Canada

10/12/15
Author: 
Canadian Youth Delegation

Highlights from Wednesday, December 9 - COP21 in Paris:

• There’s a new draft for the agreement!
• Now that Canada has committed to 1.5C, we celebrate the retirement of fossil fuels!
• Canada is back... on the Fossil of the Day stage
• Have you signed our petition yet? 

 

10/12/15
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

For immediate release                                                                                       December 10, 2015

First Nation leaders urge Trudeau government to keep campaign promises, stop proposed Site C dam, and usher in new era of cooperation

OTTAWA - First Nation chiefs from British Columbia and representatives from the Assembly of First Nations are calling on the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take a second look at a Cabinet decision of the former federal government providing initial approval of the controversial Site C dam.

09/12/15

December 9, 2015

MEDIA ADVISORY

Press Conference: First Nations Leaders to Call on Federal Government to Stop Site C Dam Project in Treaty 8 Territory in British Columbia

09/12/15
Author: 
Macdonald Stainsby
Tar Sands

A friend sent me an email note two days ago, with the intro line “The NGO’s finally did it!” which caused a moment of terrorized confusion. I didn’t realize it would relate to this, but for the first time ever last November, the province of Alberta has instituted a potential cap on tar sands development. However, this is not the achievement my colleague was referencing. It was more a statement of alarm than laudatory glee.

08/12/15
Author: 
Canadian Youth Delegation
COPout

Highlights from Sunday December 6 -- COP21 in Paris

• Indigenous led ‘Canoes to Paris’ action sends message of strength and hope

08/12/15
Author: 
Dru Oja Jay
The compromises of funder-driven secret deals are on the way out. Photo: Dru Oja Jay

“For traditional conservationists, it was a little like finding out that Amnesty International had opened its own prison wing in Guantanamo.” That’s how Naomi Klein described the Nature Conservancy’s decision to allow oil drilling on land it was conserving to protect an endangered bird in 1999.

My, how things have changed!

07/12/15
Author: 
Gordon Laxer

It was quite a sight: The CEOs of Alberta’s oilsands projects stood with NDP Premier Rachel Notley to announce Alberta’s climate plan before the climate talks in Paris. The CEOs had the widest smiles.

No wonder. Alberta’s climate plan targets the 28 per cent of Alberta’s greenhouse gases from power generation and transportation (driving), and leaves the 46 per cent of the province’s emissions from the production of oil and gas almost scot-free.

07/12/15
Author: 
Claudia Cattaneo

A hard cap on oilsands emissions that became part of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s climate change plan was the product of secret negotiations between four top oilsands companies and four environmental organizations, the Financial Post has learned.

The companies agreed to the cap in exchange for the environmental groups backing down on opposition to oil export pipelines, but the deal left other players on the sidelines, and that has created a deep division in Canada’s oil and gas sector.

06/12/15
Author: 
Canadian Youth Delegation

Highlights of Day 5 at COP21


• The Canadian Youth Delegation is at the negotiating table… but so is Suncor.

• Check us out on The National from December 4th! (Skip to 14:17.)

 

“We will not give up our fundamental right to exist”

05/12/15
Author: 
Staff

WASWANIPI, QC, Dec. 4, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - In a last-minute decision, the Environmental and Social Impact Review Committee (COMEX) has agreed to postpone the public hearing on the construction of forest access roads that would impact the Broadback Forest, one of the last remaining wilderness areas in Quebec's boreal forest.

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