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Connecting the dots: fires, fossil fuels and nature
My (white) family immigrated from South Africa in the 90s and my parents were keen to dive into all the things they thought were “quintessentially Canadian.” This involved skiing, which…
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An excess profits tax on corporations will save you money (& the climate)
Every time a global crisis sends oil and gas prices higher, the same pattern repeats itself. Families pay more for gas, groceries and everyday essentials, while fossil fuel companies make…
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Greenpeace Canada reaction to industrial carbon price announcement
The only thing happening faster than the federal rollback of climate policies is the global renewable energy revolution that will turn all of these concessions to Big Oil into a massive lost opportunity to build a better, safer Canada.
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Did someone say MOU? Reading between the lines of Mark Carney’s plan to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the BC coast
The Carney government's MOU with the Government of Alberta to build a new tar sands pipeline rolls back key climate policies and attacks Indigenous rights.
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Why over 40 organizations oppose northwest coast oil pipeline and tankers project
It is not in the national interest to pursue a project that pits province against province, runs roughshod over Indigenous rights, and puts local economies and north Pacific coastal and marine ecosystems at risk.
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Greenpeace Canada reaction to new nation-building projects under Bill C-5
Fast-tracking fossil fuels will Build Canada Wrong rather than Build Canada Strong. While courageous people from around the world fight to avoid the increasingly catastrophic impacts of climate change at…
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Now is not the time to roll back action on climate change
Advice for our hockey-loving Prime Minister on his new climate plan: If you are serious about winning the Stanley Cup, you don't trade away your star forwards because you have a good goalie.
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Greenpeace Canada reacts to documents showing close relationship between CSIS and oil giant TC Energy on intelligence sharing
Toronto — Documents obtained under Access to Information legislation reveal that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) embraced a proposal from pipeline giant TC Energy to create a formal information-sharing…
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Breaking down the Building Canada Act: Fast track climate solutions, not fossil fuels
The federal government's proposed fast track legislation could become a bigger giveaway to the oil & gas lobby than Harper’s 2012 omnibus bill, if we let it.
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The Phony War over Pipelines
No oil company actually wants to build a pipeline, so what do they want? For the federal government to get out of the business of regulating or pricing GHGs.