Indigenous Peoples

12/12/22
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Many of those who fought the historic Deglamuukw-Gisday’wa gathered in the Wet’suwet’en community of Witset on Friday to celebrate. ‘We’ve got to get back to the original vision of our Chiefs and leaders and people who brought us there,’ says Wet’suwet’en Dinize Satsan, Herb George. Photo by Olivia Leigh Nowak.

Dec. 11, 2022

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

It was sometime after midnight on a winter night in 1988 that Simogyet (Chief) Neekt took his farm tractor and dragged a log across the Kispiox Valley Road.

06/12/22
Author: 
McNally Robinson Online Events
Virtual launch of David Camfield's Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.
Streamed live on Oct 22, 2022

The virtual Canadian launch of Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change by David Camfield. This event moderated by Fiona Jeffries and includes conversation and words from Sara Birrell, James Hutt, and Saima Desai. This event is co-hosted by McNally Robinson Booksellers and Fernwood Publishing.

03/12/22
Author: 
Amanda Stephenson
The terminus for the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline is seen at the LNG Canada export terminal under construction in Kitimat, B.C., on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Nov. 30, 2022

TC Energy Corp. is expecting what it calls a "material increase" in the cost of its Coastal GasLink pipeline project.

The Calgary-based pipeline company said in an investor presentation Tuesday that it is facing significant cost pressures in Western Canada related to labour costs and shortages of skilled labour, along with contractor underperformance and disputes.

02/12/22
Author: 
Stewart Phillip, Peter McCartney, Seth Klein, Tracey Saxby, Alexandra Woodsworth, Kiki Wood, Jens Wieting
LNG Canada site construction activities in Kitimat in September. jpg

 

 

Website editor: Indigenous leader and many prominent BC environmental non-governmental organizations speaking together here.  Good to see.

Dec. 2, 2022

01/12/22
Author: 
Bill McKibben
Illustration by Lina Müller

Denial, lies, and now gimmicks--the body count doesn't phase them, as long as the profits keep rolling in. Future intergalactic travelers may highlight humanity as the only species to knowingly make itself extinct.

             -- Gene McGuckin

Nov. 22, 2022

30/11/22
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
BC Premier David Eby, who spoke Tuesday at the opening of the First Nations Leaders’ Gathering, has shared few details about his climate plans since taking office almost two weeks ago. Photo via BC government.

Nov. 30, 2022

Former premier John Horgan said CGL is ‘fully permitted’ and DRIPA is ‘forward looking.’ So what about the three other projects authorized for the North?

At the recent COP27 conference in Egypt, B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman was asked about the future of liquified natural gas in B.C.

30/11/22
Author: 
Marc Lee and Ben Parfitt
Climate-related disasters like 2021 flooding in the Fraser Valley will take an increasing economic and human toll. Photo via City of Abbotsford.

Nov. 30, 2022

In BC, 2021’s heat, fire and floods cost the economy $10.6 billion to $17.1 billion, a report calculates.

When Don and Mary Nowoselski moved from Dawson Creek in northeast British Columbia to the Creston Valley 30 years ago, they were looking for a little less winter.

A bit of land tucked near the U.S. border in a fertile valley in the province’s East Kootenay region seemed to fit the bill, and the couple settled into a new life that included an expanding cherry orchard operation.

24/11/22
Author: 
Rochelle Baker & Jennifer Osborne
RCMP officers arrest Fairy Creek protesters following a pepper spray incident in August 2021. Photo by Jen Osborne

Nov. 24, 2022

At least one police officer joined protesters, journalists and politicians raising alarm bells over RCMP enforcement tactics during the peak of conflict at the Fairy Creek old-growth blockades in B.C. during the summer of 2021.

23/11/22
Author: 
Nicholas Gottlieb, graphics by Elysse Deveaux
The Dirty Dozen: ‘Carbon bombs’ threaten to blow up Canada’s climate commitments

Website Editor: A great summary of Canada's fossil fuels situation and politics in this article.

Nov. 22, 2022

Canada wants to be the last country producing fossil fuels, even if it kills us

COP27 is over. The UN summit took one big step forward on climate justice with the creation of a loss and damage fund for the most impacted nations, while taking two enormous steps backwards by failing to call for a phaseout of all fossil fuels.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Indigenous Peoples