What the Trans Mountain decision means for Alberta’s oilpatch | CBC News
Those kinds of questions aren’t going away regardless of the court’s ruling. Investors worldwide are looking at oil and gas development with increasing scrutiny.
The Alberta-based industry’s leadership, however, is riddled with climate deniers, climate laggards, and climate policy opponents. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has never explicitly acknowledged the severity of global warming, never embraced carbon pricing, and consistently calls for climate regulations to be watered down or eliminated.
As the Texans are wont to say, this is a “coming to Jesus” moment for Alberta.
Top court’s TMX decision a ‘slap-down’ for B.C., Alberta government says | CBC News
“It was a real slap-down of one province that was
trying to block a project that has been determined to be in the national
interest,” Savage said.
“It was a clear and decisive decision
that sets out a clear message to … all governments that they need to
stay in their own lane.”
Jonathan Wilkinson: the Minister of Greenwash
Prime Minister Trudeau tapped North Vancouver MP Jonathan Wilkinson, a
former Saskatchewan bureaucrat and CEO of a company that partnered with
ExxonMobil and Shell to develop gas recovery systems for refineries.
Now it seems Wilkinson’s job is to gaslight the public on oil sands expansion.
Indigenous Youth & Elders at COP25 Protest Canada’s Support of Dirty Tar Sands Projects
On Monday, indigenous youth and elders gathered outside the
Canadian Embassy in Madrid to protest the Canadian government’s support
of the Alberta tar sands extraction and new fossil fuel infrastructure,
including a pipeline that would cut through indigenous lands to carry
tar sands oil from Alberta to Wisconsin. We speak with one of those
demonstrators: Eriel Deranger, a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First
Nation and the executive director of Indigenous Climate Action. “Canada
comes to these meetings touting themselves as a global leader in
addressing the climate crisis, as having great relations with their
indigenous peoples,” she says. “But the reality is … not a single
project that has ever been proposed in the Alberta tar sands has ever
been denied.”