Environmental Groups

21/11/23
Author: 
Seth Klein
Illustration by Ata Ojani for Canada's National Observer

Nov. 20, 2023

Sigh. So, once again, the carbon tax — only ever a meagre climate measure — is sucking up all the political and media oxygen at the expense of other more systemic and bold changes. It now appears we are destined to spend the next federal election, quite likely next year’s British Columbia election and possibly other forthcoming provincial elections re-prosecuting past climate fights.

06/11/23
Author: 
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.

18/10/23
Author: 
Sylvia Hui
Environmental activists demonstrate outside the Intercontinental Hotel during the Oily Money Out protest, in London, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Photo by: The Canadian Press/AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Oct. 17, 2023

LONDON (AP) — Greta Thunberg was detained by British police on Tuesday alongside other climate activists who gathered outside a central London hotel to disrupt a major oil and gas industry conference.

01/10/23
Author: 
Vipal Monga
Flying over the Hudson Bay Lowlands to the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario.

Sept. 28, 2023

$67 Billion of Rare Minerals Is Buried Under One of the World’s Biggest Carbon Sinks

A fight is brewing in Canada about how, or whether, to dig out materials essential for EV batteries that lie deep beneath vast peat bogs

The pace of the global transition to electric vehicles depends on the future of a remote region in Canada known as the Ring of Fire.

27/09/23
Author: 
Kelly Trout Research Co-Director Oil Change International
Global energy investment in clean energy and in fossil fuels, 2015-2023

Clean energy    Fossil fuels  Appears in World Energy Investment 2023 Notes - 2023 values are estimated.

Sept. 26, 2023

25/09/23
Author: 
Abdul Matin Sarfraz
Stop Sprawl Durham protesters in Pickering, Ont. on Aug. 13, 2023. (Simon Sheehan/CP24)

Further: "This decision and announcement came after nearly a year of reporting from The Narwhal and the Toronto Star, which exposed Ford’s plan to open up the Greenbelt and fill the pockets of his developer buddies." -  The Maple Newsletter - Sept. 25/23

Sept. 22, 2023

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