Canada

Action against RCMP Violence at Blockades

22/08/21

For Immediate Release

August 21, 2021
Province-Wide RCMP Stand Down Actions
Monday, August 23
1:00-3:00 pm Pacific

Where: RCMP detachments and offices across British Columbia (and Toronto, as of August 21).

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Mysterious bacteria found in the Arctic can break down oil and diesel

19/08/21

Author:

Maeve Campbell

Link:

Euro news

Exploration in the Arctic - Copyright Canva

August 16, 2021

Ocean bacteria in the Canadian Arctic is capable of biodegrading diesel and oil, according to a new study.

Scientists at the University of Calgary found “unexpected” microbes in the icy waters of the Arctic which they say would respond well to an oil spill in the region. The study’s findings were published in the Applied and Environmental Microbiology journal.

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A growing movement demands free, expanded public transit in Canada

16/08/21

Author:

Samphe Brulé

Link:

The Breach

Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, has offered free transit since 2013

Aug 10 2021

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Call For Solidarity: Nuxalk Nation Evicts Juggernaut Exploration Ltd.

16/08/21

Author:

First Nations leaders

From: Nuskmata Jacinda Mack <jacinda.mack@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 9:07 AM
Subject: Call For Solidarity: Nuxalk Nation Evicts Juggernaut Exploration Ltd.
To:

Yaw Smatmcuks ( hello relatives )

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Canadian Enbridge Company Pays Minnesota Cops $2 Million to Defend Its Line 3 Pipeline From Protests

15/08/21

Author:

Audrey Carleton

Link:

vice.com

DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST LINE 3 PIPELINE. IMAGE: NICOLE NERI/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGE

Aug. 9. 2021

Enbridge is funding police who have violently responded to protests of its Line 3 pipeline.

A Canadian Oil company has given Minnesota law enforcement $2 million to fund the policing of protests against construction of its pipeline, Motherboard has learned.

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U.N. Climate Report scapegoats “human activity” rather than fossil-fuel capitalism

15/08/21

Author:

Steve D'Arcy

Link:

The Breach

Delegates at an IPCC working group meeting in 2013

Aug 10 2021

The root economic causes of the climate crisis appear nowhere in the report, but must be at the centre of movements’ efforts

The backdrop for the latest climate report from the United Nations has been a series of terrifying reminders of the unfolding crisis.

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LNG Projects Make Claims of ‘Net-Zero’ to Ease Way for Expansion

14/08/21

Author:

Nick Cunningham

Link:

DeSmog

Premier John Horgan (left) visits LNG Canada to assess its progress. Credit: Province of B.C. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Aug 13, 2021

12 min. read

Several proposed LNG projects in Canada promise carbon neutrality for their gas exports. But the claims lack detail and appear mostly designed to defang opposition to the gas rush.

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada’s oil and gas sector filled up on federal COVID emergency cash

13/08/21

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

August 13th 2021

At a time when climate science demands a rapid transition off fossil fuels, Ottawa approved more than $1.3 billion for oil and gas companies through the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS).

According to a January 2021 meeting note Canada’s National Observer received through a federal access-to-information request, “over $1.3B has been approved for the petroleum sector companies” as of Oct. 29, 2020 through CEWS.

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Ensuring public transit’s survival means more than ribbon-cutting

13/08/21

Author:

John Di Nino

Link:

The Star

Ensuring public transit’s survival means more than ribbon-cutting

Aug. 11, 2021

In recent weeks and months, the Liberal government has made one large transit announcement after another. It is clear that election time is on the horizon.

A lot of these announcements around new projects are welcome too for if we are going to expand our transit system, we need to have reliable capital dollars to do it. One thing has been made abundantly clear throughout this pandemic: money for projects alone is not enough. Transit systems need funding for operations too.

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