Climate Change

Running on Empty: The BC Forestry Crash

18/01/23
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Link: 
The Tyee
Logs piled up awaiting conversion to wood pellets at a factory now owned by multinational Drax Group. Photo from Stand.earth.

Jan. 18, 2023

The closure of a Prince George pulp mill is yet another warning we’re running out of trees.

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British Columbia
Capitalism
Climate Change
Forestry
Global
Labour - Unions
Social
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Despite Net-Zero Vows, Wall Street 'Climate Arsonists' Still Pumping Billions Into Fossil Fuels

18/01/23
Author: 
Jake Johnson
Link: 
Common Dreams
A demonstrator is seen holding a sign at a climate protest in Manhattan on October 29, 2021. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Jan. 18, 2023

"It is business as usual for most banks and investors who continue to support fossil fuel developers without any restrictions, despite their high-profile commitments to carbon neutrality."

Top banks in the United States and around the world have made a show of embracing net-zero emissions pledges, portraying themselves as allies in the fight against the global climate emergency.

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Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
Global
Industry Spin
Oil - Pipelines
Social
USA
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Service cuts to public transit are just the first step in a death spiral

17/01/23
Author: 
Nate Wallace
Link: 
The Globe and Mail
Toronto isn't alone among Canadian cities looking to increase transit fares this year. FRED LUM

 

Website editor: This is a good piece but it should be noted that in the Vancouver area Translink is now cutting back service and proposing to raise fares

 

Feb. 16, 2023

Nate Wallace is the clean transportation program manager at Environmental Defence.

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British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Environmental Groups
Social
Transportation
Urban
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Sediment and complaints fly over Coastal GasLink construction at B.C. river

16/01/23
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Link: 
National Observer
Construction at the Clore crossing Coastal GasLink construction site in B.C. on Jan. 10, 2023. Photo courtesy of David Suzuki Foundation

Jan. 13, 2023

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is investigating a complaint that Coastal GasLink failed to prevent sediment stirred up by pipeline construction activities from flowing downstream at a construction site on the Lho Kwa (Clore River) in B.C.

Sediment pollution poses a serious risk to salmon and steelhead eggs, effectively smothering them. Clore River is a large tributary of the Skeena River, which is an important habitat for both salmon and steelhead trout.

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British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Fisheries
Indigenous Peoples
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
Social
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Confidential documents reveal Bay Street’s attempt to greenwash Canadian regulations

16/01/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Canada’s financial heavyweights want to keep pumping money into the oil and gas sector, using loopholes unsupported by climate science, confidential documents reveal. Photo by Matthew Henry/Unsplash

Jan. 16, 2023

Canada’s financial heavyweights are trying to convince the federal government to let them keep pumping money into the oil and gas sector, using loopholes unsupported by climate science, confidential documents obtained by Canada’s National Observer reveal.

The Sustainable Finance Action Council (SFAC), whose members include representatives from Canada’s major banks, insurance companies and pension plans, was set up in 2021 to advise Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on how to best build a sustainable finance market.

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Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
Industry Spin
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
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Critics Say River Protection Is Lacking on Pipeline Route

16/01/23
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Link: 
The Tyee
BC’s environmental regulator says it won’t probe a complaint alleging lack of protections where Coastal GasLink pipeline construction crosses the Clore River, handing it off to the BC Oil and Gas Commission. Photo provided by the David Suzuki Foundation.

Jan. 16, 2023

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Indigenous Peoples
Industry Spin
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Social
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One in eight cases of asthma in US kids caused by gas stove pollution – study

15/01/23
Author: 
Oliver Milman
Link: 
The Guardian
Around a third of US households have gas stoves in their kitchens. Photograph: Tomas Rodriguez/Getty Images

Jan. 11, 2023

Emission of toxic chemicals and carcinogens from gas stoves creating indoor pollution worse than car traffic

About one in eight cases of asthma in children in the US is due to the pollution given off by cooking on gas stoves, new research has found, amid moves by Joe Biden’s administration to consider the regulation, or even banning, of gas cookers sales to Americans.

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Climate Change
LNG - Fracking
Social
USA
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Reasons for Optimism: Environmentalist Bill McKibben

14/01/23
Author: 
CBC The Current
Link: 
CBC The Current
Bill McKibben

Website editor: Ecosocialists will find this interview lacking on such questions as consumption, profit and inequality and yet: "Is your faith in governments or in individuals to force that change? Neither, my faith is in movements.  I think the most important thing individuals can do is be a little bit less of an individual and join together in movements with others large enough to make change happen"

 

 

 Jan. 13, 2023

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Category: 
'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Coal
Energy
Global
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Protest - Revolt
Social
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How fossil fuel companies push disinformation through media campaigns

14/01/23
Author: 
Anupriya Dasgupta
Link: 
Ricochet Media
CEC's recent "Cleaner, Closer, Committed to Net Zero" campaign featured billboards in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Jan. 9, 2023

Should Canada's public broadcaster be running ads that feature false claims?

This is the first in a two-part series examining fossil fuel advertising in Canada, the implications for news media, and the movement to hold industry accountable for what they tell Canadians.

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Canada
Climate Change
Environmental Groups
Industry Spin
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Social
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Exxon Accurately Predicted Global Warming, Years Before Casting Doubt on Climate Science

14/01/23
Author: 
Nicholas Kusnetz
Link: 
Inside Climate News
People take part in a protest against ExxonMobil before the start of its trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress

Jan. 12, 2023

For climate activists, the term “Exxon Knew” has settled deeply into the lexicon of climate accountability, shorthand for the contradiction between the oil giant’s long campaign to publicly question climate science and its internal understanding that the science was sound. 

Now, new academic research lends statistical rigor to this concept by showing that the company’s own climate projections, dating back decades, consistently predicted the warming that was to come primarily from burning fossil fuels.

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Capitalism
Climate Change
Climate Science
Oil - Pipelines
Social
USA
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