Environment

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AJ Klein and Emma Lui express their solidarity with Treaty 8 land defenders oppo

Trudeau grants permits to block Peace River for Site C dam | Aug 3 2016 | Brent Patterson | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has approved a Navigation Protection Act (formerly Navigable Waters Protection Act) permit and Fisheries Act permit for the construction of the Site C dam.

Settler solidarity against colonial urban development | Aug 3 2016 | Scott Neigh | William Felepchuk and Brian McDougall talk about settler organizing in solidarity with Algonquin opposition to a condo development on a sacred site in Ottawa.

Trudeau rich in climate change rhetoric, poor in courage to follow through | Aug 3 2016 | Rafe Mair | The Trudeau government's increasingly bizarre policy on fossil fuels essentially amounts wanting to have its cake and eat it too.

Half measures aren't enough to save caribou | Aug 2 2016 | David Suzuki | The challenge to recover caribou is not Alberta's alone; it is a national undertaking. Boreal caribou are threatened in every province except Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

Oil from Husky Energy pipeline spill into North Saskatchewan River. Photo: Shel

Saskatchewan spill is a reality check on our oil addiction | Aug 2 2016 | Daniel Cayley-Daoust, Emma Lui | Though proponents claim pipelines are the so-called "safest" method of transporting oil, we have seen 8,360 spills in Saskatchewan since 2006. How is this considered safe?

Acoustic ecology and the art of listening | Aug 1 2016 | Victoria Fenner | July 18 was World Listening Day. Some thoughts about paying attention to what our ears are telling us.

Buzzwords will not save us from climate disaster | Jul 29 2016 | Seble Samuel | Conferences often times fall down the slippery slope of achieving nothing. Let's change the game.

How to fight neoliberalism without giving way to despair | Jul 28 2016 | Ed Finn | This is an epilogue to Ed Finn's three-part series examining the ideology of neoliberalism and the enormous harm its implementation imposes on people and the planet.

Brad Wall: A day late and a dollar short on Husky's Prince Albert pipeline spill | Jul 28 2016 | David J. Climenhaga | There is only one approach to building more Canadian pipelines that has any chance of working, and that’s the effort to win social license being made by Rachel Notley's NDP.

Robinhood and the United Nations | Jul 28 2016 | Daryn Caister | Finance expert Tim Nash joins us this week for a segment on a global "Robinhood Tax" and it could address wealth inequality, climate change and basically all the other big-ticket global problems.

Worried about the oil spill threatening north Saskatchewan's drinking water? It's just one of 18,000 | Jul 27 2016 | Emily Eaton | Since 1990, there have been over 18,000 oil spills in Saskatchewan and over 8,000 in just the last 10 years.

Oilsands workers supporting renewable energy | Jul 27 2016 | Scott Neigh | Adam Cormier and Lliam Hildebrand talk about Iron and Earth, an organization of oilsands workers pushing for support of renewable energy alternatives.

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West-east pipeline part 2 epaulo13 said... Drinking water measures could be in place for months due to oil spill: official Communities...

Liberal climate change plan coming, $7 billion expenditure mark_alfred said... A document was leaked to the Globe and Mail, describing a $7 billion climate change plan of the...

The Leap Manifesto Unionist said... I don't understand. What's wrong with worshipping the Sun God Ra? in

Trudeau to push to make Trans Mountain and Energy East pipelines a reality jerrym said... Well that didn't take long. Justin is going to use his cuddly image to seil more pipelines and...

Resistance in Shawnigan Lake ikosmos said... Shawnigan featured on W5. in

Trudeau Liberals and the Environment mark_alfred said... Here's a clip from the first question period (today, December 7, 2015) that includes a couple of...

COP21 climate demonstrations banned after attacks NDPP said... Stephane Dion Pessimistic Ahead of COP21 Climate Conference http://www.cbc.ca/news/cop21-paris-...

Report: Obama Administration Will Reject The Keystone XL Pipeline Unionist said... Trudeau ‘disappointed’ Obama rejects $8 billion Keystone pipeline in

Favourite housing and planning policies (all parties) Mr. Magoo said... I think that you often start threads that probably should be the kindling for bigger fires, but...

Do Liberal supporters have the right to expect the party to have a "this far, and no further" point on the rightward shift? mark_alfred said... Since there's so many Liberals here now, I figured I'd make a parallel thread to the similarly...

Events

Halifax

Thu, Nov 3, 2016

Nature Trust 19th Annual Dinner and Auction

sites we like

Indigenous Environmental Network

Wilderness Committee

Defend Our Coast

Alternatives Journal

The Climate Reality Project

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Trudeau grants permits to block Peace River for Site C dam

First Nations and civil society groups oppose it but Trudeau approved it -- a permit for the Site C dam -- a 60-metre high, 1,050-metre-long earth-filled dam and hydroelectric generation station.

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