Climate Change

A power struggle at Fairy Creek: Old-growth activists want fewer police powers at Fairy Creek. The RCMP is asking for more

14/09/21

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Rochelle Baker

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Close to 1,000 old-growth activists at the Fairy Creek blockades have been arrested, making it the largest civil disobedience movement in Canada. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Flying Squad / Facebook

September 14th 2021

A slew of legal applications involving the contentious Fairy Creek old-growth blockades are moving forward in B.C. Supreme Court this week as the protest becomes one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canada.

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Protest ongoing at Lost Creek tree sit - Timothee in skypod - video

13/09/21

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Gene McGuckin and Timothee

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Icloud

Sept 13, 2021

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The tiny lichen that could stop Teal-Jones from logging Fairy Creek’s old-growth

12/09/21

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Shaena Lambert

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National Observer

A rare species of lichen recently discovered around Fairy Creek could hold keys to stopping old-growth logging in the area. Photo by Natasha Lavdovsky

September 11th 2021

“Small things run the world.” — E.O. Wilson

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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States

12/09/21

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Al Shaw, Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, and Jeremy W. Goldsmith

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ProPublica

September 15, 2020.

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Big oil’s ‘wokewashing’ is the new climate science denialism

12/09/21

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Amy Westervelt

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The Guardian

‘Discourses of delay’ by the fossil fuel companies. Left: Chevron; middle: BP and Shell; right: ExxonMobil. Photograph: Twitter

Sept. 9, 2021

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Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work

10/09/21

Author:

George Monbiot

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The Guardian

A flash flood caused by Tropical Storm Henri in Helmetta, New Jersey, on 22 August 2021. ‘The extreme weather in 2021 – the heat domes, droughts, fires, floods and cyclones – is, frankly, terrifying.’ Photograph: Tom Brenner/AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 9, 2021

Climate policies commit us to a calamitous 2.9C of global heating, but catastrophic changes can occur at even 1.5C or 2C

If there’s one thing we know about climate breakdown, it’s that it will not be linear, smooth or gradual. Just as one continental plate might push beneath another in sudden fits and starts, causing periodic earthquakes and tsunamis, our atmospheric systems will absorb the stress for a while, then suddenly shift. Yet, everywhere, the programmes designed to avert it are linear, smooth and gradual.

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Trans Mountain protesters occupying Burnaby trees ‘under siege’ after fence erected

10/09/21

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Chris Campbell

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Burnaby Now

Sept. 8 2021

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

*This story has been updated with a response from Trans Mountain and events that took place on Wednesday morning.

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

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Supporters Needed at Unist'ot'en Healing Centre

10/09/21

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Unist'ot'en Solidarity Brigade

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Where They Stand: The Parties on Fossil Fuel Subsidies

10/09/21

Author:

Michelle Gamage

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The Tyee

The Liberals pledge to cut carbon emissions — but they spent $4.5 billion to ensure a pipeline expansion went ahead. Photo via Trans Mountain.

If federal parties are serious about taking on climate change, they need to stop giving money to the oil and gas industry, according to two climate experts.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

If you want your vote to help the climate, here are the questions you need to ask

09/09/21

Author:

Seth Klein

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National Observer

A helicopter drops a bucket of water on the Chuckegg Creek wildfire west of High Level, Alta., on May 25, 2019. Photo by Chris Schwarz, Government of Alberta / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

September 9th 2021

Why you should take Mark Jaccard’s platform ratings with a hunk of salt

If there is some good news in this election it is that, finally, every leader and party feels compelled to run on what they hope will be viewed as a credible climate plan, and each of the major parties appears to be presenting a somewhat stronger climate plan than just two years ago.

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Climate Change

Climate policies commit us to a calamitous 2.9C of global heating, but catastrophic changes can occur at even 1.5C or 2C

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

Why you should take Mark Jaccard’s platform ratings with a hunk of salt

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