Approving a pipeline while declaring a climate emergency is ‘climate change denial with a human face.’
21 Jun 2019
The Trudeau government’s recent actions — declaring a climate emergency and re-approving the Trans Mountain expansion project within two days — aren’t just hypocritical: they’re morally equivalent to climate change denial.
Canadian crude by rail activity is on the upswing again, according to new data from the National Energy Board.
The NEB reports that rail offtake from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin averaged 236,252 bbls/d in April 2019.
“This is a 40 percent increase over March 2019 exports but still down from the record high of 353,789 b/d in December 2018,” the NEB tweeted on Friday.
[Editor: video of event held in Vancouver on June 21, 2019. If you don't have time to listen to the whole event (2 hours and 44 minutes), then it is very worthwhile to go to the speech by Avi Lewis which begins just after 2:11:17. The complete program includes speakers David Suzuki, Kanahus Manuel, Harsha Walia, and Avi Lewis, with Anjali Appadurai as MC.]
Researchers said they came across an Arctic landscape that was unrecognizable.
LONDON — Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.
Peter Tabuns remembers telling former NDP leader Jack Layton in 2004 that Canada had to diligently implement the Kyoto Protocol.
The longtime environment advocate and Ontario NDP MPP for Toronto-Danforth was then Layton’s special adviser on climate change, at a time when the phenomenon was just starting to be taken seriously by countries across the world.
