Dogwood News This Week: special treatment
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Friday was the deadline for Indigenous groups to consult on the Enbridge Westcoast Connector pipeline decision. The company is requesting an emergency permit extension for a massive fracked gas line across northern B.C.
In some cases, communities were given fewer than five days to submit a response to Enbridge’s request.
Hooxi'i, a spokesperson for one Gitxsan house group that is opposing the extension, posted a video this week explaining how ridiculously tight this turnaround time is considering the gravity of the project’s impacts. Check it out.
Let’s make sure the environment minister doesn’t quietly... give in to lobbyist pressure behind closed doors.
If you’ve already sent him a message, please get more people on board ramping up the pressure. Share the action this weekend by forwarding this e-mail on and also sharing this link on your social media channels. NEWS Stories we’re following
What is "Phase 2" and why does it matter?
If the LNG Canada project doubles in size, the province might as well say goodbye to any chance of meeting its climate targets. -
National Observer
B.C. budget short-changes climate action
There are plenty of things to celebrate in the Eby government’s new fiscal plan. But politicians still don’t seem to grasp the scale of spending needed to keep communities safe – and transition oil & gas workers to jobs with a future.
Trans Mountain is (still) getting special treatment
The company is being propped up by Canadian banks and hiding its full financial picture – and it's costing the Canadian public billions. -National Observer
Make it make sense
Vancouver's city council is hiking taxes for everyday people to pay for climate damage while letting oil companies completely off the hook. -Vancouver Sun
From farmer to fighter
How climate change is making extremist groups like the Taliban stronger. -National Observer
Frogs in boiling water
Humans are good at regarding new and unfamiliar phenomena like COVID as dangerous. But long-term and gradual crises, like the number of deaths caused by burning fossil fuels, become acceptable because of our ability to adjust. -The Guardian
Charter violations and excessive force
Wet’suwet’en land defenders call on the courts to dismiss criminal charges in light of RCMP misconduct. -The Tyee
Support shrinks for LNG
A new Stratcom poll shows British Columbians don't want more fossil gas projects that will blow our climate targets. And we definitely don't want to subsidize them. -Clean Energy Canada
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