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- Capitalism is failing the planet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
- Community groups and First Nations demand the shutdown of Enbridge's Line 9
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
More than 80 organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted indigenous communities, as well as national organizations have released a statement letter to the Prime Minister condemning the recent National Energy Board (NEB) approval of Line 9
- Gulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export?
Follow the Oiltanking Trail
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s KeystoneXL pipeline, but incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already promised it will get another vote when the GOP-dominated Senate begins its new session in 2015.
- How Big Oil Plans to Win Ugly in New York
Leaked Transcript from PR Maven Shows Energy Companies will be Told to Make the Fight Against Fracking Opponents Personal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A PR firm well known for its hardball tactics in defense of Big Tobacco will deliver the keynote address at tonight’s Independent Oil and Gas Association conference.
- Lest We Forget: Tar Sands and War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Over the past decade, Canada has been a war profiteer and fuel tank for the US military, who have killed well over a million people since the turn of the new millennium.
- Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9
Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to Open' status granted to the Enbridge Line 9B reversal project by the National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.
- Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
An interview with Julia Buxton about Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, and target of concerted criticism in the western media.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
Climate Change and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
- Policy guru says sustainable development of the Oil Sands will provide half US energy needs for 100 years
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Policy guru says sustainable development of the Oil Sands will provide half US energy needs for 100 years
Toronto, January 22, 2009 - Satya Das, strategic advisor to oil companies, government, and environment groups, says Alberta has 173 billion bar
- Toronto Council Moves to Protect City's Water from Pipeline Spills
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Toronto City Council's motion asking for emergency shut-off values on either side of the City of Toronto's major watercourses reflects increased resident pressure on the city to defend us all against environmental hazards.
- TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
There are now multiple news articles that report Calgary-based TransCanada hired the controversial public relations firm Edelman in an attempt to derail growing public opposition to its proposed 1.1 million barrels per day Energy East tar sands pipeline.
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