Tag: Vancouver
Canada announces $80 million for new research to prevent oil spills in coastal waters
$17.7 million will be spent enhancing ocean models of winds, waves and currents in 6 ports, including Kitimat and Vancouver The Government of Canada announced Monday it is funding new scientific research that will improve knowledge and new technologies to mitigate and prevent marine incidents, such as oil spills. The money is part of the $1.5 […]
Column: City of Vancouver, FortisBC collaborate on climate action
FortisBC will present its long-term resource plan to the B.C. Utilities Commission Thursday By Tom-Pierre Frappé-Sénéclauze That the City of Vancouver and FortisBC have agreed to collaborate on climate action is positive news. It is heartening to see FortisBC collaboratively engage to explore its role in the low-carbon economy. How far this new way of thinking has […]
City of Vancouver, FortisBC team up on renewable natural gas, study criticizes city’s ‘bad policy’
Likely impossible for City of Vancouver to meet targeted renewable gas consumption levels by 2050, study says FortisBC and the City of Vancouver announced that they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to team up on climate action projects to reduce GHG emissions and increase investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy, while maintaining access […]
Vancouver “de facto” natural gas ban will cost households, businesses, community groups – study
Energy costs likely to go up, even with new efficiency standards in buildings A trio of Vancouver city policies amounts to a de facto ban on natural gas in pursuit of a “100% renewable energy” target, according to a study from Resource Works. The study claims the ban is based on insufficient renewable natural gas and could […]
Vancouver pipeline protest start of busy Sept. for Trans Mountain Expansion foes
Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver says many actions planned for fall to stop Trans Mountain Expansion construction As Kinder Morgan prepares to begin construction this month on the $7.4 billion Trans Mountain Expansion, opponents kicked off their campaign to stop the pipeline project with a noisy rally and march Saturday outside the Vancouver Art Gallery that […]
Minister Carr promotes pipelines in visit to Vancouver
Government committed up to $64.7 million engage with Indigenous on TransMountain Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Jim Carr visited Vancouver on Sept. 5 and gave a speech promoting pipelines and the regulatory process, according to a press release. Carr said Canadians need to have confidence our natural resources, including oil and gas, are being developed and […]
Kinder Morgan picks pipeline contractors, activists organize rally and march, Liberals affirm TMX support
Thousands of protesters expect for Saturday march and rally against Trans Mountain Expansion As Kinder Morgan gears up to start construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline – announcing Wednesday it has selected six contractors to undertake the work – First Nations and environmental group opponents are organizing to protest and block the project. The […]
Jason Kenney threatens trade war with BC over Trans Mountain…whose interests is he serving?
Threats to retaliate against BC if Horgan government inhibits pipeline progress benefits Kenney, but may harm Kinder Morgan’s construction efforts Erik Wiik is an early-30s engineer who owns a Vancouver-based small business – exactly the kind of lower mainland voter whose support Alberta needs to cultivate in the great pipeline debate. But Jason Kenney and […]
Brian Jean stoking resentment of Alberta in other provinces for his own political gain
Jean deceives Albertans by distorting province’s contribution, role in equalization program “Hostility is not a good political strategy,” is how Calgary communications expert Doug Lacombe described an oil and gas industry attempt in 2015 to tie equalization payments to pipeline approvals. Someone needs to tell Wildrose leader Brian Jean – who is busy making the […]
How Alberta, industry are about to waste the PR value of the Climate Leadership Plan
A few weeks or days before pipeline construction begins is too late to be talking up Climate Leadership Plan in Vancouver The Alberta oil and gas industry talks a lot about the cost of the Climate Leadership Plan, which is fair enough with Western Canada Select hovering below $39USD a barrel. But what of the […]
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