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William Marsden: The real issue over Keystone is America’s addiction to oil
WASHINGTON – In the mishmash of speculation and assumptions that have driven the U.S. national debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, there is one undeniable fact no American wants to talk about....
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William Marsden: Elizabeth May joins Obama prayer breakfast
WASHINGTON – Who could blame her? After decades of walking a landscape of empty promises on climate change, Elizabeth May is taking time off for prayer. The Green Party leader and MP from British...
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Harper readies to do battle for Keystone again
MEXICO CITY – Prime Minister Stephen Harper is prepared to deliver the same message about the Keystone XL pipeline to U.S. President Barack Obama in private as he has already delivered in public, he...
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Harper, Obama talk emissions as Keystone XL hits legal setback
TOLUCA, Mexico – Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama have agreed to set new greenhouse gas emission standards for heavy-duty trucks, part of a larger effort to set broader...
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Nebraska governor appeals Keystone pipeline court ruling
WASHINGTON – TransCanada Corp. faces a serious dilemma as court actions in Nebraska have left its giant 1,900-kilometre Keystone XL pipeline in legal limbo. Even though Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman...
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U.S. State Department investigation finds no conflict of interest in Keystone...
WASHINGTON – A U.S. State Department investigation has concluded that there was no conflict of interest in the contractor that conducted the final environmental assessment study into the Keystone XL...
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Canada needs stronger environmental credentials to achieve energy goals, top...
OTTAWA – Two of Canada’s leading conservative power players served notice Friday that Canada must do more to both strengthen and trumpet the country’s environmental credentials if it expects to fight...
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Keystone XL called powerful weapon against Putin
WASHINGTON — The Keystone XL pipeline would be a powerful weapon against countries like Russia that use their energy resources to intimidate countries such as Ukraine, according to retired Marine Corps...
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New U.S. ambassador to Canada enjoys Twitter, loves the Chicago Blackhawks
OTTAWA — He’s a huge Chicago sports fan, loves snowshoeing with his wife, is fond of social media and taking selfies, and, oh yeah, he’s the new U.S. envoy to Canada. U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman...
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New U.S. ambassador Heyman focuses squarely on climate change
OTTAWA — The new United States Ambassador to Canada says developed countries must take responsibility for climate change, but — as a decision looms on the Keystone XL pipeline — he stresses that energy...
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Nobel laureates condemn Keystone as climate-change trigger
WASHINGTON — Ten Nobel Peace Prize winners from as far afield as Yemen, South Africa and Argentina have signed a letter asking U.S. President Barack Obama to deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline...
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Keystone XL crucial to government, not so much to Canadians
OTTAWA – Although Canada has sent a steady stream of high-level politicians to Washington to lobby for the Keystone XL pipeline, many Canadians don’t perceive the project as being relevant to them. A...
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Barack Obama gives Canada the brush-off, yet again
Barack Obama is Canada’s American president. Right? Of course right. In the lead-up to his 2012 battle with the airbrushed Republican Mitt Romney, with his binders full of women, polls showed Canadians...
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Academics take issue with ‘flawed’ pipeline policies and leadership
VANCOUVER — A Canadian-led group of academics has taken to one of the world’s top science journals to call for a moratorium on new oilsands and pipeline projects. The group, led by ecologist Wendy...
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Keystone XL pipeline could have bigger impact than expected, new study says
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline to connect Canadian oilsands with U.S. refineries and ports could have a much larger impact on greenhouse gas emissions than previously assumed, according to a new...
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House of Representatives approves Keystone project amid heated debate over...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted overwhelmingly 252-161 to authorize the immediate construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The U.S. Senate will debate the measure on...
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Marsden: New Congress will likely give new life to embattled Keystone XL...
WASHINGTON — Even as the tortuous run of the Keystone XL pipeline was stopped in its tracks this week, the race is about to begin afresh. Immediately after the U.S. Senate voted against the pipeline by...
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Pipelines
Oil pipelines are quickly becoming the backbone of economies around the world, but not without environmental fears and protests.
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Obama demands greater military power to fight ISIL; higher taxes on rich
WASHINGTON — Claiming to be “turning the page” on 15 years of war and recession, U.S. President Barack Obama returned Tuesday to his Robin Hood theme of strengthening the middle class with a State of...
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Federal government planned ‘strong’ PR campaign to promote oil industry
OTTAWA — Days before announcing Canada would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the federal government drafted plans for a “strong and coordinated” public relations campaign and major...
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Keystone pipeline supporters and foes read Obama’s climate-change speech...
WASHINGTON – In a lengthy outdoor speech on the hottest, most humid day of summer, a brow-mopping U.S. President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that he will approve the construction of the Keystone XL...
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Keystone XL: Politicians adept at playing the blame game
Introducing his long-awaited Climate Action Plan, U.S. President Barack Obama was at pains to impress upon his listeners the dangers of delay. “Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound...
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Smoke and mirrors cloak carbon emissions bottom line
It seems unlikely that poor Jacques Gourde, the hapless backbencher from Quebec, would have the heft to cripple Canada’s economy. But if you follow the chain of logic from the House of Commons, to...
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U.S. government denies conflict in Keystone XL environmental assessment
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State department has rejected a plea from environment groups to stop its review of the Keystone XL pipeline and has denied allegations of conflict of interest. Friends of the...
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U.S. environmentalists hold Obama’s feet to the fire on Keystone XL
WASHINGTON – The Keystone XL pipeline will open the floodgates for a huge expansion of the oilsands that will increase carbon pollution by up to 1.2 billion tonnes over its 50-year life, according to a...
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Republicans attack Obama over Keystone XL comments
WASHINGTON — Keystone XL supporters are again mustering their forces to counter U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent remarks that disparage the job-creation potential of the US$5.3 billion project....
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Barack Obama again wades into dispute over Keystone XL jobs
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama has again plunged into the heated debate over the Keystone XL pipeline claiming it is “not a jobs plan” and promoting the employment potential of renewable...
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How America’s quiet environmental revolution threatens Canada
WASHINGTON — California is planning a $9.5 billion U.S. high-speed train connection from San Francisco and Sacramento down to Los Angeles and San Diego with stops in between. It’s expected to take...
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Canada must act quickly on its resource bounty, says Natural Resources...
OTTAWA — Calling the development and export of Canada’s resources “nation building,” federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says Canada must seize a once-in-a-lifetime energy opportunity or...
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Keystone XL lobbying trip to Washington overshadowed by Syria crisis
WASHINGTON — Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver landed here Monday to sell the Keystone XL only to find a capital awash in a rising political crisis over Syria that has flushed the contentious...
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Stephen Harper hoping to garner support for pipeline projects in coming weeks
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his ministers are ramping up their efforts to win support for critical pipeline projects going west, east and south, at the same time the exact content — and...
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John Manley presses Harper government on Canada-EU free trade talks
OTTAWA — Chief executives of Canada’s largest companies are urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to quickly conclude Canada-EU free-trade negotiations that are at a “make-or-break point,” and continue...
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Obama nominates Bruce Heyman as new ambassador to Canada
OTTAWA – U.S. President Barack Obama has chosen Bruce Heyman, a political fundraiser and businessman from Chicago, to be the new American ambassador to Canada. The announcement came from the White...
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Keystone pipeline debate could complicate life for next U.S. ambassador
OTTAWA – Former United States ambassadors to Canada say the Keystone XL pipeline debate will complicate Bruce Heyman’s confirmation as the next top U.S. envoy to Canada and that the process could delay...
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Stephen Harper says he won’t accept Keystone XL rejection
NEW YORK — In what is perhaps his most direct challenge to U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a harsh threat Thursday that Canada won’t take no for an answer on the...
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Opinion: Harper still not facing ‘inconvenient facts’ on Keystone pipeline
The following opinion column was written John McKay, Liberal member of Parliament for Scarborough-Guildwood: Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems to be having a rough time selling the Keystone XL –...
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Politicians and pipelines: the oilsands debate will soon get very sticky
OTTAWA — Competing political visions on pipelines and energy development will be in the spotlight when Parliament resumes Oct. 16, as both regulatory and political decisions loom on major pipeline...
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Canadian environmentalists paint catastrophic picture of oilsands for U.S....
WASHINGTON — Five prominent Canadian environmentalists told Washington lawmakers this week that the Keystone XL pipeline will lead to such a huge growth in oilsands’ carbon emissions, it will help tip...
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Economy will be throne speech focus, but government’s power to influence it...
OTTAWA — The economy will be the main focus of Wednesday’s throne speech and the Conservative agenda leading up to the 2015 election, but, ironically, it is an area over which the Harper government has...
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Consumer advocacy is a populist but risky gambit
OTTAWA — In placing consumer protection at the heart of its new agenda, the Conservative government has signalled it will not be outbid on the question of who truly represents the interests of the...
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Joe Oliver encouraged by talks with U.S. counterpart, feeling hopeful about...
OTTAWA — Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver has emerged from meetings with his U.S. counterpart and other American officials a little more encouraged about the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, but...
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Beleaguered Texas town struggles with Keystone XL
PORT ARTHUR, Texas – For Eddie Brown, 54, a former refinery worker and now owner of the Kutz 4 Kingz Barber Shop in Port Arthur, enough is enough. “My mom died of cancer,” he said. “My son had...
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NDP to unveil energy plan focused on sustainability, First Nations partnerships
OTTAWA — The NDP will roll out details of its “pan-Canadian” energy plan Wednesday — a plan focused on sustainability, partnerships with provinces and First Nations communities and long-term...
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NDP, Conservatives offer opposing visions for future of resource economy
OTTAWA — Even before NDP Leader Tom Mulcair unveiled his party’s energy policy Wednesday, his adversaries pounced on the plan that seeks to reverse Conservative changes to the environmental assessment...
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So far, so good: Trudeau says his ground game was key to a successful year
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau has spent his first eight months as Liberal leader trying to address two key reasons for the federal Liberals‘ decade-long demise: the party’s lack of a ground game, and its...
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Northern Gateway decision will have huge economic, political and...
The National Energy Board joint review panel examining the $6.5-billion Enbridge Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline will release its report and recommendation Thursday afternoon on whether the project...
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New year will bring big decisions concerning the future of Canada’s oilsands
OTTAWA — The National Energy Board’s conditional approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline is just one of three major policy decisions expected over the coming months that will have huge implications...
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John Baird urges quick Keystone decision even if it’s the wrong one
WASHINGTON – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird Thursday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to make a swift decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline “even if it’s not the right one.” Speaking...
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Looming reports, lawsuit could delay Keystone XL to 2015 — or longer
WASHINGTON – While Canadian energy companies nervously await the much-anticipated environmental assessment report on the contentious Keystone XL pipeline, many other hurdles remain to be jumped as the...
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