She lives in a trailer on her father’s land. But now the district has ordered her out | CBC News
Look how passive we’e become. How did we ever elect a government and give them this much power over us?
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Coastal GasLink opponents build new camp near pipeline route | CBC News
The camp’s location — about 500
metres before an RCMP checkpoint — means visitors, including activists,
can enter the area without being questioned or turned away by police.
metres before an RCMP checkpoint — means visitors, including activists,
can enter the area without being questioned or turned away by police.
It’s the third such site built by a group of people who call themselves “land defenders.”
Massive Alberta oilsands project up for discussion as protesters plan rally in Vancouver – 660 NEWS
From reading the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal, one would think this project is approved by just about everyone. It isn’t true.
Meanwhile, demonstrators are gearing up for a rally in downtown
Vancouver as well as on the North Shore on Tuesday. They’re going to be
pushing the federal government to reject the project by B.C.-based Teck
Resources, citing environmental concerns.
“We will be starting our protest at Teck Industries headquarters on
Burrard Street and we will host some political theatre there, and then
we will continue by marching down, getting on the SeaBus and going to
Minister Wilkinson’s constituency office in North Vancouver,” protester
Ohmri Haven said.
Haven said the goal is to raise awareness, and said the oilsands
project would be built — if approved — amid climate emergency
declarations.
BC Transit reduces service in Kitimat due to staffing shortages caused by LNG recruitment | CBC News
“There’s certain things that they offer that we just can’t compete with,” he said, noting that LNG is offering accommodation and food to employees, along with a pay increase.
“We can’t do what they’re doing with the pay scale at this stage.”
It’s not just retention of staff that’s causing problems for PET — rising housing prices and housing scarcity in the town is making it difficult for the transit operator to recruit new drivers from outside of Kitimat.
Green Myths Canada’s LNG Sales Force Tells the World | The Tyee
The pitch goes like this: According to LNG Canada, the big Shell project now under construction in northern B.C., could replace 20 to 40 coal-fired plants in countries like China and India with Canadian methane, and reduce their emissions by 60 to 90 million tonnes.
It’s true that LNG burns cleaner than coal, but when unburned and released into the atmosphere it is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide in the short term. Methane’s warming effect is 87 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, and 36 times greater over a 100-year period.
And thanks to fracking, a lot of LNG does escape unburned into the atmosphere, the amount accelerating in recent years due to venting, flaring, leaks, spills and other factors tied to the drilling method.