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It’s two weeks in for the logging protest camp protecting the Argenta Face forest from clearcutting. We have two reports directly from camp, Bravery sings here song: Wake Up! and Dirt tells us about the week and interactions with the RCMP and Cooper Creek Cedar. The BC government recently announced its Declaration Act Action Plan, a plan for enacting the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Part of that has to include some of BC’s oldest laws, mining laws. At the same time the government is court in fighting the Gitxaala Nation’s case against mining in their territory. Nikki Skuce from the BC Mining Law Reform Network explains.
LINKS AND EVENTS:
Ali Kazimi’s, new film Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence
The Autonomou Sinixt are hosting shows of the film in many communities starting this week.
Thursday, May 12th 7:30
Arrow Lake Theatre. Nakusp, BC
Friday, May 13th 7 pm
The Royal Theatre Trail, BC
Saturday, May 14th, 4pm
Civic Theatre Nelson, BC
Saturday, May 14th, 7:30pm
Vallican Whole Community Centre
Sunday, May 15th, 7pm
The Old Theatre Castlegar, BC
Friday May 13 NOON
Webinar Building a Climate Resilient Business Community in Nelson
https://www.westkootenayclimatehub.ca/upcoming-events
Friday May 13 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Land Social at the Bear Spring Eco Retreat and Dutch Girl Peonies in Beasley
https://bearspringeco.ca/
MONDAY, MAY 23, 2022 AT 12 PM
Victoria Day Bicycle Ride and Picnic
Family-friendly bicycle ride celebrating active transportation and demonstrating that we want and need safe places to ride.
Meet at noon at Nelson Railway Station located at a 91 Baker Street, Nelson, BC. Ride as a mass group to Taghum Beach followed by a picnic in the park.
All ages and abilities invited. Dress in your Sunday best. Bring food, drinks and firewood and bring it all on your bike
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2022 AT 6 PM
A critical mass bicycle ride in support of policy reversal of ’No Fault’ ICBC insurance. We are demanding that cyclists and pedestrians be protected without additional insurance requirements.
Meet at 6 pm at Baker and Hall Street for a group ride followed by a BBQ at Lakeside Park. MLA Brittny Anderson will be in attendance.
ENVIRONMENT NEWS
After being hospitalized with concerns about kidney or heart failure in the last couple of weeks, hunger striker Howard Breen has wound up the protest in Nanaimo. Howard said:
“I think we met our demand. Not so much in terms of the minister having the public meeting, but actually better than that, because I think we drew the minister out, well, the whole cabinet out on what they were prepared to do,”
Breen said the cabinet seemed willing to put his life and that of fellow hunger striker Brent Eichler at “death’s door” rather than commit to having a public meeting.
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Canada’s big oil companies are making record profits this year and should be investing some of that extra cash to curb their greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said last week.
Tar Sands giant Cenovus CEO Alex Pourbaix said taht a new federal tax credit isn’t good enough to convince the major oilsands producers to start building a proposed carbon capture and storage project.
The new refundable investment tax credit introduced in the recent federal budget is worth 50 to 60% of the investment for carbon capture, and 37.5% for transportation, storage or use of the emissions. Projects that go to enhanced oil recovery—the technology that uses captured emissions to squeeze more oil out of the ground, and had been the use for 81% of the world’s captured carbon as of January, 2021—won’t qualify.
The tax credit will provide an estimated C$2.6 billion over the next five years, and $1.5 billion annually after that until 2030.
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Money money money: Bankers interrupted by climate protesters singing ABBA
The global bank HSBC held its annual general meeting in London a couple of weeks ago, but
Around half an hour into the meeting, as the bank’s chairman Mark Tucker was making a speech, members of the audience began to sing.
Members of Extinction Money Rebellion, the financial wing of XR, who sang their own rendition of ABBA’s classic ‘Money, money, money’.
In 2021, HSBC invested around €17 billion into the fossil fuel industry. It is the major bank funding Saudi Aramco and Exxonmobil, which ranked first and fourth in the Carbon Majors database of fossil fuel companies responsible for global carbon emissions since 1965.
Then in May 2021, it was leaked that HSBC had stakes in companies which were planning to build 73 new coal power plants.
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels measured at Hawai’i’s Mauna Loa Observatory breached 420 parts per million (ppm) in April for the first time in human history.
Considered the gold standard for accurate measurements of atmospheric CO2, the new measurements were released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), reports the Independent.
The NOAA data release shows CO2 levels hitting 420.23 ppm in April, eight years after they breached 400 ppm (400.2 ppm) in May, 2013.
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More than 85 investment firms, academic organizations, and environmental groups from across Canada and around the world are lending their support to a climate-aligned finance bill introduced by Quebec Sen. Rosa Galvez (ISG-Quebec) in late March.
“The endorsement letter demonstrates a consensus that financial reform is key for Canada to succeed on climate action,” Environmental Defence Canada said in an announcement this week.
Galvez’ Climate-Aligned Finance Act would require federal financial institutions and federally-regulated entities to line up their investment activities with Canada’s climate commitments.
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Montreal will mandate a zero-emission standard for all new construction beginning in 2025, Mayor Valérie Plante announced last week.
Plante’s municipal administration also said it would move its deadline to run the city’s entire building stock on renewable energy from 2050 to 2040, the news story states.
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After two years in the court system, Greenpeace USA announced Tuesday that 22 activists who suspended themselves from a Texas bridge in a 2019 protest reached an agreement that will allow them to be cleared of all federal charges.
“We can either take the bold actions necessary to stave off the climate crisis today or suffer the radical consequences of climate-fueled disasters.” the protestors said.
Greenpeacde said the activists signed a deferred prosecution agreement under which the U.S. Attorney General’s office will dismiss the case.
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An IPCC Scientist has warned that recent\ Record Temperatures in India and Pakistan are ‘Testing Limits of Human Survivability’
“Fossil fuels did this,” said one climate justice campaigner. “Unless we ditch fossil fuels immediately in favor of a just, renewable-energy based system, heatwaves like this one will continue to become more intense and more frequent.”
April’s record-shattering temperatures came on the heels of India’s hottest March in more than a century and one of its driest. Meanwhile, the region’s annual monsoon season is still weeks away.
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