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Council vote means natural gas won’t be used to heat new homes in Nanaimo

01/09/23

Author:

Greg Sakaki

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Nanaimo News Bulletin

Nanaimo city council voted to accelerate implementation of the province’s zero carbon step code, which will effectively eliminate natural gas as an energy source for heating space and water in new homes starting a year from now. (News Bulletin file photo)

Aug. 29, 2023

City council votes 5-4 to accelerate adoption of zero carbon step code

Natural gas will not be the primary heat source in new homes built in Nanaimo starting next year.

City council, at a meeting Monday, Aug. 28, voted 5-4 to accelerate adoption of the zero carbon step code to 2024, six years ahead of the province’s timeline of 2030.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

LNG Canada wants to go electric. The B.C. government wants taxpayers to cover the cost

01/09/23

Author:

Sarah Cox

Link:

The Narwhal

The BC NDP government wants Ottawa to contribute $1.5 billion to the $3-billion cost of building a new transmission line to provide electricity for LNG Canada and two other liquefied natural gas projects, new metal and critical minerals mines and the Port of Prince Rupert, according to a document received through freedom of information legislation. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Aug. 25. 2023

Confidential documents show taxpayers could be on the hook for a ‘fossil fuel subsidy’ to help supply electricity to LNG Canada, a consortium of some of the world’s most profitable oil and gas companies

The B.C. government wants taxpayers across Canada to pay half the $3-billion bill for a new electric transmission line supplying power to the province’s LNG industry, including projects owned by some of the world’s most profitable oil and gas companies, according to a confidential briefing note obtained by The Narwhal.

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The end of the free trade era leaves Canada in the lurch

31/08/23

Author:

Lawrence Martin

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The Globe and Mail

Gantry cranes sit idle as a container ship is docked at the Port of Vancouver on July 19. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Aug. 30, 2023

An important point that some of us have overlooked: Canada will come under increasing pressure to market fossil fuels to other nations to balance our trade accounts!!!

- Gene (Vancouver Ecosocialists)

In Canada, which is heavily trade-dependent, free trade has been popular for several decades. For Conservative or Liberal governments, inking a new pact was reflexively hailed as a big achievement.

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Canada is burning, so why is our national pension fund still heavily into fossil fuels?

28/08/23

Author:

Patrick DeRochie

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The Globe and Mail

Flames reach upwards along the edge of a wildfire as seen from a Canadian Forces helicopter surveying the area near Mistissini, Quebec, Canada June 12, 2023. CANADIAN FORCES VIA REUTERS

Aug. 27, 2023

As Canada experiences a record-shattering summer of deadly extreme weather, it’s worth remembering that our national pension fund has poured much of our retirement savings into the primary cause of the climate crisis: fossil fuels.

In doing so, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is also undermining its own purpose: to provide Canadians with retirement security by achieving a maximum rate of return without undue risk of loss. Fossil fuel industries, after all, must be rapidly phased out to ensure a safe climate future.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Fossil fuels being subsidised at rate of $13m a minute, says IMF

26/08/23

Author:

Damian Carrington

Link:

The Guardian

Ending fossil fuel subsidies should be the centrepiece of climate action, the IMF said. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Aug. 24, 2023

Oil, gas and coal benefited from $7tn in support in 2022 despite being primary cause of climate crisis

Fossil fuels benefited from record subsidies of $13m (£10.3m) a minute in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund, despite being the primary cause of the climate crisis.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada’s newest health advisory? Natural gas

25/08/23

Author:

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Link:

National Observer

Hundreds of doctors, nurses and health-care workers across Canada have issued a public health advisory about natural gas, said Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment president Melissa Lem. Photo by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson/National Observer

Aug. 24, 2023

Hundreds of doctors, nurses and other Canadian health-care professionals have issued a public health advisory on the health harms of expanding B.C.'s fracking and natural gas infrastructure amidst the climate crisis.

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$1 Trillion in G20 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Last Year

24/08/23

Author:

Jake Johnson

Link:

Common Dreams

A flare is pictured at an oil and gas operation by the French company TotalEnergies off the coast of Angola on November 8, 2018. (Photo: Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images)

Aug. 23, 2023

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‘White’ hydrogen: The hydrogen economy zombie rises again

23/08/23

Author:

Kurt Cobb, originally published by Resource Insights

Link:

Resilience

Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) in 2017. Via Wikimedia Commons

Aug. 20, 2023

Just when you thought the hydrogen economy zombie was dead and gone, it rises again, this time in color.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate Change

LNG - Fracking

Playbook for RCMP’s Wet’suwet’en raids provided by former U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan

23/08/23

Author:

Sidney Coles

Link:

Ricochet Media

Kai Nagata, communications director at Dogwood BC, presenting at the third annual Peace and Unity Summit.

Aug. 17, 2023

Presentation highlights darker truths behind violence and intimidation against Indigenous land defenders resisting resource extraction

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Climate change: Why action on the crisis is all hot air

16/08/23

Author:

Jonathan Cook

Link:

Middle East Eye

A firefighter tackles a wildfire in the Mojave National Preserve, California, on 30 July 2023 (AFP)

Aug. 11, 2023

Neoliberalism's relentless cheerleaders are largely unchallenged in their dangerous belief that capitalism's growth paradigm can be squared with sustainability. It may cost us the Earth

The debate about the climate crisis should have been settled in the early 1990s. And yet, three decades later, the extent, imminence and even existence of a looming catastrophe are still hotly disputed. That is not by accident.

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LNG - Fracking

City council votes 5-4 to accelerate adoption of zero carbon step code

Confidential documents show taxpayers could be on the hook for a ‘fossil fuel subsidy’ to help supply electricity to LNG Canada, a consortium of some of the world’s most profitable oil and gas companies

Oil, gas and coal benefited from $7tn in support in 2022 despite being primary cause of climate crisis

Presentation highlights darker truths behind violence and intimidation against Indigenous land defenders resisting resource extraction

Neoliberalism's relentless cheerleaders are largely unchallenged in their dangerous belief that capitalism's growth paradigm can be squared with sustainability. It may cost us the Earth

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