[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - May 15, 2015
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- Published on Friday, 15 May 2015 13:15
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Red Head #EndOfTheLine: website + endorsements for May 30th
Today marks the launch of a new website in support of the Red Head event as well as mobilizing against... Energy East in New Brunswick overall: www.noenergyeastNB.ca. You can RSVP to the event and receive up-to-date information about the event via email and/or text, to help you plan your participation!
Harper announces weak climate emissions reduction target
The Council of Canadians is criticizing the emission reduction target set today by the Harper government as weak, insufficient and lacking in credibility.
BC government has questionable dealings with South Korean transnational
The Council of Canadians is critical of the British Columbia government's dealings with the South Korean transnational corporation Posco.
Austrian chancellor calls for ISDS to be removed from CETA
Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann wants the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) to be renegotiated given his concerns about the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provision. Faymann, who is also the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), has been the country's chancellor since October 2008.
Council & allies call on Ontario to reject nuclear waste dump on Lake Huron
The Council of Canadians has joined with one hundred other public interest groups to call on Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to direct Ontario Power Generation, which is wholly owned by the Government of Ontario, to withdraw its proposal to bury 200,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste near Lake Huron.
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