canada

28 Activists Arrested at Kinder Morgan Pipeline Construction Site

28 Activists Arrested at Kinder Morgan Pipeline Construction Site

Despite a court-ordered injunction barring anyone from coming within 5 meters (approximately 16.4 feet) of two of its BC construction sites, opponents of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion sent a clear message Saturday that they would not back down. Twenty-eight demonstrators were arrested March 17 after blocking the front gate to Kinder Morgan’s […]

Join our newsletter

The best of EcoWatch, right in your inbox. Sign up for our email newsletter!

    Rethinking Trade, Steel and Climate

    Rethinking Trade, Steel and Climate

    President Trump‘s proposed steel and aluminum tariffs have reopened a confusing debate about trade, made harder to follow by the incoherence of the president’s approach. But it’s a debate we need to have, and clarify, because along with its incoherence, Trump’s proposal correctly challenges the establishment wisdom that the current international trade framework is, broadly, […]

    Caught on Camera: Ancient Greenland Sharks

    Caught on Camera: Ancient Greenland Sharks

    By Brynn Devine and Jonathan A. D. Fisher The Greenland shark is one of the world’s largest marine species, reaching lengths over six meters (approximately 20 feet). And yet these fish, which prefer the deep, cold waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans, have largely eluded scientific study. Their evasiveness highlights how little we […]

    How to Reduce Methane Emissions From the Oil and Gas Industry Across North America

    How to Reduce Methane Emissions From the Oil and Gas Industry Across North America

    By Kate Konschnik and Sarah Marie Jordaan U.S. natural gas production has boomed in the past decade, driving gas prices sharply downward. Natural gas has become a competitive choice for electricity generation, edging out coal. Because gas contains less carbon than coal, greenhouse gas emissions from power plants have dropped, and the U.S. grid has […]

    Canada Pipeline Feud Becomes Trade War as Alberta Boycotts B.C. Wine

    Canada Pipeline Feud Becomes Trade War as Alberta Boycotts B.C. Wine

    By Andy Rowell They say that oil and water do not mix. And now the proverb applies to oil and wine. There is an escalating tension in Canada between the Albertan and British Columbian (B.C.) governments over the disputed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, which is due to transport tar sands from Alberta to the […]

    How NAFTA Is Making Our Food and Water Much Less Healthy

    How NAFTA Is Making Our Food and Water Much Less Healthy

    By Shiney Varghese As the sixth round of the negotiations on North American Free Trade Agreement begin next week in Montreal, Canada, the controversy over exactly what a new agreement might involve—if there is one at all—continues to generate debate. As the NAFTA renegotiations were about to start, the Canadian government publicly stated its core […]

    Environmental Groups Blast Michigan Officials for ‘Trust’ in Pipeline Operator

    Environmental Groups Blast Michigan Officials for ‘Trust’ in Pipeline Operator

    Environmental groups are attacking an agreement between Michigan and Canadian oil transport company Enbridge, Inc. that set a timeline to determine the future of a controversial pipeline running across a channel where Lakes Huron and Michigan come together. The 645-mile pipeline, Line 5, lies at the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile-long environmentally […]