Last week, the BC NDP released its “Clean Growth Climate Action Plan.” Unfortunately for both the NDP and public debate on climate policy, much of the media coverage focused less on the plan, and more on a leak of the plan by the BC Liberals.
Media headlines are trumpeting this week’s agreement between Premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford regarding tar sands infrastructure in BC. In our opinion, however, this agreement brings the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipeline proposals no closer to reality.
Last week the McLeod Lake Indian Band walked away from BC Hydro’s consultations over the controversial Site C Dam, returning the $100,000 funding that they had been given to enable them to participate in the consultations. The Band is one of the Treaty 8 nations located in Northern BC. Chief Derek Orr was quoted as saying:
On Thursday, February 4, 2016, representatives from West Coast Environmental Law were honoured to be witnesses as the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU) signed the Save the Fraser Declaration Solidarity Accord to stand together with First Nations banning tar sands transport through their territories.
What began as a smear campaign against West Coast Environmental Law and other environmental groups has crossed a line with oil industry advocates EthicalOil.org and Ezra Levant (author of the book Ethical Oil) taking aim at the thousands of ordinary Canadians who have registered to express their concerns about the proposed Northern Gateway Pipelines before the National Energy Board (NEB)/Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Joint Review Panel (JRP)
Do the governments of the world have a legal duty to protect the atmosphere?
Along with many other environmentalists, I found myself torn about how to react to last week’s First Ministers’ Meeting and the release of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.
CBC is reporting that Prime Minister Harper has sent a letter to U.S. President Obama offering to commit to greenhouse gas regulations in return for the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
As the Yinka Dene Alliance and their allies were gathering in Ottawa to renew their opposition to Tar Sands Pipelines on March 19th, Natural Resource Minister, Joe Oliver, was in Terrace, BC, to announce the appointment of Vancouver-based lawyer, Douglas Eyford, as a “Special Federal Representa
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