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Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein in Leonard, Minnesota shutting down Enbridge line 4 and 67 tar sands pipelines. Photo: Valve Turners/Facebook
Valve-turners challenge climate crimes with non-violent direct action
Brent Patterson | Climate activists in the U.S. and Canada are manually closing the emergency shut-off valves on oil pipelines in acts of non-violent civil disobedience.
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Crowd taking part in Salt Spring-Kinder Morgan action. Photo: Christina Marshall/Leadnow Canada/Flickr
It's up to Indigenous and environmental groups to protect the public interest
Pamela Palmater | We cannot count on either federal or provincial governments to put the health of peoples, lands, waters, plants or animals ahead of the money to be made from the extractive industry.
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Drumming, Vancouver Kinder Morgan protest. Photo: William Chen/Flickr
Trans Mountain court decision sets up conditions for pipeline approval
Pamela Palmater | Despite the fact that the Federal Court of Appeal quashed the decision in this instance, it also set up the conditions under which the federal government can approve the pipeline in the future.
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Rally against Kinder Morgan oil pipeline on Burnaby Mountain. Photo: Mark Klotz/Flickr
Can they build Trans Mountain while respecting Indigenous rights and protecting orcas?
Karl Nerenberg | The Federal Court of Appeal decision on Trans Mountain condemns a patronizing consultation process with First Nations. Can Trudeau correct that, and protect the B.C. coast?
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Liberal cabinet ministers Jane Philpott and Catherine McKenna arrive for the cabinet meeting that approved their government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Photo by Brent Patterson.
Out, damned spot! The Liberals' hands-on approach worsens climate change
Brent Patterson | The Liberals repeatedly say that the economy and the environment go hand in hand, but their spin tries to conceal a deception.
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B.C. Environment and Climate Change Strategy Minister George Heyman. Photo: BC Gov Photos/flickr
The bitumen hits the fan in Alberta and Ottawa as B.C. moves to restrict pipeline and rail flow
David J. Climenhaga | This is a complex political fight that, while it appears to pit two NDP governments ironically against one another, actually involves a lot more players.
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Pipeline resistance grows as Trump revives Keystone XL and Dakota Access megaprojects
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | It will take more than the stroke of Trump's pen to quash the vigorous resistance to the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, or the growing global demand for urgent action to combat climate change.
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From Toronto to Standing Rock: #NoDAPL
Elizabeth Littlejohn, Nadine MacKinnon | Carrie Lester, Mohawk Land Defender and Water Protector, expresses solidarity from Toronto to Standing Rock/Tkarónto to Oceti Sakowin.
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Trudeau's Trumpishness bulldozes Indigenous rights
Matthew Behrens | Under the deceptive banner of "Canada is back," the Trudeau Liberals are intent on the delivery of a Trump-like policy platform that runs roughshod over Indigenous rights.
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Land protectors and activists stand together for climate justice
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | The movement to combat climate change is growing dynamically and unpredictably, and is facing increasing repression from the fossil-fuel industry and government authorities.
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Photo: Members of the Tsilhqot'in Nation on the front steps of the Supreme Court
Lasting ramifications of Tsilhqot'in decision on fish farms, pipelines
Brent Patterson | In 2014 a Supreme Court decision affirmed Tsilhqot'in Nation's title to their territory in B.C. Now it's at the centre of new protests and legal cases concerning First Nations land property rights.
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Chapter activist Dr. Paula Tippet speaks to the NEB panel and Energy East repres
Five things I learned at the NEB hearings in New Brunswick
Robin Tress | We hope these five lessons will help make your intervention at the National Energy Board (NEB) hearings into the Energy East pipeline effective and empowering.