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42 Nobel Laureates Urge Trudeau to Act With ‘Moral Clarity’ and Stop Climate-Wrecking Teck Frontier Mine

42 Nobel Laureates Urge Trudeau to Act With ‘Moral Clarity’ and Stop Climate-Wrecking Teck Frontier Mine

By Jessica Corbett In an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, 42 Nobel laureates implored the federal government to “act with the moral clarity required” to tackle the global climate crisis and stop Teck Resources’ proposed Frontier tar sands mine. “The importance of leadership in the coming […]

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    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 […]

    Trudeau Pledges Taxpayer Money, New Laws to Salvage Controversial Pipeline

    Trudeau Pledges Taxpayer Money, New Laws to Salvage Controversial Pipeline

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday he is ready to offer financial aid and new legislation to push forward the contentious Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion that will triple production of tar sands going from Alberta to British Columbia. Houston-based developer Kinder Morgan has threatened to scrap the $7.4 billion (USD $5.9 billion) project unless […]

    Jerry Brown and Justin Trudeau: Climate Advocates, or Hypocrites?

    Jerry Brown and Justin Trudeau: Climate Advocates, or Hypocrites?

    By Andy Rowell Two leading political figures from the U.S. and Canada, who have boasted about the need to fight climate change, are now under fire for being climate change hypocrites: saying they care about the climate, but allowing drilling and fossil fuel infrastructure to be built anyway. On Wednesday, more than 750 public interest […]

    Bill Nye Confronts Justin Trudeau Over Kinder Morgan Pipeline

    Bill Nye Confronts Justin Trudeau Over Kinder Morgan Pipeline

    At a recent sit-down at the University of Ottawa, TV personality and science advocate Bill Nye confronted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about his approval of the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. “I’ve been to Fort McMurray, Alberta. It really is an amazing place in the most troubling way,” the Science Guy said, […]

    The Energy East Pipeline Is Dead, but Three Tar Sands Pipeline Projects Remain

    The Energy East Pipeline Is Dead, but Three Tar Sands Pipeline Projects Remain

    By Ron Johnson Last week, energy company TransCanada pulled the plug on its 2,800-mile Energy East Pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects, which would have shipped 1.1 million barrels of crude oil from the Athabasca tar sands to refineries in eastern Canada. The move was celebrated as a victory by environmentalists and Indigenous people pushing for […]

    Bill McKibben: Trudeau’s Pipeline Push Makes Him a Disaster for the Climate

    Bill McKibben: Trudeau’s Pipeline Push Makes Him a Disaster for the Climate

    Donald Trump is so spectacularly horrible that it’s hard to look away (especially now that he’s discovered bombs). But precisely because everyone’s staring gape-mouthed in his direction, other world leaders are able to get away with almost anything. Don’t believe me? Look one nation north, at Justin Trudeau. Look all you want, in fact—he sure […]

    New Tar Sands Pipelines Are Incompatible With Paris Climate Goals

    New Tar Sands Pipelines Are Incompatible With Paris Climate Goals

    New research released Thursday reveals disturbing new evidence on how locking-into new long-lived tar sands production undermines global efforts to address the global climate crisis far beyond Canada’s borders. “Trudeau’s pipeline decisions will lead directly to suffering, displacement and even death for vulnerable people around the world due to impacts of a warming world,” said […]

    Trudeau Touts Trump’s Support for Keystone XL

    Trudeau Touts Trump’s Support for Keystone XL

    By Steve Horn At a speech given to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he intends to work with President-elect Donald Trump to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline. The speech comes as Trump revealed in a recent interview with Fox News that one of the first […]