British Columbia

None of the major parties will cancel TMX, despite heated opposition in B.C.

14/09/21
Author: 
Chen Zhou
Link: 
Ricochet Media
Stop TMX sign - Chen Zhou

Sept. 10, 2021

Even the NDP refuses to commit to killing the $16-billion, publicly funded pipeline expansion

The overpass trembled as cars sped past, and the noise of the traffic roared as several protestors stood on the sidewalk with “STOP TMX” banners. They waved them at passing vehicles, and those on the Trans-Canada Highway beneath them.

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Double standard: B.C. requires Indigenous consent for forest conservation but not logging

14/09/21
Author: 
Torrance Coste
Link: 
Ricochet Media
Clay Nikiforuk

Sept. 9, 2021

A year after groundbreaking old-growth report, government inaction still drives conflict in B.C.

Every day in B.C., irreplaceable groves filled with the oldest trees in the country are cut down and lost forever. In the year since the province’s strategic review of old-growth management, we’ve seen many promises but very little change in the forest.

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A power struggle at Fairy Creek: Old-growth activists want fewer police powers at Fairy Creek. The RCMP is asking for more

14/09/21
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Link: 
National Observer
 Close to 1,000 old-growth activists at the Fairy Creek blockades have been arrested, making it the largest civil disobedience movement in Canada. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Flying Squad / Facebook

September 14th 2021

A slew of legal applications involving the contentious Fairy Creek old-growth blockades are moving forward in B.C. Supreme Court this week as the protest becomes one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canada.

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Protest ongoing at Lost Creek tree sit - Timothee in skypod - video

13/09/21
Author: 
Gene McGuckin and Timothee
Link: 
Icloud
Timothee tree sitting
Sept 13, 2021
 
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The tiny lichen that could stop Teal-Jones from logging Fairy Creek’s old-growth

12/09/21
Author: 
Shaena Lambert
Link: 
National Observer
A rare species of lichen recently discovered around Fairy Creek could hold keys to stopping old-growth logging in the area. Photo by Natasha Lavdovsky

September 11th 2021

“Small things run the world.” — E.O. Wilson

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Trans Mountain: Delays into 2023 will add millions to public cost

12/09/21
Author: 
Eugene Kung, Staff Lawyer and Jack Jones, Law Student
Link: 
West Coast Environmental Law

Read this report here:

 https://wcel.org/sites/default/files/publications/2021-09-tmx-constructiondelays-report-final_0.pdf

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Trans Mountain protesters occupying Burnaby trees ‘under siege’ after fence erected

10/09/21
Author: 
Chris Campbell
Link: 
Burnaby Now
Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.@Honu139/Twitter

Sept. 8 2021

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

*This story has been updated with a response from Trans Mountain and events that took place on Wednesday morning.

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

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Supporters Needed at Unist'ot'en Healing Centre

10/09/21
Author: 
Unist'ot'en Solidarity Brigade 
 
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Where They Stand: The Parties on Fossil Fuel Subsidies

10/09/21
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
Link: 
The Tyee
The Liberals pledge to cut carbon emissions — but they spent $4.5 billion to ensure a pipeline expansion went ahead. Photo via Trans Mountain.

If federal parties are serious about taking on climate change, they need to stop giving money to the oil and gas industry, according to two climate experts.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Alberta
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Canada
Climate Change
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If you want your vote to help the climate, here are the questions you need to ask

09/09/21
Author: 
Seth Klein
Link: 
National Observer
A helicopter drops a bucket of water on the Chuckegg Creek wildfire west of High Level, Alta., on May 25, 2019. Photo by Chris Schwarz, Government of Alberta / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

September 9th 2021

Why you should take Mark Jaccard’s platform ratings with a hunk of salt

If there is some good news in this election it is that, finally, every leader and party feels compelled to run on what they hope will be viewed as a credible climate plan, and each of the major parties appears to be presenting a somewhat stronger climate plan than just two years ago.

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