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Pull together: a guide to staying under 1.5ºC

Pull together: a guide to staying under 1.5ºC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) recently released special report can be summed up as: “it’s worse than we ...
B.C.’s thirsty LNG and fracking industry is a threat to water supplies

B.C.’s thirsty LNG and fracking industry is a threat to water supplies

On Monday, a consortium of big energy players made a final investment decision that approved LNG Canada, a $40 ...
Offshore Nova Scotia: Not Worth The Risk rally in Halifax

Offshore Nova Scotia: Not Worth The Risk rally in Halifax

People rallied outside the Maritimes Energy Association’s Core conference today in downtown Halifax, chanting ‘Water is Life’, holding signs and ...
BP drilled and BP has already spilled

BP drilled and BP has already spilled

Public forum on the TransCanada's Energy East project at Dalhousie University, Sunday October 26, 2014. - Tim Krochak ...
Poll: Half of Nova Scotians don’t support BP drilling for oil offshore Nova Scotia

Poll: Half of Nova Scotians don’t support BP drilling for oil offshore Nova Scotia

Ahead of a major conference on ‘Canada’s East Coast energy future’, new polling indicates slightly more Nova Scotians are likely ...
Chapters join Sept 8 Rise for the Climate Actions

Chapters join Sept 8 Rise for the Climate Actions

(Photo from 350.org, San Francisco Rise for Climate Jobs and Justice march) On Sept 8th over 250,000 people ...
Announcing October 2-4 Protect Offshore Nova Scotia: Creating Offshore Resistance Everywhere events!

Announcing October 2-4 Protect Offshore Nova Scotia: Creating Offshore Resistance Everywhere events!

From October 2-3, the Maritimes Energy Association will host their Core energy conference on Canada’s East Coast energy future ...
Feds had $10 million chance to walk away from Kinder Morgan pipeline

Feds had $10 million chance to walk away from Kinder Morgan pipeline

As reported in Ricochet, there was an exit clause in the purchase agreement of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline ...
Council of Canadians supports declaration for just transition in Mi'kma'ki

Council of Canadians supports declaration for just transition in Mi’kma’ki

Some signatories of the declaration - many more organizations signed on but were not present for the launch today in ...
N.B. What are you voting for?

N.B. What are you voting for?

In about a month, people in New Brunswick will be electing a new provincial government. Council of Canadians chapter members ...
Climate Justice portrait series to stand in the path of the Trans Mountain pipeline

Climate Justice portrait series to stand in the path of the Trans Mountain pipeline

All photos by Abdul Malik The Council of Canadian's Edmonton Chapter and the Prairies-NWT Regional office have been excited ...
Why Energy East is, and should remain, dead.

Why Energy East is, and should remain, dead.

I remember the day that Energy East officially died, October 5th, 2017. The decision was a long time coming ...