A Canadian government attempt to speed up construction of Enbridge Inc's Northern Gateway oil pipeline to the West Coast is unlikely to prevent a flood of court challenges that could still delay the multibillion-dollar project. 

Video featuring dialogue-based approaches to company-community conflict; produced by the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School on behalf of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights. 

Video featuring dialogue-based approaches to company-community conflict; produced by the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School on behalf of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights. 

In this chapter from the book “Ethics and Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect”, the authors address the responsibility of corporations to protect air quality from greenhouse gas emissions, leaving aside other corporate objectives even as they recognize that conflicts may result. 

This report is the first in Sustainalytics’ series exploring unconventional fossil fuel development. Shale gas, deep water drilling and oil sands are examples of the unconventional oil and gas plays that producers are currently exploiting in response to growing global energy demands. 

Planners consider many possibilities, weigh methods, review timing, and at least seek to deduce what is best. To this end they advocate reason and temperance, and, most important, they are thrifty and save. These ideas and dispositions, elevated to an ideal in the economics of nineteenth-century and secular puritanism, live on in the reaction of industrial society to hungers -- and in the average Canadian's reaction to Indians. And a reaction of this kind means that a person, even if inclined to be sympathetic to hunters and hunting, has immense difficulty in understanding what planning means for hunters of the North. 

Proposal from NEI Investments to request information from Enbridge Inc. on how the board of directors of Enbridge has assessed the risks facing the project from First Nations’ opposition, and to what degree the board is aware of these potential risks. 

The letter underlines some of the reasons why an accurate picture of the environmental impacts of oil sands development is crucial for longterm investors. 

There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy. A large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed. 

A reply to the opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal of January 27, 2012, by a group of sixteen scientists, entitled “No Need to Panic About Global Warming.” 

Princeton physics professor William Happer on why a large number of scientists don't believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming. 

The ethical principles incorporated in the framework include: Respect for life in all its forms, including minimization of harm to human beings and other sentient creatures; respect for future generations of human beings, other species, and the biosphere as a whole; respect for peoples and cultures; justice (across groups, regions, and generations); fairness (to everyone affected and particularly to minorities and marginalized groups); and sensitivity to the differences of values and interpretation that different individuals and groups bring to the dialogue. 

Article that highlights questions of integrity that are often faced by First Nations on processes that are set up to make decisions on resources issues that affect their communities. 

Better mining corporations want to adopt “Responsible Mining”. This paper outlines what responsible mining actually is and offers a guide to corporations wanting more information on how to become responsible. 

One of the most damning criticisms of the ethics of nuclear power generation has been that, despite a history that now extends more than 60 years, the industry has no long-term, permanent solution to the problem of managing spent fuel and other highly radioactive waste materials.  

After the Three Gorges dam what have we learned? Post-project assessment of the world’s largest hydro dam. 

Why is there such a big gap between what’s important to indigenous people and how mining companies are addressing their priorities? Forbes editorial by Paul Klein, Feb 29, 2012. 

Technology has always been a part of human existence. Today though, says the experimental physicist, Ursula M. Franklin, technology has large-scale effects on culture itself.  

The paper identifies potential costs that can arise for extractive companies at different stages of a project’s life cycle (for example, costs to financing, construction, operations, reputation, etc.), and concludes by reflecting on the business case for improved risk management aimed at preventing and mitigating company‐community conflict.  

Jeff Rubin's uncovering of Denmark's "dirty little secret" is an important less to the motivations and economic drivers of energy efficiency; something Canada sorely lacks.