Catherine McKenna, Canada’s new Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, has already been in Paris. She met with her international counterparts for three days to discuss key issues prior to the upcoming United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP 21). Some of the most interesting comments came from the twitter feed. They started after McKenna tweeted, “Canada is back in the fight against Climate Change.”
At least 127 people crossed the line and were arrested on Burnaby Mountain. All charges have been dropped against those at borehole #2, because the wrong GPS co-ordinates were used. It is not yet certain if the correct co-ordinates were given for borehole #1. Judge Austin Cullen refused to grant the pipeline company an extension to December 14. Trans Mountain’s injunction ends Monday.
