Climate Change

The feds just approved a massive Port of Vancouver expansion — and it’s a blow to biodiversity

23/04/23
Author: 
Arno Kopecky
Link: 
The Narwhal
Scientists have warned the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 port expansion will impact more than 100 species of concern in the heart of the Fraser River estuary.

Apr. 20, 2023

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Critics say NDP’s “energy action” plan puts climate targets at risk

22/04/23
Author: 
Nathan Griffiths
Link: 
Vancouver Sun
Climate advocates are sounding the alarm that B.C. is failing to curb greenhouse gas emissions and will struggle to meet its own climate change targets. PHOTO BY RIVER34 /Getty Images/iStockphoto

Apr. 21, 2023

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BC Lags Most Provinces in Cutting Emissions

22/04/23
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
Link: 
The Tyee
Critics warn that as long as the oil and gas sector continues to grow, BC won’t meet its emissions targets. Photo via Coastal GasLink.

Apr. 21, 2023

But minister and experts say the government is making good progress.

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Climate diplomacy is hopeless, says author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline

21/04/23
Author: 
Damien Gayle
Link: 
The Guardian
Malm at the How to Blow Up a Pipeline premiere during the 2022 Toronto international film festival. Photograph: Jeremy Chan/Getty Images

". . . the idea that the big crime is to build a pipeline, and not potentially blow it up – that idea has a very broad appeal.”

Apr. 21, 2023

Andreas Malm says he has no hope in ‘dominant classes’, and urges more radical approach to climate activism

International climate diplomacy is hopeless, the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline has said, as the film adaptation of the radical environmentalist book is released.

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Fairy Creek old-growth protesters celebrate as contempt prosecution collapses

19/04/23
Author: 
Canadian Press
Link: 
National Observer
People take part in a peace circle along a logging road in Fairy Creek on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Apr. 18, 2023

NANAIMO, B.C. — The B.C. Prosecution Service has withdrawn contempt charges against 11 old-growth logging protesters accused of breaching a court injunction during blockades at Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island.

Spokesman Gordon Comer said prosecutors were in court Tuesday to enter the withdrawals, and the service is reviewing other cases after a ruling that acquitted protester Ryan Henderson earlier this year.

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The Ugly Truth Behind Canada’s Cheery Claims of Climate Progress

19/04/23
Author: 
Ian Urquhart
Link: 
The Tyee
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Canada is ‘an encouraging picture of progress’ even though oilsands emissions are record-breaking. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick via The Canadian Press.

Apr. 19, 2023

Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault’s ‘good news’ emissions update revealed a massive failure.

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Canada Ignores Logging in Green House Gas Update

18/04/23
Author: 
Michael Polanyi
Link: 
Ottawa Citizen
"Big Lonely Doug," a Coast Douglas fir, stands on its own in a cut block in the Gordon River Valley 18 km north of Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island, Canada, Sept. 4, 2021. PHOTO BY COLE BURSTON /AFP via Getty Images

Apr. 10, 2023

Will Canada address the logging gap in its greenhouse gas update?

GHG emissions associated with logging and wood use were approximately 75 megatonnes in 2020, matching emissions from all of Canada’s oil sands operations and making logging one of the highest emitting sectors of Canada’s economy.

This week, the Government of Canada will release its annual greenhouse gas emissions data update.

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We Must Ask: Does Fossil Fuel Divestment Work?

18/04/23
Author: 
Ted Franklin
Link: 
Common Dreams
Extinction Rebellion climate activists hold a banner in Lincoln's Inn Fields before a Rise and Rebel march organised to coincide with the end of, and anticipated failure of, the COP26 climate summit on 13th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

"By focusing on pressure campaigns against private actors with no direct effect on the fossil fuel industry, well-intentioned people inadvertently delay the necessary struggle to win and engage state power to phase out the extraction and production of fossil fuels.". . . . "Indeed, doing so buys into the neoliberal logic that government can do nothing when, in fact, only government can shut down the fossil fuel industry."

Apr. 4, 2023

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'Renewable' Natural Gas Another Greenwashing Scam

18/04/23
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Link: 
National Observer
Illustration by Ata Ojani

Apr. 6, 2023

Is ‘renewable’ natural gas a climate solution — or masterful greenwashing?

Each time Tim Crossin turns on his gas fireplace to heat the modest home he shares with his partner, the avowed environmentalist "assuages" his climate guilt with a reminder that he is paying a premium for so-called "renewable" natural gas.

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Deep-sea mining could be greenlit in summer despite unknown environmental risks

18/04/23
Author: 
Zahra Khozema
Link: 
National Observer
The key target for deep-sea mining in international waters is polymetallic nodules, small rocks containing valuable metals. These nodules take millions of years to form. Photo by NOAA Office of OER, 2019 Southeastern US Deep-sea Exploration

Apr. 18, 2023

In the summer of 2021, the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru gave the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the body that regulates international seabed mining, two years to complete regulations governing the new and contentious deep-sea mining industry.

With the deadline on the horizon, Episode 11 of Hot Politics tackles why some countries and mining companies want to harvest the bottom of the ocean and what impacts that will have on ecosystems that deep.

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