Canada

Trans Mountain will be re-drilling under the Thompson River, following what it called “technical challenges” encountered while installing pipe during its pipeline twinning project.

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Alberta

CO2 emissions from forestry are a surging climate threat. Ottawa needs to act

02/11/20

Author:

Barry Saxifrage

Link:

National Observer

Forest - The logging industry continues to cut faster than Canada's managed forests can keep up with. Photo by: Joe Stone

November 2nd 2020

Canada's vast managed forest lands used to be critical allies in our climate fight and efforts to build a sustainable, carbon neutral forestry economy. That's because these forests used to be healthy enough to absorb the huge amounts of CO2 created by the logging industry's harvests — plus lots more.

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Canada

Climate Change

Forestry

Action: Help uphold the rights of Secwepemc land defenders at the annual meeting for the Trans Mountain pipeline

01/11/20

Author:

Brent Patterson - PBI

Link:

Peace Brigades International-Canada

October 31, 2020

Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination more than 50 years ago on October 14, 1970.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention.

In December 2019, the Committee called on Canada to “immediately cease construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project … until free, prior and informed consent is obtained from all the Secwepemc people.”

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Canada Needs to Get Serious About Taxing the Rich

01/11/20

Author:

Alex Hemingway

Link:

Jacobin Magazine

The wealth of Canada’s richest twenty billionaires has ballooned by more than $37 billion since the March 2020 lockdown came into effect. (Unsplash)

Oct. 30, 2020

Like their counterparts everywhere, Canada’s superrich cream off wealth from the working class while resisting paying taxes. In the age of COVID-19, this state of affairs is more obscene — and more unpopular — than ever. It’s time to tax Canada's rich.

Canada needs to get serious about taxing the rich to reverse the rise of extreme inequality, blunt the concentration of economic and political power, and create ongoing streams of revenue to fund badly-needed public services.

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Canada

Climate Change

Social

Federal judge tosses youth climate case against Ottawa

01/11/20

Author:

Alastair Sharp

Link:

National Observer

A Canadian judge has rejected a youth legal challenge to Ottawa's climate policies. Photo by Pixabay via Pexels

October 27th 2020

The young climate activists challenging Ottawa’s climate policies will not get to lay out their case in Federal Court, a justice said on Tuesday, striking a blow to efforts to litigate for tougher action sought in massive street protests.

Justice Michael Manson rejected the 15 youths’ legal challenge, agreeing with a government motion to strike, saying their claims that government climate policy had hurt them was too broad a question for the courts to consider.

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Canada

Climate Change

Social

Canada urged to develop a plan to limit shipping emissions

01/11/20

Author:

Carl Meyer

Link:

National Observer

International shipping was responsible for about two per cent of global energy-related emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency. Photo by Meghan Rodgers/USDA

October 27th 2020

Canada is being urged to develop a national plan to crack down on the carbon pollution from shipping vessels following heavy criticism over the outcome of international talks meant to address the issue.

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Canada

Climate Change

Oil - Pipelines

Federal agency orders Trans Mountain to halt use of trench boxes after worker killed in Edmonton

01/11/20

Author:

Phil Heidenreich

Link:

Global News

See video here.

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Calgary-based Canacol Energy Ltd. appears ready to frack near San Martin and Puerto Wilches in Colombia

01/11/20

Author:

Brent Patterson

Link:

Peace Brigades International-Canada

Photo of the blockade of the Picoplata 1 exploration field in the ConocoPhillips/Canacol Energy VMM-2 block in September 2016 from Semana Sostenible.

October 29, 2020

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Trans Mountain expansion hits snag, must re-start drilling beneath Thompson River in Kamloops

01/11/20

Author:

James Peters

Link:

CFJC Today

Oct 29, 2020

KAMLOOPS — Trans Mountain (TMX) has had a major setback in its expansion project through Kamloops.

The pipeline twinning includes a segment beneath the Thompson River that must be installed after Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is completed.

In a statement emailed to CFJC Today, Trans Mountain says installation of the pipe in the segment beneath the river encountered “technical challenges” that require the entire HDD process to be restarted.

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Canada

Like their counterparts everywhere, Canada’s superrich cream off wealth from the working class while resisting paying taxes. In the age of COVID-19, this state of affairs is more obscene — and more unpopular — than ever. It’s time to tax Canada's rich.

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