Protecting Marine Areas from the Threat of Oil and Gas Development
Protecting Marine Areas from the Threat of Oil and Gas Development
The energy onslaught has opened up on all three coasts.
In Atlantic Canada, oil and gas development in the areas 100 miles from shore are now moving in to the most sensitive marine zones in the Gulf of St.... Read more »
Pipeline critics hit back after Oliver warns of 'radicals'
Canada's natural resources minister has entered the fray over the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline with a controversial public letter accusing "radical" environmentalists of trying to delay the project and undermine the country's economic interests.
In an open letter released on the eve of the first public hearing on the proposal, Joe Oliver says environmentalists and other "radical" groups are trying to hijack the regulatory process.
More than 4,300 groups and individuals have signed up to speak at the regulatory panel hearings, which begin Tuesday in Kitimat, B.C.
"Their goal is to stop any major project no matter what the cost to Canadian families in lost jobs and economic growth," Oliver wrote in the letter. "No forestry. No mining. No oil. No gas. No more hydro-electric dams."... Read more »
Killing Wolves: A Product of Alberta’s Big Oil and Gas Boom
In the spring of 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service captured several wolves from west central Alberta and set them loose the next year in Yellowstone National Park, hoping they would fill in the missing link in the park’s complex system of predator-prey relationships.
Wolves hadn’t been seen in Yellowstone in 70 years. Beyond anyone’s wildest expectations, and despite fierce opposition of some local ranchers and hunters, these and other wolves brought in from Alberta and British Columbia adjusted extremely well. Today, 11 packs, with nearly 100 wolves, are thriving in Yellowstone.
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U.S. may miss year-end goal for Keystone pipeline
WASHINGTON — The State Department may miss a year-end target to approve TransCanada Corp's Canada-to-Texas Keystone oilsands pipeline, a U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday, risking a further delay to the most important new crude oil conduit in decades.
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FEDERAL GAME OF “HOT POTATO” LEAVES GULF OPEN TO OIL AND GAS DISASTER
For immediate release: August 16, 2011
Halifax, NS – Yesterday’s letter from Environment Minister Peter Kent to the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) shows lack of leadership to protect an ecosystem shared by half of Canada’s ten provinces according to Sierra Club Canada – Atlantic Canada Chapter and the Save Our Seas and Shores Coalition.
“At least the offshore board knew they were out of their depth when it came to measuring the impacts of oil and gas in the Gulf of St. Lawrence,” stated Gretchen Fitzgerald, Director of Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, “They asked for the federal government to take the lead. What they got in response from the Minister and his department was the equivalent of a regulatory game of hot potato. We cannot play games when so much is at stake.”... Read more »
