Environmental Groups

Are Europe's Farmers Protesting Green Reforms? It's Complicated

23/02/24

Author:

Rachel Sherrington, DeSmog.

Link:

Popular Resistance

photo: Burning piles of hay sent up dark plumes of smoke in Brussels on February 1, as farmers protests sweep through Europe. Rachel Sherrington.

Feb. 7, 2024

Big Agriculture And Far-Right Parties Set Farmers Against The Environment.

But producers on the ground in Brussels told a different story.

Across France, Italy and Belgium last week thousands of farmers descended on capital cities to express their deep discontent with the European food system.

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Premier David Eby should follow President Joe Biden’s lead on LNG

11/02/24

Author:

John Young

Link:

Vancouver Sun

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his administration's environmental efforts at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center and Preserve in Palo Alto, California, on June 19, 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) PHOTO BY ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS /AFP via Getty Images

Feb. 7, 2024

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Fossil-fuel industry doubling down, pushing for growth

05/02/24

Author:

Trevor Hancock

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Times Colonist

In the U.K., Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, has pledged to “max out” the U.K.’s oil and gas reserves. IAN FORSYTH, POOL PHOTO VIA AP

Feb. 4, 2024

In the U.S., the Biden administration approved nearly 10,000 oil and gas drilling permits on public lands in its first three years, while Donald Trump is moronically pledging to “drill baby, drill”

Last week, I documented the massive impact of the fossil-fuel industry on people and the planet, an impact the industry generally ignores or downplays in its rush to make money and maintain its power, earning it the title of “the new tobacco.”

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

B.C. environmental groups call on Eby to follow Biden, pause LNG projects

26/01/24

Author:

Tiffany Crawford

Link:

The Vancouver Sun

File photo of U.S. President Joe Biden. PHOTO BY CHARLES KRUPA /THE ASSOCIATED PRES

Jan. 25, 2024

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B.C. groups applaud Biden LNG pause as victory for affordability and the climate

25/01/24

Author:

Frack Free BC - Peter McCartney

Link:

Wilderness Committee

$fracking$

Jan. 24, 2024

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Puget Sound Energy cancels liquid natural gas plant expansion in Tacoma

25/01/24

Author:

Lynda V. Mapes

Link:

The Seattle Times

An aerial view shows Puget Sound Energy’s Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Tacoma. (Joshua Bessex / joshua.bessex@gateline.com, 2018)

Jan. 24, 2024

Puget Sound Energy has canceled a controversial expansion of its liquefied natural gas plant in Tacoma.

The Puyallup Tribe of Indians and a coalition of community groups appealed permits for the project to the state Shoreline Hearings Board. The case had been scheduled for an April hearing, but rather than defend the project, PSE backed down.

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The shady group determined to block our climate solutions

19/01/24

Author:

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Link:

National Observer

Jan. 15, 2024

A shadowy new organization attacking the climate efforts of Canadian cities is infiltrating Google searches and ads in the New York Times and other publications online.

The group — Voice for Energy — bills itself as a platform for Canadians to "speak up" against municipalities implementing measures to reduce or ban natural gas to "protect" people’s so-called "energy choice."

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

The Legal Reason Courts May Soon Tackle Climate Change

16/01/24

Author:

Steve Lorteau and Andrew Green

Link:

The Tyee

Climate-related legal challenges were once considered ‘too political’ for Canadian courts to resolve. But the tide is turning. Photo by James Chen via Shutterstock.

Jan. 11, 2024

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2024 could be the year we end oil and gas expansion in B.C.

13/01/24

Author:

Kai Nagata

Link:

Dogwood BC

Jan. 9, 2024

Major pipelines over budget, cancelled or facing fierce opposition

Just three days before Christmas, British Columbians received a surprise gift: a pipeline rejection. The BC Utilities Commission denied the application by FortisBC to build a $327 million gas pipeline in the fast-growing south Okanagan.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada's efforts to rebuild depleted fish stocks are flopping, says independent audit

27/12/23

Author:

Paul Withers

Link:

CBC News

Fisheries and Oceans Canada reduced commercial fish quotas and imposed shutdowns to rebuild depleted stocks in 2022. It shut down the spring herring fishery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and slashed the herring quota off the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. (Robert F. Bukaty/The Associated Press)

Nov. 22, 2023

Major spending increases and policy changes by the federal government to protect and rebuild wild fish stocks in Canada have resulted in little improvement, according to the 2022 Fishery Audit released this week by environmental group Oceana Canada.

In its sixth annual audit, Oceana says fewer than one third of wild marine fish stocks in Canada are considered healthy and most critically depleted stocks lack plans to rebuild them.

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Environmental Groups

Big Agriculture And Far-Right Parties Set Farmers Against The Environment.

But producers on the ground in Brussels told a different story.

In the U.S., the Biden administration approved nearly 10,000 oil and gas drilling permits on public lands in its first three years, while Donald Trump is moronically pledging to “drill baby, drill”

Major pipelines over budget, cancelled or facing fierce opposition

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