#suncor — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #suncor, aggregated by home.social.
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#SCOTUS announced Monday that it had agreed to hear a major #climate lawsuit in which the #oil industry is claiming it shouldn’t be sued in #state courts over its role in #GlobalWarming. The outcome could have wide bearing on dozens of other lawsuits around the country.
The court said it would hear arguments on a petition by #ExxonMobil & #Suncor, a Canadian #energy giant, in a lawsuit brought by the city & county of #Boulder, Colorado.
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#Earthjustice sues #Colorado #oil refinery corp #Suncor on behalf of eco orgs. Back in July, the #EPA and #Colorado state regulators hit #OilRefinery with 140 pages of pollution violation notices for the past two years. That action came despite a $10.5 million settlement for similar 2021 transgressions.
https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/07/suncor-lawsuit-colorado-air-pollution-violations/
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#evergreen: shut the damned thing down!
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They have logged 9,209 days of potential Clean Air Act violations over the past five years. “In 2020 alone, the Suncor refinery emitted approximately 20 tons of hazardous air pollutants, 500 tons of carbon monoxide, 50 tons of nitrogen oxides, 125 tons of particulate matter, 450 tons of volatile organic compounds, and 230 tons of sulfur dioxide,”https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/07/suncor-lawsuit-colorado-air-pollution-violations/
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Good Climate News! Advocates celebrated Monday after a Boulder, Colorado judge rejected attempts by ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy subsidiaries to dismiss a landmark lawsuit that seeks damages for the harms the fossil fuel companies have inflicted on the climate and local communities.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/colorado-climate-lawsuit
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#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCase #ClimateLitigation #ClimateAction #ExxonMobil #Suncor #Education #ClimateLaw #Environment #FossilFuels #EnvironmentalStudies #Edutooters @edutooters
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" Advocates celebrated Monday after a #Boulder, Colorado judge rejected attempts by #ExxonMobil and #Suncor Energy subsidiaries to dismiss a landmark #lawsuit that seeks damages for the harms the fossil fuel companies have inflicted on the #climate and local communities."
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Suncor Criticizes Federal Bill C-59 for Impact on Environmental Transparency https://epicnews.ca/canada/ecology/suncor-criticizes-federal-bill-c-59-for-impact-on-environmental-transparency-20240623/
#Alberta #Canada #ClimateChange #ecology #environment #government #greenwashing #news #OilSands #Suncor -
Just in case anyone thought Suncor was actually going to reduce their continual "accidental" discharges ...
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The cause of the spills is under investigation but since the nitrogen has been released into the water there is no way to clean it up.Sand Creek feeds into the Platte River -- a source of drinking water and to irrigate crops and for livestock.
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If technical and commercial feasibility assessments find that lands at Fort McKay #FirstNation have the quality of #bitumen and quantity for development, work could begin as early as 2036 and eventually result in a multi-billion-dollar payday.
Fort McKay First Nation has signed a memorandum of understanding with energy company #Suncor to explore the opportunity.
#Indigenous #industry #economy #business #oilandgas #Alberta
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Way past time to shut this f'in thing down ...
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Suncor Energy’s oil refinery in Commerce City has reported 13 malfunctions since Dec. 1, sending harmful pollutants into the air.On Jan. 13, the amount of hydrogen sulfide expelled was more than 169 times higher than what is permitted.
“It’s always, ‘Oh, don’t worry. We just farted.' It doesn’t say, ‘We just blew out this really toxic stuff that’s going inside your house.’
https://www.denverpost.com/2024/01/28/suncor-refinery-commerce-city-air-pollution-malfunctions/
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#Suncor plans to pump 1 billion barrels of oil from a wetland — but vows to protect the other half with a wall.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-wetland-oilsands-environment-1.7013213
"McClelland Lake in northern #Alberta is at once an important gathering place for local #FirstNations, a carbon sink, a wildlife habitat & a major potential source of bitumen.
Plans 2 mine it have been brewing since 2002, when the Alberta Energy & Utilities Board allowed the company TrueNorth Energy 2 develop part of the wetland within its oilsands lease." -
"* #Suncor plans to pump 1 billion barrels of oil from #wetlands — but vows to protect the half with a wall *"
#ThisWillGoWell #StupidOilCompanyTricks
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-wetland-oilsands-environment-1.7013213?cmp=rss
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Sophia Mathur: Holding an oil and gas executive to account
Youth climate activist from Sudbury speaks about a recent trip to Ottawa, in which she and others were able to listen in on MPs' questioning of a #Suncor executive
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The Tyee: ‘Fire Weather’ Author John Vaillant: What I Told Parliament https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/10/19/John-Vaillant-What-I-Told-Parliament/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #HouseofCommonsnaturalresourcescommittee #CharlesSéguinassociateprofessor #MarkCameronPathwaysAlliance #ParliamentWellingtonblock #GreenhouseGasEmissions #Canadianborealforest #FortMcMurrayfire500C #Canadawildfires2023 #Kelownawildfire2023 #CO2climatechange #FortMcMurrayfire #FireWeatherbook #ClimateCrisis #Suncor
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This is all fucked up. Not what I expect from our elected officials. Especially given CO's history of covering for polluters and never quite managing to hold them accountable.
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Colorado sues EPA to stop public access to air pollution recordshttps://coloradosun.com/2023/08/23/colorado-sues-epa-air-pollution-records/
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While #Alberta is burning,
"The man hired to turn around the flagging fortunes of #Suncor Energy Inc. said he believes the company has been too focused in recent years on the #EnergyTransition and must get back to an #oil-centred business strategy.His stated goal to refocus Suncor's efforts on its #oilsands assets comes even as the company has publicly committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas #emissions by 2050."