Toronto pushes back against petro giants

Posted on April 8, 2014 by admin

Responding to protests, City Council demands a full environmental assessment of Enbridge Line 9 and an end to secrecy about rail shipments of explosive oil products through populated areas. ... [click title to continue]

BC’s carbon tax: Where’s the tax?

Posted on April 2, 2014 by admin

British Columbia's much-hyped carbon tax hurts the poor ... the bottom two income quintiles as clear losers and those in the top two quintiles clear gainers. ... [click title to continue]

End auto subsidies! Ecosocialists on unions, jobs and transportation

Posted on March 27, 2014 by admin

Subsidies to the corporate polluters and climate wreckers take us further down a wrong path. Unions must point the way to a better future, not defend the bad old ways that are leading our planet to the brink of environmental catastrophe. ... [click title to continue]

Ontario meetings challenge Energy East pipeline

Posted on March 20, 2014 by admin

Our Risk, Their Reward! Council of Canadians will hold public meetings on TransCanada pipeline plan in six Ontario cities, April 7-28. ... [click title to continue]

Energy East pipeline: TransCanada lies about refinery jobs

Posted on March 18, 2014 by admin

Report shows proposed pipeline aims to boost tar sands profits through export of crude oil, not to create refinery jobs in Atlantic Canada ... [click title to continue]

Ambassadors of the First Nations tar sands resistance

Posted on March 9, 2014 by admin

In 1885, Louis Riel wrote, "My people will sleep for one hundred years" and then wake up. In Canada's tar sands, that renaissance has begun. ... [click title to continue]

Defenders of the Land: An Indigenous program for self-determination

Posted on March 3, 2014 by admin

We are sovereign nations. We have the inherent right to self-determination. We will determine our own destinies in accordance with our own customs, laws, and traditions – not in a way dictated to us by Canadian and provincial governments. ... [click title to continue]

Belleville protesters challenge tar sands pipeline

Posted on February 16, 2014 by admin

Activists in this small city are challenging Enbridge's plan to pump tar sands bitumen across sensitive lands near the shore of Lake Ontario. ... [click title to continue]

Keystone XL Pipeline Will Not Cross Lakota Lands!

Posted on February 9, 2014 by admin

"In recognition of our responsibilities to protect Mother Earth, Native peoples will not allow this pipeline to come across our treaty areas." ... [click title to continue]

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