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Peak Harper?
It turns out we have yet to reach peak oil, after all. And in this topsy-turvy world where the U.S. now produces more oil than it needs to import, it may be Prime Minister Stephen Harper's power that...
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Is Keystone in the National Interest? Of Canada, That Is?
It's up to the U.S. President to decide whether the cross-border leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest of his country. Ultimately, his criteria are less scientific than political....
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Oilsands Air Pollution Emissions Underestimated, Finds University of Toronto...
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto has found that air pollution emissions released by oilsands operations in Alberta are likely two to three times higher than previously...
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Proposed Energy East Pipeline Could Exceed Keystone XL in GHG Emissions,...
A new report from Pembina Institute says that the proposed TransCanada Energy East pipeline could generate up to 32 million tonnes (Mt) of additional greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the crude oil...
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Keystone is Still in Limbo, and that’s Good for Canada
U.S. President Obama is again signaling he’s in no rush to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and that offers a sliver of hope for Canadians hoping to put the brakes on the pell-mell development of the...
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U.S. EPA Denied Late Participation in Kinder Morgan Hearings, Exposes...
The Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) rejected a request this month from the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to extend the deadline to apply as a participant in the public hearings on...
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Enbridge Announces $7B Line 3 Rebuild, Largest Project in Company History
In its largest capital project in history, Enbridge plans to do what Transcanada so far can't — ship more than half a million barrels of heavy oil across the U.S. border without President Barack...
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Debunked: Eight Things the U.S. State Keystone XL Report Got Wrong About the...
Last week the Alberta government responded to the U.S. State Department's final supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS) on the Keystone XL project by emphasizing the province's...
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More Than 100 Scientists and Economists Call on President Obama to Reject the...
More than 100 scientists and economists “concerned about climate change and its impacts” signed an open letter Monday calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to reject...
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Alberta Ramps Up “Responsible Energy Development” Sales Pitch in Wake of New...
Days after another delay by the Obama administration on TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, members of the Alberta government are hitting the U.S. circuit to promote the oilsands and boost their...
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Canada's Climate Incoherence is Killing Keystone XL
This post originally appeared in Maclean's magazine and is republished here with permission.There’s no shortage of blame being passed around in the wake of another delay in the U.S. regulatory approval...
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U.S. Officials Search For Answers On Bitumen Spills As Canada Eyes Enbridge,...
U.S officials are struggling to figure out how bitumen from the Alberta oilsands will behave if there is a spill either from a pipeline or into the Salish Sea, the fragile ocean environment between...
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Details of TransCanada Pipeline Safety Whistleblower Scandal Emerge Amid...
Former TransCanada employee and engineer Evan Vokes, who released thousands of pages of records after he was dismissed by the corporation in 2012, believes that a newly acquired internal email shows...
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Oilsands in the EU: European Union Receives its First Bitumen Shipment Today
Today an oil tanker carrying between 500,000 and 600,000 barrels of western Canadian oilsands (also called tarsands) bitumen arrives in Bilbao, a port city in northern Spanish. It is the first shipment...
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PHOTOS: Famed Photographer Alex MacLean’s New Photos of Canada’s Oilsands are...
Alex MacLean is one of America’s most famed and iconic aerial photographers. His perspective on human structures, from bodies sunbathing at the beach to complex, overlapping highway systems, always...
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“Citizen Interventions” Have Cost Canada’s Tar Sands Industry $17B, New...
Oil companies and fossil fuel investors seeking further developments in the Alberta tar sands have been dealt another setback with the publication of a report showing producers lost $17.1 billion USD...
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DeSmogCAST Episode 2: Midterm Elections Fallout, #KMFACE and the Fossil Fuel...
This week’s episode of DeSmogCAST covers the fallout of the U.S. midterm elections and what a GOP-led Congress will mean for climate action and the Keystone XL pipeline.Hosted by DeSmogBlog contributor...
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White House Confirms Obama Will Veto TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline
The White House confirmed today that President Obama will veto Congressional legislation designed to greenlight construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, the contentious project first proposed six...
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Harper’s Delusional Hubris to Blame for Obama’s Keystone XL Veto
If revenge is indeed a dish that's best served cold, the President of Cool just served up a four-star pièce de résistance for Stephen Harper.Tuesday's announcement of Obama's planned veto of the...
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DeSmogCAST 7: Obama's Keystone Veto, U.S. Oil Exports and the World's...
In this episode of DeSmogCAST our team discusses Obama's recent promise to veto legislation put forward by a Republican-led Congress to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. While the fate...
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