British Columbia

01/07/16
Author: 
John Dillon

On June 10, 2016, KAIROS released an Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Columbia Premier Christy Clark urging them to suspend construction of the Site C dam on the Peace River until Indigenous peoples’ rights have been respected and the B.C. Utilities Commission has conducted a thorough review.1 This Briefing Paper will explain why KAIROS and other civil society organizations are taking action on this issue.

[Webpage editor: Here is only the text; go to link for the original.]

01/07/16
Author: 
Bruce McIvor

June 30, 2016 - The Federal Court of Appeal has quashed the federal government's Enbridge pipeline decision.

The fault the Court identified in the entire process was the federal government's consultation process that occurred after the NEB decision and the Joint Review Panel Report.

Here's what the court said:

30/06/16

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In July and August 2016, the TMX Ministerial Panel will hold a series of roundtable and town hall meetings along the TMX pipeline and marine corridors in Alberta and BC.

The Panel will listen to local communities, stakeholders, and Indigenous groups, and identify additional views that could be relevant to the Government’s final decision on the project.

Locations

Updates posted as available, check here regularly for the latest information.

30/06/16
Author: 
Yinka Dene Alliance

For Immediate Release – June 30, 2016

 

Court overturns federal approval of Enbridge Northern Gateway project

First Nations call on Trudeau to implement tanker ban and reject the project for good

 

NADLEH WHUT’EN TRADITIONAL LANDS, BC/YINKA DENE TERRITORIES – First Nations of the Yinka Dene Alliance (YDA) are celebrating a legal victory today, as the Federal Court of Appeal has overturned the federal government’s conditional approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers project.

30/06/16
Author: 
CBC staff

The mayors of Metro Vancouver have rejected the provincial government's plans to replace the George Massey tunnel with a 10-lane bridge.

It's the first time the mayors, who make up the Metro Vancouver Board, have spoken out collectively against the $3.5-billion crossing.

29/06/16
Author: 
Sarah Berman

June 27, 2016 - If you ask the premier of British Columbia, Canada's largest resource project proposal now has a green light from the five First Nations groups it was legally required to consult.

The massive $36-billion liquefied natural gas terminal proposed by Pacific Northwest LNG already earned signed agreements (or preliminary agreements with conditions) from four of the five bands on BC's far northwest coast. It just needed consent from one more.

29/06/16
Author: 
Mark Hume
The Pine Valley open pit coal mine in the Peace River district of northeastern B.C., shown in 2005. Chief Marvin Yahey says resource industry development has negatively affected the Blueberry River First Nations' traditional territory, which overlies a large part of B.C.’s northeast oil and gas field. (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)

The Blueberry River First Nations has released an atlas showing that more than 80 per cent of its traditional territory – which overlies a large part of B.C.’s northeast oil and gas field – has been negatively affected by development.

“Fracking, forestry, roads and other development is pushing us further and further to the edges of our territory,” Chief Marvin Yahey said Tuesday.

29/06/16
Author: 
Ash Kelly, Brielle Morgan
Lax Kw'alaams
For more than 5,000 years, First Nations people have collected plants and harvested red cedar on Lelu Island, which sits where the Skeena River meets the Pacific Ocean near Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia.
29/06/16
Author: 
Vaughn Palmer

VICTORIA, June 27 — For all of Premier Christy Clark’s vow to advance the Site C project past the point of no return before the election, the New Democrats maintain they would subject the $9 billion B.C. Hydro project to independent review before deciding whether to let it proceed to completion.

23/06/16
Author: 
Brad Hornick

Dear Climate Rebels, This is from Brad Hornick. I am writing to you as an original organizer for Climate Convergence. The original vision of Convergence was about creating not an "organization" but a "movement" based on radical democratic principles and with the desire to maintain a strong and explicitly anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal approach to organizing. These aims are written into the Convergence "Points of Unity".

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