Vancouver, May 23, 2013 – Hundreds of letters opposing Fraser Surrey Docks coal facility delivered to Port Metro Vancouver. The Wilderness Committee, along with allied environmental groups and concerned residents of the Lower Mainland, is confronting Port Metro Vancouver today with a delegation and rally to express opposition and concern over plans for a new coal export facility at Fraser Surrey Docks.
Washington, DC, May 23, 2013 - The House voted last night on an extreme bill that would take the President out of the process, eliminate critical environmental and national interest reviews and immediately approve the risky Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. But Keystone proponents lost momentum. Not only did they fail to get enough votes to override a Presidential veto, but many more members voted against this bill than the last time the House attempted to legislatively approve this project.
FEDERAL CANADA PLACE TO ALBERTA PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE BUILDING
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013 from 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM
WE NEED A GOAL OF 3000 PEOPLE OR MORE FROM ALL ACROSS ALBERTA TO WALK IN THE ALBERTA CAPITAL TO TELL ALBERTA
"OUR WATER IS NOT FOR SALE"
CORVALLIS, Ore., May 20, 2013 – With the arrival of sunny summer days and creation of a new “citizen science” project called eButterfly, every seven-year-old child in the United States and Canada just gained the ability to become a working scientist.
Comox Valley, May 21, 2013 - The provincial Environmental Assessment Office has decided not to accept the Raven Coal Mine Application for detailed review. In a May 16th letter to John Tapics, CEO of Compliance Coal Corporation, the EAO refers to “the major information requirements” the EAO considers not to have been adequately addressed in Compliance’s submission.
Washington, May 20, 2013 - A new U.S. Geological Survey study documents that the [United States'] aquifers are being drawn down at an accelerating rate.
Groundwater Depletion in the United States (1900-2008) comprehensively evaluates long-term cumulative depletion volumes in 40 separate aquifers (distinct underground water storage areas) in the United States, bringing together reliable information from previous references and from new analyses.
Victoria, May 17, 2013 – The BC Environmental Assessment Office announced today that it has rejected the application for Compliance Energy’s proposed Raven Coal Mine, located near Fanny Bay in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, Vancouver, BC – While pollsters, pundits, pontificators, party stalwarts and journalists are wringing their hands wondering how Christy Clark and the BC Liberals managed to capture another mandate from voters, the definitive poll done on Election Day by Ipsos Reid and released today shows just what happened and what motivated people.
Environment Canada
I have reviewed the draft “Sustainable Development Strategy” (http://www.ec.gc.ca/dd-sd/default.asp?lang=En&n=07544BAB-1#s4) and consider it shamefully lacking in any real commitment to act on climate change. Why? Because the words used do not show any substantive resolve to act; rather, they show how the federal government is not responding to this historic crisis in any substantial manner.
Toronto, ON May 15, 2013 -On the eve of Resolute Forest Products’ (Resolute, TSX/NYSE: RFP) 2013 Annual General Meeting in Thunder Bay, a new Greenpeace report concludes the company’s sustainability claims cannot be trusted and unveils to customers the false promises these claims contain.
May 15, 2013 - You are invited to a public discussion on "CETA, FIPA, TPP: The New Face of Corporate Power." This event will be part of an eight-city speaking tour in B.C. to build opposition to Canada's corporate trade agenda.
Event details:
Saturday, May 25
7-9 p.m.
Rapid City, SD, May 14, 2013 - The Ihanktonwan Treaty Council (Yankton Sioux), the Pawnee Nation, and the Southern Ponca Nation of Oklahoma stand united against the unwanted and risky Keystone XL pipeline, which is violating the 1868 Great Treaty of Ft. Laramie Treaty and the 1858 Ft. Laramie Treaty by passing through Oceti Sakowin, Seven Council Fires Treaty Territory.
Vancouver, May 10, 2013 - Inspired by the position taken by the NDP opposing the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipelines and the carbon tax author/environmentalist Tzeporah Berman and Tar Sands Campaign Director Ben West are calling on volunteers to join them going door to door on the last weekend before tuesday's election to garner support for NDP candidates they are calling “champions for the coast”.
Vancouver, May 8, 2013 - The transfer of diseased salmon into to an open-pen fish farm operated by Marine Harvest appears to have violated federal law, Ecojustice lawyers said today.
Ecojustice, acting on behalf of well-known biologist Alexandra Morton, has launched a lawsuit seeking a Federal Court order declaring that the transfer of diseased farmed Atlantic salmon into waters shared with wild fish is unlawful.
Ottawa, ON, May 8th, 2013 - The Green Party of Canada urges Harper’s Conservatives to follow the European Commission’s lead and ban the neonicotinoid pesticides (Imidacloprid, Clothianidin and Thiamethoxam) blamed for destroying bee populations.
The use of three pesticides, which attack the bees’ nervous system, will be restricted on December 1st 2013 in response to the European Food Safety Authority’s scientific report, which identified “high acute risks” for bees.
