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BC Hydro selects 19 projects for EPA awards
BC Hydro, March 11, 2010
BC Hydro has selected 19 projects for the award of electricity purchase agreements in the first set of awards under the Clean Power Call. The list of the selected Proposals can be viewed on the Selected Proposals page.
More Please!!!
by Marvin Shaffer , Policy Notes, March 11, 2010
Every now and again you read something so outrageous you have to laugh. So it is with the report recently released by BC Citizens for Clean Energy: A Triple Legacy for Future Generations.
Low flow could mean big problems for Alaska's pipeline
Rena Delbridge, Alaska Dispatch, March 6, 2010
Less and less oil is flowing through that engineering masterpiece that is the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, built in the 1970s to link the North Slope's liquid gold with insatiable markets.
Rig activity on the mend in Western Canada
By Dina O'Meara, Calgary Herald, March 3, 2010
Utilization recovers after painful 2009
CALGARY - Dire predictions of low drilling activity in Western Canada to start the year have faded, with rig utilization averaging a strong 60 per cent for January and February, according to an industry association.
Bill would give states control over LNG ports
By JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press, March 2, 2010
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Senators from Oregon and Washington have joined with East Coast counterparts to file a bill in Congress that would return control over liquefied natural gas ports to the states.
China: 'no intention' of capping emissions
By Lan Lan, China Daily, 2010-Feb-25
But country 'still committed' to reducing carbon intensity
China has no intention of capping its greenhouse gas emissions even as authorities are committed to realizing the nation's target to reduce carbon intensity through new policies and measures, the country's top climate change negotiators said yesterday.
China prepares for an ice-free Arctic
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), March 1, 2010
For immediate release (Stockholm/Oslo)
China is preparing for the Arctic being navigable during summer months. An ice-free Arctic would provide China shorter shipping routes, possible access to natural resources and the incentive for closer cooperation with Arctic nations, especially the Nordic countries. But it also raises the possibility of new international tensions, according to a new SIPRI study launched in Oslo today.
Could carbon credit schemes save the whale?
Liz Kalauger, Environmental Research Web, Feb 26, 2010
It's likely that commercial whaling has released around one hundred million tons of carbon to the atmosphere over a century or so. That's according to researcher Andrew Pershing, who believes that carbon credit schemes could be employed as an incentive to protect whales and large fish such as bluefin tuna.
B.C. government deserves a ‘gold medal in green rhetoric'
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail, Mar. 03, 2010
Subsidies to oil and gas industry negates clean-energy initiatives, argue environmentalists
Gas royalties can't keep B.C. out of the red
DAVID EBNER, Globe and Mail, Mar. 03, 2010
Province predicts three more years of deficits as Horn River and Montney fields' cash output undermined by lower gas prices
It's an equation that's written in red ink: Less revenue from more gas.
Protesters demand Ontario cancel plans for natural gas plant
KAREN HOWLETT, Globe and Mail, Mar. 03, 2010
It was a tough-talking Premier Dalton McGuinty who warned last year that he wouldn't tolerate the "not-in-my-backyard" attitude of opponents to green-energy projects, his flagship job-creation initiative.
BC Budget 2010
The BC government introduced its 2010/2011 budget on Tuesday, March 2, 2010.
Revenues $39.2 billion; Expenses $40.6b; Deficit $1.7b
Are we really going to let ourselves be duped into this solar panel rip-off?
By George Monbiot, the Guardian, 2nd March 2010
The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.
Wind-turbine plan envisions switch to nuclear
By Dave Coper, Edmonton Journal, February 17, 2010
Tiny nuclear reactors originally designed to power mini-submarines could eventually replace wind power in a local firm's plans for storing energy as compressed gas in pipelines across North America.
Terasen to open call centres in B.C.
SCOTT SIMPSON, Vancouver Sun, March 2, 2010
Terasen Gas will create 300 permanent jobs and 600 temporary ones in B.C. with a new in-house customer care program, the utility announced on Monday.
Grass-Roots Organizer Jumps From Nature Conservancy to API
By ANNE C. MULKERN of Greenwire,New York Times,February 26, 2010
The oil industry's biggest trade group has nabbed one of the environmental community's top grass-roots organizers as it ramps up efforts to build a network of citizen lobbyists.
Hydro-Québec and the hard sell
LYNN MOORE, Montreal Gazette, February 27, 2010
Premier Charest wants Washington and state authorities to recognize Hydro-Québec power as 'renewable' energy in various pieces of legislation
NB Power deal delayed for public debate
CBC News, Friday, February 26, 2010
The New Brunswick government is delaying the $3.2-billion sale of NB Power assets to Hydro-Québec for nearly two months in order to hold a full public debate on the controversial deal.
Gas well blows near Ludwig protest site
By Laura Drake, Edmonton Journal, February 25, 2010

EDMONTON — While Wiebo Ludwig and several supporters were camped near a well site overnight to protest the danger the industry poses, a natural gas well several kilometres away blew out, shooting flames into the sky.
EnCana to heighten B.C. smokestack over odour complaints
CBC News, February 25, 2010
One of B.C.'s biggest natural gas plants is fouling the air because its smokestack is too short, CBC News has learned.
Alberta least competitive in oil and gas, study says
Shannon Montgomery, Globe and Mail, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010
Calgary — A new report says Alberta needs to completely rethink its conventional oil-and-gas royalty rates if it wants to compete for investment with other energy hotspots in North America.
Watch group talks Enbridge
By Shaun Thomas, The Northern View, February 23, 2010
On February 18, a meeting was held by the Douglas Channel Watch group in the Raven room at the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre to discuss the dangers that the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project could cause Kitimat and its surrounding communities - including Prince Rupert.
United States the heartland of climate-change skepticism
Ed Stoddard, National Post, Reuters, February 23, 2010
Many Americans are skeptical about global warming and that makes it harder to get a bill through Congress.
Natural gas marketers lose bid to open B.C. market
SCOTT SIMPSON, Vancouver Sun, February 24, 2010
Utilities commission also denies request to include ad material in Terasen bill statements
The British Columbia Utilities Commission has shot down a bid by natural gas marketers to widen their access to the B.C. residential gas market.
Fear rises downwind of sour gas
By Hanneke Brooymans, Edmonton Journal, January 20, 2010
Saddle Hills County residents live in a corner of the province with some of the highest numbers of accidents, mistakes and outright flouting of oilpatch regulations, a Journal analysis finds
















