Category: Environment
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First Nations Fight Against the Frackers
After facing months of protest led by the Mi’kmaq people of the Elsipogtog Nation in New Brunswick, the frackers of Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. (SWN) have left the province and … Keep reading »
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Voices of Resistance to the Northern Gateway Pipeline
At the time of writing, the National Energy Board’s Joint Review Panel (JRP) has just published its recommendation that the Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway to transport Alberta’s tar sands oil … Keep reading »
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The Fossil Fuel Wars in British Columbia and Canada
The fossil fuel industry offensive in British Columbia and across Canada is proceeding relentlessly. This is a report from some of the key fronts of the fossil fuel wars. Tar Sands … Keep reading »
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Warsaw Climate Talks Go Up in Smoke
“The smell of inaction” is how Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth Mozambique’s international program director for climate justice and energy, summed up the atmosphere inside the giant Narodowy Stadium … Keep reading »
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Climate Change and Socialism
By embracing the fight against climate change, we need to explain that this is a fight for a new world that restores the balance between Mother Earth and our needs … Keep reading »
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Climate Change: ‘The Greatest Challenge of Our Time’
“Climate change is life or death. It is the new global battlefield. It is being presented as if it is the problem of the developed world. But it’s the developed … Keep reading »
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System Change or Climate Change?
Amid disputes between developed and developing countries, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP19) in Warsaw, Poland are set to conclude today [November 23, 2013] with little in the way … Keep reading »
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Stop Line 9 Should Be Labour’s Demand
One would have hoped that Canada’s newest and largest private sector union – UNIFOR, made up of the former Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) unions … Keep reading »
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Pouring Fuel on the Climate Change Fire
The earth is on fire. If that statement sounds alarmist, it’s because you should be alarmed. Each month seems to bring new and more frightening proof of the effects of … Keep reading »
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The Philippines Typhoon: Climate Change and Political Disaster
The Philippines is a country long wracked by political corruption, colonialism, military occupation and dependence and millions living in poverty. When natural disasters hit, such as Typhoon Haiyan, a category … Keep reading »
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Damage Control: Oil Train Derailment in Alberta and Gas Fracking Protest in New Brunswick
Another oil train derailment and explosion in Canada has sent nearby residents fleeing from their homes in the middle of the night. It happened at 1 a.m. on Saturday, October … Keep reading »
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Agrarian Sovereignty and the Agrarian Question
As activists and scholar-practitioners from around the world gathered in New Haven, Connecticut last weekend at the Food Sovereignty conference to debate the future of the world food system, it … Keep reading »