British Columbia

18/11/16
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

From: Yakawilas Coreen Child [mailto:coreenchild@gmail.com]
Sent: November-18-16 10:59 AM
Subject: Standing in Solidarity - Calling all Land, Air, Water and Sea protectors

 

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WATER IS LIFE – 

NORTH ISLAND PROTECTORS GATHER AT THE NIMKISH BRIDGE

 

18/11/16
Author: 
Cara McKenna
JENNIFER GAUTHIER/METRO FILE  Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, the head of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, led protesters down a muddy trail deep into the conservation area’s forest on Nov. 27, 2014, where Kinder Morgan continued work at a second injunction-protected site. Phillip, his mother and several others then crossed the police tape into the work area and were arrested by RCMP, joining more than 100 others who have been willingly arrested since police began enforcing the injunction.

Indigenous stories: Group led by UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip will sign on to do “whatever it takes” to stop pipeline.

People at a mass rally against Kinder Morgan on Saturday are expected to make a group pledge to take escalating actions if the pipeline project is approved.

The event will begin at City Hall at noon and is expected to draw hundreds of people including Indigenous, provincial and municipal leaders, as well as Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

18/11/16
Author: 
Kennedy Stewart
Jim Carr addresses supporters on election night. (Photo: CP)

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr recently declared the federal government will not require the full, prior and informed consent from First Nations when it decides whether or not to allow Kinder Morgan to build a new crude oil pipeline through British Columbia.

15/11/16
Author: 
Mark Hume

Published Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 12:01AM EST

More than 1,000 early-career scientists from across Canada have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and key members of his cabinet urging the government to do a better job of assessing the environmental impacts of developments.

The scientists say they are “concerned that current environmental assessments and regulatory decision-making processes lack scientific rigour,” and that the health of Canadians and the environment are being put at risk.

14/11/16
Author: 
Rising Tide, Vancouver – Coast Salish Territories

Dear all

The e-mail I sent last week didn't have a working paypal link for credit card donations!
I am re-sending with the correct link. Funds are still being requested so Kanahus can more easily continue her work. We're about 1/6 of the way to the goal! Thanks everyone!!!
13/11/16
Author: 
Naoibh O’Connor
The Heights, an apartment complex, which is aiming for Passive House certification, is expected to open next year.

The rental building under construction at the corner of East Hastings and Skeena Street looks similar to countless others being built around the city. But one detail, noted in small print on the promotional sign, calls attention to the difference: it aims to be designated a “Passive House,” a highly energy efficient building. It’s one of only a handful of buildings or houses in Vancouver that either have the designation or are targeting it. Once certified, the Heights — as it’s been dubbed by the developer — will be the largest building in Canada that’s met the Passive House standard.

13/11/16
Author: 
The Canadian Press
Protesters rally outside Vancouver's Trump Tower on Nov. 10, 2016. (Tina Lovgreen/CBC)

[Editor: There was a second rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery on November 12 http://www.cknw.com/2016/11/12/anti-trump-protest-in-downtown-vancouver-draws-hundreds/ ]

The rally, one of many similar protests around the world, started outside Trump Tower

Hundreds of people turned up in downtown Vancouver on Thursday to protest the results of the United States presidential election.

10/11/16
Author: 
Union of BC Indian Chiefs

NEWS RELEASE

November 10th, 2016

 

Nov. 19th Call to Action: Stand in Solidarity with Land and Water Defenders

(Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, B.C. – November 8th, 2016) The Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) calls upon our friends and allies across Turtle Island to stand with us at on November 19th to defend our land and our environment against the expansion of the Tar Sands at the expense of our territories.

09/11/16
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk

Behind the Trump-like hype: fleeced taxpayers and a surge of climate pollution.

 

Nov 10, 2016 - The hoopla over the $1.6-billion Woodfibre LNG terminal, which will industrialize Howe Sound and the city of Squamish, illustrates the just how far Christy Clark-led BC Liberal government will go to subvert the truth.

The government billed the event as maker of economic prosperity and the beginning of a winning fight against climate change.

Both claims read like Trump balderdash with no basis in reality.

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