[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - January 26, 2015
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WIN! Fredericton city council votes to ask TransCanada for a public meeting on the Energy East pipeline
Fredericton chapter activist Mark D'Arcy writes, "There was a small victory [on Monday January 19] at Fredericton's Council-in-Committee meeting. ...The City of Fredericton has agreed to send a letter to TransCanada Pipelines Corp. asking for a public meeting for the... residents of Fredericton."
Judge TransCanada by their explosive record
One year ago today, a TransCanada natural gas pipeline violently exploded near Otterburne Manitoba. TransCanada has had four other catastrophic pipeline failures in the last fifteen months, causing the evacuation of hundreds of people and cutting off natural gas supplies to business and communities in the depths of winter.
Germany and France want to reopen CETA to amend ISDS provision
Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow has tweeted "France and Germany want to revise CETA!”
Goldcorp buys another mine, concerns continue in Guatemala
Goldcorp Inc. has acquired Probe Mines Ltd. That means the Vancouver-based mining company now also own the Borden gold mine near Chapleau in northern Ontario. That mine is about 160 kilometres west of Goldcorp's long-established Porcupine mine near Timmins.
Guelph chapter helps organize town hall on electoral fraud & community action
The Council of Canadians Guelph chapter, Fair Vote Guelph, Guelph Solar and the St. James Anglican Church social justice committee hosted a public forum yesterday. More than 100 people were there to hear the speakers and engage in a question-and-answer session.
Sapotaweyak Cree Nation blockades hydro line that could power Energy East pipeline
The Sapotaweyak Cree Nation set up a blockade this weekend to stop Manitoba Hydro from clear-cutting a path 65 metres wide for 250 kilometres through their traditional hunting and gathering territory for the Bipole III transmission line. The First Nation has set up two teepees and a sacred fire in the path of where the trees are to be cut down. The ancestral lands they are trying to protect include burial grounds and spiritual sites. The Sapotaweyak Cree Nation is located about 400 kilometres north-west of Winnipeg.
Comox Valley chapter critiques threats to democratic participation
The Council of Canadians Comox Valley chapter has issued a critical analysis of 'advocacy in the time of Harper'. Chapter member Alice de Wolff highlights numerous instances of federal and provincial legislation, as well as corporate actions, that are intended to stop or distract community opposition and local mobilization. She writes, "Several of these measures are explicitly intended to disrupt, discredit, divert and disorganize advocacy groups, particularly those that are concerned about the environment."
CETA could unravel with decisive Syriza win in Greece
Today the people of Greece elected a Syriza government. Exit polls show that the party has won between 146 and 158 seats in the 300-member Hellenic parliament (the final election results will be available by tomorrow morning). While Syriza (the Coalition of the Radical Left) has been mostly in the news because of its vow to cancel the brutal austerity measures imposed by the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission, it has also stated that if elected it would not ratify the Canada-European Union 'free trade' agreement.
The Windsor bridge NAFTA challenge & other key annual conference issues
The Harper government wants a second bridge across the Detroit River to connect Windsor and Detroit completed by 2020. About $120 billion of goods travel through the Windsor-Detroit corridor and across the Ambassador Bridge each year. Harper wants a new six-lane bridge so much that his government is paying the entire cost of the $1 billion bridge construction.
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