Climate Change

31/05/21
Author: 
Carl Meyer
File photo of Parliament Hill in 2017. Photo by Alex Tétreault

May 28th 2021

A House of Commons committee descended into a tornado of confusion this week as it tried to approve amendments to the government’s net-zero emissions bill.

30/05/21
Author: 
Lisa Friedman
Caribou calves in the Utukok uplands in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.Credit...Patrick Endres/ Design Pics Inc., via Alamy

WASHINGTON — Despite President Biden’s pledge to aggressively cut the pollution from fossil fuels that is driving climate change, his administration has quietly taken actions this month that will guarantee the drilling and burning of oil and gas for decades to come.

28/05/21
Author: 
David Shukman Science editor
Boats on dry beach - REUTERS

May 27, 2021

It's becoming more likely that a key global temperature limit will be reached in one of the next five years.

A major study says by 2025 there's a 40% chance of at least one year being 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial level.

That's the lower of two temperature limits set by the Paris Agreement on climate change.

27/05/21
Author: 
Aaron Saad
Photo: Abandoned oil drilling platform near the coast of Namibia. (fiverlocker / Flickr
25/05/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Installing solar panels - Greens MPs/Flickr

UNIFOR CALLS FOR 60% EMISSIONS CUT BY 2030 WITH JUST TRANSITION FOR OIL AND GAS WORKERS

MAY 24, 2021

23/05/21
Author: 
Lars Henriksson
Pipeline blow up

May 22, 2021

The choice between well-behaved protests and sabotage is incorrectly posed

Last month, Simon Butler reviewed How to Blow Up a Pipeline for Climate & Capitalism. We don’t normally publish two reviews of the same book, but we think this article makes a substantial contribution to the discussion.

22/05/21
Author: 
Derrick O'Keefe, Jerome Turner
Thursday was another day of confrontation on a remote logging road in southwest Vancouver Island, including the violent arrest of a young Indigenous woman by the RCMP. Police are enforcing a court injunction granted to forestry company Teal-Jones. - Jerome Turner

 MAY 21, 2021

21 arrests have been made in three days, as RCMP continues to limit press access

Thursday was another day of confrontation on a remote logging road in southwest Vancouver Island, including the violent arrest of a young Indigenous woman by the RCMP. Police are enforcing a court injunction granted to forestry company Teal-Jones.

19/05/21
Author: 
Chris Campbell
This Anna's Hummingbird was spotted near where Trans Mountain crews are working to clear the way for a pipeline.  Donna Clark

May 13, 2021

A fundraising campaign has been started

A group that pushed the federal government into halting logging in Burnaby due to risks to bird nests is now fundraising to expand its network.

19/05/21
Author: 
Earl Peach
I'm attaching Earle Peach's statement to the court.  Yesterday he was given a two-week sentence (plus a one-year period of probation following his release!) for contempt of court in violating the TMX injunction.
 
Please send letters of support to Earle Peach, Bravo North, North Fraser Pretrial Centre, 1451 Kingsway, Coquitlam, B.C., V3C 1S2.
 
In solidarity,
 
Will Offley
 

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