Ecology/Environment

Climate Finance and the Limits of Market Fundamentalism

16/02/25

Author:

Susan Spronk, Karen Spring and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

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Website editor: Here in a nutshell is the problem: "....tackle the climate crisis by financing public goods instead of offering incentives to private firms."

Feb. 16, 2025

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Brandi Morin in Ecuador Part 2: Indigenous resistance to a made-in-Canada mine

15/02/25

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Brandi Morin

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Ricochet Media

A highway blockade organized by Indigenous Kitchwa land defenders and allies, including CONAIE, protesting unwanted development and human rights violations by the Ecuadorian government. Photo: Ian Willms

Feb. 13, 2025

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Opposition parties call for ‘full transparency’ following new Trans Mountain commitment

13/02/25

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Opposition parties are calling for “full transparency” from the federal government about its financial commitments to the Trans Mountain expansion project, following revelations of a $20-billion refinancing loan offered to the beleaguered company.

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To counter U.S. threats, B.C. must not buy into the ‘drill baby, drill’ mentality at expense of First Nations and climate

13/02/25

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Glen Williams, Stewart Phillip

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Vancouver Sun

To counter the nihilistic vision of U.S. President Donald Trump and the MAGA billionaires now taking over the U.S. government, we must work together to build a bright and shining alternative, write Glen Williams/Malii and Stewart Phillip. Photo by Brandon Bell /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Feb. 12, 2025

Clean water, food security, and healthy communities are how we will outlast Trump

Some B.C. politicians are using the trade war threat posed by President Donald Trump to push for no-holds-barred resource extraction on First Nations lands.

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Growing sustainable food: Canada’s chance to lead

12/02/25

Author:

ruce Lourie

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National Observer

What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like? Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 12, 2025

The agriculture and agri-food sectors are, perhaps, the most complex, diverse and challenging sectors to work with on sustainability. There are several efforts underway in Canada, some national and some regional, some focused on smaller-scale farms and some with large industrial agri-food interests, but there is not a cohesive sense of the endgame. What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like?

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Sometimes, going rogue is the only way to get things done

12/02/25

Author:

Leah Borts-Kuperman

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National Observer

Dr. Sébastien Sauvé, University of Montreal professor of environmental chemistry, with one of his collection bottles. Photo by: Bastien Doudaine

Feb. 12, 2025

For years, Sébastien Sauvé, a professor of environmental chemistry at the University of Montreal, would go to public places, like Tim Horton’s, with an empty water bottle in his jacket. Sauvé would make his way back to the bathroom sink and fill his bottle — not to drink, but to take to his lab and test for harmful chemicals in Quebec’s drinking water.

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Who Benefits from BC’s Plan to Fast-Track Resource Projects?

10/02/25

Author:

Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

BC Premier David Eby has promised to ‘expedite’ 19 natural resource projects in the face of a possible trade war with the United States. Photo via BC government Flickr.

Feb. 10, 2025

It’s been floated as a remedy to trade instability with the US. But experts raise four key caveats.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

The climate movement needs its own ‘drill, baby, drill’

08/02/25

Author:

Zain Haq

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National Observer

Climate activist Zain Haq. Photo by Ian Harland

Feb. 3, 2025

I write this as I sit in Karachi, Pakistan, after deportation from Canada because of my nonviolent activism on the climate crisis. My activism, and that of my Canadian wife, Sophie, is on hold as we chart our course through a life in exile and hope for reunification in Canada.

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Major B.C. LNG projects won’t have to pay for carbon emissions for 2 years, docs reveal

08/02/25

Author:

Shannon Waters

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The Narwhal

The LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C., will be the most emissions-intensive LNG project in the province and stands to reap the biggest benefits from a two-year grace period on paying for carbon emissions. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Feb. 5, 2025

B.C.’s new industrial carbon pricing system gives big emitters a break on paying for emissions. That includes most new LNG export projects

When LNG Canada becomes fully operational this year, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Kitimat, B.C., will be one of the largest sources of emissions in the province — but it likely won’t pay a cent for its carbon pollution for two full years.

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Why are we losing our heads over oil and gas tariffs?

08/02/25

Author:

Laurie Adkin

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National Observer

When U.S. President Donald Trump says Americans do not need Canada’s oil and gas, I say, “all the better for us.” Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to place tariffs on “Canadian” oil and gas exports and poof! The climate crisis has disappeared from the political radar of Canadian politicians. Could we not try, for a minute, to keep our heads about us and remember the bigger threat that is poised to swallow us all up?

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'Alternative' energy and less energy