Internship Opportunity: Online communications intern

Climate Action Network Canada is looking for a part or full time unpaid intern at their office in downtown Ottawa, beginning February 13, 2012.

Application Deadline: Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

Feds list First Nations, green groups as oilsands ‘adversaries’

OTTAWA — Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has labelled aboriginal groups and environmentalists as “adversaries,” while describing the National Energy Board, an independent federal regulator of industry, …

Pan-European oils sands advocacy strategy

This March 2011 document outlines the oil sands advocacy strategy in Europe, identifying key objectives and outcomes. It also identifies allies and adversaries and includes the National Energy Board as …

Keystone XL and its 8 billion tonnes of carbon

Media reports indicate that President Obama’s will announce a decision today to reject TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This would be a source of hope and inspiration for …

Climate Action Network Canada responds impending Keystone rejection

In response to the apparent forthcoming announcement by President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline today, Hannah McKinnon, Campaign Director of Climate Action Network Canada has responded as follows:…

David Suzuki: What’s so radical about caring for the Earth and opposing Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline?

Caring about the air, water, and land that give us life. Exploring ways to ensure Canada’s natural resources serve the national interest. Knowing that sacrificing our environment to a corporate-controlled …

Canada versus the environmentalists

The Canadian government’s public-relations strategy, when it comes to the oilsands, is ham-handed. The message track goes like this: Canada and its oil are not enemies to the environment, but …

‘Foreign money’ is a hypocritical diversion

It has been rich, even comic, to listen to the Harper government blasting away at “foreign money,” “radical groups” and Hollywood movie stars for interfering in the environmental review of …

Environmentalists sound alarm over Tory stand on pipeline review

Conservation activists are attacking as anti-democratic Ottawa’s concern that the approval process for a controversial pipeline risks being hijacked by foreign interests and “radical groups.”

Hearings have not started on …

Open Letter in response to Joe Oliver By John Bennett, Sierra Club Canada Executive Director

The Federal Government is engaged in an unprecedented campaign to damage the credibility of the environmental movement. In the latest move, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver (apparently replacing Environment Minister …

Environmentalists hit back over pipeline hearings

OTTAWA—Environmentalists accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government of taking the side of big oil over ordinary citizens after the Conservatives said foreign-funded “radicals” were distorting a pipeline approval process.

“It’s …

Canadian Jobs Lost to the Tar Sands

Just because something is a bit complicated, it doesn’t mean you can ignore it, especially when it’s hurting you.

And yet, this appears to be the case with the loss …

Top climate change stories of 2011

For Earth’s climate system, 2011 was an extraordinarily turbulent year. The United States saw a series of record-busting extremes, from a devastating tornado season to an epic drought in …

Canada: Climate Criminal

At the dawn of the 21st century a new political regime has transformed Canada from global hero – once standing up for peace, people, and nature – to global criminal, …

The question is not what side of the border you’re on; it’s what side of the issue you’re on

Over the last few months, some of the oil industry’s biggest fans have made what they think are startling revelations about us.

They’ve discovered that Americans give us money. And …

Canada’s climate change plan ‘farce,’ says Stephane Dion

MONTREAL — The year drew to a close with the United Nations climate-change talks, this time in Durban, again ending in failure to reach an international agreement. Instead, the 192 …