Oil - Pipelines

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

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Alberta

Enbridge Line 3: The Climate Disaster Unfolding Before Our Eyes

10/09/21

Author:

Sonali Kolhatkar

Link:

The Bullet

September 10, 2021

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall off the coast of Louisiana, triggering a slow-moving disaster as floodwaters breached the levees around New Orleans. Nearly 2,000 people were killed over several weeks, hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Environmental scientists warned that Katrina was a taste of what was in store for the Gulf Coast region if climate change continued unchecked.

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Supporters Needed at Unist'ot'en Healing Centre

10/09/21

Author:

Unist'ot'en Solidarity Brigade

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Where They Stand: The Parties on Fossil Fuel Subsidies

10/09/21

Author:

Michelle Gamage

Link:

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

If you want your vote to help the climate, here are the questions you need to ask

09/09/21

Author:

Seth Klein

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National Observer

A helicopter drops a bucket of water on the Chuckegg Creek wildfire west of High Level, Alta., on May 25, 2019. Photo by Chris Schwarz, Government of Alberta / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

September 9th 2021

Why you should take Mark Jaccard’s platform ratings with a hunk of salt

If there is some good news in this election it is that, finally, every leader and party feels compelled to run on what they hope will be viewed as a credible climate plan, and each of the major parties appears to be presenting a somewhat stronger climate plan than just two years ago.

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Will the next federal government lift the curtain on the true cost of TMX?

09/09/21

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

The cost of the Trans Mountain expansion project continues to soar, but by how much exactly is still not clear, according to a new report from West Coast Environmental Law. Photo via TMX / Facebook

September 9th 2021

The costs of the Trans Mountain expansion project continue to soar, but with the company behind it increasingly opaque since Ottawa bought the pipeline, it’s difficult to say by how much, according to a new report from West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL).

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EMERGENCY CALL-OUT Our tree-sit at Lost Creek in Burnaby is under attack!

08/09/21

Author:

BROKE (Burnaby Residents Opposed to Kinder Morgan Expansion)

Please spread the word and come when you can. Bring water, canned fruit. It appears the plan might be to starve out the tree-sitters. Lots of security on site and, since yesterday, lots of fencing erected around the trees where the tree-sit platforms are.

Solidarity,

Gene McGuckin

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Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 11:19 PM
Subject: Treesit under attack

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We Backed BC’s Climate Plan. Now We See It’s Not Enough

07/09/21

Author:

Grand Chief Stewart Philip, Hannah Askew, Tzeporah Berman, Andrew Gage and Khelsilem

Link:

The Tyee

Time to reroute our plans. Fire near the Coquihalla Highway on Aug. 15, 2021. Photo by BC Ministry of Transportation.

Sept. 6, 2021

The time has come for a major reboot of the CleanBC goals.

As we come to the end of what has been a devastating summer for many British Columbians — marked by the June heat dome event and the loss of nearly 600 people, hundreds of wildfires leading to people losing their homes, days of smoke, thousands of evacuations — the time has come for a major reboot of CleanBC, the province’s climate plan.

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If the NDP and Greens were truly serious about climate action, they would make a deal on Vancouver's West Side

05/09/21

Author:

Charlie Smith

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The Georgia Straight

Vancouver Granville NDP candidate Anjali Appadurai and Vancouver Quadra Green candidate Devyani Singh would each bring a deep understanding of climate issues, as well as tremendous passion for action, to Ottawa.

August 21st, 2021

If you're reading this article, it's because you're interested in federal politics. I'm guessing that the headline captured your attention.

I'll elaborate on this headline deeper in the piece. But first, I'm going to set the table with a quick synopsis of the contradiction between Canada's energy policy and climate policy.

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Oil - Pipelines

Tree sitters aiming to block the Trans Mountain pipeline route in a Burnaby forest say they are “under siege” after contractors erected blue fencing around their protest site on Tuesday.

Why you should take Mark Jaccard’s platform ratings with a hunk of salt

The time has come for a major reboot of the CleanBC goals.

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