Ecology/Environment

Respect my right to not vote

18/09/21

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Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel

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Photo: A stop sign in Mohawk and English in Kanehsatà:ke. Photo by Maxim Off

Sept.14, 2021

In 1990, Kanehsatà:ke land defenders barricaded a secondary dirt road to stop the expansion of Oka’s nine-hole golf course on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka homeland. It began the “78-day siege” of Kanehsatà:ke, including Kahnawake.

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Time to protect old-growth forests

17/09/21

Author:

Torrance Coste

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Wilderness Committee

Photo top: Nuchatlaht Territory, Nootka Island

September 14, 2021

PROMISES WITHOUT ACTION AREN’T ENOUGH

When journalists interview me about old-growth forests, the hardest question to answer is “what is it like to be in one?” Standing in undergrowth so dense it’s hard to walk through with beams of sunlight piercing the tops of trees that were hundreds of years old before Europeans even arrived on this continent — how do you put this feeling into words?

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Protect the Planet Stop TMX - Treesit at Still Creek

16/09/21

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Protect the Planet Stop TMX

Dear friends,

We need YOUR help with direct support of the treesits that are blocking TMX. Non-Arrestable OR Arrestable - you decide. Both are crucial.

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World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland

14/09/21

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Agence France-Presse

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The Guardian

A worker on a Carbfix carbon injection well in Iceland in 2017. The company is involved in the new Orca plant designed to draw carbon dioxide out of the air and store it as rock. Photograph: Christian Science Monitor/Getty Images

Sept. 9, 2021

Operators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and inject it deep into the ground to be mineralised

The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into rock has started running in Iceland, the companies behind the project – Switzerland’s Climeworks and Iceland’s Carbfix – said on Wednesday.

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Climate Change

Ecology/Environment

Gigatons of carbon dioxide able to be stored in ocean basalt

14/09/21

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University of Victoria

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University of Victoria

Benjamin Tutolo of the Solid Carbon team measuring the pH of water in his laboratory, University of Calgary. Solid Carbon is led by Ocean Networks Canada, an initiative of UVic. Credit: Qin Zhang

[Editors: We don't think ecosocialists should be ignorant of the tech schemes under experimentation but we do need to maintain a sharply critical attitude.

This sounds a lot like carbon sequestration on land - who really knows if it will stay down there, and there is evidence in some cases it does not!

Another obvious question is how much energy would have to be expended to put it down there?

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Double standard: B.C. requires Indigenous consent for forest conservation but not logging

14/09/21

Author:

Torrance Coste

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Ricochet Media

Sept. 9, 2021

A year after groundbreaking old-growth report, government inaction still drives conflict in B.C.

Every day in B.C., irreplaceable groves filled with the oldest trees in the country are cut down and lost forever. In the year since the province’s strategic review of old-growth management, we’ve seen many promises but very little change in the forest.

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A power struggle at Fairy Creek: Old-growth activists want fewer police powers at Fairy Creek. The RCMP is asking for more

14/09/21

Author:

Rochelle Baker

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National Observer

Close to 1,000 old-growth activists at the Fairy Creek blockades have been arrested, making it the largest civil disobedience movement in Canada. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Flying Squad / Facebook

September 14th 2021

A slew of legal applications involving the contentious Fairy Creek old-growth blockades are moving forward in B.C. Supreme Court this week as the protest becomes one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canada.

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