This article was written by Emily Moore and originally published by the Sightline Institute on June 1, 2022. Since 2012 fossil fuel executives from dozens of companies, including Kinder Morgan, Pembina Pipeline Corporation, and Enbridge, have schemed more than 50 large projects to export coal, oil, gas, or their derivatives from Cascadia’s coast in British…

This article was written by David Milstead and originally published in The Globe and Mail on April 29, 2022. Four of the biggest Canadian pension plans have major ownership in European pipeline or gas-distribution companies serving countries that depend on the flow of natural gas from Russia. The pensions, all of which announced they would…

This article was written by Omar Mawju and Tom Sanzillo and was published in IEEFA on March 9, 2022. March 9, 2022 (IEEFA) – Three years and an estimated $17.3 billion* into the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) project, the Canadian government has declared that no more national tax dollars will be used to…

This article was written by Alice McCool and Thomas Lewton and originally published in The Guardian on March 10, 2022. Oil and gas companies and lobby groups in Canada are heavily investing in campaigns to present themselves as defenders of Indigenous interests in the face of high-profile protests against a controversial natural gas pipeline on…

This post was written by Oil Sands Divestment and published on October 18, 2021. The Canadian government used to roll out two stock answers when it was criticized for continuing to exploit fossil fuels. The first was that “no country in the world would leave Canadian oil untapped”, and the second that “oil is going…

This article was published by The Energy Mix on September 16, 2021. The world’s biggest publicly-traded provider of property and casualty insurance has issued what may be the world’s quietest media statement confirming that it will no longer offer coverage to the Trans Mountain pipeline. In a six-line news alert Tuesday, Bloomberg News confirmed that…

This article was written by John Woodside and was first published to Canada’s National Observer on September 3, 2021. Nearly two dozen environmental and Indigenous organizations have signed an open letter calling on Trans Mountain insurers to drop the pipeline, warning the CEOs of major insurance companies that pressure will continue to mount until they do. The letter urges…

This post was written by Oil Sands Divestment and published on August 18, 2021. Enbridge’s largest project, Line 3 is slated to bring oil from Alberta’s oil sands, through Minnesota to Wisconsin, and has faced fierce opposition since day one. Despite this, construction is completed in Alberta and Wisconsin and tensions continue to rise in…

This article was written by Bob Weber for The Canadian Press and was published in the Toronto Star on July 6, 2021. Taxpayer dollars are heavily distorting Canada’s financial marketplace in favour of fossil fuel pipelines, new research suggests. The International Institute for Sustainable Development says spending by provincial and federal governments combined with the…

This article by the Canadian Press was published on June 22, 2021. A federal regulator has lifted a stop-work order on tree cutting and grass mowing along the route of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project through Alberta and B.C. The Canada Energy Regulator says in a statement Trans Mountain has submitted a plan to…