Category: Canada
Alberta’s Million-Barrel Pipeline Needs Missing Barrels
Canada has made a proposed one-million-barrel-per-day west-coast pipeline more politically real just as the barrel case has become harder to defend. The official project now has a route concept from the Edmonton region to southern British Columbia, Trans Mountain as the public-sector builder and operator, and an ownership structure involving … [continued]
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Line 5 Tunnel Permit Jeopardizes Safety of the Great Lakes
Today, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) approved the permit application for Enbridge, a multibillion-dollar Canadian oil giant, to run the Line 5 oil tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac. This decision ignores the years-long opposition to the proposed tunnel project from Michiganders and people across the Great … [continued]
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Air quality alerts issued for northern Michigan as wildfire smoke blankets region
Events were canceled and people were urged to stay indoors amid warnings of health risks from the plume drifting down from Minnesota and Canada.
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Vertical Solar PV? Yes, Says Vancouver
A snowy country like Norway is going to approach solar power in a different way from a place like the Bahamas. It’s not surprising to find out, then, that a company in Norway has developed a “vertical PV” system designed to help deal with very snowy conditions. Now that company … [continued]
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Nova Scotia Wants To Embrace Fracking To Pay Its Bills
The premier of Nova Scotia wants to restart oil and gas operations in the province.There are much better alternatives.
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