Ecology/Environment

09/10/20
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Primary author Mitchell Beer
oil refinery - skeeze / Pixabay

OCTOBER 9, 2020

A top communications and government relations firm led by long-time Conservative Party strategist Jaime Watt developed a confidential plan to undercut support for the federal Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) by convincing Canadians that “fighting climate change is a losing battle,” according to leaked documents released this week by Greenpeace Canada.

09/10/20
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First Nations Leaders
Please watch and share this important message from Sleydo (Molly Wickam) on the current state of the struggle. 

Callout for long term supporters on the ground.
08/10/20
Author: 
CBC the Current
Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR

Oct. 9, 2020

[Editor: This is really a must listen to!]

The federal government announced plans Wednesday to ban six kinds of single-use plastics by the end of next year. Laura Sullivan, investigative correspondent for NPR, discusses why — despite the hype — recycling isn't keeping that plastic out of landfills.

07/10/20
Author: 
Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press

March 12, 2020

 

05/10/20
Author: 
Tom Sandborn
This photo shows Elan Gibson (seated), author, actor, activist and a spokeswoman for Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion, on the day of her arrest at the Kinder Morgan tank farm gates on May 16, 2018. Photo by Susanne Jackson

October 5th 2020

“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”
— Lord Farquaard in Shrek, the animated classic

“Fossil fuels require sacrifice zones: they always have.”
— Naomi Klein, 2016

 

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