Northern Gateway

We jump into the Google Earth flight simulator for flyovers of three controversial pipelines that start near Edmonton and run east and west

We use Google Earth’s F-16 flight simulator to take you from one end of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline near Edmonton to its terminus at Kitimat, B.C.

Evan Solomon on Justin Trudeau’s tough political calculus on Trans Mountain, and the real reason he approved it

Rather than block pipelines, we could achieve the same reduction in global emissions, but without the economic costs, by putting a price on carbon

A federal-provincial standoff looms over the carbon tax. Could a grand bargain be the way forward?

…and natural gas, Northern Gateway. View this and more in our encyclopedia of the oil crash

Highlights in bickering

The NDP continued its season-ending fury of opposition to the most controversial yet-to-be-built pipeline in Canada. Peter Julian, the NDP House Leader, led the Official Opposition’s unrepentant hate-on for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. The government’s allowing Enbridge to force a dangerous pipeline on a province that detests the very idea, he said.

The exchange you can’t miss from this afternoon’s Question Period

Your daily dose of political theatre

We should be finding the most lucrative markets for our bitumen and charging an appropriate rate to extractors, writes Andrew Leach

The approval came in a colourless release with a bureaucratic title