Climate Change

Are you breaking cultural glass? - "Stubborn Optimism" Postponing Needed Climate Action??

01/02/24

Author:

Marc Lopatin

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Feb. 1, 2024

Last month, global bank HSBC was accused of duping the public for helping to raise £37 billion for companies investing in new oil and gas fields. It shines an urgent light on why meaningful climate action remains largely illusionary.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate 'Not Mentioned' in Alberta Water-Sharing Talks

01/02/24

Author:

Bob Weber

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National Observer

Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz says negotiations between water licence holders in three southern Alberta river basins will open this week. Schulz shakes hands with Premier Danielle Smith in Edmonton on Oct. 24, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Jan. 31, 2024

Drought-weary Alberta opens water-sharing talks with large users

EDMONTON — Lance Colby saw what was coming.

The Alberta government said Wednesday it would open talks on water-sharing between large users as the province's drought situation worsens. But Colby, chair of the Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission in central Alberta, had already begun such discussions.

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Are the provinces trying to break Canada?

01/02/24

Author:

Max Fawcett

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National Observer

Ontario Premier Doug Ford participates in a discussion with future Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at the 2019 Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Feb. 1, 2024

Of all Pierre Poilievre’s familiar slogans, there’s one that stands above the rest: Canada is broken. There’s no shortage of irony there, not least because what little we know of his proposed plans and policies revolve almost exclusively around breaking things, whether it’s the CBC or Canada’s climate change policies. But the most ironic thing of all is that while Poilievre pretends Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are breaking the country, its conservative premiers are busy doing exactly that.

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Biden hits pause on natural gas projects amid plans for carbon ‘mega bombs’

27/01/24

Author:

Oliver Milman

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The Guardian

A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, Louisiana, in April 2022. Joe Biden’s administration has paused all pending LNG export permits until the impact of climate change can be included in approval criteria. Photograph: Martha Irvine/AP

Jan 26, 2024

Pause on pending export permits is hailed by environmental groups, and could imperil projects along Gulf of Mexico coast

Joe Biden’s administration has hit the brakes on the US’s surging exports of gas, effectively pausing a string of planned projects that have been decried by environmentalists as carbon “mega bombs” that risk pushing the world further towards climate breakdown.

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Quebec’s playbook for beating Big Oil - Video

26/01/24

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The Breach

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The Breach

Screenshot Quebec’s playbook for beating Big Oil - Video

Jan 10 2024

Watch here: https://youtu.be/48QpstQLv6Q

Dru Oja Jay: A few years ago, a movement with hundreds of thousands of participants achieved a stunning climate justice victory, one of the world’s biggest examples of leaving fossil fuels in the ground.

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B.C. environmental groups call on Eby to follow Biden, pause LNG projects

26/01/24

Author:

Tiffany Crawford

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The Vancouver Sun

File photo of U.S. President Joe Biden. PHOTO BY CHARLES KRUPA /THE ASSOCIATED PRES

Jan. 25, 2024

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Alberta's oilsands pump out more pollutants than industry reports, scientists find

26/01/24

Author:

Benjamin Shingler

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CBC News

A study conducted in 2018 used aircraft to collect air samples around 17 oilsands facilities in northern Alberta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)

Jan. 25, 2024

Data collected by air finds levels of harmful pollutants can be more than 60 times higher than estimated

Alberta's oilsands operations produce far more potentially harmful air pollutants than are officially reported, with the daily output on par with those from gridlocked megacities like Los Angeles, new research suggests.

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136 former B.C. government officials now work as lobbyists

25/01/24

Author:

Pierre Chauvin

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Dogwood BC

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Jan. 24, 2024

New database shows 12 fossil fuel companies employ ex-ministers, staff

It’s called the “revolving door” and it’s been a problem in B.C. for years, with corporations hiring former cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats as lobbyists.

These government insiders go back to the same offices where they used to work, only now they’re paid to influence policy decisions in favour of industry. Thanks to a new database, this back-and-forth is now easier to track and quantify.

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B.C. groups applaud Biden LNG pause as victory for affordability and the climate

25/01/24

Author:

Frack Free BC - Peter McCartney

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Wilderness Committee

$fracking$

Jan. 24, 2024

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Puget Sound Energy cancels liquid natural gas plant expansion in Tacoma

25/01/24

Author:

Lynda V. Mapes

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The Seattle Times

An aerial view shows Puget Sound Energy’s Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Tacoma. (Joshua Bessex / joshua.bessex@gateline.com, 2018)

Jan. 24, 2024

Puget Sound Energy has canceled a controversial expansion of its liquefied natural gas plant in Tacoma.

The Puyallup Tribe of Indians and a coalition of community groups appealed permits for the project to the state Shoreline Hearings Board. The case had been scheduled for an April hearing, but rather than defend the project, PSE backed down.

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Climate Change

Drought-weary Alberta opens water-sharing talks with large users

Pause on pending export permits is hailed by environmental groups, and could imperil projects along Gulf of Mexico coast

Data collected by air finds levels of harmful pollutants can be more than 60 times higher than estimated

New database shows 12 fossil fuel companies employ ex-ministers, staff

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