driven to blame others. Instead of pulling our collective voice to fight for strong public institutions that meet our needs, we spend our time targeting one another out of an artificial sense of competition. While we have a harder time paying rent or protecting ourselves from pandemics, we scapegoat one another along lines of citizenship, race or ethnicity, or Indigenous status. Instead of looking at the systems at play in inequitable fisheries, for example, settlers target Mik’maq livelihood fisheries with direct violence. Black, Indigenous and all people of colour disproportionately suffer poverty, violence and death because of this cycle, while more and more people across society from all backgrounds share in those economic struggles to a growing extent.

We fight back against the kind of violence we saw this week by refusing to buy-in to the false pressure of scarcity politics. We must instead come together to refuse racist scapegoating and protect our public institutions so that they benefit everyone living in Canada. We cannot be divided.

As the Council of Canadians, we believe that the best way to respond is to fight white supremacy at home and to strengthen our democracies and social support systems.

Politicians across the political spectrum must stop sowing mistrust of policies that support equity and Indigenous sovereignty and must explicitly speak out against white nationalist groups like the Proud Boys, Yellow Vesters and others. They must support public institutions and the distribution of resources to all people living in Canada.

Those of us who, like me, have been shaped by our whiteness, our wealth and our relative privilege must pay attention to and take leadership from people who live and work from different perspectives. We will learn how to disrupt this history of white supremacy and find a new way of working, together.

At the Council, we are organizing and advocating to ensure:

A COVID-19 response that prioritizes the health and wellbeing of people, especially those made vulnerable by existing inequalities.
Climate and water policies that protect these resources while addressing social injustices of environmental and economic racism.
Real and lasting investments in our public services that strengthen the connection between government, communities and people.
We challenge the power of multinational corporations, many of which have been complicit in the rise of divisions.
We all confront Canada’s own white supremacy and colonialism whenever and wherever we see it while strengthening our resolve for justice and equity.

Thank you for your support and thank you in advance for your commitment to people, the planet and our democracy. We have so much work to do, but I am heartened knowing that we do this work together.

Christina Warner is the Director of Campaigns and Organizing at the Council of Canadians. She grew up in southern Indiana, and spent the years following the economic recession in Washington, D.C. advocating for U.S. Economic Justice, reforming carceral systems and an end to anti-Muslim discrimination. In 2014, she moved to Winnipeg where she completed a Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg that focused on community organizing in contexts of white supremacy and austerity. She now lives in Toronto.

Canada Revenue Agency launched a database listing every organization that received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) subsidy. Some of the beneficiaries are right-wing groups.

Why Doug Ford is stumbling during COVID-19’s second wave

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Why has the Doug Ford government been so reluctant to take action amid the second wave of COVID-19?
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

Mark Winfield, York University, Canada

Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has come to be defined by two things: its hesitant responses to the emerging second wave of COVID-19 and its relentlessly pro-business approach to virtually all other matters.

The situation invites the question of whether the government’s stumbling reluctance to impose more restrictive measures to head off the growing numbers of COVID-19 infections, as recommended by medical experts from across the province, is a product of its pro-business orientation.

On the COVID-19 front, recent days have been defined by some deeply disturbing trends: record daily rates of new infections; an already fatal reappearance of the virus in long-term care facilities; and projections of uncontrolled infection rates exceeding 6,500 cases per day, which will overwhelm hospital and intensive care unit capacity. Although the news of potentially effective vaccines is encouraging, their widespread availability seems many months off.

Christine Elliott with Doug Ford in the background. — Ontario Premier Doug Ford watches as Health Minister Christine Elliott walks to the podium to answer questions at Queen’s Park on Nov. 16, 2020.
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The provincial government’s responses to the situation have been surprisingly feeble. The province was actually moving in the direction of easing restrictions, particularly around public gathering spaces like restaurants, bars, gyms and places of worship, despite warnings that these could be key points of transmission.

It was then revealed that the province had ignored the advice of its own public health agency in terms of the infection rates needed to trigger further restrictions. The recommended thresholds for restrictions were reportedly increased by a factor of four relative to the advice received by the province from its own public health agency.

Taking the fall?

The imposition of further restrictions has been left in the hands of local medical officers of health despite the limited legal authority available to them. The province, it seemed, was prepared to let them take the political fall for the imposition of potentially unpopular restrictions.

The catastrophic projections released on Nov. 13 brought a partial turnaround by the province in terms of the thresholds for additional restrictions. But the government’s approach is still falling well short of what health authorities and experts are saying is needed to prevent disaster.

As if to add insult to injury, Ontario is poised to pass legislation that would effectively grant long-term care home owners and operators immunity from liability for the more than 1,800 resident deaths that occurred in their facilities during the first COVID-19 wave.

There is strong evidence that a significant portion of those fatalities were the result of neglect and poor care, rather than COVID-19 itself.

The province has extensive authority over public health matters, as well as a range of other legal and policy tools at its disposal to combat the virus. And on the surface, the government has consistently expressed concern and distress over the impacts of COVID-19 on its victims. Yet it had to be pushed into partial action by the recent outcry from the media and health experts over its failing responses.

Pro-business arguments

Why?

The answer may lie with Ford’s stance on issues beyond the pandemic. The essential feature of the Ford government has been its striking responsiveness to any argument presented to it from pro-business advocates and framed in terms of economic development.

The government’s record on the environment in this context is well-known: the shredding of Ontario’s climate change strategy; the elimination of the independent office of the environmental commissioner; the weakening or elimination of regulations on endangered species, forestry and toxic chemicals; and the evisceration of longstanding rules on industrial water pollution and environmental assessment.

Most striking of these tendencies has been the government’s willingness to acquiesce to the demands presented to it by the land development industry. Planning rules intended to curb urban sprawl in the Greater Toronto Area have been gutted.

The province has made unprecedented moves to reach deep into local municipal plans on behalf of development interests to eliminate constraints and permit ever greater development in areas like midtown Toronto that are already subject to intensive development pressures.

Ministerial zoning orders have been used with unprecedented frequency to override municipal and provincial rules on specific sites, most recently permitting a warehouse development in an environmentally significant wetland on Pickering’s Lake Ontario shoreline.

Provisions buried in the government’s November 2020 budget bill would undermine the role of local conservation authorities in controlling development for lands that are at risk of flooding and other hazards — significant considerations in the age of climate change — as well as for wetlands and shorelines.

Men fish from a boat as the sun rises. — Early morning fishermen take advantage of warm weather on Pigeon Lake near Bobcaygeon, Ont., on Nov. 7, 2020.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Thornhill

Sympathetic to business owners

The same unapologetic pro-business orientation seems to lie at the heart of the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis.

The government has seemed particularly sympathetic to the pleas of small business owners, such as restaurants, bars and gyms, that would be affected by further shutdowns, despite the potentially significant roles these types of facilities could play in the spread of COVID-19.

A woman wearing a mask sits at a bar while a bartender stands behind it. Both look at a TV set. — A bartender and restaurant manager watch the news on television in the Port Credit neighbourhood of Mississauga, Ont., on Oct. 9, 2020.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

That’s profoundly short-sighted, laying the groundwork for disastrous runaway outbreaks like those occurring in the United States. Those types of outbreaks may only be able to be controlled, if at all, through the types of draconian and long-term lockdowns seen in places like Melbourne, Australia. The impact would be far more damaging to businesses than additional short-term restrictions.

A more effective and balanced approach would recognize the need for far greater restrictions in the short term, while working with the federal government to provide support to affected employees and helping businesses move their operations to take-out, delivery, curbside pickup and online services wherever possible.

Events in the U.S. and Europe are demonstrating just how bad a second COVID-19 wave could be. If the Ford government acts decisively, it may still be able to avoid the same fate, but time is running out quickly.

Ontario health care workers announce 22 political protests against the PC government’s removal of their basic workplace rights
Ford is repaying health workers by stabbing them in the back

Mark Winfield, Professor of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Category Archives: Politics

‘Humiliated’ Kenney Demands Trade Sanctions, Could Sell Pipeline for Scrap as TC Shuts Down Keystone Construction

Kenney’s Statement on Joe Biden Repealing the Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL Border Crossing Next Week

Alberta Inquiry Touts ‘Junk Climate Denial’, Conspiracy Theories in Fossil Industry’s Defence

How we respond to threats against democracy

Why Doug Ford is stumbling during COVID-19’s second wave

July 2020, Kenney Reannounces Keystone Subsidy

Climate-change denial, bias, and a Marxist under every bed of leaves characterize papers commissioned by energy campaigns inquiry

Taking the fall?

Pro-business arguments

Sympathetic to business owners

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