This Glacier Won't Be Turned Into a Ski Resort After All
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This Glacier Won’t Be Turned Into a Ski Resort After All
A billion-dollar plan to build a 6,300-bed resort in the glacial wilderness near Invermere is essentially dead in the water after B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak ruled last week that construction on the controversial Jumbo Glacier Resort did not start in time.
That means the project’s environmental assessment certificate has expired and the proponent, Glacier Resorts Ltd, would need to re-apply if it wanted to continue with the project. Read More
Fracking, open pit oilsands mining, underground steam injection, mountain top removal mining, Arctic oil drilling — these are all icons of the world's recent shift to unconventional sources of energy.
Filmmaker David Lavallee recently set out on a three-year journey to track the lifecycle of our energy resources, a project he said not only revealed extreme methods of extraction but also took him to extreme places. Lavallee said filming the energy industry brought him face to face will all sorts of strange hazards, including an anti-terrorism officer with the National Security Division of the RCMP. Read More
Pipeline Regulator Orders High-Pressure Safety Test of Enbridge’s Line 9B
The National Energy Board (NEB) ordered high-pressure testing of a segment of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline before the line, a west-to-east oil pipeline, can begin operating according to a press release issued Thursday.
Enbridge requested permission to reverse the flow of a 639-kilometre portion of the Line 9B pipeline between North Westover, Ontario and Montreal. Line 9B is part of the larger Line 9, which Enbridge hopes will carry diluted bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to Eastern Canada. Read More
Breach of Trust: Opposing Factions Divide Likely, B.C., Months After Mount Polley Mine Spill
“I’m surprised that nobody has been killed here since the spill.”
That’s what one resident of Likely, B.C., recently told DeSmog Canada at her home near Quesnel Lake, the site of the Mount Polley mine disaster that sent 24 million cubic metres of mining waste into the lake last August.
In the months since the spill, considered one of the worst mining accident’s in Canada’s history, residents of Likely have found themselves on one side or the other of a strong dividing line. Those eager to have the mine, a major source of local employment, up and running again are squaring off against those who say not enough is being done to understand the long-term impacts of the disaster and how another might be prevented in the future. Read More
Can Alberta’s Oilsands Monitoring Agency Be Saved?
“Transparent,” “credible, “world-class” — those are just a few of the words that have been deployed to detail the aspirations of the one-year-old organization tasked with monitoring the air, water, land and wildlife in Alberta.
But there are a lot of questions about whether the Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Agency (AEMERA), funded 100 per cent by industry, has lived up to its goal to track the condition of the province’s environment. r15 |r0
