Climate Change

25/05/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Installing solar panels - Greens MPs/Flickr

UNIFOR CALLS FOR 60% EMISSIONS CUT BY 2030 WITH JUST TRANSITION FOR OIL AND GAS WORKERS

MAY 24, 2021

23/05/21
Author: 
Lars Henriksson
Pipeline blow up

May 22, 2021

The choice between well-behaved protests and sabotage is incorrectly posed

Last month, Simon Butler reviewed How to Blow Up a Pipeline for Climate & Capitalism. We don’t normally publish two reviews of the same book, but we think this article makes a substantial contribution to the discussion.

22/05/21
Author: 
Derrick O'Keefe, Jerome Turner
Thursday was another day of confrontation on a remote logging road in southwest Vancouver Island, including the violent arrest of a young Indigenous woman by the RCMP. Police are enforcing a court injunction granted to forestry company Teal-Jones. - Jerome Turner

 MAY 21, 2021

21 arrests have been made in three days, as RCMP continues to limit press access

Thursday was another day of confrontation on a remote logging road in southwest Vancouver Island, including the violent arrest of a young Indigenous woman by the RCMP. Police are enforcing a court injunction granted to forestry company Teal-Jones.

19/05/21
Author: 
Chris Campbell
This Anna's Hummingbird was spotted near where Trans Mountain crews are working to clear the way for a pipeline.  Donna Clark

May 13, 2021

A fundraising campaign has been started

A group that pushed the federal government into halting logging in Burnaby due to risks to bird nests is now fundraising to expand its network.

19/05/21
Author: 
Earl Peach
I'm attaching Earle Peach's statement to the court.  Yesterday he was given a two-week sentence (plus a one-year period of probation following his release!) for contempt of court in violating the TMX injunction.
 
Please send letters of support to Earle Peach, Bravo North, North Fraser Pretrial Centre, 1451 Kingsway, Coquitlam, B.C., V3C 1S2.
 
In solidarity,
 
Will Offley
 
18/05/21
Author: 
Earle Peach

I'm attaching Earle Peach's statement to the court.  Yesterday he was given a two-week sentence (plus a one-year period of probation following his release!) for contempt of court in violating the TMX injunction.

Please send letters of support to Earle Peach, Bravo North, North Fraser Pretrial Centre, 1451 Kingsway, Coquitlam, B.C., V3C 1S2.

In solidarity,

Will Offley

 

18/05/21
Author: 
Emma Graney

MAY 18, 2021

Investment in any new oil and gas developments must stop immediately, electricity should be 90 per cent renewable by 2050 and governments must “close the gap between rhetoric and action” if the world is to meet its goal of net-zero emissions and limit the worst impacts of climate change, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.

18/05/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Martha's Vineyard -PxHere

MAY 16, 2021

The Biden administration has approved the 800-megawatt, US$3-billion Vineyard Wind project off the Massachusetts coast, the United States’ first utility-scale offshore wind farm and a key plank of the new White House effort to shift the country’s electricity system to renewables.

The 84-turbine project will be located off Martha’s Vineyard, near Cape Cod, The Associated Press reports.

18/05/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
 Wind turbines - Max Pixel

MAY 16, 2021

The transition off fossil fuels could be a lot less expensive than standard net-zero models assume, as long as countries speed up deployment rather than waiting for (even) cheaper low-carbon and energy-efficient technologies, concludes a new study in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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