Canada

Another massive LNG plant on the West Coast?

06/11/23
Author: 
Wilderness Committee
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Wilderness Committee
Another massive LNG plant on the West Coast?

Nov. 6, 2023

Ksi Lisims LNG is a proposal in Nisga’a territory to liquefy almost as much gas as LNG Canada. Although the proponent wants to use hydroelectricity to do so, that will only happen if BC Hydro — and its ratepayers — build it a brand new transmission line. Even then, the fracking required to fill it will make the facility among the province’s worst polluters.

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British Columbia
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Striking Seaway Workers Showed The Power Of ‘Essential’ Labour

06/11/23
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Link: 
The Maple
Photo via Unifor.

Nov. 6, 2023

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Bad guys and bombs: The nuclear risks of small modular reactors

05/11/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Illustration by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Nov. 3, 2023

Nuclear proliferation experts are warning that 50 years of policy designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons is unravelling as governments invest in certain small modular reactors that could be misused to build bombs.

The concerns are aimed at Moltex, a Saint John, N.B., nuclear startup building small modular reactors (SMRs) that will be powered with spent fuel from CANDU reactors. To make the fuel, Moltex plans to separate plutonium from uranium in CANDU waste and use the extracted plutonium to power new SMRs.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Canada
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Missing Paris Goal Could Cost CANADA $5.5 Trillion

04/11/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Mark Carney speaks at the Fall 2023 Net-Zero Leadership Summit in Ottawa on Oct. 31, 2023. Photo via Carney/X(Twitter)

Nov. 2, 2023

It’s estimated that the Canadian economy could take a $5.5-trillion hit by the end of the century due to climate change, according to a white paper from Independent Sen. Rosa Galvez’s office published this week as sustainable finance experts and policymakers descended on Ottawa for a high-level conference Wednesday.

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Canada
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400,000 Quebec Workers on Verge of General Strike?

04/11/23
Author: 
Felix Fuchs
Link: 
Jacobin
A demonstration of Quebec’s Common Front in October 1988. (Flickr / André Querry)

 

Website Editor: See -  Quebec unions representing 400,000 public sector workers set to strike Nov. 6 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/common-front-quebec-union-strike-1.7007518

Oct. 11, 2023

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Canada
Ecosocialism
Labour - Unions
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Bidenomics and the Left

30/10/23
Author: 
 Sam Gindin
Link: 
The Bullet
Bidenomics

October 29, 2023  • 

“There’s something happening here
But what it is ain’t exactly clear.”

– “For What It’s Worth,” Buffalo Springfield.

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Canada
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An Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming Israel

29/10/23
Author: 
Progressive International
Link: 
The Bullet
Gaza flattened

Oct. 17, 2023

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Judge approves historic $23B First Nations child welfare compensation agreement

24/10/23
Author: 
Darren Major, Olivia Stefanovich
Link: 
CBC News
The class-action lawsuit against Ottawa was based largely on a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling which found Ottawa discriminated against First Nations children and families. (Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press)

Oct. 24, 2023

The settlement agreement is the largest ever in Canada

 

The Federal Court has approved a $23 billion settlement agreement — the largest in Canadian history — for First Nations children and families who experienced racial discrimination through Ottawa's chronic underfunding of the on-reserve foster care system and other family services.

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Canada
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68% of Canadians Oppose Ottawa Write-Down on Trans Mountain Pipeline

24/10/23
Author: 
EnergyNow Media
Link: 
Energy Now
A replacement pipeline segment is lowered into the Coquihalla River by Trans Mountain near Hope, B.C., on Aug. 9, 2022. CBC News 2023

Oct. 24, 2023

Reuters) – More than two-thirds of Canadians oppose the federal government taking a multibillion-dollar writedown on the Trans Mountain pipeline, a survey showed on Tuesday, a dilemma for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals as they look to sell it ahead of an election expected by 2025.

Ottawa has sunk roughly C$35 billion ($25.6 billion) into the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, which the federal government bought in 2018 to ensure a controversial expansion project known as TMX went ahead.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Oil - Pipelines
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Not one, but two legal challenges! Hold Woodfibre LNG and FortisBC accountable

22/10/23
Author: 
My Sea to Sky
In January I joined dozens of other caring citizens to call on Minister Guilbeault to stop Woodfibre LNG from harming seals and sea lions.
Mini-demonstration in Squamish on October 17.</body></html>
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British Columbia
Canada
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