ACTIVlist Update - October 4, 2016
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How to protect water through the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act - Part 1 How to protect water through the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act - Part 2 NWT chapter presents to House of Common committee on electoral reform Muskrats Falls dam flooding to begin during Council of Canadians annual conference in Newfoundland & Labrador Trudeau to decide if oil & gas exploration in Gulf of St. Lawrence will be extended to 2021 Trudeau refuses to meet with premiers to discuss health care funding Quinte chapter hosts Barlow for 'Boiling Point' public forum Ontario premier promises public consultations on Nestle water-takings
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This four-part blog series will help people to participate in the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) consultations organized by the federal government and to advocate for better assessment and protection of water.
This is the second part in a four-part blog series that aims to help people... to participate in the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) consultations organized by the federal government and to advocate for better assessment and protection of water.
The Council of Canadians Northwest Territories (NWT) chapter presented to the Special Committee on Electoral Reform on September 30 in Yellowknife.
The Council of Canadians will be in St. John's this coming October 14-16, which is the same weekend provincial energy corporation Nalcor intends to begin flooding traditional Innu territory in Labrador as part of the construction process for the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam project.
On September 16, the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced it wants to issue an extended licence to Corridor Resources Inc. for deepwater oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Given the Harper government refused to negotiate a new Health Accord (with a 6 per cent escalator) and instead imposed a new funding formula that could mean more than $36 billion would not be transferred from the federal government to provincial governments over the next ten years for health care, it was welcomed when the Liberals promised to "negotiate a new Health Accord with provinces and territories" as well as a "long-term agreement on funding".
The Council of Canadians Quinte chapter in partnership with the University Women's Club hosted Maude Barlow for a public forum this evening in Belleville on her new book, Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis.
Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne appears to have promised public consultations on the province's water-taking permit system, which would include the controversial Nestle water takings in southern Ontario.
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