Climate Change

Canada needs more resilient energy sector, oilpatch worker group says

04/11/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
Workers wearing Iron & Earth clothing set up solar panels. Photo courtesy of Iron & Earth / Facebook

November 4th 2020

A director at a group of oilsands workers committed to renewable energy development says the pandemic has demonstrated the need to build a better Canada that’s more equal and more resilient.

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Category: 
Alberta
Canada
Climate Change
Energy
Labour - Unions
Oil - Pipelines
Social
Tar Sands
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Vancouver’s climate plan is too costly, runs risk of damaging local businesses: public policy professor

04/11/20
Author: 
Frances Bula
Link: 
The Globe and Mail
A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past the boarded up shops along Robson Street in downtown Vancouver on May 4, 2020. JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Special to The Globe and Mail

November 2, 2020 

Vancouver’s climate-emergency response plan relies too much on new fees for average residents and on expensive regulation for buildings, says a public policy professor who is a member of provincial and national groups working on solutions to climate change.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Social
Urban
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US Election: What Could it Mean for Canada and the Canadian Left?

04/11/20
Author: 
Herman Rosenfeld
Link: 
The Bullet
CHAOS image

November 3, 2020  

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Category: 
Canada
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
Labour - Unions
USA
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For a 'Green New Deal' without destructive growth: Jason Hickel responds to Michael Pollin and Noam Chomsky on degrowth

03/11/20
Author: 
Jason Hickel
Link: 
Socialist In Canada
image on economic growth

A response to Pollin and Chomsky on degrowth: We need a Green New Deal without growth

By Jason Hickel, published on his website Nov 2, 2020  (And see below a related essay by Jason Hickel as well as his bio. You can read this article here in pdf format: Jason Hickel responds to Michael Pollin and Noam Chomsky on degrowth)

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Category: 
Climate Change
Climate Science
Green New Deal/LEAP
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Greta Thunberg Hears Your Excuses. She Is Not Impressed.

03/11/20
Author: 
David Marchese
Link: 
New York Times

Greta Thunberg has become so firmly entrenched as an icon — perhaps the icon — of ecological activism that it’s hard to believe it has been only two years since she first went on school strike to draw attention to the climate crisis. In that short time, Thunberg, a 17-year-old Swede, has become a figure of international standing, able to meet with sympathetic world leaders and rattle the unsympathetic. Her compelling clarity about the scale of the crisis and moral indignation at the inadequate political response have been hugely influential in shifting public opinion.

Category: 
Climate Change
Climate Science
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Fracking shatters illusions of a clean B.C.

02/11/20
Author: 
Peter McCartney
Link: 
Straight
CNRL West Stoddart gas plant PETER MCCARTNEY/WILDERNESS COMMITTEE

October 30th, 2020

Wind howls in my ears. My fingers are numb. It’s midnight and I’m on top of Pink Mountain, near Mile 147 of the Alaska Highway in northeastern British Columbia. As I look out into the night, dozens of gas plants light up the horizon. This is fracking country.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Environmental Groups
Indigenous Peoples
LNG - Fracking
Social
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CO2 emissions from forestry are a surging climate threat. Ottawa needs to act

02/11/20
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Link: 
National Observer
Forest - The logging industry continues to cut faster than Canada's managed forests can keep up with. Photo by: Joe Stone

November 2nd 2020

Canada's vast managed forest lands used to be critical allies in our climate fight and efforts to build a sustainable, carbon neutral forestry economy. That's because these forests used to be healthy enough to absorb the huge amounts of CO2 created by the logging industry's harvests — plus lots more.

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Category: 
Canada
Climate Change
Forestry
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Canada Needs to Get Serious About Taxing the Rich

01/11/20
Author: 
Alex Hemingway
Link: 
Jacobin Magazine
The wealth of Canada’s richest twenty billionaires has ballooned by more than $37 billion since the March 2020 lockdown came into effect. (Unsplash)

Oct. 30, 2020

Like their counterparts everywhere, Canada’s superrich cream off wealth from the working class while resisting paying taxes. In the age of COVID-19, this state of affairs is more obscene — and more unpopular — than ever. It’s time to tax Canada's rich.

Canada needs to get serious about taxing the rich to reverse the rise of extreme inequality, blunt the concentration of economic and political power, and create ongoing streams of revenue to fund badly-needed public services.

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Category: 
Canada
Climate Change
Social
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Vancouver just endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Who’s next?

01/11/20
Author: 
Aaron Saad
Link: 
ricochet.media
Canada Fossil Fuel Proliferation Treaty - Photo: Jeff Wallace

Oct. 29, 2020

It’s the highest-profile success to date of a new initiative aimed at reining in the threat of fossil fuels

On Oct. 15, not long after enduring days of skies choked with U.S. wildfire smoke, Vancouver became the first city in the world to endorse something bold: the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

It’s the highest-profile success to date of a new initiative aimed at reining in the threat of fossil fuels.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Climate Change
Coal
Green New Deal/LEAP
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
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Federal judge tosses youth climate case against Ottawa

01/11/20
Author: 
Alastair Sharp
Link: 
National Observer
A Canadian judge has rejected a youth legal challenge to Ottawa's climate policies. Photo by Pixabay via Pexels

October 27th 2020

The young climate activists challenging Ottawa’s climate policies will not get to lay out their case in Federal Court, a justice said on Tuesday, striking a blow to efforts to litigate for tougher action sought in massive street protests.

Justice Michael Manson rejected the 15 youths’ legal challenge, agreeing with a government motion to strike, saying their claims that government climate policy had hurt them was too broad a question for the courts to consider.

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Category: 
Canada
Climate Change
Social
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