iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jun 9, 2021 11:40am
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Project Reconciliation, a Canadian Indigenous group, is seeking a full ownership stake in the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, according to the group’s new chairman.
The group is among several Indigenous organizations that formed more than two years ago to seek a stake in Canada’s only oil-pipeline system that delivers crude oil from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. Until now, Project Reconciliation had sought no more than a 51 per cent stake. Now it’s seeking 75 per cent, with the option to eventually own 100 per cent of the pipeline.
“We are hopeful that we can get our position across,” Robert Morin, the group’s chairman, told Bloomberg. The group has said it has funding lined up for the purchase, without revealing its financing source.
Alberta is taking steps to ensure research and innovation made by Canadian universities and researchers are not transferred to China for use in military development or exploited for human rights abuses.
A decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission not to lower wholesale internet rates despite saying it would two years ago is a loss for Canadian consumers who will see their internet service prices go up, critics say. On Thursday, the regulator said it would not implement the lower wholesale internet rates – the rates smaller internet service providers (ISPs) pay big telecoms for network access after all. Matt.
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iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on May 27, 2021 12:28pm
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The case was brought forward by the Friends of Earth, a group of seven environmental and human rights organizations, and some 17,000 Dutch citizens in 2018. According to the Friends of Earth, Wednesday’s ruling marked the first time a company has been legally obliged to align its policies with the Paris climate accords.
“This is a turning point in history. This case is unique because it is the first time a judge has ordered a large polluting corporation to comply with the Paris climate agreement. This ruling may also have major consequences for other big polluters,” said Roger Cox, a lawyer for the Friends of the Earth Netherlands.