Sorry, Donald Trump, you’re not going to intimidate me out of covering your criminal antics Special Guest Writer: Bill Palmer | 8:12 pm EDT April 6, 2018 The Homeland Security Department of the Donald Trump administration has revealed that it’s putting together a plan to monitor U.S. journalists, bloggers, and media influencers, presumably to track and intimidate those…
Kinder Morgan’s Blackmail Notley and Trudeau hint at propping up uneconomic pipeline with taxpayers’ money. CANADIANS SHOULD BE ALARMED! By Andrew Nikiforuk | TheTyee.ca Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. On April 7, he protested at the gates…
How Kinder Morgan Could Make Trudeau a One-Term PM British Columbians need to let Liberals know their petro-passion will cost them critical seats in next year’s election. By Mitchell Anderson 13 Mar 2018 | TheTyee.ca Mitchell Anderson is a freelance writer based in Vancouver and a frequent contributor to The Tyee. Anti-pipeline protests should make Justin Trudeau think about…
Trudeau’s Smoke and Mirrors on Carbon Tax and Pipeline Claims that increasing oilsands production will lead to lower emissions simply false. By Mitchell Anderson TheTyee.ca Mitchell Anderson is a freelance writer based in Vancouver and a frequent contributor to The Tyee. Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau claim ‘that carbon pricing — a laudable policy goal — will…
A Dam(n) Big Fracking Problem Regulators left behind as industry built dozens of unauthorized dams — many at risk of failure. By Ben Parfitt 18 Dec 2017 | TheTyee.ca Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His recent research for the CCPA is published here. The province’s Environmental Assessment…
Confirmed: Russian government itself was the election hacker, communicated with Trump campaign about it Donald Trump and the Russian government can deny it all they want, but now we finally have confirmation of what we’ve all long ago come to suspect: it was the Russian government who hacked the Democratic National Committee during the…
There are many good reasons why Donald Trump should be removed from office: collusion with the Russians, corruption, obstruction of justice, influence peddling and a host of other unsavory criminal activities from the grand to the petty. But let us step back for a moment and consider that there may be another reason, perhaps the…
The Oil Party Is Over, Trudeau — Even Canada’s Energy Firms Know It Why are corporations more candid about industry’s realities than our prime minister? By Ross Belot 18 Jul 2017 | iPolitics This column first appeared in the always excellent iPolitics. Ross Belot is a retired senior manager with one of Canada’s…
Why the Oilsands Era Is Over Carbon pricing and low energy costs spell economic doom for Alberta megaprojects. By Ian Hussey 15 Feb 2018 | TheTyee.ca Ian Hussey is a political economist at the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute, and a steering committee member and the Alberta research manager for the SSHRCC-funded Corporate Mapping Project. Syncrude’s oilsands processing plant.…
Only Fantasies, Desperation and Wishful Thinking Keep Pipeline Plans Alive There is no waiting Asian market for oilsands crude. In fact there’s no waiting market anywhere. By Mitchell Anderson , is a freelance writer based in Vancouver and a frequent contributor to The Tyee. “The bottom has already fallen out of many bitumen projects yet they stagger on,…
