Indigenous Peoples

Long-awaited Sustainable Jobs Act a snoozer

19/06/23
Author: 
Seth Klein
Link: 
National Observer
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau helps to install solar panels on a roof during a campaign stop in Iqaluit, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Photo by:The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

June 16, 2023

The federal government has tabled its long-awaited Sustainable Jobs Act (formerly to be known as Just Transition Act).

 

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Canada
Climate Change
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What if conservation laws protected animals — and the people who rely on them — before they were endangered?

16/06/23
Author: 
Isaac Phan Nay
Link: 
National Observer
Roland Willson co-authored a policy forum asking policymakers to braid Indigenous rights into endangered species laws. Photo submitted by Roland Willson

June 15, 2023

When Ally Menzies was a child, her father made yearly moose-hunting trips to Riding Mountain National Park, about 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

Moose was a familiar part of her family’s diet, said Menzies, a wildlife conservation researcher at the University of Guelph and a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation. But when she became a teenager, the moose population started to decline. First Nations and Métis people found it more and more difficult to harvest moose in the area.

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The Lie of a Cleaner Oilsands

05/06/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Link: 
The Tyee
This five-million-litre toxic waste spill at Imperial Oil’s Kearl Lake oilsands mine in northern Alberta roused outcry. But it came after years of undercutting efforts to regulate tailing pond pollution. Photo by Nick Vardy/Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

June 5, 2023

Pollution protections are stripped while Canada boasts progress. This is the history of promises made and betrayed.

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Alberta
Canada
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Trans Mountain pipeline gets extra government support as costs balloon

02/06/23
Author: 
Robert Tuttle
Link: 
Financial Post
Construction crew works on pipe during construction on the Trans Mountain Pipleline expansion project at Bridal Falls, between Hope and Chilliack in the Fraser Valley. PHOTO BY TRANS MOUNTAIN CORP.

Jun 1, 2023

Costs jumped 44 per cent in March

The Trans Mountain pipeline received additional support from the Canadian government after the cost to expand the controversial Alberta-to-British Columbia oil conduit jumped 44 per cent in March.

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Alberta
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Breaking: Enbridge is hitting pause on its Westcoast Connector mega-pipeline

02/06/23
Author: 
Kai Nagata, Dogwood
Map of pipeline route from Enbridge's website. Stretch connecting Cyprus to Willow Flats removed in 2022 amendment

Also see Request to Extend Environmental Assessment Certificate for Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Pipeline Withdrawn https://www.cfnrfm.ca/2023/06/01/request-to-extend-environmental-assessm...

Jun 1, 2023

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British Columbia
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Industry Spin
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Urgent: CGL Causes Heartbreaking Damage to Our Rivers

25/05/23
Author: 
First Nations leaders
Wedzin Kwa (Morice River)

Unist’ot’en Territory, May 25th, 2023

To our dearest supporters and allies,

TC Energy, in the construction of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline (CGL) has been reported by the Narwhal and a Citizen Monitoring Group as “having committed numerous environmental infractions, including slope failures, flooded worksites, and sediment entering wetlands and waterways.”

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British Columbia
Ecology/Environment
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LNG - Fracking
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Pushing pipeline ownership onto First Nations

14/05/23
Author: 
David Gray-Donald
Link: 
briarpatch
Illustration - Amanda Priebe - oil pump and cash

May 8, 2023

In 2018, Husky Energy asked Stephen Mason, who has years of experience developing oil and gas projects on the African continent, to get First Nations together to put in a bid to buy the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) Pipeline. Husky, which has since been bought by Cenovus, had already booked space on the yet-to-be-built pipeline to get its oil from Alberta to the Pacific coast, where it could sell at higher prices. 

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‘Deeply troubling’: BC Hydro secretly handed out $430 million in Site C dam contracts

03/05/23
Author: 
Sarah Cox
Link: 
The Narwhal
BC Hydro secretly handed out more than $430 million in Site C dam contracts, without asking for bids, over a recent three-year period, The Narwhal has learned through a freedom of information request. Illustration: Carol Linnitt and Shawn Parkinson / The Narwhal

Apr. 26, 2023

Beleaguered engineering firm SNC-Lavalin was among the big winners of no-bid contracts for the over-budget hydro project on B.C.’s Peace River, according to documents obtained by The Narwhal

Over the past three years, undisclosed BC Hydro employees quietly awarded more than $430 million in contracts — without any competition — to three dozen companies and consultants for work on the troubled Site C hydro dam, according to a list obtained by The Narwhal. 

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Agriculture
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Tide-powered clean energy could help West Coast communities ditch diesel

01/05/23
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Link: 
National Observer
University of Victoria researchers with the Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery’s (PRIMED), deploying a wave energy monitoring buoy above, just got $2 million for a tidal energy project in B.C.'s Discovery Islands. Photo UVic

Apr.25, 2023

A new tidal energy pilot project to reduce dependence on diesel in B.C.’s remote coastal communities is set to launch after getting some critical funding.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
British Columbia
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Coastal GasLink's New Fines for Lying Amount to 'Couch Change'

01/05/23
Author: 
Matt Simmons
Link: 
The Narwhal
B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office is fining Coastal GasLink for misleading the government after finding reporting discrepancies. Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal

Apr. 21, 2023

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