McGill Petrocultures Protest Aims to Reframe Fossil Fuel Debate

If Canada is to seriously confront its addiction to fossil fuels and fight climate change, we need to reframe the entire debate.

That’s the message a group of protesters aimed to send when they occupied and disrupted a conference at Montreal’s McGill University on Friday.

At 7:45am, about 30 people entered the prestigious McGill Faculty Club where the second day of Petrocultures, a conference organized by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC), was to take place. Instead, the conference was forced to start an hour and a half late at a new venue. While most of (Read more…)

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