Indigenous Peoples

Alberta's oilsands pump out more pollutants than industry reports, scientists find

26/01/24

Author:

Benjamin Shingler

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CBC News

A study conducted in 2018 used aircraft to collect air samples around 17 oilsands facilities in northern Alberta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)

Jan. 25, 2024

Data collected by air finds levels of harmful pollutants can be more than 60 times higher than estimated

Alberta's oilsands operations produce far more potentially harmful air pollutants than are officially reported, with the daily output on par with those from gridlocked megacities like Los Angeles, new research suggests.

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B.C. First Nation’s Big LNG Deal Could Face Weak Market Conditions

26/01/24

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Primary Author: Christopher Bonasia

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The Energy Mix

Jan. 23,2024

Ksi Lisims LNG, an Indigenous-owned floating gas liquefaction facility proposed in British Columbia, has secured a 20-year deal to sell some of its product to colossal fossil Shell, even as global LNG markets wither.

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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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Police raids rock Edmonton, as Indigenous encampment dismantled

21/01/24

Author:

Brandi Morin

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Ricochet Media

Residents of an Indigenous homeless encampment in Edmonton being evicted by police | Photo by Brandi Morin

Jan. 18, 2024

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Why ‘Evictions to Nowhere’ Must Stop

21/01/24

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Sandra Smiley, Preet Gandhi and Kathryn Haegedorn

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The Tyee

Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on the morning of Jan. 17, after city bylaw enforcement and police officers decamped people from the park last week. Photo via Amanda Burrows on X.

Jan. 19, 2024

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This Canadian pipeline giant wants an exemption from climate rules

20/01/24

Author:

Carl Meyer

Link:

The Narwhal

Internal government documents show that pipeline company TC Energy pressured the federal government to ignore a growing form of fossil fuel activity in Canada in one of its key climate policies, at a time when the country is already struggling to meet its emissions reduction goals. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Jan. 17, 2024

Internal government memos show TC Energy lobbied for carveouts exempting methane and LNG plants from one of Canada’s key climate policies targeting the oil and gas industry

One of Canada’s largest pipeline operators lobbied the federal government to exclude two major sources of carbon pollution from its emissions cap for the oil and gas sector.

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Audio Reveals RCMP Officers Laughed about Beating a Land Defender

19/01/24

Author:

Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

In audio recordings captured after arrests on Nov. 19, 2021, and played for the court, several officers could be heard laughing about police violence, mocking arrestees and making derogatory comments about symbols worn to honour and remember murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. Photo for The Tyee by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Jan. 19, 2024

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Blinded, sexually assaulted, silenced: the war over lithium, Argentina’s ‘white gold’

19/01/24

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Harriet Barber in Jujuy, Argentina

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The Guardian

A man carries the Wiphala flag – which represents the native peoples of the Andes – at the protest camp in Purmamarca, Jujuy province. The demonstrators, many of them from the Indigenous community, are angry about changes made to the state constitution, and the growth of mining. Photograph: John Owens

Jan. 11, 2024

In the country’s ‘lithium triangle’ activists say Indigenous land protections have been removed and protests against mining violently repressed

The first time, they came at 2am and without a warrant. Rosa* was alone. She was gagged, her eyes covered, and her hands bound with a cable tie.

“I was paralysed. I felt someone choking me,” Rosa recalls. “They called me a socialist, a whore. I was in my underwear; they touched me. One put his fingers inside of me.”

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada led efforts to weaken original UN Indigenous rights declaration

16/01/24

Author:

Brett Forester

Link:

CBC News

On Sept. 23, 2003, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. At the time, his government was quietly working with Australia on a substitute draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)

Jan. 15, 2024

Canada and Australia crafted government-friendly UNDRIP substitute in 2002-03, documents show

Canada led efforts to weaken the draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations, working secretly with Australia to develop a watered-down substitute in the early 2000s, newly released Australian cabinet records show.

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BC Court Convicts Three Indigenous Land Defenders

16/01/24

Author:

Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

From left, Corey Jocko, Shaylynn Sampson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham stand outside the Smithers courthouse. All three were found guilty of criminal contempt of court today. Photo for The Tyee by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Jan. 12, 2024

But defence will push to stay the verdicts based on alleged RCMP rights violations.

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Indigenous Peoples

Data collected by air finds levels of harmful pollutants can be more than 60 times higher than estimated

Internal government memos show TC Energy lobbied for carveouts exempting methane and LNG plants from one of Canada’s key climate policies targeting the oil and gas industry

In the country’s ‘lithium triangle’ activists say Indigenous land protections have been removed and protests against mining violently repressed

Canada and Australia crafted government-friendly UNDRIP substitute in 2002-03, documents show

But defence will push to stay the verdicts based on alleged RCMP rights violations.

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