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The oil industry’s Frankenstein
How Canada’s oil industry birthed the Freedom Convoy and a far-right movement
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Beaver Lake Cree stand strong as Canada and Alberta attempt to derail tarsands legal challenge
In appealing a court order to pay two-thirds of the cost of the legal challenge, Canada and Alberta went as far as to argue that, because they were recently able to repair the community water truck, Beaver Lake Cree are able to afford a multi-million dollar trial.
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Organizing through loss in the heart of oil country
The story of climate justice organizing in Alberta, at the heart of the tarsands, is the story of a group of young activists learning what it means to lose, and keep on fighting
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The Indigenous nation exposing the lie of Canada’s “world class” oil spill response
A 2016 diesel spill exposed holes in Canada’s touted “world class” oil spill response regime. At a sentencing hearing today, Canada gave the company a slap on the wrist; but the Heiltsuk nation is fighting for real justice.
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
University of Regina refuses to name funders of fossil fuel research
Professor Emily Eaton is taking the University of Regina to court to force the University to release details of funding for research related to oil, gas, coal, petroleum, carbon capture, climate change, and alternative energy.
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Bodies on the Line
Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline replacement slices through the southern half of Saskatchewan, but there’s little Indigenous opposition in the province. To mount our own fight, we’ll have to learn from other Indigenous resistance efforts along the pipeline’s route.
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Decarbonized, democratized, decolonized
The NDP’s climate plan is too little, too late. Saskatchewan’s Just Transitions Summit brought people together to envision a more radical grassroots strategy.
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Checking in with the oil crowd
The conference guidebook for the 50th annual Global Petroleum Show tells me we’re here “CELEBRATING THE FUTURE OF ENERGY.” Excuse my skepticism.
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Will Sask NDP support oil industry or Indigenous land rights?
Indigenous peoples and activists are expected to “wait and see” after Meili hires longtime oil industry manager as Chief of Staff.
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A pipeline to regret
If you weren’t convinced before – simply by being an air-breathing, water-drinking human being – it’s now undeniable that we all have skin in this pipeline game. Trudeau has made us all potential shareholders in a leaky, aging piece of climate-cooking infrastructure.
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Socializing and decolonizing Saskatchewan’s oil
Could a new crown corporation – SaskOil – allow us to wind down the industry, get off oil, keep people employed, and repatriate land, resources, and decision-making to Indigenous peoples?
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Oil’s Deep State
The fossil fuel industry has the Canadian government by the throat – but it’s been a long time coming. Joseph Laforest reviews Oil’s Deep State, by Kevin Taft.
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The Fishy Atlantic Fossil Fix
Nature tourism won’t save Newfoundland and Labrador’s fishing industry from oil’s hegemony.
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Troubling portrait of an oil province
Review of new film Crude Power: Oil, Money & Influence in Saskatchewan
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Oil’s Violent Disturbances
Fort Chip is but one northern Albertan community resisting the toxicity and displacement wrought by the oil industry.