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BC encouraging environmentally risky mining and creating massive taxpayer liability
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- Published on Friday, 20 May 2016 13:30
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(Coast Salish Territory / Vancouver BC – May 16, 2016). The BC government is enabling a dangerous disregard for environmental monitoring, reporting and protection among mining companies by letting them off the hook for the full costs of environmental reclamation – leaving taxpayers liable for more than $1.5 billion, a new report shows.
“Other industrial sectors treat accident insurance and security deposits as a routine and fundamental cost of doing business and if a warehouse catches fire, a pipeline bursts or a factory has to be shuttered, companies have money set aside to respond effectively and immediately,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.
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Climate activists surround Kinder Morgan facility by land and sea
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- Published on Friday, 20 May 2016 09:45
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19 May 2016
Today, the National Energy Board recommended the approval of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, despite widespread opposition among affected communities and First Nations. Environmental advocacy groups were quick to condemn the decision. Learn more about how activists and advocates are responding in our report.
Climate activists surround Kinder Morgan facility by land and sea
Over 800 Canadians, organized by Greenpeace and 350.org, took action outside a Kinder Morgan facility in Burnaby, B.C. as part of the international Break Free from Fossil Fuel movement.
By Alyse Kotyk
During the last election, Justin Trudeau pledged to bring respect back for Parliament. Physically intervening to usher an opposition MP to his seat, and, in the process, shoving another MP, was not the sort of respect he promised. Parliamentary correspondent Karl Nerenberg pushes through the fracas to...
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BIG WIN Monsanto's MEGA-merger
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- Published on Friday, 20 May 2016 07:45
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Internet Insider: Internet win in Canada, Netflix's VPN crackdown and link tax
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- Published on Friday, 20 May 2016 05:15
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Friday, 20 May 2016 03:15
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What Remains of All Our Outrage?
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1258 .... May 20, 2016
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What Remains of All Our Outrage?
Esther Vivas
It's been five years since the massive occupation of May 15, 2011 that gave birth to the movement of los indignados, known as the 15M movement, followed by five years of faltering progress with many advances and set-backs along the way -- five years of a tremendous crisis, civil unrest and mass protest. What remains today after such a sustained period of outrage?
15M has changed the way we read and interpret the crisis we are facing. We were all told in 2008 that "we live beyond our means," were blamed for the present situation; but the movement of los indignados has enabled us to change the story. One of its principle slogans, "no somos mercancías...
[coalalert] CEAA TERMINATES THE RAVEN COAL MINE PROJECT EA
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:30
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Hi everyone: As you may recall, the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) terminated their Environmental Assessment (EA) review of the Raven Coal Mine Project on April 4, 2016. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) was also conducting an EA for the Raven Coal Mine Project as well. Today (May 19, 2016) the CEAA also terminated their EA of the Raven Coal Mine Project: http://www.ceaa.gc.ca/050/document-eng.cfm?document=114432
This termination by the CEAA brings to a conclusion any EA review by the EAO and CEAA.
In solidarity,
John SnyderPresident, CoalWatch Comox Valley Society
Get Your Tickets for the CoDev Annual Solidarity Dinner!
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:15
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BREAKING! The Kinder Morgan pipeline approved
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:00
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The National Energy Board just approved the massive Kinder Morgan pipeline. Now the decision rests with PM Trudeau and his MPs, and we believe they will build this pipeline unless they hear from you.
Sign this petition today to join thousands calling for PM Trudeau and Natural Resources Minsiter Carr to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
Sign todayDear PAOV,
The Harper-appointed, unelected, and unaccountable National Energy Board just approved the Kinder Morgan TransMountain Pipeline despite widespread community opposition in BC.
The CIA and the 1962 Arrest of Nelson Mandela
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:00
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by ALAN WIEDER
This past week the Sunday Times in South Africa, and various other news agencies, reported on interviews with a dying CIA operative, Donald Rickard, who acknowledged the agency’s involvement in the arrest of Nelson Mandela that facilitated South Africa’s first democratically elected president’s 28 years of incarceration. So what’s the surprise?
The Humane Society and the Greenwashing of the TPP
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:00
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On February 4, 2016, the United States and eleven other countries around the Pacific Rim finally signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The twelve signatories now have two years to ratify the agreement. In the U.S., after passage of so-called “fast-track” authority in June, 2015, the TPP may not be amended or filibustered in Congress and will simply face an up-or-down vote. Exactly when that vote will come is unclear at the time of writing. Since most of this year’s crop of aspiring emperors/empresses have publicly opposed the TPP1, it may not be brought up for a vote until after the November elections in the lame-duck Congress, which would indeed be the final insult in this profoundly anti-democratic saga. Meanwhile, Barack Obama – in what the Associated Press has been presenting as a kind of valedictory world tour analogous to the final concert of the Rolling Stones – has been visiting European capitals and pressing for signatures on the similar Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The latest round of those negotiations in February ended with high-ranking officials for both the U.S. and the EU expressing hopes of conclusion by the end of 2016, even if that means modifying the agreement’s most contentious element, the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism.
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B.C. changes provincial park boundary for Kinder Morgan
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 13:30
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Mauritania: Government Frees Anti-Slavery Activists and Convicts Slave Owners - ITUC OnLine
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 12:15
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Brussels, 19 May 2016 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has welcomed the release of anti-slavery activists and the recent sentencing of slave owners as steps in the right direction, but recognises that a long way to go remains for Mauritania – one of the worlds’ most egregious labour rights violators, known to be a lasting stronghold of traditional slavery.
Monsanto's MEGA-merger
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 07:15
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Our last chance: a dozen votes away from defeating C-14
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- Published on Thursday, 19 May 2016 05:15
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Special Announcement: DeSmog Co-Founder
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:30
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ACTIVlist Update - May 18, 2016
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Tsleil-Waututh Nation rejects new federal panel reviewing Trans Mountain pipeline Centre Wellington & Guelph chapters to march against Nestle, May 29
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The Tsleil-Waututh Nation has rejected the Trudeau government's additional review panel that will be considering the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proposal over the next four months.
The Council of Canadians Centre Wellington and Guelph chapters will be taking part in a march against Nestle later this month.
BREAKING: restrictive approach to assisted dying "shot down in flames" by AB Court of Appeal
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 May 2016 13:15
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Speak up at a consultation near you.
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 May 2016 13:15
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Friends,
This weekend, hundreds in Vancouver surrounded the Kinder Morgan terminal in Vancouver on the land and the water. This bold move was part of a global wave of resistance to the fossil fuel industry -- with tens of thousands of people from Australia to Germany to South Africa staging mass mobilizations targeting the world's most dangerous projects.
Ordinary people across the world are setting the example for courageous action to keep fossil fuels in the ground. It's time for the government to follow. That’s exactly what we’re calling on federal leaders to do with the People’s Climate Plan.
As the government launches local climate consultations across the country, we have a once in a generation opportunity to speak up for bold climate action in Canada.
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My son needs this GST rebate as much as someone in a wheelchair
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 May 2016 08:15
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