British Columbia

29/01/19
Author: 
Emilee Gilpin
Brenda Michell, Unist'ot'en house member, surveyed damage to a Unist'ot'en trapline, bulldozed through on Jan. 27, 2019. Photo by Michael Toledano

January 28th 2019

A subsidiary of Calgary-based energy company TransCanada bulldozed through traplines and personal property from two different clans of the Wet'suwet'en Nation last week, while the RCMP enforced an interim injunction requested by the company so that it could proceed with construction. Some Wet'suwet'en members said the RCMP illegally prevented them from entering their own territories, violating the nation's rights.

28/01/19
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 

Media Inquiries:

Molly Wickham: 778-210-1610

Jen Wickham: 778-210-0067

Delee Nikal: 250-961-9642

Carla Lewis: 778-669-1316

28/01/19
Author: 
Robyn Allan
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters at a news conference in Ottawa on June 20, 2018. File photo by Alex

January 25th 2019

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is relying on an aggressive and outdated Western Canadian crude oil supply outlook to re-approve Trans Mountain’s expansion. Trudeau’s outlook seriously contradicts the supply forecast oilsands producers support as commercially viable.

25/01/19

Click here for this leaflet distributed by Vancouver Ecosocialists.

22/01/19
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

Wet'suwet'en Strong Supporter Toolkit Released


Sovereign Likhts'amisyu Launched

22/01/19
Author: 
Tracy Sherlock
Scientist Kirsten Zickfeld and economist Mark Jaccard say oilsands expansion is inconsistent with Canada's climate goals. Photo by Michael Ruffolo

January 21st 2019

A pair of experts on global warming have thrown their support behind a new legal motion urging the National Energy Board to consider all climate-related impacts from the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline and tanker expansion in its latest review of the project.

22/01/19
Author: 
Craig Cameron
Aerial view of the Suncor oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray. Some governments are proposing to ask oil companies to pay them for the cost of climate change damage caused by their products.
January 21, 2019
 
West Vancouver council has been criticized for voting to send letters to the world’s biggest fossil-fuel companies to hold them accountable for their “fair share” of the costs related to climate change. I want to explain why I voted in favour.
 
20/01/19
Author: 
Robyn Allan

November 26th 2018

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is aggressively advancing a false narrative about heavy oil’s deep discount. She presents the problem in two parts, neither of which stand up to scrutiny.

First, Notley purports that the abnormally wide price spread affects every barrel of heavy oil leading to millions of dollars a day in losses to the Canadian economy. And second, that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is crucial. Neither of these claims are supported by the facts.

20/01/19
Author: 
Chris Campbell
A workshop on Burnaby Mountain burned to the ground Saturday night. SHANE MACKICHAN PHOTOS
Jan. 19, 2019
 
When Burnaby assistant fire chief Barry Mawhinney headed out to Burnaby Mountain on a 911 call Saturday night, he looked up and realized it was going to be a stubborn one.

He could see flames shooting into the air.​

“You could see this when I left the station,” Mawhinney said around 10 p.m. Saturday night after a team of 34 firefighters had managed to finally put out the fire at an unoccupied workshop.

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