Listen to her question here: https://youtu.be/seJHT5UqhSs?si=ISbpfHmja8NZZXX5
LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD NOVEMBER 5 ECOCENTRIC HERE:
The Cai Creek watershed across from Castlegar is up for clearcutting this week as BC Timber Sales announced the cutblock was up for bids. Anna Dulisse from Neighbours United visited Cai Creek last week and tells us about the forest.
A series of investigative stories by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson in the National Observer has Elizabeth May raising questions in the House of Commons about the safety regulations around use of pesticides in Canada. He tells us more about the forces at play inside the regulating agency.
Phil, Just Phil, tells us about his work cleaning up the coastline. His job with a coastal remediation business on the west coast involves styrofoam, plastic, gear and careful recycling.
LINKS MENTIONED:
Neighbours United campaign Defend our Home here:
https://neighboursunited.org/campaign/defend-our-home/
You can also see photos from Cai Creek and join the campaign on Facebook see BC Forestry Reform.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161885590196578&set=g.1019165341760551
National Observer coverage of pesticide scandal in Ottawa by Marc Fawcett-
Atkinson.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/u/marc-fawcett-atkinson
COMING EVENTS
7 pm Friday, November 8 2024
Mir Centre for Peace Lecture
Sharon Stein: What do we Owe Young People in Times of Crisis
How can we interrupt our usual patterns to cultivate greater emotional stability, healing, responsibility, and relational connection across generational divides? With Dr. Sharon Stein from the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective at UBC.
3 pm, Sunday, November 10th
Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health screen the documentary: Fracking the Peace.
Nelson United Church 602 Silica St.
Free, family-friendly event. A 35-minute documentary with letter-writing to follow. Put on by Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health Kootenay Boundary.
Saturday, Nov 16, 2024, 8:00 a.m.
Hope in Action – Facing Climate Challenges
Free community symposium hosted by the Creston Valley Climate Action Society.
Creston, 128 16 Ave N
Speakers include:
Seth Klein, policy expert, climate activist and author of A Good War (joining remotely);
Robin Louie, Yaqan Nu?kiy traditional knowledge keeper and land user;
Laura Francis, community animateur and net zero grower.
Workshops featuring Kootenay-based experts will share the wisdom of Indigenous knowledge, ways to better manage our watersheds and forests, advocate to the government, and engage our community to work together to face the climate emergency. The day includes an expo of businesses, organizations and projects that are making a difference here in the Kootenays.
For more information please contact: crestonclimateactionsociety AT gmail.com
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | 4pm – 6pm
TEDx Selkirk College Countdown
Castlegar Campus, The Pit
Turn Ideas into Action In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx Countdown is a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action.
A new hardhitting documentary about the Wet’suwet’en struggle to defend their lands is available to watch anytime. The title of the film is Yintah, the Wet’suwet’en word for their lands. Yintah is free to watch antime on CBC Gem.
10 am Saturday, November 30th
Everything “R” Festival in Rossland
1765 Columbia Ave, Rossland
Rossland Refractory and Rotary Club of Rossland are hosting a day long festival with a market selling recycled and reuse products, an Earthbox building workshop, youth activities, a bike repair clinic, and more. Also bring your clean and unlabeled (cut them off if you need) plastic so the Refactory can turn it into useful products. Entrance by donation.
Evening dance featuring The Karli Harris band. Tickets $20 available at Out of the Cellar.
For more detailed information, contact Craig at koelsociety AT gmail.com.
ENVIRONMENT NEWS BITS AND LINKS
The proposed federal government emissions cap will limit how much each individual facility can pollute, free of charge, based on their production and their emissions intensity. The government hopes to reduce oil and gas pollution in line with Canada’s 2030 climate targets of reducing 40 to 45 per cent of its emissions, from 2005 levels.
The oil and gas industry is the largest source of emissions in the country, releasing over 30 per cent of Canada’s emissions. The industry has continued to produce more pollution each year, canceling out efforts made by other parts of the economy.
Oil and gas pollution isn’t just fueling climate change – it’s also raising Canadians’ cost of living. While companies post record profits, Canadians are paying more for essentials like groceries, insurance, and health care as a result of both the climate crisis as well as the affordability crisis driven in part by fossil fuel profits.
More analysis of the proposed cap on next week’s EcoCentric.
The COP 16 global summit on halting the destruction of nature ended in disarray on Saturday, with some breakthroughs but key issues left unresolved.
Governments have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, for the first time since a 2022 deal to stop the human-caused destruction of life on Earth. Countries hoped to make progress during the two-week summit on crucial targets such as protecting 30% of the Earth for nature and reforming parts of the global financial system that damage the environment.
Governments failed to reach a consensus on key issues such as nature funding and how this decade’s targets would be monitored.
A number of countries expressed fury at the way the talks had been dragged out and the order of discussions, which left crucial issues undecided at the final hour.
New homes in Edmonton could soon be required to be built with solar panel hook ups.
It’s one of the 15 actions councillors supported on Tuesday to improve climate resilience in the city, something that will happen over the next few years.
“We know that making those up front investments at the beginning of the project is much more cost effective and efficient than having to go back in and retrofit after they’ve already been built,” Ward Métis Coun. Ashley Salvador said Tuesday.
Salvador says the city is falling behind its own climate change goals for reducing carbon emissions for 2030 and up to 2050.
COPENHAGEN, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson is in detention in Greenland where he has been held since July while Denmark decides whether to extradite him to Japan. Captain Watson and the Sea Shepherd Society have been sailing to block whaling on the high seas for many years.
EU emissions fell by 8% last year in a steep reduction like the one during the Covid shutdown
The decline over 2023 was helped by switch to renewable power. It means greenhouse gas pollution is now 37% below 1990 levels
The continent continues to close down coal-fired power plants and make more electricity from sun and wind.
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