Federal Court Approves 6 Legal Challenges Against Trans Mountain Pipeline
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed six challenges of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion focusing on Indigenous consultation to proceed, while dismissing several claims centred on environmental concerns.
“He took one look at it and he knew immediately that this was not normal,” said Greer. “We knew it didn’t belong here.”
State of emergency declared, evacuations ordered amid central B.C. wildfire
As of Saturday night, it was estimated to be about 260 hectares in size and was considered to be zero per cent contained.
Canadians Are Paying The Cost Of Climate Change. Will Big Oil? (Blog)
All this is happening as the provincial government in Ontario seems to be doing all it can to make the problem worse. After gutting the province’s greenhouse gas-reduction plan last fall, Premier Doug Ford’s first budget cut funding to conservation authorities for flood prevention in half. It also cancelled the tree-planting program (trees also help prevent floods by helping rain filter into the soil rather than flow directly into streams and rivers).