Koch subsidiary told regulators it has ‘direct and substantial interest’ in...
In recent months Koch Industries Inc., the business conglomerate run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has repeatedly told a U.S. Congressional committee and the news media that the...
View ArticleOil sands imports could be banned under EU directive
Oil from controversial and environmentally destructive tar sands is likely to be all but banned from Europe after a decision on Tuesday. The move also casts doubt on the future of other controversial...
View ArticleSierra Club: Saying no to the Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
Today was the final public hearing by the State Department on TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. We were out en force at this Washington, DC, hearing to make sure the State...
View ArticleBill McKibben: Big news. We won. You won.
Creative Commons: Rachel Kao, 2011 Um, we won. You won. Not completely. The president didn’t outright reject the pipeline permit. But a few minutes ago the president sent the pipeline back to the State...
View ArticlePresident Obama announces 12-18 month delay for Keystone XL pipeline
Creative Commons: Clayton Conn, 2011 The Obama administration on Thursday said it was delaying a decision on the contested Keystone XL pipeline while it studies an alternate route through Nebraska,...
View ArticleAnd Action! How our partners are making a better world this week
Courtesy: Christine Irvine, 2011 If there’s anything we’ve learned in the past few years of climate activism it is that every victory—momentous or incremental—deserves celebration. This week there is...
View ArticleUK secretly helping Canada promote the Alberta Tar Sands
Creative Commons: Royal Dutch Shell, 2009 The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Canada‘s campaign against European penalties on its highly polluting tar sands...
View ArticleYouth debut ‘slick’ uniforms for Canadian negotiators in Durban
Courtesy: BituMensWear, 2011 Today the Canadian Youth Delegation launched a new set of uniforms for our nation’s negotiating team in Durban. Emblazoned with corporate logos from Canada’s oil patch the...
View ArticleCanadian youth ejected from COP17 for standing up to the Tar Sands
Courtesy: Canadian Youth Delegation, 2011 Members of the Canadian Youth Delegation were ejected from COP17 today as Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent delivered his opening address at the United...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki: Northern Gateway pipeline puts profits before planet
Creative Commons: Royal Dutch Shell, 2009 The battle lines are drawn, and Northern B.C.’s pristine wilderness is the latest front. With hearings underway into the proposed $5.5-billion, dual...
View ArticleWhat’s the real purpose behind Canada’s Northern Gateway pipeline?
Creative Commons: Travis S, 2006 The latest chapter in Canada’s quest to become a full-blown oil superpower unfolded this month in a village gym on the British Columbia coast. Here, several hundred...
View ArticleTwo thousand protest Tar Sands pipeline in northern BC
Creative Commons: Sam Beebe, 2008 The Prince Rupert police estimate that 2,000 people protested against the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline in Prince Rupert yesterday, in a rally that took over the...
View ArticleNew report examines Canada’s ‘Dirty Oil Diplomacy’
Creative Commons: Royal Dutch Shell, 2009 Hundreds gathered outside more than 20 Canadian diplomatic missions in the U.S. and European Union to voice concern and extend hope that Canada will reverse...
View ArticlePartner Spotlight: Eric Swanson, Dogwood Initiative
Every two weeks the TckTckTck team proudly recognizes one of the 300+ partner organizations making up our global climate movement. This time we’re thrilled to share an interview with one of our...
View ArticleTzeporah Berman: A fight for the soul of Canada
Creative Commons: Kris Krug for Static Photography, 2009 “Mommy, why does the government think you are a terrorist?” The question came from my son the day after the news media reported that the federal...
View ArticleDr. James Hansen: Game over for the climate
Creative Commons: World Development Movement, 2008 Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in...
View ArticleAnd Action! How TckTckTck partners are changing the world this week
Creative Commons: Bill Baker, 2012 As extreme weather continues to ravage communities and the environment around the world, people are standing up against the corporations, governments and institutions...
View ArticleVideo: Like a bad boyfriend, Keystone XL keeps coming back
The controversy over whether to green-light the building of the Keystone XL pipeline to connect Canada’s tar sands with refiners on the Gulf coast may not be much in the news anymore, but it’s far...
View ArticleEnbridge video ‘erases’ islands in the way of the Northern Gateway pipeline
Courtesy: Leadnow.ca & SumofUs.org, 2012 When designer Lori Waters watched the new video from Enbridge oil detailing the route for its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, something was missing....
View ArticleConstruction begins on Keystone XL, protestors hit back
Courtesy: Tar Sands Blockade, 2012 Everyone’s favorite tar sands pipeline, that infamous Keystone XL, is back in the news again. The LA Times reports that last week, Transcanada “quietly” began...
View ArticleStunning video ‘Not an Enbridge Animation’ reminds us what’s really at stake
Last Saturday, Dave Shortt emerged from 10 days of filming in the northern B.C. bush, found a wi-fi connection at the Kitimat library and happened upon a story online about Enbridge being criticized...
View ArticleEnbridge pipeline cleanup plan doesn’t account for bitumen
Creative Commons: Toban Black, 2010 Enbridge Inc.’s response plan for a potential spill of Northern Gateway oil into the pristine waters off British Columbia doesn’t take into account the unique oil...
View ArticleSave the Date: BC Activists plan Oct 22 sit-in to ‘Defend our Coast’
Creative Commons: Daniel Peckham, 2010 More than 1,500 people to date have pledged to join a peaceful act of civil disobedience to defend Canada’s west coast from tar sands pipelines and tankers. Over...
View ArticleCommunities around US refineries at risk from Tar Sands: Report
Creative Commons: Evolve Love, 2011 Communities living next to tar sands refineries suffer from more intense sulfur dioxide pollution because of the extremely high sulfur content of tar sands refinery...
View ArticleCameron Fenton: Big oil is gambling our future on end pit lakes
Courtesy: Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, 2011 Sometimes, working on climate and energy issues in Canada can sometimes get a little repetitive, but every now and then something comes forward that is...
View ArticleWWF Canada predicts the ‘Inevitable News’ of a BC coast oil spill
A new campaign from WWF is based around a newscast predicting the ‘news before it happens’. In this case, what will inevitably happen to British Columbia’s beautiful Pacific coast should the Northern...
View ArticleAnd Action: How the climate movement is changing the world this week
Copyright: Zack Embree, 2012. All rights reserved. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” - George Lorimer There is no challenge too...
View ArticlePartner Spotlight: Tzeporah Berman, Defend our Coast
Creative Commons: Kris Krug for Static Photography, 2009 Every few weeks we chat with someone from one of the more than 375 partners that make up our global climate movement. This week we’re talking to...
View ArticleRe-elected Obama faces increasing pressure to deny Keystone XL permit
Courtesy: Christine Irvine, 2011 Less than a week after President Obama’s re-election, environmental groups are again pressuring him to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. This time, they have a new...
View ArticleWorld Energy Outlook shares scary math of fossil fuel reserves
Creative Commons: Evolve Love, 2011 The International Energy Agency released its annual flagship publication today, the World Energy Outlook. The IEA made an historic statement in the executive...
View ArticleThousands rally in Washington DC for major Keystone XL protest
Creative Commons: 350.org, 2012 Thousands of protesters rallied in Washington Sunday to revive their call for U.S. President Barack Obama to block the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a massive project...
View ArticleTranscanada ordered to stop construction on Texas arm of Keystone XL pipeline
Keystone XL Pipeline Protest, Washington DC- Creative Commons: Emma Cassidy, 2011 TransCanada Corp. must temporarily stop work on part of its Keystone XL pipeline while a Texas judge evaluates a...
View ArticleTzeporah Berman: It’s time for Canada to confront its climate neglect
Creative Commons: Kris Krug for Static Photography, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama, through his ambassador to Canada, has every right to ask our federal government to do more to fight climate change....
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: 13 Oil Spills in 30 Days
Moving oil is a dirty business, and never has that been more clear than this past month. Since March 11, the global oil industry has had 13 spills on three continents. In North and South America alone,...
View ArticleFort McMurray, nearby Tar Sands mines facing record floods
On Friday the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), the Alberta government’s industry regulator, released a report stating that tar sands companies have failed to comply with pre-existing...
View ArticleKeep the heat on Big Oil: Stop unchecked tar sands expansion in Canada
Shell’s expansion of the Jackpine Mine would create more of this kind of destruction on the homeland of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. Creative Commons: Dru Oja Jay, Dominion/Howl Arts...
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