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April 30, 2021 | Energy Regulator Approves Trans Mountain’s Request for Insurer Confidentiality Stewart Muir Stewart Muir is founder and executive director of the Resource Works Society, a Vancouver-based group open to participation by British Columbians from all walks of life who are concerned about their future economic opportunities. He is an author, journalist and historian with experience on three continents including a financial editor of The Vancouver Sun responsible for mining and markets coverage. Since Resource Works was established in 2014, the group has gained international rec...

By gregladen on May 24, 2017. Some of you complained because you don't like Greenpeace. But that is hardly the point. Greenpeace has a history of working towards important goals and sometimes even attaining them, and there are a lot of whales that want you to lay off and give them credit. Anyway, the point of that post was to let you know about a SLAPP lawsuit Greenpeace had been slapped with by Resolute Forest Products. The long and the short of it is this: Resolute, if they get legal traction and win, are setting up a situation where environmental advocates can be told t...

Italy may be in Easter lockdown, but the party's on at sea MARIA GRAZIA MURRU, Associated Press April 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 32 1of32Passengers take selfies on a deck of the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship in Civitavecchia, near Rome, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. MSC Grandiosa, the world's only cruise ship to be operating at the moment, left from Genoa on March 30 and stopped in Civitavecchia near Rome to pick up more passengers and then sail toward Naples, Cagliari, and Malta to be back in Genoa on April 6. For most of the winter, the MSC Grandiosa has been a lonely flag-bearer of...

Are Swiss banks really chopping environmental devastation from trade financing? Construction of an oil pipeline through an area of cloud forest: The Oleoducto Crudo Pesado pipeline, completed in October 2003, transports between 390,000 and 450,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the from the Ecuadorian Amazonian to Esmeraldas on the coast. Dr Morley Read As awareness of the Amazon rainforest’s role in balancing the global climate builds, banks financing Switzerland’s important commodity trading sector are starting to re-evaluate the environmental impact of their business. This content w...

What is Pacific Northern Gas? Pacific  Northern Gas is a natural gas company that operates one pipeline in  northwest B.C., serving over 40,000 residential, commercial and  industrial customers along the Highway 16 corridor. The Western  Transmission Gas Line connects to an Enbridge pipeline at Summit Lake,  near Prince George, which gets its gas from sources in the northeast,  and terminates in Prince Rupert and Kitimat. It has been operating at reduced capacity since losing a few of its major  industrial customers over the past 20 years — Prince Rupert’s pulp mill  shut down i...