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19/01/25
Author: 
Sierra Club BC, West Coast Environmental Law, Ecojustice
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Gaps in BC mandate letters threaten progress on climate and biodiversity commitments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

January 16, 2025

Sierra Club BC Director of Campaigns and Programs Shelley Luce offers the following statement in reaction to mandate letters sent to Cabinet ministers today by Premier Eby:

16/01/25
Author: 
Peter Boyle
Climate Change is a Class Issue - book cover

Nov. 29, 2024 

Climate Change is a Class Issue
By Sarah Glynn and John Clarke
2024
68pp, RRP $25.95
Free e-book available from climateandclass.net

This small book has already earned big praise from British socialist filmmaker Ken Loach, who described it as “vital”.

16/01/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
The LNG industry is depending on the North Coast Transmission Line to deliver renewable energy to gas export facilities on the north coast. The BC government plans to exempt it from an environmental assessment. Map via BC Hydro; inset images via BC Lobbyists Registry.

Jan. 16, 2025

After Heavy LNG Lobbying, BC Simplifies Power Project Approval

The move will allow the North Coast Transmission Line to bypass an environmental assessment.

15/01/25
Author: 
Claire Elise Thompson
Illustration of a cricket, garnished with a basil leaf, on a dinner plate

The vision

“After the ninth epidemic of mad cow disease, everyone was already eating insects. So we weren’t the first restaurant in PuertoChina to do it,” said Nai Nai.

15/01/25
Author: 
Ellen Brown
https://popularresistance.org/beating-wall-street-at-its-own-game-the-bank-of-north-dakota-model/

Jan. 13, 2025

North Dakota is staunchly conservative, having voted Republican in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So how is it that the state boasts the only state-owned bank in the nation? Has it secretly gone socialist?

15/01/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 15, 2025

Pension funds are gambling with Canadians’ retirement savings by placing multi-billion dollar bets on hydrogen's ability to rescue old, polluting gas pipelines from terminal decline, according to a climate finance advocacy organization. 

12/01/25
Author: 
John Woodside

Jan. 9. 2025

The Pathways Alliance’s proposed carbon capture and storage megaproject has not begun construction or even received approval, and yet its business model is already collapsing, according to a global think tank. 

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