Non-Renewables

What Lies Beneath

Sep 2015 | IN Careers 41.4 | BY Andrew Nikiforuk

There are more than a few holes in BC's LNG sales Pitch to China.

The gleaming Petronus Towers are the showpiece of Kuala Lumpur

Big Oil Malaysia

Aug 17 2015 | IN Non-Renewables | BY Chris Winter

A wake up call for Canada

Why I Spent Six Days Protesting on a Shell Oil Rig

Aug 03 2015 | IN Non-Renewables | BY Inderjit Deogun

Meet Miriam Nina Friedrich, one of the Greenpeace volunteers who boarded the Shell Polar Pioneer in April.

$Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Day 1 - Walk for Reconciliation “A\J Alter$

Why Does Canada Hate Indigenous Rights? One Word: Oil.

Jul 15 2015 | IN Non-Renewables | BY Ben Powless

Why implementing Free, Prior and Informed Consent in Canada is essential – and why the government is refusing to do so, in spite of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Ontario Anti-Fracking Bill Passes Second Reading

May 08 2015 | IN Politicians | BY Andrew Reeves

Ontario is one step closer to a future without high-pressure hydraulic fracturing.

The Best Things Ever of All Time, This Week!

Apr 30 2015 | IN Best things ever | BY A\J Staff

An artistic video reflection of the Gulf oil disaster, a caterpillar with tentacles and other cool things we found this week!

What's Up with Energy East

Apr 17 2015 | IN Pipelines | BY Samantha Hui

In case you missed it: we recap a few highlights of the protests against Energy East.

Industry Made Quakes

Apr 2015 | IN Health 41.2 | BY Andrew Nikiforuk

Column

Ignoring the science on fracking puts us on shaky ground.

Inside Ijen’s Volcanic Sulphur Mine

Mar 05 2015 | IN Pollution | BY Kevin McElvaney

In East Java, miners carry 90-kilogram loads of sulphur out of a crater on the active Ijen volcano – a four-hour trip many make twice a day. Meanwhile, in Alberta, Syncrude is building the world’s largest pyramid out of its own sulphur, a byproduct of bitumen mining.

$Colin Knowles (detail) \ CC-BY-SA-2.0 via Flickr$

Managing Shared Resources

Mar 2015 | IN Canada’s Map to Sustainability 41.1 | BY Fikret Berkes Taysha Palmer

Full article available online

Collective community action is the best way to close the curtain on the Tragedy of the Commons.

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