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Stephen Harper’s Tories downplay climate knowledge of new Environment Canada...
OTTAWA-Federal Conservatives are downplaying concerns over Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s newly-selected boss for Environment Canada and the bureaucrat’s knowledge about global warming. The...
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Arctic melting spurs U.S. exploitation strategy
WASHINGTON – Amid news that Earth’s atmosphere has reached a milestone in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations never before seen in the history of mankind, the United States has announced an...
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Arctic nations sign deal to improve oil spill response
Canada has begun its chairmanship of the eight-nation Arctic Council as it welcomed some new “observer” states, including China and India, and signed a new deal to improve oil spill responses in the...
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Waterloo climate claims raise eyebrows
A University of Waterloo physicist made the bold claim Thursday that global warming is not caused by carbon dioxide but by “CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays.” In a report that has raised plenty of...
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Detroit doesn’t want that huge pile of petroleum coke, but Nova Scotia does
The giant piles of petroleum coke accumulating along the Detroit River, a byproduct of Canadian oil sands extraction, are making their way back north. The New York Times reported Thursday that Nova...
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“We need to overturn the system”: In conversation with alt-Nobel winner...
When we speak of Nigeria, and of the Nigerian people’s inspired resistance to the devastation wrought by multinational oil companies such as Shell, the name of the late, and great, Ken Saro-Wiwa is...
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Federal government planned ‘strong’ PR campaign to promote oil industry
OTTAWA — Days before announcing Canada would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the federal government drafted plans for a “strong and coordinated” public relations campaign and major...
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Obama supports Keystone XL only if it doesn’t ’significantly’ add emissions
Lee-Anne Goodman WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama says TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline should only be approved by U.S. authorities if it won’t lead to a net increase of greenhouse gas...
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Keystone XL: Politicians adept at playing the blame game
Introducing his long-awaited Climate Action Plan, U.S. President Barack Obama was at pains to impress upon his listeners the dangers of delay. “Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound...
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Climate change play takes jabs at human nature and politics
OTTAWA- A new play in the nation’s capital is taking some playful jabs at human nature in the face of climate change. Emissions: A Climate Comedy opened with a pair of shows last weekend at the Ottawa...
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Unfinished oil and gas pollution rules greet Stephen Harper’s new environment...
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper latest environment minister, Leona Aglukkaq, could bring some front-line views of the impacts of global warming on her home in Canada’s North to the federal...
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Major threats to biodiversity loom on Canadian economy: federal briefings
OTTAWA — Environment Canada is developing a new strategy, in the midst of multimillion-dollar cuts, to expand its capacity to evaluate the economic value of natural ecosystems, parks and wildlife,...
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U.S. environmentalists hold Obama’s feet to the fire on Keystone XL
WASHINGTON – The Keystone XL pipeline will open the floodgates for a huge expansion of the oilsands that will increase carbon pollution by up to 1.2 billion tonnes over its 50-year life, according to a...
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Climate study finds more bad news for the planet
WASHINGTON — The year 2012 signalled more bad news for the state of the Earth’s climate as global land and ocean temperatures continued to rise, accelerating the decline of Arctic summer sea ice, the...
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In North Carolina, ground zero for sea rise impact, heads firmly in the sand
OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. – Two salt-water mayors and a state legislator egressed from the Mercedes and urged me to the sea. We walked along a boardwalk that led us to a haunted house that was tilting on...
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Stephen Harper hoping to garner support for pipeline projects in coming weeks
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his ministers are ramping up their efforts to win support for critical pipeline projects going west, east and south, at the same time the exact content — and...
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Canada slow to initiate disaster prevention programs, experts warn
A strategy to better protect Canadian communities from the devastation caused by natural and man-made disasters has been in a holding pattern for well over a decade, experts warn, as threats to public...
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Public Safety Department to revive program to map Canada’s flood-prone areas
OTTAWA – Public Safety Canada is planning to revive a program to map flood-prone areas in the wake of severe summer storms that left parts of Alberta and Ontario under water. A tender on the...
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Stephen Harper says he won’t accept Keystone XL rejection
NEW YORK — In what is perhaps his most direct challenge to U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a harsh threat Thursday that Canada won’t take no for an answer on the...
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Keystone XL pipeline will some day get built, Prime Minister Stephen Harper...
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has predicted the contentious Keystone XL pipeline will someday get approval from the United States — even if the Obama administration rejects the project and...
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