[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - November 30, 2015
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Fracking is a bridge to nowhere for B.C.
As world leaders meet in Paris this weekend, the recent terrorist shootings in the city will still be on the minds of most delegates. Yet it will have to take second place to another kind of crisis: climate change. The impact of extreme weather, droughts, floods, and rising temperatures on our ecosystems, our economies,... and our communities must be halted before it gets worse—much worse.
Enbridge's proposed 760,000 bpd Line 3 pipeline to Lake Superior
Bloomberg has reported, "Enbridge is focusing on expanding 'low-cost, incremental' projects like twinning existing pipelines to provide producers with new transportation capacity as they struggle with low crude prices..."
34 chapters say a clean energy future is 100% possible
This past weekend, on the eve of the COP 21 climate talks in Paris, 34 Council of Canadians chapters mobilized to say that a 100% clean economy is 100% possible by 2050. This mobilization included the Ottawa, Peterborough and Montreal chapters who took part in the 25,000 person march in Ottawa to Parliament Hill.
Six chapters screen 'This Changes Everything' on eve of COP 21 talks
Six Council of Canadians chapters screened the Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein film 'This Changes Everything' yesterday.
McKenna to decide on nuclear waste dump on Lake Huron on March 1, 2016
The Council of Canadians has been calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reject a plan to bury 200,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste near Lake Huron.
What's going on with CETA 14 months after negotiations on it were completed?
Given the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was 'approved in principle' in October 2013 and the subject of a quasi-signing ceremony on Parliament Hill in September 2014, one might wonder what has happened to the agreement fourteen months after negotiations on it were completed.
McKenna says Energy East review will continue under the "original system"
Council of Canadians energy and climate justice campaigner Andrea Harden-Donahue has commented, "The Liberal government promised to reform the broken National Energy Board (NEB) process for reviewing pipelines, including those already under review.
Sudbury chapter draws 200 to screening of 'This Changes Everything'
The Council of Canadians Sudbury chapter screened the film This Changes Everything last night.
Trudeau's climate plan for Paris falls well short of what's needed
With the COP 21 climate talks beginning in Paris on Monday (Nov. 30), the indications are that the critical aspects of the Trudeau's climate policy fall well short of what is needed. Those key areas include…
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