Suncor Argues "All of Us" are Complicit in Climate Change, But New Lawsuits Could Prove Otherwise
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Guest Posts & In-Depth Analysis How Trans Mountain Pipeline Delivers Max Profits to U.S. Investors By Avoiding Paying Canadian Taxes
Kinder Morgan, the Texas-based multinational that owns and operates the Trans Mountain Pipeline System, claims Trans Mountain is a significant contributor to federal and provincial income tax revenues. The company is relying on this as proof it deserves public licence to triple its pipeline capacity in Western Canada.
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Smaller Media Treated Like Second-Class Reporters?
“All media requests are not equal.”
An adage you’d never, ever expect to see the government write down — until spin doctors at the federal department of citizenship and immigration did exactly that in a document I obtained via a recent access to information request.
Was it a pique of honesty that led them to put those words in black and white, an error or just plain indiscretion?
Suncor Argues "All of Us" are Complicit in Climate Change, But New Lawsuits Could Prove Otherwise
At West Coast Environmental Law we're gratified that Suncor, one of Canada's largest oilsands companies, has taken the time to read — and publicly disagree with — our recent report, Payback Time.
Suncor responded with a blog post entitled “What to do when everyone is the problem” that cleverly attempts to downplay Payback Time as just one of several efforts to single out a culprit for climate change. READ MORE
Canada’s Petro-Politics Playing Out on B.C.’s Burnaby Mountain
The way tensions between pipeline opponents and Kinder Morgan contractors have escalated during the last week should come as a surprise to no one.
The mishandling of the National Energy Board review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline and tanker proposal has created the conditions for the situation now unfolding on the mountainside. READ MORE
Former NDP Comms Director Key Strategist on Edelman Energy East Astroturf Strategy
TransCanada has bought some unlikely support for the company’s public relations astroturf offensive aimed at winning support for the Energy East pipeline.
As first reported by Ricochet, Erin Jacobson, the recent director of communications for the NDP, Canada’s official opposition party, will be helping advise TransCanada on developing the astroturf campaign, bringing her expertise in Canadian public affairs and developing digital political campaigns. READ MORE
Vivian Krause has spent years scrutinizing how Canadian environmental groups are funded, claiming she's just asking “fair questions.”
But as the blogger-turned-newspaper-columnist has run rampant with her conspiracy theory that American charitable foundations' support of Canadian environmental groups is nefarious.
Krause’s strategy has effectively diverted attention away from genuine debate of environmental issues, while simultaneously undermining the important role environmental groups play in Canadian society.
