Morgan Sharp
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News, Energy, Politics
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December 17th 2018
The projects will create around 1,000 jobs and will leverage “our natural strengths as an energy province here in Alberta in every sense of the word,” Shannon Phillips, the province’s environment minister, said.
The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation sought to block the expansion of Syncrude Canada Ltd's Mildred Lake oilsands operation in a filing to the province's energy regulator, adding another indigenous legal challenge to the region's resource exploitation.
Some researchers have found a new way to use satellites to figure out what penguins eat by capturing images of the animal’s poop deposits across Antarctica. The penguin's diet serves as an indicator of the response of the marine ecosystem to climate change.
As Chief of Saik’uz First Nation, I have spent many years working to defend our territory and future generations from the risks posed by oil pipelines, writes Jackie Thomas. That’s why I was so dismayed to see recent media coverage of the proposed Eagle Spirit oil project, suggesting broad First Nations support for the proposal.
In the last six years, Quebec has gone from supplying its refineries with crude oil mostly from overseas to supplying them mostly from North American sources, thanks in part to the 2015 reversal of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline.
Air passengers who are bumped from overbooked flights or forced to sit through long delays could receive up to $2,400 in compensation — cash or something more than a pile of coffee coupons — under proposed regulations for the government's long-promised passenger bill of rights.
