Climate Change

04/03/23
Author: 
Stephen F. Eisenman
2001, A Space Odyssey, dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968. Screenshot.

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it.” Marx, The German Ideology, 1845.

 

04/03/23
Author: 
Amanda Stephenson - The Canadian Press
Storage is shown at the Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery in Detroit. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said it expects investment in oil and natural gas production in Canada to rise above pre-pandemic levels. PHOTO BY PAUL SANCYA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mar. 2, 2023

'Feels pretty good': Oil and gas investment in Canada to hit $40 billion in 2023, CAPP says

Up 11 per cent from last year, but still well off levels in 2014 when oil prices last boomed

CALGARY — Investment in oil and gas production in Canada will jump by 11 per cent to hit $40 billion in 2023, the country’s largest fossil fuel industry group said Wednesday.

Demand big question for oil prices this year

03/03/23
Author: 
Andrew Gage
Flooding and storms have impacted Vancouverites, causing significant damage and wreaking havoc on the city’s beloved seawall. PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE /PNG

Mar. 2, 2023

Last July, the city of Vancouver pledged $1 per resident to bring a class-action lawsuit against the largest oil companies, but those funds are nowhere to be found in the 2023 budget.

In 1988, scientists working for the oil giant Shell wrote in an internal memo that the burning of fossil fuels, if unchecked, would lead to changes to sea level and weather “larger than any that have occurred over the past 12,000 years.”

28/02/23
Author: 
Gidim’ten Checkpoint

PRINCE GEORGE, BC - February 28, 2023: A dozen Wet’suwet’en land defenders and supporters have applied to the Supreme Court of British Columbia to have criminal contempt charges stayed in light of widespread Charter violations stemming from police misconduct.

 

28/02/23
Author: 
George Monbiot
‘Governments are introducing ever more draconian laws against environmental protest.’ Police officers arrest an Insulate Britain activist, Parliament Square, London, October 2022. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

Feb. 22, 2023

It’s not ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ if campaigners cannot explain their motivations to a jury

To tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”: this is the oath defendants in an English court must take. But when David Nixon sought to do so, he was sent to jail.

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