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02/03/25
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BC Climate Emergency Campaign and Allies
 from https://bcclimateemergency.ca/progress-report
Feb. 2025
 
SUMMARY
 
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been widely promoted by governments and industry throughout B.C.
as a fix-all solution that will supposedly boost B.C.’s economy, support local jobs, get countries in Asia
off coal, reduce B.C.’s reliance on American energy exports, and lower B.C.’s emissions.
 
This briefing note explains why LNG is a false solution on all these fronts. It lays out environmental,
02/03/25
Author: 
Martin Hart-Landsberg
Robot

 March 2, 2025  

The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell artificial intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all. And to this point they have been surprisingly successful in capturing investor money and government support, making their already wealthy owners even wealthier. However, that success doesn’t change the fact that their AI systems have already largely exhausted their potential.

27/02/25
Author: 
Nina Lakhani
The Mountain Valley Pipeline route on Brush Mountain, Virginia. Photograph: Heather Rousseau/AP

Feb. 25, 2025

Protesters who tried to disrupt completion of Mountain Valley pipeline to defend themselves in Virginia court

Climate activists who tried to disrupt the completion of a fossil-fuel pipeline through Appalachian forests will appear in court in Virginia on Tuesday to face serious criminal charges that they vehemently deny.

27/02/25
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is reviving former Alberta premier Jason Kenney's (above) failed tactic of attacking environmental groups for getting U.S. funding as his answer to the Trump tariff threats. File photo by Alex Tétreault

Feb. 25, 2025

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is pitching new laws targeting provincial environmental groups as part of his party’s strategy to combat U.S. tariff threats. 

Flanked by billboards reading “US millionaires are funding the destruction of B.C. economy” at a press conference Monday, Rustad argued the province needs legislation to ban B.C.-based environmental groups from receiving any U.S. funding for climate campaigns against oil and gas companies.

24/02/25
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of Defence joint search and rescue (SAR) team evacuated 20 mariners from a grounded cargo ship on Feb. 15 off the coast of Newfoundland during a storm. Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the CCG are suffering financial strain of maintaining core services in face of rising climate impacts and extreme weather. Facebook photo / Canadian Coast Guard

Feb. 24, 2025

Hurricane Fiona left a trail of destruction across the Atlantic Coast in September 2022 wreaking havoc on wharves, fisheries, vessels, and gear and the federal government’s pocketbook.

24/02/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Mark Carney is surrounded by supporters at a campaign event in Scarborough on Wed. Feb. 19. Photo by: Abdul Matin Sarfraz

Feb. 24, 2025

It’s been almost a decade since Mark Carney took the podium during a candlelit meal in the immense Underwriting Room at Lloyd's of London and threw a stink bomb at the black tied bigwigs of international finance.

“I’m going to give you a speech without a joke, I’m afraid,” Carney began. And then, after the requisite “grateful for the invitation” and up-buttering, Carney gave what’s been known ever since as the Tragedy of the Horizon speech.

22/02/25
Author: 
John Burbank / Inequality.org
Downtown Seattle Housing. Eric Fredericks from Rancho Cordova, CA, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Feb. 21, 2025

Seattle voters have just beaten the oligarchs, Amazon, Microsoft, the local Chamber of Commerce, the real estate industry, the coup makers and backers, the Muskites, and the Trumpiphiles. How? Through a ballot measure, the people in Seattle have just approved a tax on excessive executive compensation to fund affordable housing.

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