Climate Change

18/03/18
Author: 
Emily Chung
Even though Metro Vancouver is rainy in the winter and surrounded by water, population growth and climate change are expected to put a strain on its water supplies in the future. (Andy Clark/Reuters)
Vancouver's water to get scarcer, pricier as climate changes
 

How Vancouver’s water system is preparing for changing climate, population growth

Mar 16, 2018

This story is part of our series Water at Risk, which looks at Cape Town's drought and some potential risks to the water supply facing parts of Canada and the Middle East. Read more stories in the series and look for further coverage the rest of this week.

14/03/18
Author: 
Bill McKibben

When I checked my email one day last week, there was a link to a piece just published in The Globe and Mail. A columnist named Gary Mason had used me as his foil to prove that protests against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion were subversive plots imported from the U.S., part of a grand overall strategy to mess with the fossil fuel industry.

13/03/18
Author: 
Charlie Smith
This was the scene in Burnaby on Saturday (March 10). MIKE HUDEMA

 

March 12th, 2018 

There's an unusual clarification at the bottom of a recent CBC News web story about two pipeline demonstrations in Metro Vancouver.

12/03/18
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip has been one of the most vocal critics of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project. COAST PROTECTORS FACEBOOK
 
 
March 10th, 2018
 
This week, Alberta premier Rachel Notley threatened to cut oil shipments to B.C. if the province interferes with Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
12/03/18
Author: 
Diane Francis
[The proponents of Russiagate ​are becoming unhinged! Turns out that the reason LNG ​development ​isn't proceeding in B​ritish Columbia is that the Russkies have subverted it and other resource development.]

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12/03/18
Author: 
Rebecca Savransky
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

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03/12/18

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is planning to sue oil companies, alleging they are "knowingly killing people all over the world."

Schwarzenegger said during an interview with Politico's "Off Message" podcast that he is still working on the timing for his push, but he is now speaking with private law firms.

09/03/18
Author: 
Oliver C​rook
Young climate activists, between the ages of eight and nineteen, are fighting in court to force the US government to take action against climate change. Photo credit: Our Children's Trust

 March 8, 2018

A three-judge panel in California unanimously ruled that the lawsuit of 21 young people, who want to force the government to take action on climate change, can proceed.

06/03/18
Author: 
350.org

Yesterday, I joined a team of Ottawa area residents to form a ‘Pipeline Evidence Unit’. Our goal was to search the Prime Minister's Office and government buildings on Parliament Hill for any shred of evidence proving that Kinder Morgan is -- as Trudeau claims climate safe, spill-proof and compatible with Canada’s commitments to Indigenous rights.

Watch this video to see what we found:

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