Tar Sands

4 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment

Coalition says Alberta Energy Regulator captured by Big Carbon, calls for overhaul of agency

PV May 8, 2024

PV staff After repeated failures to adequately regulate energy development in Alberta, a new coalition of eight environmental, Indigenous, scientific and community organizations are calling for the removal of fossil […]...

5 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment

Ottawa proposal to release tailings wastewater must be opposed

PV November 1, 2022

By Corinne Benson Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault announced in mid-August that the government was developing regulations to allow “treated” tailings wastewater to be drained into the Athabasca […]...

3 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment Editorial

We need a working class climate plan, not capitalist greenwashing

Editorial February 17, 2021

“They took all the trees / And put them in a tree museum / Then they charged the people / A dollar and a half just to see ’em” So […]...

7 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment Indigenous peoples

First Nations back in court to fight TMX, defend land

PV January 9, 2020

(PV Staff, with files from Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust) Representatives of Indigenous communities fighting the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project (TMX) in the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) gathered […]...