We have short one minute extracts of answers from Nelson Council and Mayoral candidates during the Climate and Environment forum held October 5 2022. Juliet Craig and Claire Peyton from Kootenay Conservation tell us why we should support the RDCK Area H referendum for a Conservation Fund contribution. A new report came out from economist Robyn Allen showing the Canadian government is hiding or disguising the huge liability, which likely will be over $15 billion that tax payers will be on the hook for with the TransMountain pipeline. The government is handing over billions to the fossil fuel industry. Sven Biggs from Stand.Earth says we should all be outraged.
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Economist Robyn Allan’s forensic foray into the billions of government support for the TransMountain Pipeline project.
ENVIRONMENT NEWS
A regular guest here on The EcoCentric, Mitchell Beer from The Energy MIx has won a national award.
Mitchell is The Energy Mix publisher and managing editor and has been awarded the Canada’s Clean50 Lifetime Achievement Award (https://www.clean50.com) by the Delta Management Group and the Clean50 organization.
Now in its 12th year, the Clean50 recognizes contributions toward sustainable development and the advancement of a low-carbon economy in Canada.
The Energy Mix is also one of the lead partners in the Green Resilience Project, a Canada-wide series of local listening sessions on climate change, income security, and local resilience.
Established in May, 2014, The Energy Mix is a non-profit community news site and e-digest that delivers the climate news you need to readers across Canada and around the world.
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Greta Thunberg says this about the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’.
That’s an excerpt published by The Guardian from a new book created by Greta Thunberg. The Climate Book is coming out soon. Thunberg says “Governments may say they’re doing all they can to halt the climate crisis. Don’t fall for it – then we might still have time to turn things around.”
The book also takes on the ‘new normal’ concept: The weather seems to be on steroids, and natural disasters increasingly appear less and less natural. But this is not the “new normal”. What we are seeing now is only the very beginning of a changing climate, caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.
The excerpt on The Guardian is compelling reading.
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The B.C. Supreme Court trial of four First Nations protesters accused of violating an injunction by storming a Trans Mountain work site in Kamloops two years ago has been adjourned for two months after one of the accused collapsed in court.
The trial began on Monday and was scheduled to conclude on Friday, but those plans changed after April Thomas, one of the four accused, fell ill Wednesday afternoon with chest pains. According to photos shared by Thomas’ supporters, she was wheeled out of the courtroom on a stretcher and taken away by paramedics.
Thomas is charged alongside Henry Sauls, Romily Cavanaugh and Jocelyn Billie Pierre with criminal contempt, accused of violating the Trans Mountain injunction on Oct. 15, 2020, at a work site on Mission Flats outside Kamloops.
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B.C.’s premier and governors from the western United States have signed a memorandum agreement on climate approaches for the Pacific region.
B.C. Premier John Horgan, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the agreement last week in San Francisco.
During a news conference, Horgan said B.C. and the U.S. West Coast states are facing similar climate-related issues and the jurisdictions need to find ways to work together.
The new statement of co-operation included commitments to support the transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient future — “emphasizing investments in overburdened communities” — and to better protect communities from fire, flooding and heat waves.
The agreement also includes a pledge to invest in climate infrastructure, like charging stations for electric vehicles across the region.
B.C., Washington, Oregon and California are part of the Pacific Coast Collaborative, which was formed almost 15 years ago. It previously discussed high-speed rail connections, including a line between B.C. and Washington, but more recently turned its focus to climate change and its consequences to the region.
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After more than a decade of delay and greenwashing, the global aviation industry has adopted an “aspirational” plan to hit net-zero emissions by 2050.
The plan adopted by 193 countries last week at the triennial meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal was “seen as a compromise by many,” the BBC reports. “Crucially, the UN agency’s resolution does not set targets for individual countries or airlines,”
Analysis by the Brussels-based European Federation for Transport and Environment concluded that the plan will only offset 22% of international aviation emissions by 2030.
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A group of 40 climate, energy, and social justice NGOs is urging the Trudeau government to sign on to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT).
The letter organized by Toronto-based ClimateFast and MobilizeTO calls on Ottawa to endorse the treaty ahead of the COP 27 climate summit next month in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
“Now, with growing climatic impacts and restrictions on oil supply being used as leverage by foreign governments, the transition to non-carbon energy sources has never been more urgent,” the letter states.
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