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Stephen Harper touts Keystone XL pipeline in New York, downplays oilsands...
NEW YORK — The Keystone XL pipeline “absolutely needs to go ahead” because it will create jobs and bring energy security to the United States, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told an audience primarily...
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Claims that Canada loses billions in oil revenue are bogus, economists say
WASHINGTON – Politicians call it the “double discount” and it’s supposed to be costing Canada billions of dollars in lost oil revenues. Last December, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver told a New...
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In this session of Parliament, the bedrock shifted, the battle lines changed
This was the session of Parliament in which nothing changed, and everything did. From a policy standpoint, Canada in the summer of 2013 looks little different than it did a year ago. On any number of...
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Harper to balance oilsands lobbying with trade concessions during Europe trip
LONDON — Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be juggling the need to push free-trade talks forward with efforts to tamp down concerns over oilsands crude as he begins an extended trip to several...
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G8 summit: Prime Minister Stephen Harper hails compromise on Syria
LOUGH ERNE, Northern Ireland — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says G8 countries, including Russia, are “all on the same page now” when it comes to Syria — although that remains to be seen — as they...
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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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