Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File | The Tyee
“I very much believe the cleanup costs should be paid by the industry and the provinces who collected the oil royalty revenue and should have created a cleanup fund,” he said.
Teck Frontier Mine Tests Canada’s Climate Commitment – The Energy Mix
The C$20.6-billion project, about 110 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, “would disturb 292 square kilometres of pristine wetlands and boreal forest over its 40-year lifespan (although Teck won’t actively mine its whole lease at once),” CBC writes. “That’s an area half the size of the city of Edmonton.”
Approving the Frontier Mine “would effectively signal Canada’s abandonment of its international climate goals,” Berman says, noting that its emissions would land “on top of the increasing amount of carbon that Canada’s petroleum producers are already pumping out every year.” Moreover, “the Teck mega mine would be on Dene and Cree territory, close to Indigenous communities. The area is home to one of the last free-roaming herds of wood bison, it’s along the migration route for the only wild population of endangered whooping cranes, and is just 30 kilometres from the boundary of Wood Buffalo National Park—a UNESCO world heritage site because of its cultural importance and biodiversity.”
First Nations youth protest proposed massive oilsands mine at UN climate conference | CBC News
“This
is taking us in the wrong direction,” said Eriel Deranger, executive
director of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) and a member of the
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta.
This year the focus is finalizing the agreements around Article 6
of the Paris Agreement that would allow countries to work together in
lowering greenhouse gas emissions through carbon-friendly technology and
carbon markets, which allow for emissions trading between countries to
meet climate targets.
Why the proposed Frontier oilsands mine is a political hot potato | The Narwhal
A massive new oilsands mine project
— widely thought to be the largest Alberta will ever build — is awaiting
final federal approval from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet.
The Teck Frontier mine
would cover 24,000 hectares — an area twice the size of the City of
Vancouver — and would produce 260,000 barrels of bitumen each day at its
peak. The proposal includes plans to produce oil starting in 2026, and
to continue on producing right through to the 2060s.
Having been under review for several years, the mine’s fate now rests in the hands of the federal government.
And as the February deadline for a final decision approaches, pressure is mounting on all sides of the issue.
An estimated 1.5 million litres of crude leaked from the train, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) said Wednesday evening in its first major update on the derailment just after midnight on Monday.
By comparison, 225,000 litres of oil leaked into the North Saskatchewan River from a Husky line near Maidstone in July 2016.