Tag: Natural resources Canada

Resources minister billed taxpayers to ring TSX bell and go to CPC’s Rosedale fundraiser

Published July 27, 2015

Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford evidently celebrated National Mining Week by digging for gold in Rosedale.

VIDEO: Fracking has “awakened a sleeping giant”

Published January 21, 2015

Fee-fi-fo-fum. Two significant stories reflect growing concern over fracking in Canada. Tuesday’s Whitehorse Daily Star headline tells us that the conservative Yukon Party’s rush to push fracking on the Klondike has “awakened a sleeping giant.” In the Yukon, an all-party committee of the legislature tabled a report that found “the majority of Yukoners that the committee heard from do not […]

Green with envy: Canada should follow these clean energy leaders

Published January 11, 2015

Maybe Kermit the Frog had it all wrong and being green is easy – or at least easier than he thought. But first the scary news on fossil fuels. A new study in Nature warns that a large percentage of the world’s untapped fossil fuel reserves (including almost all of the Canadian oilsands) need to be left in the ground […]

Who killed it? The case of the government’s vanishing climate change press release

Published December 15, 2014

Maybe it was Minister X in the conservatory with the delete button. Natural Resources Canada spent months editing a news release about a devastating climate change report, according to documents newly obtained by PressProgress through Access to Information. Their work was all for naught. The release was never actually issued in what appears to be […]

Big Oil’s inside track in Ottawa spelled out in black and white

Published February 24, 2014

Wouldn’t it be nice to be given copies of early drafts of government plans to provide edits and feedback? Internal documents from Natural Resources Canada, released to PressProgress under access to information, show that’s the kind of access the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) enjoys. Last July was a particularly active one, the records […]

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