With just over a week to go until the May 31 deadline set by Kinder Morgan for the Canadian Government to resolve all financial and political issues surrounding its highly controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, some 236 civil society groups from 44 countries have today written to Justin Trudeau to tell him to drop his support for the project.
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Letter: 230+ Groups to Justin Trudeau – Climate Leadership Means Saying No to Pipelines
Over 230 civil society groups from 44 countries released an open letter being sent to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to reject the pipeline and instead begin planning for a managed decline of fossil fuel production and a just transition for workers and impacted communities.
“We are going to not allow Kinder Morgan to finish this pipeline”
As the clock ticks down until the May 31 deadline over the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project, which will triple the amount of tar sands being transported from Alberta to the British Columbian coast, the campaign against its expansion is spreading abroad.
Kinder Morgan’s Pipeline in Canada Could “Violate” US Endangered Species Law
As Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau and Albertan Premier, Rachel Notley, prepare to invest in Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, they are trying to spin the benefits of the highly controversial project.
Fund managers recognise “imminent risks posed to fossil fuel investments from climate change”
“The fund management sector recognises the imminent risks posed to fossil fuel investments from climate change and the transition toward a zero-carbon economy”
Pipeline “poison approvals”: a new trend?
When it comes to pipeline regulatory decisions, we’re seeing a significant new trend: “Poison approvals” The thing about inertia is that it’s pretty hard to resist, especially when it’s been in place for decades. When it comes to oil and gas pipeline permits, the inertia in place for government agencies at all levels to simply … Read More
Kinder Morgan: Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion May Now be “Untenable”
As Big Oil’s new poster boy, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, scrabbles around for investors for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline, extra finance may not be enough to save the controversial pipeline.
Gov. Brown & Trudeau in “Last Chance Saloon” Over Climate Legacy
Two leading political figures from the US and Canada, who have boasted about the need to fight climate change are now under fire for being climate change hypocrites: saying they care about the climate, but allowing drilling and fossil fuel infrastructure to be built anyway.
Controversial Kinder Morgan Pipeline Now on “Life Support”
On Sunday, Kinder Morgan sent shock waves across Canada and the oil industry when it announced it was “suspending all non-essential activities and related spending on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project”, until at least the end of May.
Report Finds Major Banks Ramped Up Fossil Fuel Financing to $115 Billion in 2017
The report finds that major private banks funneled $115 billion into extreme fossil fuels in 2017, an increase of 11% from 2016. The single biggest driver of the increase in financing came from the tar sands sector, where financing grew by 111% from 2016 to 2017.