Ecology/Environment

Extreme Weather Could Spark Economic Recession 'Likes of Which We've Never Seen Before,' Research Warns

18/02/20

Author:

Jake Johnson

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Smoke plume from the Maria Fire rises as seen from Santa Paula, California on Oct. 31, 2019. (Photo: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

February 18, 2020

"Unpriced risk was the main cause of the Great Recession in 2007-2008."

New research published Monday warns that extreme weather driven by the climate crisis could bring about an economic recession "the likes of which we've never seen before" if markets don't do a better job assessing climate risks.

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Capitalism

Climate Change

Ecology/Environment

Roundup of Raids on Wet’suwet’en Territory

17/02/20

Author:

First Nations Leaders

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B.C. failed to consider links between ‘man camps,’ violence against Indigenous women, Wet’suwet’en argue

17/02/20

Author:

Carol Linnitt

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The Narwhal

A rare pink sunrise at the Unist’ot’en Healing centre, as police prepare for their second day of injunction enforcement near Houston, B.C. on Friday Feb. 7. Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal

Feb 8, 2020

A formal request for judicial review submitted with the B.C. Supreme Court argues B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office extended permit for Coastal GasLink pipeline without considering the findings of the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs are requesting a judicial review of a decision made by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office to extend the environmental certificate for the 670-kilometre Coastal GasLink pipeline.

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Kwakwaka'wakw artist Gord Hill depicts what's happening in Northern B.C.

17/02/20

Author:

Gord Hill

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Facebook

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Listen to Grand Chief Stewart Phillip explain things to CBC Sunday Edition host Michael Enright

17/02/20

Author:

CBC staff

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CBC The Sunday Edition

Here is the link starting at 01:25:27

Pipelines, protests, the law and who speaks for Indigenous people in Canada:

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B.C. NDP MLAs all voted for LNG incentives—and they only have themselves to blame for the rebellion that's followed

16/02/20

Author:

Charlie Smith

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Georgia Straight

When NDP cabinet ministers were sworn into office in 2017, they didn't anticipate that some of their own supporters would try to prevent them from entering the legislature less than three years later. JOHN HORGAN

February 15th, 2020

Today, CBC News will carry a story about an alternative route for the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which was proposed by the Office of the Wet'suwet'en.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Marguerite Church's recent court ruling cited several reasons for the company's decision to reject this, "including inappropriateness for the diameter of the pipeline, increased cost, the desire to avoid urban areas and greater adverse environmental impacts".

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Ottawa rejects police intervention to put an end to blockades, invoking Oka and Ipperwash

16/02/20

Author:

Daniel Leblanc Parliamentary Affairs Reporter

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The Globe and Mail

A protester stands between Mohawk Warrior Society flags at a rail blockade on the 10th day of demonstration in Tyendinaga, near Belleville, Ont., Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. LARS HAGBERG/THE CANADIAN PRESS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

"What I hear back from communities and Indigenous peoples, when we talk about the rule of law, is that the rule of law for them has been time and time invoked to perpetuate what they believe to be historical injustices.”

-- Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller

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Palestinians Stand in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Nation

16/02/20

Author:

Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) / Canada

Link:

International Middle East Media Center

February 15, 2020

The TransCanada Coastal Gaslink pipeline aims to steal Wet’suwet’en land, use resource extraction to solidify control over Indigenous territories, destroy the environment and violate Indigenous laws.

From the occupied Palestinian territory, we stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation and land defenders at the Unist’ot’en Camp and Gidimt’en who continue to resist Canada’s colonial incursions of their unceded territories.

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There's Something Happening Here (on the meaning of the Wet'suwet'en struggle)

16/02/20

Author:

Charlie Angus, MP

"There's something happening here and what it is ain't exactly clear." – Buffalo Springfield

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National Farmers Union in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders

15/02/20

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National Farmers Union

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National Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The National Farmers Union (NFU) stands in solidarity with Indigenous land protectors. We support initiatives by Indigenous People including the Unist’ot’en and Wet’suwet’en to resist resource extraction and energy projects that disrupt their Indigenous food and governance systems and interfere with the health of their lands, territories, and communities.

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Ecology/Environment

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