Protest - Revolt

22/10/17
Author: 
Julia Conley
Nine-year-old Andre is one of seven children suing 47 European nations with the help of the Global Legal Action Network, arguing that the countries are not doing enough to combat climate change. (Photo: Bentler/Twitter)

"Whether we like it or not, we are going to be the main ones affected by the consequences that climate change entails."

 

Seven children in Portugal have hit their crowdfunding target for a lawsuit they are mounting against are 47 member nations of the Council of Europe—which they say are not doing enough to fight climate change.

The children initially hoped to raise £20,000 (about $26,000)—a goal they reached Thursday after less than a month of crowdfunding. They're now hoping to raise a total of £100,000.

22/10/17
Author: 
the Indigenous americans
Standing Rock protest

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a significant victory today in its fight to protect the Tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline.

A federal judge ruled that the federal permits authorizing the pipeline to cross the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock reservation, which were hastily issued by the Trump administration just days after the inauguration, violated the law in certain critical respects.

20/10/17
Author: 
Greenpeace staff
Kayaktivist
Kayaktivists Resisting New Pipeline Send Message to Kinder Morgan in Canada (Photo & Video)
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20/10/17
Author: 
Cam Fenton

Friends,

This is an email I hoped to never have to send. Kinder Morgan has started construction on its export terminal in the Burrard Inlet despite tremendous opposition from First Nations and communities all along its route, without support from the BC government and with no real climate considerations. The company is bulldozing ahead with their plans -- and they have the full support of the Trudeau government.

15/09/17
Author: 
Staff
The District of Saanich has voted to send a letter to greenhouse gas producing fossil fuel companies to hold them accountable for climate change costs. (Martin Meissner/The Associated Press)

Council says taxpayers shouldn't be the only one paying for climate change infrastructure costs

Councillors in the District of Saanich voted unanimously this week to try holding some of the world's largest fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change in their region.

Council pledged to send a letter to 20 large companies involved in extracting fossil fuels, asking them to pay their share of the municipality's climate change costs.

11/09/17
Author: 
Alex Nguyen and Joshua Azizi
Protesters marched from the Art Gallery to Sunset Beach. Timothy McBurney-Lin
Sept. 10, 2017  ·
The protest at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Zach Kourgialis
06/09/17
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Stop KM rally AMANDA SIEBERT

The north side of the Vancouver Art Gallery was recently given a major facelift to enhance its place as one of the major gathering places in the city.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise that opponents of the Kinder Morgan pipeline have chosen this location for a major demonstration on Saturday (September 9).

The self-styled West Coast Protectors plan to meet there at 1 p.m.

25/08/17
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

August 24, 2017. For immediate release.  Ernest Alexandra Alfred and a small group have peacefully occupied the Marine Harvest salmon farm, Swanson Island.  They state that they will remain on the farm until their chiefs are satisfied that the Province of BC has cancelled that farm’s Licence of Occupation and thus it has to leave the territory. The farm is located 17km east of Alert Bay.

 

10/07/17
Author: 
John Bellamy Foster

Climate change is out of control. It is already too late to avoid soaring temperatures, scarce water, and extreme weather. But the financial structure of capitalism is tied to fossil fuels. Market-based solutions are ineffectual. John Bellamy Foster, a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and the editor of Monthly Review, speaks about the kind of program necessary to stop this catastrophe.

 

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