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Comment: Maude Barlow on pipelines

February 20, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Your (Regina Leader-Post’s) editorial rightly highlights the danger of transporting oil by rail. But the Energy East pipeline – which would transport 1.1 million barrels of oil per day past the growing Harbour Landing subdivision – is not safer. According to U.S. data, rail incidents happened twice as often as pipeline spills from 2004 to […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: American Association of Railroads, energy, Energy East pipeline, fossil fuel, maud barlow, oil industry, oil sands, pipeline, rail, renewable, tar sands, trains

Are U.S. dollars propping up environmental groups in Canada?

July 13, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

$84-billion per year, that’s the potential impact the oil sands could have on the Canadian economy.  The industry it could be argued is the most important economic issue we will have. The greatest hindrance to future projects appears to be the gridlock due to opposition from environmental organizations and First Nations. This gridlock has been […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: activism, Alberta Oil, Canadian Boreal Initiative, Canadian economy, Energy East, environmental, Flanagan South, fossil fuel, Great Bear Rainforest, Keystone XL, Kinder Morgan Canada, Marisla Foundation, Northern gateway, oil industry, oil sands, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Sea Change Foundation, Suzuki Foundation, Tar Sands Campaign, the Oak Foundation, The Sierra Club, Tides Foundation, TransMountain pipeline, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Yukon to Yellowstone Initiative

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