Environmental Groups

Explore how whales change climate, engineer the ecosystem, create conditions that spawn plankton, and keep our oceans healthy in this beautiful story by George Monbiot.

watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M18HxXve3CM.

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Fossil fuel subsidies are one of Canada’s biggest climate conundrums: where do the parties stand?

18/09/21

Author:

Sarah Cox

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The Narwhal

Syncrude oilsands mining operations near Fort McMurray, Alta. While three out of four of the major national political parties pledge to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, there are differences in party positions in the 2021 federal election. Photo: Todd Korol

In 2009, when Canada and other G20 nations first pledged to tackle fossil fuel subsidies, a collective promise was made to do away with ‘inefficient’ subsidies. But the term inefficient has never been defined, giving governments and political parties during this election a significant amount of wiggle room

Sept. 16, 2021 10 min. read

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Where They Stand: The Parties on Fossil Fuel Subsidies

10/09/21

Author:

Michelle Gamage

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The Tyee

The Liberals pledge to cut carbon emissions — but they spent $4.5 billion to ensure a pipeline expansion went ahead. Photo via Trans Mountain.

If federal parties are serious about taking on climate change, they need to stop giving money to the oil and gas industry, according to two climate experts.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Greenpeace Suing Volkswagen Over Climate Crisis

05/09/21

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Greenpeace

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Common Dreams

For Immediate Release

Friday September 3, 2021, 9:44am EDT

Greenpeace

PRESS RELEASE

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Saving the Planet While Ignoring Two Thirds of It

29/08/21

Author:

Ian Urbina

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DeSmog

Aug. 25, 2021

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Climate Change

Ecology/Environment

Environmental Groups

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Rebuked for Funding False Climate Solutions

11/08/21

Author:

Brett Wilkins

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Common Dreams

Demonstrators from the Sierra Club, Workers For Progress, Our Revolution, and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network picket in front of the office of U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) as part of the Thrive National Day of Action on June 3, 2021 in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network)

Aug. 10, 2021

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Power, Workers, and the Fight for Climate Justice

08/08/21

Author:

Tara Olivetree (Ehrcke)

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Midnight Sun

7. 12. 2021

Power

Who has more power than Shell Oil? This is one of the first questions a climate activist should ask themselves, because without finding an answer, we can’t win.

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Clear their names, Jason Kenney

30/07/21

Author:

Sandy Garossino

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National Observer

Premier Jason Kenney's anti-Alberta energy inquiry has impacted environmentalists (clockwise from top left: Ed Whittingham, Tzeporah Berman, Greg Knox and Shannon Phillips). Photos by Alex Tétreault, SkeenaWild, Twitter, submitted

It’s time to apologize to the innocent Canadian environmentalists that you and your allies have hounded, vilified and intimidated for almost a decade. Steve Allan’s anti-Alberta energy inquiry has found the accusations against them to be a complete sham.

Clear their names, once and for all.

Tell the truth, at long last, and admit you were wrong.

Take it back. Take it all back.

I have read the draft Allan report in full.

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Far right rallies behind Annamie Paul

29/07/21

Author:

Yves Engler

Link:

yvesengler.com

July 28, 2021

Was Annamie Paul’s plan to unite the far right and the Green Party? Because, incredibly, that seems to be what’s happening. And stranger still is how some self-professed progressives have let identity politics blind them to anti-Palestinian racism.

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Environmental Groups

Power

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