Environmental Groups

British Columbia’s Big Lie

23/12/22

Author:

David Broadland

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The Evergreen Alliance

Dec.13, 2022

The BC government is committing a 220,000-square-kilometre, biodiversity-killing, climate-destabilizing fraud on its own citizens and the international community.

THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF WRITING over the past year about the “Big Lie” in American politics: A deliberate, gross distortion of the truth, repeated over and over, even in the face of evidence that what’s being claimed is false.

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Canada’s biggest certifier of sustainable forests faces greenwashing accusations

23/12/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

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National Observer

A processor strips the bark and branches from a log in Copper Canyon on Vancouver Island, B.C. Photo by David Stanley / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Dec. 23, 2022

Canadian environmental groups have levelled another greenwashing complaint — this time at the largest certification scheme for sustainable forestry in North America.

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) certifies 115 million hectares of forest within Canada’s borders for companies.

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Action Required: Zain Haq is a 21 year old climate activist who is facing deportation - sign to stop this

16/12/22

Author:

Stand Earth

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Stand Earth

9 December 2022

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

13/12/22

Author:

Seth Klein

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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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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

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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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The Dirty Dozen: ‘Carbon bombs’ threaten to blow up Canada’s climate commitments

23/11/22

Author:

Nicholas Gottlieb, graphics by Elysse Deveaux

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Ricochet Media

The Dirty Dozen: ‘Carbon bombs’ threaten to blow up Canada’s climate commitments

Website Editor: A great summary of Canada's fossil fuels situation and politics in this article.

Nov. 22, 2022

Canada wants to be the last country producing fossil fuels, even if it kills us

COP27 is over. The UN summit took one big step forward on climate justice with the creation of a loss and damage fund for the most impacted nations, while taking two enormous steps backwards by failing to call for a phaseout of all fossil fuels.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Delayed NDP Promise Boosts BC Extinctions

22/11/22

Author:

Ainslie Cruickshank

Link:

The Narwhal

When born, fisher are blind, deaf and only partially covered with fine hair. In B.C., they're categorized as "red," which is reserved for "any species or ecosystem that is at risk of being lost," according to the province. Photo: Shutterstock

Nov. 10, 2022

The B.C. NDP campaigned on protecting species at risk. Years later, the province still doesn’t have stand-alone species at risk legislation

‘Huge legal gaps’ are driving B.C. species to extinction, conservation groups say

More than five years ago, during an election campaign that saw the B.C. New Democrats form government, the party committed to enact a stand-alone law to protect species at risk of extinction.

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Environment minister says emissions cap on oil and gas coming by end of 2023

19/11/22

Author:

Mia Rabson

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National Observer

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault is seen during a news conference in Ottawa, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Nov. 15, 2022

A cap on greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil and gas sector will be ready by the end of next year, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday.

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Who Holds Up Half the Earth? - Book Review of 'Half-Earth Socialism'

14/11/22

Author:

Alex James and Neil Johnson

Link:

Cosmonaut

Promotional graphic for ‘Half-Earth Socialism.’

Though the text being reviewed here is being negatively evaluated, I find it useful to see the list of categories being used by the reviewers. Not being much of a consumer of theoretical and scholastic writings, I had no such list before reading this. Perhaps others might find this useful. Gene McGuckin

Oct. 28, 2022

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Environmental Groups

The BC government is committing a 220,000-square-kilometre, biodiversity-killing, climate-destabilizing fraud on its own citizens and the international community.

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

Canada wants to be the last country producing fossil fuels, even if it kills us

The B.C. NDP campaigned on protecting species at risk. Years later, the province still doesn’t have stand-alone species at risk legislation

‘Huge legal gaps’ are driving B.C. species to extinction, conservation groups say

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