Chris Adams
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Analysis, Politics
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August 10th 2016
Some University of Calgary professors say they are "downright scared" to speak out about oil and gas companies. "It's hard when you live in a company town to throw stones at the company."
They faced stare downs from regional police and a barrage of security guards checking credentials at the hearing room doors the last time. This time, they're not dealing with the NEB.
Residents of Burnaby, B.C. are desperate to avoid a new generation of "oil spill refugees" after Kinder Morgan's existing Trans Mountain pipeline leaked crude all over their land and waters.
Mi’kmaq communities in New Brunswick say the controversial Energy East pipeline project must have their consent before they allow it to pass through their territories.
"DFO is compromised," Morton said, criticizing the federal government for its decision last month to grant six-year licenses to companies farming salmon in open-net pens along the coast.
The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario allows scientists to conduct research on real lakes and ecosystems.
With this move, the federal Liberals and their provincial associates demonstrated their tone-deafness to modern currents of populism in a way that could bode poorly for Canada's political future.
