CN Tanker Train Derailment Causes Explosion, Fire in Gainford, Alberta
A Canadian National (CN) tanker train carrying liquefied petroleum gas and crude oil derailed early...
Greenpeace Comes “Home” to Protest a Short-Sighted Pipeline Project
Members of Greenpeace were back in Vancouver today where the famed (infamous?) organization started more...
CN Rail, Natural Resources Eye Oil By Rail Export Plan to Match Northern Gateway Capacity
CN Rail is considering shipping crude oil by rail from Alberta to Prince Rupert, BC,...
140 Groups Petition Ontario to Enact Public Advocacy Legislation
Over 140 groups, including environmental organizations, unions and freedom of expression advocates have signed a...
Alberta Auditor General Agrees to Conduct Pipeline Safety Audit
Provincial auditor general Merwan Saher has agreed to conduct an audit of oil pipeline safety...
Canada’s Surveillance State Equates Protest to Terrorism
Last month’s PRISM revelations are a disconcerting reminder that even here in Canada, paranoid fantasies...
Kalamazoo Spill Anniversary Raises Concerns About Line 9 Pipeline Integrity
Last week marked the third anniversary of the largest inland oil spill in US history....
Alberta Government Mum on Fracking Company’s Industrial Leak
Few details are available eleven days after a leak of “produced water” from a pipeline...
Surveillance of the Environmental Movement: When Counter-Terrorism Becomes Political Policing
By Jeffrey Monaghan, researcher with the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University and Kevin Walby, Assistant...
