Special Alberta Election Edition
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 May 2015 18:45
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What We May Never Know About Vancouver’s English Bay Oil Spill
Transport Canada just officially cleared the Marathassa to leave Canadian waters. As it slowly moves out of the Salish Sea, the bulk carrier leaves angry mayors, a combative coast guard, a distrustful public and many, many questions in its wake.
Even U.S. authorities are anxiously looking north wondering if Canada knows anything about marine oil spill response.
What we know about this spill is important, but there’s a lot more we don’t know, and might never know, about what happened in English Bay. Read More
Alberta Election Was a Referendum on Entitlement
The day before the Alberta election, the province’s four largest newspapers — the Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun — endorsed the Progressive Conservatives.
Now, newspapers endorsing parties is nothing new, but every major newspaper in Alberta being owned by one company is new.
What else appears to be new is that the Edmonton Journal (which did not endorse in 2012) was asked to endorse not by local management, but by head office in Toronto, according to editor-in-chief Margo Goodhand. Read More
The B.C. Ministry of Environment was too concerned with the interests of Rio Tinto Alcan when it granted the company a permit to dramatically increase the release of sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions in the Kitimat airshed, attendants of a tribunal heard in Victoria recently.
“This case raises the specter, in a very real way, of regulatory capture,” Chris Tollefson, lawyer for the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre, argued in his opening statement. Read More
“Woe is Us”: Oil Industry a Hot Mess After NDP Alberta Victory
While Jim Prentice and his Progressive Conservative cadre lick their wounds after last night’s landslide victory by the New Democratic Party and leader Rachel Notley, punditry about the oil industry’s place in the transformed province is in full force.
Even before the results were in, Canadians were being warned new leadership in Canada’s oilpatch will mean very scary things for the economy: fleeing investors, abandoned projects, market uncertainty.
Now that the victory bells have rung, the hand-wringing has leveled up. Read More
NEB Grants Costco Late Request in Trans Mountain Review, Denied EPA Extension
The National Energy Board’s decision to grant Costco intervener status in its review of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline even though it had missed the deadline to apply is raising questions given that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was denied its request for an extension to the same deadline. Read More
What the NDP's Alberta Win Means for Energy and Climate Change
In a stunning and historic move, Alberta elected a majority New Democrat government on Tuesday. The Progressive Conservatives, which finished in third place, consistently mismanaged the environmental and climate change file.
“Together, we need to start down the road to a diversified and resilient economy,” newly crowned Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said in her victory speech. “To end the boom-and-bust roller coaster ride we’ve been on for far too long. It won’t happen overnight. But we must start, and we will.”r0
