Canada

Rush to electric vehicles may be an expensive mistake, say climate strategists

16/12/22

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Don Pittis

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An electric Canoo LV (Lifestyle Vehicle) at a factory in Livonia, Mich., last month. Quirky new designs can make EVs attractive items of conspicuous consumption for those who can afford them. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)

Dec. 12, 2022

With their futuristic designs and new technology, electric vehicles are the seductive consumer-friendly face of the energy transition.

As first incarnated by Tesla, the EV is increasingly seen as sleeker, slicker, faster and more stylish than traditional internal combustion engine cars and trucks that burn those dirty fossil fuels blamed for disrupting weather patterns and killing off species.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Action Required: Zain Haq is a 21 year old climate activist who is facing deportation - sign to stop this

16/12/22

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Stand Earth

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Stand Earth

9 December 2022

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Lobby group tries to sell the world on gas as ‘green’ answer to energy security

15/12/22

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Natasha Bulowski

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National Observer

Two children walk across the land in Ethiopia to get water during the drought. Photo by UNICEF Ethiopia / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0)

Dec.14. 2022

The international gas lobby playbook hinges on rebranding planet-warming natural gas as green and key to energy security, new documents reveal.

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Indigenous nations in the Amazon urge Canada to strengthen mining rules

15/12/22

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Matteo Cimellaro

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National Observer

Dec. 15, 2022

With 17 per cent of its forest already lost, the Amazon is near a tipping point. If that reaches 20 to 25 per cent, scientists say there will be irreversible changes.

Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai, a leader from the Achuar Nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon, put it simply at a news conference Wednesday: the Amazon is in a “deep crisis.”

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We need to talk about why Russia invaded Ukraine

14/12/22

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Mary Dejevsky

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The Independent

Those who view Russia as an inherently aggressive, imperialist state insist that Russia must be defeated and made to recognise the error of its ways (AP)

Dec. 8, 2022

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Forest protection should be a high priority at COP15

14/12/22

Author:

Rob Miller

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National Observer

We know these ancient forests are worth more standing. We understand the consequences of losing them. There is a sense of urgency for change. We need binding agreements from international negotiations like COP15. Photo via Flickr

Dec. 14, 2022

During Biodiversity Day at COP27, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault committed $855,000 to ensure non-profit environmental groups and Indigenous partners can participate at COP15, the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal. This funding levels the playing field as industries increasingly send their paid representatives to participate in the negotiations.

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Will Sea Lions Slow the Construction of Woodfibre LNG? (Or Will Project Conditions Be Relaxed?)

13/12/22

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Natasha Bulowski

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The Tyee

Steller sea lions, such as the one pictured here eating a salmon, often frequent the Howe Sound and would interrupt construction of the Woodfibre LNG project unless changes are made to the project conditions, the company says. Photo via Shutterstock.

Dec. 13, 2022

The company says the animals’ ‘ubiquitous presence’ will cause ‘regular and prolonged full project shutdowns.’

Construction on the Woodfibre LNG project in Squamish is set to take off in 2023, but the “curious and gregarious” nature of sea lions could make the construction “neither technically nor economically feasible.”

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A Groundbreaking Indigenous Rights Decision, 25 Years Later

12/12/22

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Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

Many of those who fought the historic Deglamuukw-Gisday’wa gathered in the Wet’suwet’en community of Witset on Friday to celebrate. ‘We’ve got to get back to the original vision of our Chiefs and leaders and people who brought us there,’ says Wet’suwet’en Dinize Satsan, Herb George. Photo by Olivia Leigh Nowak.

Dec. 11, 2022

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

It was sometime after midnight on a winter night in 1988 that Simogyet (Chief) Neekt took his farm tractor and dragged a log across the Kispiox Valley Road.

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Sorry, Pierre — Trudeau’s pandemic spending was a success

12/12/22

Author:

Max Fawcett

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National Observer

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters outside Rideau Cottage on March 18, 2020. File photo by Kamara Morozuk

Website editor: Too bad when he cut his beard he also went back to business as usual and austerity for the working classes :(

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‘People are going to experience frostbite, people are going to have more amputations’

12/12/22

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Nazanin Meshkat

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National Observer

Lynn Walker, 63, cleans up around her home in a homeless encampment in Allan Gardens park in Toronto on Dec. 1, 2022. Photo by Ian Willms for Canada's National Observer

Dec. 12, 2022

When unhoused people in Toronto run out of options, they turn to the city’s overcrowded emergency departments for shelter.

The result is a collision of two crises, emergency department overcrowding and homelessness, that will risk lives, physicians, social workers and advocates for unhoused people say.

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The company says the animals’ ‘ubiquitous presence’ will cause ‘regular and prolonged full project shutdowns.’

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

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