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Sierra Club Canada - Submission to the Senate Committee on Energy (Re: C-38)
May 31, 2012
Submission to the Senate Committee on Energy
Re: Bill C-38
John Bennett, Executive Director
Sierra Club Canada
Thursday, May 31 201
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UPDATE: #BlackOutSpeakOut Events
Media Release, May 29, 2012
#BlackOutSpeakOut Update
We are just a week away from #BlackOutSpeakOut day (June 4th). I can tell you the campaign momentum is building! The list of participating organizations is over 100 and growing! Maude Barlow just told me The Council of Canadians is also joining the protest. All across the country Canadians are recognizing that silence is not an option in face of the war on nature and democracy.
This week here in Ottawa we have two events:
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- Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta
- Biotechnology
- Challenging Unsustainable Aquaculture
- Clean Up Chalk River!
- Climate Change
- Climate Summits
- Ecological Fiscal Reform
- Ecosystems
- Forests
- Forests and Climate Change
- Green Budget Coalition
- Municipal Pesticide-Free Campaign
- People Trade & the Environment News Digest
- Population and the Environment
- Right to Water
- The Boreal Forest
- Toxic Sludge
- Water
- A Park as Tribute to Andy Russell
- Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines
- CAFE Canada
- Energy Onslaught
- Fair Trade
- Forests and Biodiversity
- General - No issue selected
- International Program
- Nuclear Phaseout
- Pesticide Awareness
- Poverty Reduction for Environmental Conservation
- Safe Food and Sustainable Agriculture
- Sustainable Fisheries
- Toxics Awareness and Education
- Water Quality
- Wilderness and Species Conservation
- Alberta Centennial Wilds
- Ban Asbestos
- Food Irradiation
- National Forest Strategy
- Nuclear Subsidies
- Oceans
- Protecting Marine Areas from the Threat of Oil and Gas Development
- Renewable Energy
- Toxics
- Trade and Environment
- Waste Diversion
- Water Conservation
- Alberta Grizzlies
- Caribou - Endangered
- Food Miles
- Government
- Industrial Water Consumption
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Pesticides
- Radioactive Waste
- Sydney Tar Ponds
- Andy Russell – I’tai sah kòp (Castle)
- Great Lakes
- Nuclear-Free Canada
- Toxins In Food Consumables and Packaging
- Bighorn Country
- Intensive Livestock Operations
- National Water Strategy
- Endangered Species
- Mussel / Shrimp / Salmon Aquaculture
- Water Exports
- Flathead Valley
- Virtual Water Exports
- Mountain Park - Cheviot
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Atmosphere & Energy
- Health & Environment
- Protecting Biodiversity
- Transition to Sustainable Economy
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Groups slam changes to environmental process
Groups are slamming the federal Conservative government's plan to speed up the environmental review process, suggesting it will become a rubber stamp that won't protect the health and safety of Canadians.
"This is about bulldozing things through over the objection of people or without thinking it through," the Sierra Club's John Bennett told CTV's Power Play.
Streamlining the environmental review process was a key plank in the Tories' first majority government budget, released Thursday.
But Bennett, the executive director of the environment watchdog, said the changes will result in weaker environmental assessments, as well as projects being approved without a full understanding of the social, economic and environmental impacts.
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Decision day for Mackenzie pipeline
The National Energy Board will hand down its ruling Thursday on the $16-billion Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline project.
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Peter Linder with Delta One Capital tells 660News he doubts the pipeline will ever be built. [...]
The executive director of Sierra Club Canada agrees.
John Bennett says thanks to bleak return prospects, it looks like the environmental movement won't have to worry about the impact the development will have on the northern Canada.
Link to source site:
http://www.660news.com/radio/660news/article/158182--decision-day-for-mackenzie-... Sierra Club Canada joins with No Tar Sands Oil Network on letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on her trip to Canada
Sierra Club Canada joined with the No Tar Sands Oil network group on a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chair Edward Markey in preparation for their September 2010 trip to Canada. The letter thanks them for their efforts to transition the United States to a clean energy future. It also highlights the importance of stopping the Keystone XL pipeline so as to stop America's increasing addiction to the world's dirtiest oil... so that a clean, just, energy future can be possible.
Link to source site:
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Governments cool to Mackenzie guidance
Territorial and federal governments have agreed with fewer than a dozen of almost 200 recommendations made by a panel supporting a proposed Mackenzie Arctic pipeline, according to a new report.
The Northwest Territories and Ottawa said Tuesday they agreed with 10 of 115 recommendations made by the joint review panel directly linked with the governments to mitigate social and environmental impacts of the $16.2-billion natural gas project.
The governments rejected outright 28 out of a total 176 recommendations the joint review panel deemed critical to the sustainability of the project.... Read more »
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Mackenzie pipeline report gets red light from feds
The controversy surrounding the regulatory process of the Mackenzie gas pipeline continues after Ottawa rejected most of the recommendations in a report on the socio-environmental impact of the massive project.
After half a decade of work, the government-appointed panel issued 176 recommendations, 115 of which were directed at the federal and Northwest Territories government.
Ottawa has accepted 10, accepted the intent of another 77 and refused to accept the balance of the recommendations aimed at government.
Additional Excerpt:
Environmentalists were furious.
“Years of research, public hearings, studies and community engagement is being thrown in the wind,” said Sheila Muxlow, the Sierra Club’s director for the Prairies.
“This is an insult to the effort and expertise that went into the joint review panel over the past five years.”
Link to source site:
http://www.calgarysun.com/money/2010/05/19/14001516.html - Login to post comments
Environmentalists upset governments reject almost all northern pipeline advice
Environmentalists are angry that Ottawa and the Northwest Territories have rejected almost all the advice in a lengthy and expensive report on the proposed Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline.
The Sierra Club says the decision from the two governments to accept only 10 out of 176 recommendations is an insult to those who worked on the report.
Additional Excerpt:
“Years of research, public hearings, studies and community engagement are being thrown in the wind,” Sheila Muxlow, director of the Sierra Club's Prairie chapter, said in a release Tuesday. “This is an insult to the effort and expertise that went into the Joint Review Panel over the past five years."... Read more »
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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/breakingnews/environmentalists-upset-a... - Login to post comments
Governments Brush Aside Mackenzie Valley Recommendations
OTTAWA—The federal and North West Territory governments are disrespecting the Mackenzie Valley Joint Review Panel process by discounting the majority of the recommendations needed to sustainably develop the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, said Sierra Club Canada today.
Of the 115 recommendations aimed towards the federal and Northwest Territories governments, only 10 of the recommendations were fully accepted in an interim report released Monday. The federally appointed Joint Review Panel (JRP) developed a total of 176 recommendations to mitigate environmental damage and socio-economic effects of building and operating the proposed 1,200 kilometre natural gas pipeline.
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Mackenzie pipeline in public good: proponents
Proponents of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline gave their final pitches on Monday to the National Energy Board, which must decide whether to approve the $16.2-billion proposed natural gas project in the Northwest Territories.
The NEB, an independent federal agency that regulates part of Canada's energy sector, is hearing final arguments on the pipeline proposal this week in Yellowknife. The board will also hold hearings next week in Inuvik, N.W.T.
Additional Excerpt:
The Sierra Club of Canada wants strict conditions on the natural gas that would flow through the pipeline — specifically on how that gas would be used after it connects with other gas networks in northern Alberta.... Read more »
Link to source site:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/04/13/neb-mgp-imperial.html - Login to post comments
