Canada

Trudeau on the wrong side of environmental history in B.C.

24/03/18

Author:

Michael Harris

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Mar 18, 2018

Back in 2015, while Trudeau was campaigning for the top job, he said governments may grant permits, but only local communities can give permission. On this, as in many other issues, the ‘Great Promiser’ changes his tune more times than a DJ at a wedding reception.

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Environment minister Catherine McKenna says pipeline fight puts national climate plan in peril

24/03/18

Author:

Justine Hunter

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The Globe and Mail

MARCH 18, 2018

Ms. McKenna, in an interview in Victoria, insisted that tripling the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline “is not inconsistent” with the national climate action plan.

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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means

just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

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Canada's military intervention into Mali

20/03/18

Author:

Roger Annis

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A Socialist in Canada

March 20, 2018 - Canada is stepping its toes further into the social and military disasters in Africa created by several centuries of imperialist plunder. It is sending six military helicopters to assist United Nations Security Council-endorsed occupation troops in Mali.

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Indigenous people, community members, families and retired teachers are blocking Kinder Morgan gates on Burnaby Mountain

18/03/18

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Coast Protectors

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Coast Protectors

Dozens of Indigenous people, community members, families and retired teachers are blocking Kinder Morgan’s front gate on Burnaby Mountain

Coast Salish community members Oceann Hyland and Will George led the protectors in ceremony at the nearby Watch House and then escorted them to Kinder Morgan’s gates.

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March 17, 2018 Video of Arrests at Kinder Morgan Gates

18/03/18

Author:

stand.earth

Link:

stand.earth

See videos here: https://www.facebook.com/standearth/videos/10155739788209221/

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Protect the Inlet

18/03/18

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First Nations Leaders

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ProtectTheInlet.ca

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Washington Governor Hopes BC’s Attempt to Stop Kinder Morgan Is ‘Successful’

17/03/18

Author:

Mychaylo Prystupa

Link:

The Tyee

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee sits beside B.C. Premier John Horgan at the GLOBE Forum 2018 sustainable business summit in Vancouver on Friday. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa.

March 16, 2018

‘You need to skate to where the puck is going to be ... clean tech.’

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee said he hopes the efforts by the B.C. government to stop the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion “are successful.”

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Yet more proof foreign radicals (yes, radicals) are sabotaging Canada’s economy

16/03/18

Author:

Joe Oliver

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Financial Post

[Russians, foreign (US) radicals . . . or maybe concerned Canadians?!]

March 13, 2018

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The Globe and Mail didn't want to publish this about Kinder Morgan

14/03/18

Author:

Bill McKibben

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National Observer

When I checked my email one day last week, there was a link to a piece just published in The Globe and Mail. A columnist named Gary Mason had used me as his foil to prove that protests against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion were subversive plots imported from the U.S., part of a grand overall strategy to mess with the fossil fuel industry.

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