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[coalalert] SHOCKING NUMBERS ON COAL INTEREST IN THE COMOX VALLEY
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 February 2015 10:44
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SIZE OF COAL INTEREST AREA IN THE COMOX VALLEY
Compliance Coal Corporation: 29,000 ha. of fee simple coal tenure. Bear Coal Deposit coal tenure - 2,046 ha. Anderson Lake coal license tenure 1,500 ha.
Golden River Resources: 11,325 ha. in coal license applications
Skyland Resource: 11,550 ha. in coal license applications
Hillsborough Resources: 2,546 ha. in coal license applications and coal tenures.
Total amount: 57,967 hectares or 580 square kilometres.
Total land area in the Comox Valley Regional District - 1,725 square kilometres.
Coal license applications and existing coal tenures total 33.6% of the land area in the Comox Valley Regional District.
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[coalalert] TIMES COLONIST RAVEN COAL ARTICLE
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 February 2015 09:22
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LINK TO THE TIMES COLONIST ARTICLE ON THE RAVEN COAL MINE IS ABOVE
Okay Paov, here's the plan
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 February 2015 17:00
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2015 has come in with a roar - and this wild ride ain’t gonna let up any time soon. We’re working flat out to amplify your voices and defend the free and open Internet.
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...[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - February 3, 2015
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- Published on Monday, 16 March 2015 13:46
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This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to www.canadians.org. Please forward this e-mail and encourage others to join our list! Thank you for your interest and support.
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MEDIA RELEASE:
With C-50, yet again, Conservatives hope to deter expat Canadians from voting, says Council of Canadians
ACTION ALERT: Say “no” to the new voter suppression bill
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Council of Canadians in solidarity with
Aamjiwnaang First Nation
The Council of Canadians stands in solidarity...
MP to lecture university students on "why Stephen Harper is good for science"
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 February 2015 12:22
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The subject of a Tory MP's university lecture this Thursday was easy to refute in our latest post below.
Given the government's well-documented "war on science" -- from cuts to research funding, facilities and government scientist jobs -- and their all around track record on freedom of expression and critical research, this post might be of interest to your members.
Please feel free to share on Facebook and Twitter:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/mp-lecture-university-students-why-stephen-harper-good-science
Thanks,Chris
[coalalert] PQB NEWS - RAVEN COAL MINE ARTICLE
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 February 2015 12:00
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We got the call! The death with dignity decision is coming
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 February 2015 11:44
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Read more: We got the call! The death with dignity decision is coming
Ben's E-News: Protecting forests and farmland from urban sprawl
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 February 2015 09:00
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Friend --
Right now, the Capital Regional District (CRD) is consulting residents on the Regional Sustainability Strategy (RSS), to guide land use decisions from the Saanich Peninsula to Victoria to Port Renfrew on the west coast.
The RSS will either strengthen the policy of urban containment, mandating that new housing and development be concentrated in existing population centres, or it will provide a green light to urban sprawl, extending pavement and development into the wilderness areas and farmland of the capital region.
I strongly support a policy of urban containment.
Protecting forests and farmland from urban sprawl makes sense for a number of reasons. It conserves wilderness areas for the ecological value of maintaining plant and animal habitat, protecting...
Read more: Ben's E-News: Protecting forests and farmland from urban sprawl
Seizing the Opportunity to Fight Austerity
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- Published on Monday, 02 February 2015 21:00
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1076 .... February 3, 2015
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Seizing the Opportunity to Fight Austerity
An Interview with Alexis Tsipras
Alexis Tsipras is the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left in Greece (Syriza), who recently was elected Prime Minister. This interview was conducted in October 2014 in Athens by Haris Golemis, who is an economist, Director of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute (Greece), and member of the Central Committee of Syriza. It was translated by Maria Choupres, and first published in the Transform Network Yearbook for 2015.
Haris Golemis (HG): Just three years ago, Syriza's presence in Greece's political landscape was quite small. Today, Syriza is predicted to be the frontrunner in the next elections -- making you the next Prime Minister of Greece. What factors do you believe have led to Syriza's meteoric...
[ACTIVlist] ACTIVlist Update - February 2, 2015
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- Published on Monday, 16 March 2015 13:46
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This daily ACTIVlist e-mail is a compilation of blog posts, media releases and action alerts from the Council of Canadians. For more information about our campaigns, how to get involved, and how to become a member, go to www.canadians.org. Please forward this e-mail and encourage others to join our list! Thank you for your interest and support.
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Monthly SCNCC call postponed until next week
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[coalalert] COALWATCH COMOX VALLEY PRESS RELEASE
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- Published on Monday, 02 February 2015 11:22
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VIDEO: Tories call MP oversight on terror law "needless red tape"
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- Published on Monday, 02 February 2015 10:00
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This new post w/ video might be of interest to your members - given the potential impact misuse of the new legislation could have on opponents of the government.
Please feel free to share via social media, including Facebook:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/video-conservatives-think-terror-law-checks-balances-are-just-needless-red-tape
As always, we appreciate the help...
Chris
The Monster of Soma Rears Its Head
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- Published on Saturday, 31 January 2015 20:22
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1075 .... February 1, 2015
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The Monster of Soma Rears Its Head
Sungur Savran
The AKP government in Turkey and, in particular, its undisputed leader, Tayyip Erdogan, president of the republic since last August, are usually remembered by the international public for their brazen violation of political and civil rights, their brutality in dealing with the Gezi revolt of June-September 2013, their unabashed support for the sectarian war waged against the Syrian regime by the various offshoots of the Al Qaeda movement and their growing tendency to impose Islamic rules on public life in Turkey, safely the most secular country in the Muslim world. Little is known about the indisputable class nature of this government: how, basing itself solidly on the reactionary labour legislation established by the military junta of...
A once in a generation opportunity.
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- Published on Saturday, 31 January 2015 11:44
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Dear friends,
We are standing in a window of opportunity -- a once-in-a-generation opportunity to totally overhaul our energy system.
The climate movement is on the rise, people power is beating back extreme energy from New York to Scotland, and renewable energy is cheaper than ever before. At the same time, tumbling oil prices -- which conventional wisdom says is bad news for the climate -- mean that the vast profits that underpin the fossil fuel industry’s power are on unusually shaky ground.
Suddenly fossil fuels are on the defensive. Suddenly tar sands and fracking don’t look like such hot investments anymore. Respectable, prudent fund managers are seriously considering taking their money out of fossil fuels, and many of them have already done so.
Will you help us seize the moment? In less than two weeks, fossil fuel divestment supporters from around the world will come together with a single message: Fossil fuels are...
Supreme Court ruling may strike major blow to anti-union laws across Canada: PressProgress Post
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- Published on Friday, 30 January 2015 13:00
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Today's SC ruling upholding unions right to strike is a victory that may have a domino effect on labour laws around the country. Please feel free to share our post with your members on social media.
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/supreme-court-ruling-may-strike-major-blow-anti-union-laws-across-canada
Tnx,Chris
Ecological Economics and Changing Everything
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- Published on Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:22
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1074 .... January 30, 2015
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Ecological Economics and Changing Everything
Patricia Perkins
I would like to thank and acknowledge the First Nations of the territories where we live and are meeting, the Anishinaabe Mississauga, Seneca, Huron-Wendat, ‘Neutrals,’ and other peoples whose ancestors lived here. The land claim of the Mississaugas of the New Credit, relating to the Crown's 1805 acquisition of land running from Ashbridge's Bay westward to the mouth of the Credit River, and extending 28 miles northward, is still under negotiation. Toronto owes its location and earliest traditions as a meeting place to the aboriginal peoples who developed sustainable ways of living and welcomed settlers here. The appalling treatment of aboriginal peoples by settlers is an ongoing disgrace which is intertwined in many ways with the economic, political,...
The Target way to say good-bye
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- Published on Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:00
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