The US government report that minimized pipeline environmental impact was drafted by consultants who also work for TransCanada and the American Petroleum Institute.
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New pipeline plan dwarfs Keystone XL
First Nations and environmentalists vow to fight proposal to pump over a million barrels of tar sands oil and bitumen a day -- 33% more than Keystone -- from Alberta to the Atlantic Ocean
Photos: A tar sands pipeline-in-waiting
TransCanada wants to pump tar sands crude through this pipeline
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Stop the Energy East pipeline
Oil, energy and capitalism: An unpublished talk by Barry Commoner
"Oil companies do not operate for the purpose of producing oil. They operate for the purpose of producing maximum profit. To solve the energy crisis, we have to reorganize our economic system."
Quebec ecosocialists analyse the Lac-Mégantic tragedy
The catastrophe at Lac-Mégantic is not an isolated or technical problem. It poses the need for social mobilisation aimed at ecological transition and liberation from unscrupulous big business and its accomplices in the Canadian State.
The food crisis and agroecology
"With agroecology we can produce enough food to feed the world, but if the inequalities and structural forces that cause hunger are not resolved, then hunger will continue, whether or not we produce enough."
Just say no to TransCanada’s tar sands pipeline
Climate & Capitalism editor challenges mayor to oppose a dangerous and destructive pipeline project in Eastern Ontario
Lac-Mégantic and the presumed innocence of capitalism
The Lac-Mégantic disaster shows once again that capitalists are self-interested, uncaring, anti-social actors, not worthy of presumptions in their favor.
US Greens propose steps to economic and ecological sanity
A deep green program for saving the world and building better lives: Reduce working hours and ensure that everyone has enough work while no one is overworked, while building safer and healthier communities.