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Canadian Supreme Court Rejects BC City’s Bid to Stop Trans Mountain Pipeline

Canadian Supreme Court Rejects BC City’s Bid to Stop Trans Mountain Pipeline

Canada’s Supreme Court rejected on attempt by the city of Burnaby, British Columbia (BC) to halt work on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Thursday, Reuters reported. Burnaby had applied to appeal a decision by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) in December 2017 that pipeline owners Kinder Morgan could continue building without some municipal permits […]

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    Toronto’s Pay-What-You-Can Grocery Store Feeds the Hungry, Not the Landfill

    Toronto’s Pay-What-You-Can Grocery Store Feeds the Hungry, Not the Landfill

    The Feed It Forward Grocery Store—Toronto’s first pay-what-you-can food market, bakery and cafe—lets customers pay only what they can afford. The store, located on 3324 Dundas St. West, opened earlier this month thanks to the efforts of chef Jagger Gordon and his team of volunteers. The food is donated from the region’s grocery stores, farmers […]

    Kinder Morgan Pipeline Leak Two Days Before Trudeau Buyout Was 48 Times Larger Than First Reported

    Kinder Morgan Pipeline Leak Two Days Before Trudeau Buyout Was 48 Times Larger Than First Reported

    By Jake Johnson Just two days before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government would purchase Kinder Morgan’s faltering and widely opposed Trans Mountain pipeline, British Columbia’s Ministry of Environment said 100 liters of crude oil had leaked at a Kinder Morgan pipeline pump station north of Kamloops—but the company initially refused to […]

    Scientists Develop Affordable Way to Recycle CO2 Into Fuel

    Scientists Develop Affordable Way to Recycle CO2 Into Fuel

    Scientists at the Canadian company Carbon Engineering have moved carbon-capture technology one step closer from pipe dream to viable solution. The company has developed technology at its plant in British Columbia that can both remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into carbon-neutral fuels, suggesting such technology could be a meaningful part of […]

    Canada to Buy Controversial Tar Sands Pipeline

    Canada to Buy Controversial Tar Sands Pipeline

    The Canadian government plans to spend $4.5 billion Canadian dollars ($3.5 billion) to buy Kinder Morgan’s existing Trans Mountain pipeline and its controversial expansion project that will triple the amount of tar sands transported from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia. The pipeline has been at the center of widespread protests by environmentalists and […]

    Vancouver Bans Plastic Straws, Foam Cups and Containers

    Vancouver Bans Plastic Straws, Foam Cups and Containers

    Vancouver has become the first major Canadian city to adopt a ban on a range of single-use plastics. Starting June 1, 2019, the distribution of plastic drinking straws and polystyrene foam cups and take-out containers will be prohibited. The initiative is part of the city’s ambitious “Zero Waste 2040” strategy to eliminate the disposal of […]

    Fish and Fishermen Already Moving to Survive Climate Change

    Fish and Fishermen Already Moving to Survive Climate Change

    By Amy McDermott The Inuvialuit and Gwich’in peoples spend their summers fishing off the coast of Canada’s Yukon Territory. For generations, they’ve trekked from towns around the Western Arctic to a spit called Shingle Point, where the Mackenzie River’s braided flows spill off North America into the Beaufort Sea. The nutrient-rich waters at the mouth […]

    Pipeline Spills 76,000 Gallons of Crude Oil Emulsion in Northern Alberta

    Pipeline Spills 76,000 Gallons of Crude Oil Emulsion in Northern Alberta

    By Carol Linnitt A pipeline owned by Paramount Resources Ltd. released an estimated 100,000 liters (approximately 26,000 gallons) of crude oil and 190,000 liters (approximately 50,000 gallons) of produced water near Zama City, in northwest Alberta, according to an April 11 incident report filed with the Alberta Energy Regulator. The release was discovered after company […]