Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Joseph Stiglitz comments on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership looks to make democracy subordinate to corporate interests:The US concluded secret negotiations on what may turn…
environment
Peter Nix’s solar farm near Maple Bay – a model for community owned energy utilities?
In our wonderful hi tech world of efficiency I managed to lose this story from Carbon Buster Peter Nix. However, it is not date specific and worth a read and…
Stand With Shawnigan-January 6th
From Sonia Furstenau’s Facebook page. It’s fairly obvious seeing this in person, but from the air you see the mountain of so called “clean” fill. Mt. Marty, as I like…
Shawnigan Protests-Helicopter Rides To View the SIA Contaminated Landfill-Wednesday, January 6th between 9 am and 3 pm
On Wednesday, January 6th between 9 am and 3 pm, the #SaveShawniganWater Community Action Group has arranged to provide aerial tours by helicopter from Shawnigan Village to the south end…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Hugh MacKenzie reminds us how quickly Canada's richest CEOs will exceed the income of the average Canadian worker on the year's first work day.…
Floating Dam to Capture Waste in the North Sea
The world’s oceans are polluted with massive amounts of waste plastics, so much so that we’ve had to name a grouping of plastic waste because it’s so large. There are…
Christy Clark Government Inaction Over Contaminated Soil Dump Threatens Shawnigan Real Estate Values
Shawnigan Residents Perseverance Remarkable While Facing Government Sanctioned Dumping In Their Watershed The BC Liberal government sanctioned attack on the Shawnigan communities watershed continues. RCMP enforcers are out in ever…
How "clean" is BC’s natural gas industry?
Methane: The other important greenhouse gas, Environmental Defense Fund:By emitting just a little bit of methane, mankind is greatly accelerating the rate of climatic change. - Steve Hamburg EDF Chief…
How to Change Everything
Photo by Tim J Keegan What does it mean to change the world? The Left has long proclaimed the need to “change everything” — to foment revolution rather than advance…
Renewables Steal Thunder From COP21
Photo by Kai Lehmann Paris COP21 captured the attention of the world for two weeks as over 190 countries agreed to agree for the first time since Dr. James Hansen…
COP21 falls short in addressing climate change for the South Pacific Islands
Research done for the Pacific Peoples Partnership, Victoria BC Vulnerability in the South Pacific Islands The South Pacific Islands are one of the most vulnerable areas in the world to…
Stephen Lewis, Prominent Canadians Demand Investigation of Climate Change Deniers
Stephen Lewis and five other prominent Canadians recently called on the Commissioner of Competition to investigate climate change denier groups. The post Stephen Lewis, Prominent Canadians Demand Investigation of Climate…
Paris climate talks: analysis of the final agreement
Photo by Yann Caradec So we have a climate deal: it’s historic, but the agreement falls far short of the soaring rhetoric from world leaders less than 2 weeks ago.…
Paris deal: Epic fail on a planetary scale
Photo by COP Paris Today, after two weeks of tortuous negotiations – well, 21 years, really – governments announced the Paris Agreement. This brand new climate deal will kick in…
Summary of COP21 Climate Deal
The Paris climate (COP21) talks are over and the deal has been struck, many are rightly calling this deal a huge step forward! All countries agreed to cutting emissions while…
David Suzuki: Healing humanity’s grief in the face of climate change
David Suzuki suggests that the discourse on global warming should recognized the "intense feelings" and "grief" caused by climate change. He says: "Today’s social and environmental leaders need to understand…
Canada and 1.5 degrees: Rhetoric or real change?
Photo by Takver On Sunday, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna announced that Canada would support over 50 small island states and vulnerable nations calling for a new limit of 1.5C of…
System Change with the Tribunal on the Rights of Nature and Oil Watch’s ‘Annex Zero’
Photo by Mark Dixon While governments participating in COP21 are locked in the final hours of tortuous negotiations over wording of an agreement that will worsen the destruction of Mother…
Real test of Paris climate agreement will be how markets and regulators react
So did we save the planet? From the outset, this was never about “saving the planet.” Our spinning hunk of rock has been around billions of years and will continue…