August 31, 2016 - Ontario and Quebec signed an agreement with the Mexican government Wednesday to jointly develop carbon markets with the aim of allowing companies in those provinces to purchase Mexican greenhouse-gas-reduction credits to satisfy provincially regulated emission caps.
Last spring, the Premiers of the country met in Vancouver. The meeting led to the Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change. This meeting was the follow-up to the government committing to 1.5 degrees’ maximum of global warming in Paris, last fall. In Vancouver, the federal government decided to set up a public consultation process across the country regarding climate change and what needs to be done.
WENDAKE, QC, Aug. 31, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ - Following the cancellation of the National Energy Board's (NEB) public proceedings inMontreal on the Energy East Project, the Assembly of First Nations Quebec- Labrador (AFNQL) believes that it is more than time to put an end to this process, which raises serious doubts about its integrity, or even its legitimacy. It is time to rethink this process in depth, in collaboration with First Nations and as requested by the AFNQL since the beginning.
Update: The National Energy Board has postponed Tuesday's Energy East pipeline project hearings in light of the "violent disruption" that caused them to cancel Monday's hearing in Montreal. For more, read here.
When Husky Energy officials showed up more than 40 minutes late to an emergency meeting with the James Smith Cree Nation, the band members thought it was rude.
TransCanada’s Energy East project is the largest tar sands pipeline proposed yet. Stretching from Alberta to New Brunswick, Energy East could carry over 1 million barrels per day of tar sands crude to the Atlantic coast. Despite TransCanada’s promises that Energy East is for domestic gain, they are making plans to export the vast majority and leave us to bear the real costs of climate change, spills and clean-up.
Only three First Nations speakers turn up for federal Indigenous pipeline consultation in Vancouver, B.C.
We don't trust the process, says UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
"I attended three consultations and the consensus is clear. The people do not consent to pipelines in our backyards," says Melanie Mark, first Indigenous women elected as an MLA in B.C.
After I became a parent in the early 1990s, I soon became concerned about the environment. I read extensively on the topic, made shifts in my lifestyle choices and aspired to one day be like Scott and Helen Nearing, the 1930s pioneers who advocated simple living for the health of people and nature.
