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Letter: Actually, Mr. Trudeau, we can tax the super-rich with 'unlimited zeal'

16/09/21
Author: 
Scott Van Denham
Link: 
New Westminster Record
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Sept. 16, 2021

Writer says Justin Trudeau coined the catchphrase of the federal campaign

Editor:

The prime minister may have inadvertently coined the catchphrase of this federal election, perhaps of the whole year.

Just not in way he probably intended.

He claims we cannot tax the super-rich with “unlimited zeal.”

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Gigatons of carbon dioxide able to be stored in ocean basalt

14/09/21
Author: 
University of Victoria
Link: 
University of Victoria
Benjamin Tutolo of the Solid Carbon team measuring the pH of water in his laboratory, University of Calgary. Solid Carbon is led by Ocean Networks Canada, an initiative of UVic. Credit: Qin Zhang

[Editors: We don't think ecosocialists should be ignorant of the tech schemes under experimentation but we do need to maintain a sharply critical attitude.  

This sounds a lot like carbon sequestration on land - who really knows if it will stay down there, and there is evidence in some cases it does not!

Another obvious question is how much energy would have to be expended to put it down there?

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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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