Sierra in the News
2012-04-13 13:28
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Change, Climate Summits, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught, Protecting Marine Areas from the Threat of Oil and Gas Development, Caribou - Endangered, Atmosphere & Energy
OTTAWA, April 11 (Reuters) - Although Canada's output of greenhouse gases was almost unchanged in 2010 from 2009, the major oil producer will find it tough to meet its 2020 emissions-cut target, government figures signaled on Wednesday.
Conservative government officials hailed the data, which showed emissions in Canada rose by just 0.25 percent in 2010 from the year before, hitting 692 megatons. The economy grew by 3.2 percent in the same period.
Canada has committed to cutting...
2012-03-31 17:17
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B.C. Chapter, Water, Energy Onslaught, Atmosphere & Energy, Transition to Sustainable Economy
ST. JOHN'S, NL -- The federal government is working towards changes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, but according to a lawyer with Ecojustice, those changes will be irrelevant to an ongoing court challenge to the environmental review of the Lower Churchill project.
Ecojustice is representing Grand Riverkeeper Labrador and the Sierra Club of Canada in the court case. A third participant in the case, the NunatuKavut Community Council, is being represented separately.
The...
2012-03-31 14:38
Groups are slamming the federal Conservative government's plan to speed up the environmental review process, suggesting it will become a rubber stamp that won't protect the health and safety of Canadians.
"This is about bulldozing things through over the objection of people or without thinking it through," the Sierra Club's John Bennett told CTV's Power Play.
Streamlining the environmental review process was a key plank in the Tories' first majority...
2012-03-14 12:02
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Energy Onslaught, Nuclear-Free Canada, Atmosphere & Energy
OTTAWA -- The Conservatives have taken their battle with environmentalists to new levels of lunacy, some groups said Tuesday, after a Tory senator suggested they would accept funding from Al Qaeda.
"Let me ask you this, honourable senators: If environmentalists are willing to accept money from Martians, where would they draw the line on where they receive money from? Would they take money from Al Qaeda, the Hamas or the Taliban?," Senator Don Plett, the party's former president,...
2012-03-01 22:48
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Change, Ecosystems, The Boreal Forest, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught, Wilderness and Species Conservation, Toxics, Trade and Environment, Government, Nuclear-Free Canada, Atmosphere & Energy, Health & Environment, Transition to Sustainable Economy
The Conservative government has quietly begun looking into the charitable status of environmental groups in the Senate.
Senator Nicole Eaton is sponsoring an inquiry into what she calls "funding by foreign foundations." Eaton began her debate Tuesday by laying out what she considers to be a threat to the Canadian economy.
"This inquiry is about master manipulators who are operating under the guise of charitable organizations in an effort to manipulate our policies for their own...
2012-02-28 23:57
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught, Government
OTTAWA — Promising to reveal information that would make "your blood boil," a Conservative senator opened a new front in the federal government’s attack against environmentalists Tuesday.
“There is political manipulation. There is influence peddling. There are millions of dollars crossing borders masquerading as charitable donations,” Senator Nicole Eaton declared as she launched an inquiry in the Senate into the “interference of foreign foundations in...
2012-02-23 18:25
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Change, Climate Summits, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught, Atmosphere & Energy, Transition to Sustainable Economy
The fight over a proposed European Union rule that would penalize fuel derived from Alberta's oilsands was dumped in the laps of European politicians Thursday after a technical committee failed to reach a conclusive stance.
Environmentalists said that improves the plan's chances of making it into law, while Canadian government and industry officials said the vote results tell them which politicians they need to convince to finally defeat it.
"It's a somewhat different fight,...
2012-02-21 04:19
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Climate Summits, Ecosystems, Government, Atmosphere & Energy
The Canadian government has been accused of "muzzling" its scientists.
Speakers at a major science meeting being held in Canada said communication of vital research on health and environment issues is being suppressed.
But one Canadian government department approached by the BBC said it held the communication of science as a priority.
Prof Thomas Pedersen, a senior scientist at the University of Victoria, said he believed there was a political motive in some cases.
"The Prime...
2012-02-20 18:10
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Summits, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught, Atmosphere & Energy
OTTAWA — Collateral damage from Canada's booming oilsands sector may be irreversible, posing a "significant environmental and financial risk to the province of Alberta," says a secret memorandum prepared for the federal government's top bureaucrat.
The memorandum, released by the Privy Council Office through access to information legislation, also raises doubts about recent industry and government claims that oilsands companies are reducing heat-trapping gases produced...
2012-02-11 23:09
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Change, Ecosystems, Forests, Forests and Climate Change, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught, Forests and Biodiversity, Nuclear Phaseout, Wilderness and Species Conservation, Oceans, Toxics, Trade and Environment, Government, Radioactive Waste, Nuclear-Free Canada, Endangered Species, Atmosphere & Energy, Health & Environment, Transition to Sustainable Economy
After vowing to take on radical environmentalists determined to stop the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Harper government has released a new anti-terrorism strategy that targets eco-extremists as threats.
With his announcement this week, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has increased the concern among environmentalists that Ottawa regards them as implacable adversaries to be monitored and battled, rather than well-meaning advocates to be consulted.
“This is just one more step in their...
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