Ecology/Environment

Should we worry about eight billion people?

14/12/22

Author:

Jonathan Thompson

Link:

National Observer

Crowds take photos at the Bellagio Fountain in Las Vegas. The fountain is fed by a private well from a now-defunct golf course, not by the Colorado River. Photo by Jonathan Cutrer / Flickr

Dec. 14, 2022

This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

This is an instalment of the Landline, a fortnightly newsletter from High Country News about land, water, wildlife, climate and conservation in the western United States.

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Forest protection should be a high priority at COP15

14/12/22

Author:

Rob Miller

Link:

National Observer

We know these ancient forests are worth more standing. We understand the consequences of losing them. There is a sense of urgency for change. We need binding agreements from international negotiations like COP15. Photo via Flickr

Dec. 14, 2022

During Biodiversity Day at COP27, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault committed $855,000 to ensure non-profit environmental groups and Indigenous partners can participate at COP15, the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal. This funding levels the playing field as industries increasingly send their paid representatives to participate in the negotiations.

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B.C.’s new Premier David Eby hits the ground running

13/12/22

Author:

Seth Klein

Link:

National Observer

But what early climate signals can be found in B.C. Premier David Eby's new cabinet and their mandate letters? asks Seth Klein. Photo via Province of British Columbia/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Dec. 13, 2022

The past few years have hit most British Columbians hard — from COVID-19 to floods and fires to the escalating cost of living. The new premier has hit the ground running, delivering an ambitious string of initiatives in his first weeks.

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Will Sea Lions Slow the Construction of Woodfibre LNG? (Or Will Project Conditions Be Relaxed?)

13/12/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

Link:

The Tyee

Steller sea lions, such as the one pictured here eating a salmon, often frequent the Howe Sound and would interrupt construction of the Woodfibre LNG project unless changes are made to the project conditions, the company says. Photo via Shutterstock.

Dec. 13, 2022

The company says the animals’ ‘ubiquitous presence’ will cause ‘regular and prolonged full project shutdowns.’

Construction on the Woodfibre LNG project in Squamish is set to take off in 2023, but the “curious and gregarious” nature of sea lions could make the construction “neither technically nor economically feasible.”

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A Groundbreaking Indigenous Rights Decision, 25 Years Later

12/12/22

Author:

Amanda Follett Hosgood

Link:

The Tyee

Many of those who fought the historic Deglamuukw-Gisday’wa gathered in the Wet’suwet’en community of Witset on Friday to celebrate. ‘We’ve got to get back to the original vision of our Chiefs and leaders and people who brought us there,’ says Wet’suwet’en Dinize Satsan, Herb George. Photo by Olivia Leigh Nowak.

Dec. 11, 2022

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

It was sometime after midnight on a winter night in 1988 that Simogyet (Chief) Neekt took his farm tractor and dragged a log across the Kispiox Valley Road.

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Luisa Cáceres: Commune-Building in Urban Venezuela

12/12/22

Author:

Chris Gilbert

Link:

Monthly Review

Luisa Cáceres communards assembled beside communal mural. (Photo: Gerardo Rojas/Voces Urgentes)

Dec 01, 2022

Chris Gilbert is a professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, and the creator and co-host of the Marxist educational television program Escuela de Cuadros. This article is adapted from his upcoming book, Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review Press, 2023).

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What Climate Debt Does The North Owe The South?

03/12/22

Author:

John Feffer

Link:

Foreign Policy in Focus

Nov. 30, 2022

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Arctic System Collapse? Devastating new research.

03/12/22

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Arctic Sea Ice Forum - Just Have a Think

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YouTube

Sept. 2022

This is being passed on to you via Arctic Sea Ice Forum, What’s New in the Arctic. The forum is a place where scientists studying the arctic get to compare notes. There’s an enormous amount of information there and the scientists report on all the new papers, discussions, technology, etc concerning the Arctic. In the link above, the commentary was: “Another brilliant comprehensive survey of what's going on in the Arctic and in Grønland in the series "Just have a Think".

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Premier Eby must choose: climate commitments or fossil fuels

02/12/22

Author:

Stewart Phillip, Peter McCartney, Seth Klein, Tracey Saxby, Alexandra Woodsworth, Kiki Wood, Jens Wieting

Link:

The Vancouver Sun

LNG Canada site construction activities in Kitimat in September. jpg

Website editor: Indigenous leader and many prominent BC environmental non-governmental organizations speaking together here. Good to see.

Dec. 2, 2022

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Protecting peatlands pivotal for climate and biodiversity goals, scientists say

02/12/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

Link:

National Observer

Canada is home to 25 per cent of the earth's peatlands. Preserving these carbon-rich ecosystems is key to addressing both the biodiversity and cliamte crises. Photo by Dr. Lorna Harris, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada

Dec. 2, 2022

As the United Nations biodiversity conference draws near, dozens of scientists from 13 countries are calling for protection of the world’s waterlogged, carbon-rich peatlands, a quarter of which exist within Canada’s borders and are threatened by development.

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Ecology/Environment

The company says the animals’ ‘ubiquitous presence’ will cause ‘regular and prolonged full project shutdowns.’

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

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