Ecology/Environment

Will Sea Lions Slow the Construction of Woodfibre LNG? (Or Will Project Conditions Be Relaxed?)

13/12/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

Link:

The Tyee

Steller sea lions, such as the one pictured here eating a salmon, often frequent the Howe Sound and would interrupt construction of the Woodfibre LNG project unless changes are made to the project conditions, the company says. Photo via Shutterstock.

Dec. 13, 2022

The company says the animals’ ‘ubiquitous presence’ will cause ‘regular and prolonged full project shutdowns.’

Construction on the Woodfibre LNG project in Squamish is set to take off in 2023, but the “curious and gregarious” nature of sea lions could make the construction “neither technically nor economically feasible.”

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A Groundbreaking Indigenous Rights Decision, 25 Years Later

12/12/22

Author:

Amanda Follett Hosgood

Link:

The Tyee

Many of those who fought the historic Deglamuukw-Gisday’wa gathered in the Wet’suwet’en community of Witset on Friday to celebrate. ‘We’ve got to get back to the original vision of our Chiefs and leaders and people who brought us there,’ says Wet’suwet’en Dinize Satsan, Herb George. Photo by Olivia Leigh Nowak.

Dec. 11, 2022

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

It was sometime after midnight on a winter night in 1988 that Simogyet (Chief) Neekt took his farm tractor and dragged a log across the Kispiox Valley Road.

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Luisa Cáceres: Commune-Building in Urban Venezuela

12/12/22

Author:

Chris Gilbert

Link:

Monthly Review

Luisa Cáceres communards assembled beside communal mural. (Photo: Gerardo Rojas/Voces Urgentes)

Dec 01, 2022

Chris Gilbert is a professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, and the creator and co-host of the Marxist educational television program Escuela de Cuadros. This article is adapted from his upcoming book, Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review Press, 2023).

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What Climate Debt Does The North Owe The South?

03/12/22

Author:

John Feffer

Link:

Foreign Policy in Focus

Nov. 30, 2022

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Arctic System Collapse? Devastating new research.

03/12/22

Author:

Arctic Sea Ice Forum - Just Have a Think

Link:

YouTube

Sept. 2022

This is being passed on to you via Arctic Sea Ice Forum, What’s New in the Arctic. The forum is a place where scientists studying the arctic get to compare notes. There’s an enormous amount of information there and the scientists report on all the new papers, discussions, technology, etc concerning the Arctic. In the link above, the commentary was: “Another brilliant comprehensive survey of what's going on in the Arctic and in Grønland in the series "Just have a Think".

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Premier Eby must choose: climate commitments or fossil fuels

02/12/22

Author:

Stewart Phillip, Peter McCartney, Seth Klein, Tracey Saxby, Alexandra Woodsworth, Kiki Wood, Jens Wieting

Link:

The Vancouver Sun

LNG Canada site construction activities in Kitimat in September. jpg

Website editor: Indigenous leader and many prominent BC environmental non-governmental organizations speaking together here. Good to see.

Dec. 2, 2022

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Protecting peatlands pivotal for climate and biodiversity goals, scientists say

02/12/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

Link:

National Observer

Canada is home to 25 per cent of the earth's peatlands. Preserving these carbon-rich ecosystems is key to addressing both the biodiversity and cliamte crises. Photo by Dr. Lorna Harris, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada

Dec. 2, 2022

As the United Nations biodiversity conference draws near, dozens of scientists from 13 countries are calling for protection of the world’s waterlogged, carbon-rich peatlands, a quarter of which exist within Canada’s borders and are threatened by development.

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Nature is fragile. What happens when we mess with it?

02/12/22

Author:

Phoebe Weston

Link:

National Observer

In the early 1990s, vultures across India started dying inexplicably. Scientists started testing the dead birds and worked out they had been exposed to diclofenac. A flock of vultures on carcass. Photo by Arindam Aditya/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Dec. 2, 2022

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

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Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, Yet We’re Inching Toward It

01/12/22

Author:

Bill McKibben

Link:

The New Yorker

Denial, lies, and now gimmicks--the body count doesn't phase them, as long as the profits keep rolling in. Future intergalactic travelers may highlight humanity as the only species to knowingly make itself extinct.

-- Gene McGuckin

Nov. 22, 2022

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

What Caused Alberta’s Record Quake? Check Drilling, Expert Says

01/12/22

Author:

Andrew Nikiforuk

Link:

The Tyee

Dec. 1, 2022

Tuesday’s 5.8 tremor occurred in an area where wastewater is injected underground, building pressure over time.

A cluster of tremors, including the largest recorded earthquake in Alberta’s history, may have been due to oil and gas activity in the region.

On Tuesday evening Earthquakes Canada recorded a tremor registering a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale that shook up a large portion of northwestern Alberta and B.C.

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Ecology/Environment

The company says the animals’ ‘ubiquitous presence’ will cause ‘regular and prolonged full project shutdowns.’

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

Tuesday’s 5.8 tremor occurred in an area where wastewater is injected underground, building pressure over time.

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