Trump’s tariff threat provides convenient cover to accelerate the expansion of fossil fuels and raises alarm bells about First Nations rights tied to mining, say critics.
It’s a bid to diversify trade markets so B.C. is never again exposed “to the whims of one person in the White House,” Premier David Eby said this week.
It’s been more than a decade since an idea to transform a little northern B.C. industry town into the first community in Canada to export LNG across the Pacific Ocean was just a twinkle in a corporate boardroom. This year, LNG Canada will send its first shipments from Kitimat, B.C., to Asia, marking Canada’s entry into the global LNG market.
The new Cortes Climate Action Network is hosting its first event: Climate Café!
Friday Jan 24, 1–3PM in the Pioneer Room at Manson’s Hall. Free coffee, tea, cookies and conversation!
A planner with the Regional District will be present to answer your questions about new Zoning bylaws, learn more here.
The Cortes Community Resilience(CCR) potluck happens on Thursday Feb 13, 5:30 at Linnaea…CCR is an informal group of inspiring people who gather regularly to share a meal and talk about ways to build community, including taking actions together to reduce our contributions to, and help us prepare for, a future shaped by the climate crisis.
Dan is a retired dentist living on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. He is an organizing member of the Suzuki Elders, who regularly meet through BC-Hub’s Climate Action Outreach Zoom Meetings to mentor action on climate.
Nature’s best lawnmower: How solar grazing is changing the photovoltaic landscape
Farmers in the USA are waking up to the benefits of keeping sheep on solar farms, but Europe’s been doing this for ages.
The American Solar Grazing Association estimates that around 80,000 sheep now graze more than 40,000 hectares across 500 solar panel sites in 27 states. This number indicates a tenfold increase in just two years.
GREAT Podcast Alert…..It’s so common it’s easy to overlook. But what if advertising has more power to shape our choices, our world and our climate than we realize? For decades, the fossil fuel industry has used marketing to buy our support and delay climate action – with remarkable success. Now some cities have had enough. They’re banning ads for cruises, cars and flying – and they say that’s just the beginning.
Did you know….Canada’s biggest public pension funds manage over $2 trillion.
These pension funds’ ability to generate returns for their members over the long-term depends on a stable climate. Organizations like Stand and Shift Action are working hard to stop pension funds from gambling our money in fossil fuel expansion!
‘Hope isn’t what we have, it’s what we do,’ says climate activist
Anti-whaler Paul Watson on activism, prison and not giving up hope. Watson has been fighting for the rights of whales and the wider environment for more than 50 years – and is showing no signs of slowing down.
This medley of local stories, events and action to inspire climate action will be coming to you at least once per month, thank you for reading!
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Long-time climate advocate and First Nation leader Stewart Phillip is walking back controversial remarks he made on Tuesday.
Canada’s climate advocacy world gasped in unison after Phillip appeared to suggest building out pipeline infrastructure at a news conference.
Phillip, who is the Grand Chief of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, was a strong critic of pipelines like Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline and the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion when those projects were under consideration in the early- to mid-2010s. On Tuesday, he said those years were a “different time.” With the uncertainty of the U.S. President Donald Trump, Canada has “no choice” but to reconsider fossil fuel development, Phillip told reporters.
Sherman Barker just informed me that he has never met anyone who is connected. After waiting for two years of waiting, he was using Starlink by the time a CityWest crew showed up to do the final hook-up.
“I have a pile of CityWest cable, all the way from my driveway to my yard, that they don’t want back.”
Sean Coyote, a techie who works for Cortes Community Radio, said typically people who have yet to be serviced are told their names are on a list. Some, like Sherman, subsequently moved on to other internet providers. Sean added that there are a couple of CityWest trucks working on the island right now.
