Directly Affected – From Burnaby to Ottawa
Three Vancouver filmmakers and Raincoast are launching a national tour to ask Canadians how they are Directly Affected by oil sands development…
Climate Change Missing In Enbridge Northern Gateway Assessment
By Paul C. Paquet, Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee, The Huffington Post
Ignoring climate change is a critical omission that further undermines the credibility of an already flawed Enbridge ESA for decision-making…
Wrong to ignore Climate Change in Northern Gateway review
By Paul Paquet, Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee,
The StarPhoenix
As formal interveners in the Northern Gateway federal review process, we were disconcerted that climate change was not considered in the Enbridge ESA…
City pulls permit for anti-pipeline art show
Calgary Herald, By Sherri Zickefoose
An anti-oil pipeline art show is being sent packing from City Hall’s atrium after officials yanked the group’s permit over price tags and politics…
Exhibit paints different picture of pipeline project
Colleen Schmidt, CTV Calgary
A group of artists is making their feelings about the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline known through an art exhibit at Calgary City Hall…
Anti-Northern Gateway art show opens Monday
CBC News
Robert Bateman and Carol Evans are two of the artists whose works will be exhibited as part of the Art for an Oil-Free Coast exhibit, which opens Monday in Calgary…
Wolves, Caribou, Tar Sands and Canada’s Oily Ethics
The Huffington Post
By Chris Genovali, Paul Paquet and Chris Darimont
The real cost of Alberta’s tar sands development is being borne by wolves, caribou, and other wild species…
Caribou recovery plan near oilsands may target wolves
Thousands of wolves stand to be killed in Alberta as part of the federal government’s new plan to sustain caribou in the oilsands area
Wolves fall prey to Canada’s rapacious tar sands business
Paul Paquet
Guardian.co.uk September 17 2011
In Canada, wolves are blamed for the demise of everything from marmots to mountain caribou. Now, Canada’s newest strategy is to “recover” boreal forest caribou by killing wolves…..
The Enbridge Pipeline: Northern Gateway to What?
The Huffington Post August 16, 2011
By Chris Genovali
The recent chatter from energy industry spokespersons about the need to formulate a national energy strategy is simply code for developing an export strategy for Alberta’s tar sands…
Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Project: Profit At What Price?
The Huffington Post
By Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee
A spokesperson for Enbridge Inc. recently claimed that the chance of a catastrophic spill from the oil tanker traffic which would accompany the energy giant’s proposed pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to BC’s north coast was one in 15,000 years…
Tankers and oil spills could reverse years of recovery efforts
By Chris Genovali Lessons from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska have shown that even after two decades, some species and fisheries still have not recovered. This includes killer whale populations, some seabird populations, shellfish harvesting and the commercial herring fishery. If the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is constructed from Alberta’s tar sands…