Canada

18/11/16
Author: 
Cameron MacLean,
Kevin Hart, who co-chairs the AFN’s committee on climate and the environment, speaking at the United Nations climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco. (Source: Assembly of First Nations)

The effects of climate change disproportionately affect indigenous people around the world, although they contribute to it the least.

That’s one message Manitoba’s regional chief to the Assembly of First Nations has taken to Marrakech, Morocco, where leaders from around the world have gathered for the United Nations climate conference.

Kevin Hart, who co-chairs the AFN’s committee on climate and the environment, told CTV Winnipeg indigenous economies are built on a harmonious relationship with nature.

18/11/16
Author: 
Cara McKenna
JENNIFER GAUTHIER/METRO FILE  Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, the head of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, led protesters down a muddy trail deep into the conservation area’s forest on Nov. 27, 2014, where Kinder Morgan continued work at a second injunction-protected site. Phillip, his mother and several others then crossed the police tape into the work area and were arrested by RCMP, joining more than 100 others who have been willingly arrested since police began enforcing the injunction.

Indigenous stories: Group led by UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip will sign on to do “whatever it takes” to stop pipeline.

People at a mass rally against Kinder Morgan on Saturday are expected to make a group pledge to take escalating actions if the pipeline project is approved.

The event will begin at City Hall at noon and is expected to draw hundreds of people including Indigenous, provincial and municipal leaders, as well as Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

18/11/16
Author: 
Kennedy Stewart
Jim Carr addresses supporters on election night. (Photo: CP)

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr recently declared the federal government will not require the full, prior and informed consent from First Nations when it decides whether or not to allow Kinder Morgan to build a new crude oil pipeline through British Columbia.

15/11/16
Author: 
Oliver Milman
 Pipeline leading to the Syncrude Canada Ltd upgrader plant sits at the company’s mine near Fort McMurray in Canada. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tuesday 15 November 2016 

Government subsidy to gas and oil companies undermine Trudeau’s plan to put national price on carbon dioxide by 2018, environmental report warned

15/11/16
Author: 
Mark Hume

Published Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 12:01AM EST

More than 1,000 early-career scientists from across Canada have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and key members of his cabinet urging the government to do a better job of assessing the environmental impacts of developments.

The scientists say they are “concerned that current environmental assessments and regulatory decision-making processes lack scientific rigour,” and that the health of Canadians and the environment are being put at risk.

14/11/16
Author: 
Nick Fillmore

Sometimes huge issues just slide along under the radar until, all of a sudden, they blow up. The shock can come from a brown envelope slid under a door, a "scoop" in the media, or an opposition politician discovering a serious failure in government.

13/11/16
Author: 
Naoibh O’Connor
The Heights, an apartment complex, which is aiming for Passive House certification, is expected to open next year.

The rental building under construction at the corner of East Hastings and Skeena Street looks similar to countless others being built around the city. But one detail, noted in small print on the promotional sign, calls attention to the difference: it aims to be designated a “Passive House,” a highly energy efficient building. It’s one of only a handful of buildings or houses in Vancouver that either have the designation or are targeting it. Once certified, the Heights — as it’s been dubbed by the developer — will be the largest building in Canada that’s met the Passive House standard.

11/11/16
Author: 
Ian Angus and John Riddell
Leap Manifesto
Posted on November 6, 2016

Ian Angus and John Riddell argue that using the Leap Manifesto as the basis  for building a new socialist movement in Canada must include confronting the climate crisis and the power of Big Oil.

09/11/16
Author: 
Chris Hatch
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/11/08/opinion/editorial-ocean-protection-now-code-oilsands-pipelines-and-tanker-traffic

The political strategists think they have things lined up.

Trudeau’s announcement of “world-leading” marine safety measures will satisfy B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s insistence on “world-leading” oil spill response.

Approval for the Kinder Morgan pipeline will bring Alberta Premier Rachel Notley onside with a national climate plan and inoculate Trudeau against his father’s fate in “the West.”

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