Tag: fossil fuel

For the first time in recent memory, there is a growing clarion call for a response that goes beyond the limits imposed by our economic system.

The fracking industry is producing record amounts of oil, gas, and wastewater, meaning this problem of wastewater disposal isn't going away soon and disposal wells are likely to be part of the long-term solution.

Within hours of the union vote to strike, the company’s exemption bids were off the Board of Industry and Commerce’s agenda.

"Taking the pledge means that a politician and their campaign will adopt a policy to not knowingly accept any contributions over $200 from the PACs, executives, or front groups of fossil fuel companies – companies whose primary business is the extraction, processing, distribution, or sale of oil, gas, or coal."

Humanity has, the scientists tell us, about a dozen years to get our environmental act together. Or else...

Through social media feeds of the many AFP state chapters, the group is promoting a petition to “Repeal Costly Obama-era Fuel Standards.”

The call from the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation is for rights and environmental violations to be more thoroughly reflected in the rating scores given to fossil fuel extraction companies.

Our deep and abiding connection with Mother Earth is what compels us to fight to protect it.

And construction appears to be speeding up, with over 40 percent of those projects permitted between 2016 and mid-2018.

Residents are increasingly concerned that the expansion of Trans Mountain may result in a major uptick in tankers carrying Alberta oilsands crude to the region’s five refineries.