British Columbia Government Ecocide — December 2019

BC Environment & Climate Change

Clean B.C. is quietly using coal and gas power from out of province. Here’s why | The Narwhal

B.C. conservation officers destroy 6 bears spotted in Port Coquitlam playground | CTV News

Natural Gas Rush Drives a Global Rise in Fossil Fuel Emissions | InsideClimate News

A Housing Policy for Eagles | The Tyee

Pipe Up Against Enbridge – Home

Trans Mountain pipeline expansion approval ‘unlawful,’ First Nations argue as new court challenge begins | CBC News

Tension at First Nations’ Pipeline Appeal Like Acrimonious Divorce, Says Judge – VICE

Irving Oil’s New Brunswick refinery, Canada’s biggest, drops 2020 carbon cut pledge: documents – Reuters

https://www.facebook.com/WolfAwarenessCanada/photos/a.542786362552657/1501896323308318/?type=3&theater

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/inspection-of-fish-plant-ordered-after-latest-bloodwater-video-emerges-1.4715769?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/walvanlierop/2019/12/06/yes-fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-real-destructive-and-protected-by-lobbying/https://www.wolfawareness.org/press-releases

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/opinion/column-we-must-preserve-our-biodiversity-says-green-mla/

https://sierraclub.bc.ca/clearcutcarbon/?

https://www.facebook.com/PacificWild/photos/a.216579751693162/3619846868033083/?type=3&theater

https://nywolf.org/2019/12/blind-betrayal-bc-government-uses-collared-wolves-to-kill-entire-wolf-families/

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/LNG-prices-in-Asia-plunge-43-as-new-US-supply-hits-market?

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/12/14/facing-mass-job-losses-they-built-their-futures-around-lng-a-cleaner-alternative-to-oil-now-theyre-watching-as-some-say-the-bottom-is-falling-out-again.html?

https://globalnews.ca/news/6299545/bc-clearcutting-forests-climate-change/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/03/14/Fracking-Disaster-Polluters-Not-Paying/

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-s-battle-to-save-endangered-steelhead-shrouded-in-secrecy?

https://thenarwhal.ca/why-mom-and-pop-green-energy-producers-cant-sell-their-clean-power-in-b-c-anymore/?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-s-clear-cut-forests-are-dead-zones-emitting-more-greenhouse-gases-than-they-absorb-new-report-finds-1.5398660?cmp=rss

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/margaret-mcgregor-and-larry-barzelai-most-of-us-are-blissfully-unaware-of-how-much-fracking-takes-place-in-b-c

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/22/wouldyoushootmetoo-hashtag-trends-after-reports-canadian-mounted-police-asked?

BC Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources

Global LNG Markets Are Circling The Drain

BC Hydro lacks an appetite for green electricity. That’s hurting this historic family-run plant | The Narwhal

BC Hydro, by the numbers – In-Sights

The road to reforming mining in B.C. | Dogwood

B.C. grants $1.2 billion in deep well subsidies to fracking companies in two years: new report | The Narwhal

LNG prices in Asia plunge 43% as new US supply hits market – Nikkei Asian Review

Facing mass job losses, they built their futures around LNG, a cleaner alternative to oil. Now some say the bottom is falling out again | The Star

Chevron to exit Kitimat LNG project in British Columbia :: Lloyd’s List

A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay | The Tyee

Three years of mining, 40 years of taxpayer clean up for river downstream of Vancouver Island copper mine | The Narwhal

Why ‘Mom and Pop’ green energy producers can’t sell their clean power in B.C. anymore | The Narwhal

Death by a thousand cuts: a comic | The Narwhal

Province aims to help defuse mine dispute between B.C. First Nation and Taseko | CBC News

Exclusive: Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show | World news | The Guardian

Sovereign Likhts’amisyu – Home

AMC ALARMED WITH REPORTS OF POTENTIAL STATE-SANCTIONED VIOLENCE AGAINST WET’SUWET’EN ACTIVISTS IN BC – Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs

Court shuts down Taseko Mines over ‘Prosperity’ mine rejection

Three years of mining, 40 years of taxpayer clean up for river downstream of Vancouver Island copper mine | The Narwhal

Gidimt’en spokesperson Sleydo’, a.k.a. Molly Wickham, accuses RCMP of acting as mercenaries for industry | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

Most of us blissfully unaware of how much fracking takes place in B.C. | Vancouver Sun

Reports of RCMP snipers dispatched to Wet’suwet’en blockade ‘concerning,’ says Indigenous Services minister | CBC News

‘Monstrous’: Docs Show Canadian Mounties Wanted Snipers Ready to Shoot Indigenous Land Defenders Blockading Pipeline | Common Dreams News

#WouldYouShootMeToo Hashtag Trends After Reports Canadian Mounted Police Asked Snipers to Target Indigenous Protesters | Common Dreams News

Indigenous people outraged at Canada police’s possible use of lethal force | World news | The Guardian

B.C. RCMP blames “inflammatory” Guardian article for damaging relations with hereditary chiefs | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

Most of us blissfully unaware of how much fracking takes place in B.C. | Vancouver Sun

Police Were Ready to Shoot Indigenous Pipeline Protesters in Canada, Documents Reveal – EcoWatch

https://aptnnews.ca/2019/12/23/public-safety-minister-says-rcmp-language-about-wetsuweten-unacceptable/?fbclid=IwAR19w3MbMZog5Xc7qi-vyPNtc2VlhxDe6Q9PG-IYFXGAY6B3bsX85wSoU_4

2019 Was the Year That Fracking Fell Apart – Sightline Institute

Documentary filmmaker counters RCMP’s attempt to discredit Guardian story about Gidimt’en raid | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

Indigenous artifacts found in the path of a B.C. natural gas pipeline could be destroyed — and provincial permits allow for it | The Star

https://thenarwhal.ca/clean-b-c-is-quietly-using-coal-and-gas-power-from-out-of-province-heres-why/

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122019/fossil-fuel-emissions-2019-natural-gas-bridge-oil-coal-climate-change?

https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-reindeer-at-risk-of-extinction/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-injunction-coastal-gaslink-1.5411965?cmp=rss

https://www.facebook.com/unistoten/posts/3327785140629041?__tn__=K-R

https://www.straight.com/news/1341891/wetsuweten-hereditary-chiefs-reject-ruling-bc-supreme-court-judge-extend-coastal

BC Forests, Lands & Natural Resources

Left behind: staggering level of waste at Great Bear Rainforest logging operations, data reveals | The Narwhal

Petition · Stop spraying BC forests with herbicide to kill trees like poplar that wildlife need · Change.org

Province needs to protect endangered species – Adam Olsen, MLA

Stop the Spray BC – Posts

Sprayed Block 1 and 4 Years after spraying

Wolf Awareness Press Releases

COLUMN: We must preserve our biodiversity says Green MLA – Goldstream News Gazette

Clearcut Carbon: A report on the future of forests in BC – Sierra Club BC

Stop old-growth trees from bleeding out in BC

Blind Betrayal: BC Government Uses Collared Wolves to Kill Entire Wolf Families | Wolf Conservation Center

B.C. animal group sees painful leg-hold traps on the rise | CTV News

Clearcutting B.C. forests contributing more to climate change than fossil fuels: report | Globalnews.ca

Sonia Furstenau column: Forestry workers, communities deserve long-term solutions – Cowichan Valley Citizen

B.C.’s clear-cut forests are ‘dead zones,’ emitting more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, report finds | CBC News

Solo wolves left alive as packs shot from air, trapped | Vancouver Courier

Clearcutting B.C. forests contributing more to climate change than fossil fuels: report | Globalnews.ca

B.C.’s clear-cut forests are ‘dead zones,’ emitting more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, report finds | CBC News

Proposed hunting regulations reveal a bleak picture for some B.C. wildlife | CBC News

Stop old-growth trees from bleeding out in BC

B.C.’s clear-cut forests are ‘dead zones,’ emitting more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, report finds | CBC News

https://thenarwhal.ca/clean-b-c-is-quietly-using-coal-and-gas-power-from-out-of-province-heres-why/

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122019/fossil-fuel-emissions-2019-natural-gas-bridge-oil-coal-climate-change?

https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-reindeer-at-risk-of-extinction/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-injunction-coastal-gaslink-1.5411965?cmp=rss

https://www.facebook.com/unistoten/posts/3327785140629041?__tn__=K-R

https://www.straight.com/news/1341891/wetsuweten-hereditary-chiefs-reject-ruling-bc-supreme-court-judge-extend-coastal

https://thenarwhal.ca/in-the-wake-of-indigenous-rights-declaration-b-c-s-lawyers-make-distasteful-arguments-in-first-nations-title-case/

https://www.facebook.com/rollingjusticebus/photos/a.1654788901403248/2453700581512072/?type=3&theater

https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-reindeer-at-risk-of-extinction/

BC Indigenous Relations

(9) Unist’ot’en Camp – Home

Vancouver police discriminated against Indigenous mother, B.C. rights tribunal rules | CBC News

In the wake of Indigenous rights declaration, B.C.’s lawyers make ‘distasteful’ arguments in First Nations title case | The Narwhal

In the wake of Indigenous rights declaration, B.C.’s lawyers make ‘distasteful’ arguments in First Nations title case | The Narwhal

Likhts’amisyu land, air and water protectors

https://thenarwhal.ca/in-the-wake-of-indigenous-rights-declaration-b-c-s-lawyers-make-distasteful-arguments-in-first-nations-title-case/?

https://www.facebook.com/TsilhqotinNationalGovernment/photos/a.367453743446595/1217100085148619/?type=3&theater

https://thenarwhal.ca/death-by-thousand-cuts-comic/?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/province-aims-to-help-defuse-mine-dispute-between-b-c-first-nation-and-taseko-1.5403693?cmp=rss

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/canada-indigenous-land-defenders-police-documents?

https://www.facebook.com/likhtsamisyu/photos/a.292500044800882/445735639477321/?type=3&theater

https://manitobachiefs.com/amc-alarmed-with-reports-of-potential-state-sanctioned-violence-against-wetsuweten-activists-in-bc/

https://www.straight.com/news/1339641/gidimten-spokesperson-sleydo-aka-molly-wickham-accuses-rcmp-acting-mercenaries-industry

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rcmp-snipers-first-nation-pipeline-protest-guardian-1.5405111?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/22/wouldyoushootmetoo-hashtag-trends-after-reports-canadian-mounted-police-asked?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/24/indigenous-people-outraged-at-canada-polices-possible-use-of-lethal-force

https://www.straight.com/news/1340636/bc-rcmp-blames-inflammatory-guardian-article-damaging-relations-hereditary-chiefs

https://www.ecowatch.com/rcmp-indigenous-arrest-2641674109.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/12/26/indigenous-artifacts-found-in-the-path-of-a-bc-natural-gas-pipeline-could-be-destroyed-and-provincial-permits-allow-for-it.html?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-injunction-coastal-gaslink-1.5411965?cmp=rss

https://www.facebook.com/unistoten/posts/3327785140629041?__tn__=K-R

https://www.straight.com/news/1341891/wetsuweten-hereditary-chiefs-reject-ruling-bc-supreme-court-judge-extend-coastal

British Columbia & Premier

https://thenarwhal.ca/clean-b-c-is-quietly-using-coal-and-gas-power-from-out-of-province-heres-why/

https://adamolsenmla.ca/province-needs-to-protect-endangered-species/?

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/LNG-prices-in-Asia-plunge-43-as-new-US-supply-hits-market?

https://www.facebook.com/likhtsamisyu/videos/3485801868129181/UzpfSTE2MzQwMzEyODAxNDU2Nzc6MjQ1Mzg5MTI3NDgyNjMzNg/

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/margaret-mcgregor-and-larry-barzelai-most-of-us-are-blissfully-unaware-of-how-much-fracking-takes-place-in-b-c

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rcmp-snipers-first-nation-pipeline-protest-guardian-1.5405111?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/22/wouldyoushootmetoo-hashtag-trends-after-reports-canadian-mounted-police-asked?