Dogwood News This Week: don't miss the vote

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Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00

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Email Template r1 Your place for news and action It’s election day across B.C. If you’re eligible and haven’t cast your ballot yet, please do! From electrifying new buildings to city planning and green space protection, local decision-makers have an important role to play in helping communities tackle climate change.

Meanwhile, in northern B.C., Enbridge is in the process of advancing its Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission pipeline – a behemoth that would carry four times more fracked gas than Coastal GasLink. The... company also owns the Pacific Trails pipeline project, proposed for Wet’suwet’en territory.

TC Energy, the same company that has unleashed militarized raids on Wet’suwet’en people and racked up dozens of environmental violations, is keeping its permits warm for another fracked gas mega-pipeline called the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project.

The enormity of the gas industry’s plan for B.C. is mind-blowing. The scale of new fracking required to fill one of these pipelines – let alone four – will wipe out any climate gains made in other sectors or places in the province.

We need courageous leaders, on all levels, who will say: enough. But politicians in B.C. have been marinated in oil and gas industry propaganda and massaged by hundreds of lobbyist meetings. They need a reality check from the people they serve.

If you haven’t already, sign our petition to Keep Gas In The Ground, and show your support for a future where we protect salmon and fresh water, respect Indigenous rights and build a clean, electrified economy that can support families right across the province.

And… make a plan to vote today!

• Thousands of old growth trees in B.C. are being chopped, but not to build homes or furniture, or even make paper. They’re getting cut down, ground and compressed by a British-owned company and turned into tiny pellets, shipped to Europe and Asia to be burned to produce electricity. And the B.C. government calls this a climate solution. -CBC
  
  
• The Trudeau Liberals have been “cooking the books” when it comes to just how much money Trans Mountain is going to lose. According to the latest independent report, taxpayers can kiss $17 billion goodbye. -National Observer
  
  
• ...Find out exactly how the feds are doing it — and what the outcome will be: “a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary Canadians struggling with inflation to a bunch of rich oil companies making obscene profits.” -The Tyee
  
  
• The federal government has said it will stop supporting the oil and gas industry. But so far this year, they’ve committed more than $15 billion in public money to the emissions-intensive sector. And the year’s not even over yet. -Yahoo! Finance
  
  
• RBC is under investigation by Competition Bureau Canada for allegedly misleading Canadians about its climate credentials. The bank is investing billions of dollars in fossil fuels — the main driver of the climate crisis. -National Observer
  
  
• While much of southern B.C. smashes temperature records and wildfires run rampant in mid-October, it’s hard to avoid the feeling that we’re a bit like a frog in a pot of boiling water. -The Narwhal
  
  
• A Campbell River couple is taking the Vital Statistics Agency to court 10 months after the province refused to register their child’s Indigenous first and second name using Kwakwala characters. -Times Colonist
  
  
• “For the last two years, it’s been clear grassroots members of the NDP were unsuccessfully trying to get issues like climate action, LNG, fracking and Indigenous rights onto the party’s agenda. Now there’s a candidate carrying these issues into the [leadership] race [but] we have a party looking like it does not want to talk about these things.” -The Tyee
  
  
• People have left and joined political parties for one reason or another since their earliest existence. What makes the NDP leadership race so different? Read Dogwood's latest blog.
  
  Dogwood Recommends ...that you go VOTE!
  
  Municipal elections are TODAY. Check your municipality's or district's website for times and polling locations. If you’re not sure who to vote for, you still have time to do a bit of research and choose folks you think will do a good job. Even if you don’t select someone for every open seat, voting for a few people is better than not doing voting at all!
  
  This is especially true if you live in Victoria or Vancouver and care about maintaining a progressive, climate-forward council. In some local races, outcomes could be decided by only a handful of votes.
  
  And good news! BC Transit is offering free rides in 26 communities today to help folks get to the polls.
  
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