Ecology/Environment

Pipeline Company Creates Legal Delay for Burnaby's 'Full-Scale Emergency Exercise'

09/08/24

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City of Burnaby

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Aug. 7, 2024

The City of Burnaby is planning a full-scale emergency exercise on Burnaby Mountain, as directed by the City Council on July 22, 2024. The purpose of the exercise is to assess and enhance the City's emergency response capabilities, coordination, and resource management for a major incident on the mountain. The exercise will involve participants from all levels of government, key stakeholders and Rights Holders.

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Revolutionary scientific discovery upends deep sea mining negotiations

07/08/24

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Aug. 6, 2024

Mining the ocean floor for critical minerals was already controversial, but a new groundbreaking scientific study has thrown the industry into chaos as countries negotiate its future.

At a meeting of the United Nations’ International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Jamaica, running from July 15 to Aug 2, countries are negotiating rules to govern deep sea mining. The regulations have been under development for years, but the clock has been running out on an agreement.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Amnesty International Declares Its First ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ in Canada

01/08/24

Author:

Amanda Follett Hosgood

Link:

The Tyee

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Dsta’hyl stands outside the courthouse in Smithers, BC, prior to his trial last year. Dsta’hyl was convicted and sentenced to 60 days of house arrest. Photo for The Tyee by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

July 31, 2024

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Dsta’hyl was sentenced to house arrest earlier this month for opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

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Vancouver’s gas ban reversal betrays our values and health

01/08/24

Author:

Dr. Melissa Lem

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Vancouver Sun

The view looking North from the Granville Street Bridge earlier this month PHOTO BY NICK PROCAYLO /PNG

July 31, 2024

As the first municipality in Canada to reverse a bylaw to build clean energy into new homes, Vancouver is no longer a climate leader — it’s a climate laggard

Last week, as Valemount was opening its homes to thousands of evacuees fleeing the Jasper wildfires, Vancouver was slamming the door on climate progress. In a 6-to-5 vote, city council abruptly reversed the city’s long-standing bylaw preventing natural gas heating in new homes.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Chicago teachers demand climate action in union contract

21/07/24

Author:

Adam Aton

Link:

E & E News

Craig Cleve marches with members of the Chicago Teachers Union as they picket outside City Hall on July 2, 2015. Christian K. Lee/AP

June 14, 2024

Labor leaders see both practical and strategic benefits to bargaining over climate policy.

One of the country’s most powerful unions is bargaining for climate policy in its next contract.

The Chicago Teachers Union on Friday will open public contract negotiations with the city — and among its demands will be the union’s “green schools” initiative.

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One whole year above 1.5

14/07/24

Author:

Chris Hatch

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National Observer

More than 60% of the world population faced extreme heat that was made at least three times more likely by climate change during June 16-24, 2024.

July 14, 2024

The PR pros will tell you not to bother talking about arcane topics like 1.5 degrees — no normies understand the significance, and it just sounds like a little-bitty thing, anyway. They’re probably right. And maybe that explains why we just lived through the first full year above 1.5 C with only perfunctory coverage by the global media.

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Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

11/07/24

Author:

Harriet Barber

Link:

The Guardian

‘Nature is raising a flag’: more than 760,000 hectares have burned in the Pantanal already this year. Photograph: Harriet Barber

July 9, 2024

Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them

Perched atop blackened trees, howler monkeys survey the ashes around them. A flock of rheas treads, disoriented, in search of water. The skeletons of alligators lie lifeless and charred.

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Degrowth offers a path to a truly just global energy transition

11/07/24

Author:

Jeremy Appel

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National Observer

Rio Tinto - Kennecott open pit copper mine. Salt Lake County, Utah. How do we balance the needs of an energy transition with the harsh realities of mining critical minerals like copper? Photo by arbyreed/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Jul. 11, 2024

As the world inevitably transitions away from fossil fuel extraction, there’s a growing international consensus that mining critical minerals — including copper, nickel, cobalt, zinc and more — will have to ramp up in order to power clean energy sources.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

The Massive Harm of LNG Fracking, Tallied

25/06/24

Author:

Andrew Nikiforuk

Link:

The Tyee

Extraction at a huge cost: a drilling pad in the Montney basin. Photo via Canadian Energy Centre.

Jun. 25, 2024

A new report by expert David Hughes warns the Montney methane rush will slam water, habitat and Canada’s energy security.

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A ghost pipeline rears up in northern B.C.

17/06/24

Author:

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Link:

National Observer

The proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project pipeline will cut east to west across roughly 900 kilometers of northern B.C. Photo by Jason Drury/Flickr

Jun. 14, 2024

B.C.'s energy regulator has created a legal loophole that is facilitating a "last-ditch" effort to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline in northern B.C.

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Ecology/Environment

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Dsta’hyl was sentenced to house arrest earlier this month for opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

As the first municipality in Canada to reverse a bylaw to build clean energy into new homes, Vancouver is no longer a climate leader — it’s a climate laggard

Labor leaders see both practical and strategic benefits to bargaining over climate policy.

Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them

A new report by expert David Hughes warns the Montney methane rush will slam water, habitat and Canada’s energy security.

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