Divestment Momentum In May
Stories from May, 2017 point to the power of joining together against the fossil fuel industry through divestment.
Canadian tar sands
Yet Another Big Oil Company Quits Canadian Tar Sands Oil, Or Not
ConocoPhillips joins a growing list of energy companies winding down operations in Canadian tar sands oil fields…or not.
114th Congress Opens With Wrangling About Keystone XL
As newly elected members took their seats in Congress yesterday for the first time, Washington’s almighty kerfluffle about the Keystone XL pipeline resurfaced. Here’s some background. Calgary-based TransCanada proposed several years ago to send oil from the Canadian tar sands terminal at Hardisty, Alberta, via a small-diameter Keystone pipeline routed … [continued]
New Beer Lawsuit Could Spell Trouble For Keystone XL Pipeline
Bell’s Brewery, which bills itself as the oldest and largest brewery in Michigan, has just filed a lawsuit against the company Enbridge and if that name doesn’t ring a bell, think back to July 26, 2010 when an Enbridge pipeline broke and spilled an estimated 843,00 gallons of Line 6B … [continued]
Canadian Hockey Star Goes To Bat For Energy Efficiency, And Against Tar Sands Oil
Apologies for the mixed sports references but when we heard that Boston Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference (aka @Ferknuckle) was on board with a new energy efficiency promotion we could hardly contain ourselves. Aside from leading the Bruins through a string of playoff slots and a Stanley Cup, the Canadian-born Ference … [continued]
Keystone Pipeline Adversaries Hope It Wilts Under Pressure, Now Petcoke Is The Problem
With President Obama set to announce climate change as a top priority for his second term, the stage is set for considering the Keystone XL Pipeline squarely within a global warming context, and a new report commissioned by the group Oil Change International certainly won’t provide much comfort to pipeline … [continued]
Another Economy Might be Beginning Escape From Fossil Energy Dependence
Here’s some more good news about our renewable energy future. Another nation has reduced greenhouse gas emissions, while not taking an economic hit. Canada’s top 10 industrial greenhouse gas emitters reduced their emissions by 9% in a year, while the economy grew in the meantime by 0.5%.
