Climate Change

550 Groups Give BC an "F" on Climate

09/11/23
Author: 
Martin MacMahon and Emma Crawford
Link: 
Vancouver City News
The B.C. government has received a string of failing grades, and the BC Climate Emergency Campaign, an advocacy group, says it’s not on track to meet its climate targets. Kate Walker has the details of the group's 2023 climate report.

Nov. 7, 2023

    See video at link here: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/11/07/bc-climate-emergency-fracking-lng/

    B.C.’s support for fracking and LNG is under scrutiny in this year’s edition of the BC Climate Emergency Campaign’s progress report.

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    'Alternative' energy and less energy
    Agriculture
    British Columbia
    Carbon pricing
    Climate Change
    Ecology/Environment
    Energy
    Environmental Groups
    Fisheries
    Forestry
    Indigenous Peoples
    Labour - Unions
    LNG - Fracking
    Oil - Pipelines
    Social
    Transportation
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    Pierre Poilievre’s carbon price motion dies, but questions of equity continue

    07/11/23
    Author: 
    Natasha Bulowski
    Link: 
    National Observer
    Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's non-binding motion to exempt all forms of home heating from the carbon price was defeated on Nov. 6, 2023. File photo by Alex Tétreault

    Nov. 7, 2023

    Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s symbolic motion calling for more carbon tax carveouts was defeated, but this won’t end the polarizing debate that centres on equity.

    For the most part, opposition politicians and provincial governments have focused their attention on pushing for more carbon price carveouts, calling the Liberals’ three-year exemption on heating oil unfair to the rest of Canadians.

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    Category: 
    'Alternative' energy and less energy
    British Columbia
    Canada
    Carbon pricing
    Climate Change
    Social
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    Another massive LNG plant on the West Coast?

    06/11/23
    Author: 
    Wilderness Committee
    Link: 
    Wilderness Committee
    Another massive LNG plant on the West Coast?

    Nov. 6, 2023

    Ksi Lisims LNG is a proposal in Nisga’a territory to liquefy almost as much gas as LNG Canada. Although the proponent wants to use hydroelectricity to do so, that will only happen if BC Hydro — and its ratepayers — build it a brand new transmission line. Even then, the fracking required to fill it will make the facility among the province’s worst polluters.

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    British Columbia
    Canada
    Climate Change
    Ecology/Environment
    Environmental Groups
    Indigenous Peoples
    LNG - Fracking
    Social
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    Bad guys and bombs: The nuclear risks of small modular reactors

    05/11/23
    Author: 
    John Woodside
    Link: 
    National Observer
    Illustration by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

    Nov. 3, 2023

    Nuclear proliferation experts are warning that 50 years of policy designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons is unravelling as governments invest in certain small modular reactors that could be misused to build bombs.

    The concerns are aimed at Moltex, a Saint John, N.B., nuclear startup building small modular reactors (SMRs) that will be powered with spent fuel from CANDU reactors. To make the fuel, Moltex plans to separate plutonium from uranium in CANDU waste and use the extracted plutonium to power new SMRs.

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    'Alternative' energy and less energy
    Canada
    Capitalism
    Climate Change
    Energy
    Global
    Industry Spin
    Nuclear
    Social
    War/military
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    Missing Paris Goal Could Cost CANADA $5.5 Trillion

    04/11/23
    Author: 
    John Woodside
    Link: 
    National Observer
    Mark Carney speaks at the Fall 2023 Net-Zero Leadership Summit in Ottawa on Oct. 31, 2023. Photo via Carney/X(Twitter)

    Nov. 2, 2023

    It’s estimated that the Canadian economy could take a $5.5-trillion hit by the end of the century due to climate change, according to a white paper from Independent Sen. Rosa Galvez’s office published this week as sustainable finance experts and policymakers descended on Ottawa for a high-level conference Wednesday.

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    Canada
    Climate Change
    Social
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    Banks Fund $1.8 Trillion in Carbon Bombs 2016-2022

    04/11/23
    Author: 
    Olivia Rosane
    Link: 
    Common Dreams
    Protesters picket outside a Chase Bank branch in November 2019. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    Oct. 31,2023

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    Category: 
    Capitalism
    Climate Change
    Global
    Social
    USA
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    Is White Hydrogen a Magic Climate Solution

    04/11/23
    Author: 
    Louise Boyle Senior Climate Correspondent
    Link: 
    Independent
    White House Announces $7 Billion Push to Replace Fossil Fuels With Hydrogen

    Nov. 2, 2023

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    'Alternative' energy and less energy
    Climate Change
    Energy
    Social
    USA
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    The ‘flickering’ of Earth systems is warning us: act now, or see our already degraded paradise lost

    04/11/23
    Author: 
    George Monbiot
    Link: 
    The Guardian
    ‘Rishi Sunak now seems to have discovered his purpose: trashing the planet on behalf of corporate power.’ Photograph: Peter Nicholls/AP

    Oct. 31, 2023

    When Rishi Sunak granted 27 new North Sea licences this week, he wasn’t thinking about the survival of the living world

    Can you see it yet? The Earth systems horizon – the point at which our planetary systems tip into a new equilibrium, hostile to most lifeforms? I think we can. The sudden acceleration of environmental crises we have seen this year, coupled with the strategic uselessness of powerful governments, rushes us towards the point of no return.

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    Climate Change
    Climate Science
    Ecology/Environment
    Global
    Social
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    Bidenomics and the Left

    30/10/23
    Author: 
     Sam Gindin
    Link: 
    The Bullet
    Bidenomics

    October 29, 2023  • 

    “There’s something happening here
    But what it is ain’t exactly clear.”

    – “For What It’s Worth,” Buffalo Springfield.

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    Category: 
    Canada
    Capitalism
    Climate Change
    Global
    Labour - Unions
    Social
    USA
    War/military
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    What do our cabinet ministers think about LNG?

    26/10/23
    Author: 
    BC Climate Emergency Campaign
    Link: 
    BC Climate Emergency Campaign
    Where do BC cabinet ministers stand on the defining climate question of our time?

    Go to the link here to find the answers: https://bcclimateemergency.ca/fracking-and-lng

    And if you think anyone is listed in the wrong category, or if you have intel on a minister listed in the "unknown" category, please reach out the BC Climate Emergency Campaign Coordinator at www.bcclimateemergency.ca

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    Category: 
    'Alternative' energy and less energy
    British Columbia
    Climate Change
    Climate Science
    Ecology/Environment
    Indigenous Peoples
    LNG - Fracking
    Social
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