It has been rich, even comic, to listen to the Harper government blasting away at “foreign money,” “radical groups” and Hollywood movie stars for interfering in the environmental review of the Northern Gateway pipeline that’s just starting. Of course, such […]
Conservation activists are attacking as anti-democratic Ottawa’s concern that the approval process for a controversial pipeline risks being hijacked by foreign interests and “radical groups.” Hearings have not started on the Northern Gateway, a proposed pipeline that would carry oil […]
The Federal Government is engaged in an unprecedented campaign to damage the credibility of the environmental movement. In the latest move, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver (apparently replacing Environment Minister Peter Kent as the chief anti-environmentalist government spokesperson) submitted an “open letter” […]
OTTAWA—Environmentalists accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government of taking the side of big oil over ordinary citizens after the Conservatives said foreign-funded “radicals” were distorting a pipeline approval process. “It’s definitely very troubling that the government would poison this process,” […]
Just because something is a bit complicated, it doesn’t mean you can ignore it, especially when it’s hurting you. And yet, this appears to be the case with the loss of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the past […]
For Earth’s climate system, 2011 was an extraordinarily turbulent year. The United States saw a series of record-busting extremes, from a devastating tornado season to an epic drought in a vital agricultural region. The fusillade of extreme events kept global warming […]
At the dawn of the 21st century a new political regime has transformed Canada from global hero – once standing up for peace, people, and nature – to global criminal, plunging into war, eroding civil rights, and destroying environments. What […]
Over the last few months, some of the oil industry’s biggest fans have made what they think are startling revelations about us. They’ve discovered that Americans give us money. And they say this money forced us to talk about the pollution and […]
MONTREAL — The year drew to a close with the United Nations climate-change talks, this time in Durban, again ending in failure to reach an international agreement. Instead, the 192 nations agreed to start work on a new climate-change deal […]
New York, 14 December 2011 – Against a backdrop of the multiple crises of the past four years, the United Nations today launched a report that offers UN agencies and its member states guidance for coordinating the transition to a […]
