Sven Biggs
About Sven Biggs
Sven Biggs is the Canadian oil and gas program director at Stand.earth, an international non-profit environmental organization with offices in Canada and the United States that is known for its groundbreaking research and successful corporate and citizens’ engagement campaigns to create new policies and industry standards in protecting forests, advocating the rights of Indigenous peoples, and protecting the climate.
A gas-fired LNG Canada threatens to blow up B.C.’s climate plan
Since 2018, when the decision to build the first phase of the LNG terminal was made, provincial policymakers have been tying themselves in knots to try to make those emissions fit into B.C.’s climate plan.
Does the Trans Mountain pipeline still have a reason to exist?
For the oil companies, there is more profit to be made from exporting unrefined oil to jurisdictions with low wages and lower environmental standards than in creating jobs here in Canada.
Time to bail out Alberta workers, not billionaire oil company CEOs
The most effective way to support oilpatch workers and their families is not by giving their former employers government handouts, but by supporting workers directly.
Mythical oil markets, shovels in the ground. Debunking TMX spin.
Here are the claims worthy of debunking from Trudeau’s pipeline approval speech, writes Sven Biggs.
Five ways the GreeNDP could help stop Kinder Morgan
Even if the pipeline went ahead, at least they'd make good on an election promise to use "every tool available" to stop Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion.
Biggs: Kinder Morgan is a fight the environmental movement needs to win
Our climate targets have us heading for a three degree increase - a level at which scientists agree that large parts of the earth will become inhospitable to human civilization.
Sven Biggs: Until NEB's fixed, no fair decision can be made on any pipeline
Justin Trudeau and his cabinet can no longer ignore the disaster that is the ongoing review of pipeline projects.