Climate Change

Judge Drops Charges Against 13 Who Argued Pipeline Civil Disobedience Action Was "Necessary" to Save Planet

29/03/18
Author: 
Andrea Germanos
Link: 
Common Dreams
Defendants and legal team pose for a photo after their March 27, 2018 trail on the steps of the West Roxbury, Mass. courthouse. (Photo: Peter Bowden/flickr/cc)
March 28, 2018

"We are part of the movement that's standing up and saying, 'We won't let this go by on our watch.'"

Climate activists are cheering after a district judge in Boston on Tuesday ruled that 13 fossil fuel pipeline protesters were not responsible for any infraction because of the necessity of their actions.

Bill McKibben, who was slated to be an expert witness in their case, tweeted a celebratory "Good golly!' in response to the ruling, adding, "This may be a first in America. "

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Climate Change
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
USA
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Perspectives on Climate Change Action in Canada—A Collaborative Report from Auditors General—March 2018

27/03/18
Author: 
Auditors General
Link: 
Office of the Auditor General of Canada

"Most governments’ plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions consisted of high-level goals, with little guidance on how to implement actions"

Message from the Auditors General

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Canada
Climate Change
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The Paris Climate Accords Are Looking More and More Like Fantasy

26/03/18
Author: 
David Wallace-Wells
Link: 
New York Magazine
The future looks hot. Photo: George Rose/Getty Images

 March 25, 2018


Remember Paris? It was not even two years ago that the celebrated climate accords were signed — defining two degrees of global warming as a must-meet target and rallying all the world’s nations to meet it — and the returns are already dispiritingly grim.

 

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Climate Change
Global
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THE MOVEMENT WE NEED - Revolutionary Strategy in a Warming World

18/03/18
Author: 
Andreas Malm
Link: 
Climate and Capitalism

 March 17, 2018

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Category: 
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
War/military
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Shrinking mountain snowpack, drier summers spell trouble for Vancouver water supply

18/03/18
Author: 
Emily Chung
Link: 
CBC News
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.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
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The Globe and Mail didn't want to publish this about Kinder Morgan

14/03/18
Author: 
Bill McKibben
Link: 
National Observer

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.

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Category: 
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Global
Oil - Pipelines
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Opponents of Kinder Morgan pipeline call out media's false equivalency in coverage of demonstrations

13/03/18
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Link: 
Georgia Straight
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.

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Category: 
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
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Protect the Inlet is really about preventing future generations from enduring climate hell

12/03/18
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Link: 
Georgia Straight
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.
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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Indigenous Peoples
Protest - Revolt
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Russians have weaponized social media — but our governments and businesses remain oblivious to the threat

12/03/18
Author: 
Diane Francis
Link: 
Financial Post
[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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British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
LNG - Fracking
USA
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Schwarzenegger planning to sue oil companies for 'knowingly killing people all over the world’

12/03/18
Author: 
Rebecca Savransky
Link: 
The Hill
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.

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Category: 
Climate Change
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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