An impressively comprehensive (and scary) summary of “the task before us, if we would not fail, is to build the earth.” And, though the author does not say it explicitly, he convincingly documents why this task cannot be accomplished with the required urgency under capitalism.
Gene McGuckin
Climate-Change Transition in the Age of the Billionaire
It was supposed to be the greatest transition of modern times.
A new ranking of the planet’s largest polluters has Canada in the top 10 for total emissions, which climate advocates say gives the country an even greater responsibility to align itself with a climate-safe future.
New Westminster is the latest community to oppose the proposed expansion of the Tilbury liquefied natural gas plant in Delta.
At Monday’s meeting, representatives from the Council of Canadians and the Wilderness Committee urged New West to follow the lead of Vancouver, Richmond and Port Moody, which have voiced their opposition to FortisBC’s plan to expand its Tilbury LNG plant on the Fraser River.
Somewhat amazingly, two words absent from this article are "profits" and "unions." It's like a nature calendar of BC with no pictures of water or trees.
- Gene McGuckin
October 6th 2021
As the planet slides into an era of climate breakdown, oil and gas industry groups and climate advocacy organizations in Canada are squaring off to shape the federal government’s just transition strategy.
Injunctions have long and often turned the court into a tool for Big Business and Bad Government. This time it didn’t work
Mohandas Gandhi would be proud — civil disobedience won another round in B.C. Supreme Court and the rule of law was defined as much more than simply law enforcement.
Justice Douglas Thompson’s refusal to extend a one-year injunction restricting protests against logging in the Fairy Creek watershed emphasized the impartial status of courts and civil rights are equally important societal values.
After waiting for years for support from the provincial government and in the face of declining salmon stock, the Gitanyow are independently forging ahead with new protections under traditional law and custom for some 54,000 hectares of land and water, which are threatened by potential mining projects
On a late August afternoon, under cloudy skies that threatened rain, Gitanyow hereditary chiefs gathered at the Lax An Zok fish camp on the banks of the Meziadin River in northwest B.C. to sign a unilateral declaration.
According to a new 28-page report by West Coast Environmental Law, the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is going to be delivered late and over budget.
Eugene Kung, a lawyer for West Coast Environmental Law helped assemble the report called: Trans Mountain: Delays into 2023 will add millions to public cost, which can be viewed here: tinyurl.com/TMX-delay
