British Columbia Government Ecocide & Genocide — October 2021

BC Environment & Climate Change

Extinction Rebellion Vancouver breaks through a near-media blackout by halting traffic to the airport | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

In B.C.’s 2030 climate plan, natural gas remains a ‘glaring gap’

From leader to follower: B.C.’s updated climate plan – its “CleanBC Roadmap to 2030” – is not an emergency plan — Climate Emergency Unit

11 bears killed in Tofino, Ucluelet after breaking into structures to find garbage | CTV News

B.C. greenhouse gas emissions up 5%, not counting forest offsets – Goldstream News Gazette

On the eve of of COP26, BC’s climate failures are written on Indigenous land – RAVEN Trust

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/forests/100/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/10/11/Coastal-GasLink-Blasted-Again-Environmental-Damage/

https://thenarwhal.ca/wetsuweten-coastal-gaslink-explainer/

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/doctors-call-for-end-to-b-c-fur-farming-amid-covid-19-concerns-1.5624021

https://www.macleans.ca/society/environment/gordon-stenhouse-grizzly-whisperer-on-humans-sharing-the-world-with-bears/

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/saikuz-nation-delivers-forest-resource-declaration-no-more-industrial-logging

https://ckpgtoday.ca/2021/10/15/saikuz-first-nation-puts-province-industry-on-notice/

http://thenelsondaily.com/news/protesters-supporting-fairy-creek-defenders-block-traffic-downtown-nelson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqBF_2GNBUk

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/10/19/Why-Its-Hard-BC-NDP-Be-Greener/

https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/news/10455/more-than-a-quarter-million-people-call-on-british-columbia-government-to-save-old-growth-forests

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/10/22/BC-Changes-Law-Oil-Gas-Companies-Well-Cleanup/?

https://soundcloud.com/user-965676831/nl-newsday-sonia-furstenau-oct-21

https://thenarwhal.ca/iea-report-2021-canada-oil-gas/

https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/trevor-hancock-sadly-b-c-is-still-treating-nature-as-resource-to-be-exploited-1.24365892

https://laststandforforests.com/news-media/pacheedaht-community-was-never-consulted-on-forestry-elder-says/

https://www.straight.com/news/dr-margaret-mcgregor-and-dr-larry-barzelai-visit-to-wetsuweten-territory-leaves-a-lasting

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/three-years-after-cleanbc-horgan-still-cant-square-circle-lng

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-s-new-climate-plan-criticized-for-lack-of-caps-on-lng-extraction-1.5637868

https://ecojustice.ca/pressrelease/ecojustice-responds-to-release-of-b-c-climate-roadmap/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/4429292580479586

https://www.cheknews.ca/b-c-s-climate-change-plan-aims-for-changes-by-2030-for-consumers-industry-903786/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/10/29/New-Bill-BC-Drivers-Seat-Forestry/

https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/vancouver-island-study-disentangles-river-and-marine-stressors-on-salmon-and-trout/?

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/forests/103/

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-caribou-habitat-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

BC Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources

Two arrested as academics share concerns over Indigenous artifacts at B.C. site | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan’s News Source

BC’s Latest Climate Effort on Electrification Falls Short, Says Ecotrust | The Tyee

Protests renewed along CGL pipeline near Houston – Goldstream News Gazette

‘This is ridiculous’: BC Hydro questioned after mass stranding of salmon on Cheakamus River | Globalnews.ca

Deceit and distraction – In-Sights

Pipeline Standoff: Wet’suwet’en Block Effort to Tunnel under Morice River | The Tyee

Uncertainty about Teck’s future in coal causing concern in B.C.’s polluted Elk Valley

Mining giant Rio Tinto’s control of Nechako River waterflow in B.C. challenged by First Nations | Times Colonist

Coastal GasLink Blasted Again by Province for Environmental Damage | The Tyee

BC Promises to Fix ‘Broken’ Oil and Gas Royalty System | The Tyee

FortisBC Wants to Expand an LNG Plant on Vancouver’s Doorstep. Opponents Say No | The Tyee

Sunk costs sinking – In-Sights

Why tensions on Wet’suwet’en territory are escalating over Coastal GasLink

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Gidimt’en Checkpoint Urges Investors to Dump Coastal GasLink Pipeline – The Energy Mix

The Coastal GasLink pipeline is destroying our sacred headwaters: Gidimt’en Checkpoint’s Sleydo’ – Video – BNN

BC Changes Law to Let Oil and Gas Companies Delay Well Cleanup | The Tyee

Stream NL Newsday – Sonia Furstenau – Oct 21 by Radio NL Local First News | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

Gitxaała Nation launches mineral rights legal challenge against B.C. government – Goldstream News Gazette

B.C. faces Indigenous consent challenge to mining law in Supreme Court

7 Ways Mining in B.C. is mean and not green – RAVEN Trust

Arrest of Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief ‘So Insulting’ | The Tyee

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/b-c-subsidizes-energy-drilling-on-caribou-habitat-it-promised-to-protect-study-says/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/944335996512187/

https://www.mresearch.com/reassessment-of-site-c-financial-viability-sept-28-2021/

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/saikuz-nation-delivers-forest-resource-declaration-no-more-industrial-logging

https://ckpgtoday.ca/2021/10/15/saikuz-first-nation-puts-province-industry-on-notice/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/1488994358151578

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/10/19/Why-Its-Hard-BC-NDP-Be-Greener/

https://realpeoples.media/video-wetsuweten-chief-dstahyl-deactivates-coastal-gaslink-excavator-orders-cgl-out/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burrard-bridge-closed-extinction-rebellion-protest

https://www.facebook.com/wildernesstourismassociation/photos/a.215898869865977/449392133183315/

https://thenarwhal.ca/iea-report-2021-canada-oil-gas/

https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/trevor-hancock-sadly-b-c-is-still-treating-nature-as-resource-to-be-exploited-1.24365892

https://www.straight.com/news/dr-margaret-mcgregor-and-dr-larry-barzelai-visit-to-wetsuweten-territory-leaves-a-lasting

https://in-sights.ca/2021/10/23/natural-gas-revenues-in-bc/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/three-years-after-cleanbc-horgan-still-cant-square-circle-lng

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/4429292580479586

https://raventrust.com/on-the-eve-of-of-cop26-bcs-climate-failures-are-written-on-indigenous-land/

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-caribou-habitat-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

BC Forests, Lands & Natural Resources

B.C. subsidizes energy drilling on caribou habitat it promised to protect, study says – Goldstream News Gazette

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Where was the “clarity of knowledge” in the Fairy Creek old-growth logging dispute? – Forests – Focus on Victoria

Half a million people petition B.C. to end wolf hunt practices – Goldstream News Gazette

War in the Woods 1.0 | Watershed Sentinel

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Blockades and demonstrations at Fairy Creek will continue after injunction

Letter signed by 200 leaders seeks protection for B.C.’s old-growth forests

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Caribou comeback? Canada, Kalispel Tribe keep slim hopes alive – Columbia Insight

Windspeaker.com

Fairy Creek: Meet the people behind the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history | Ricochet

Protesters supporting Fairy Creek defenders block traffic in downtown Nelson | The Nelson Daily

Old Growth, New Beginnings – YouTube

Old growth blockade north of Revelstoke to continue into the winter – Salmon Arm Observer

RCMP ramp up enforcement of injunction, arrest multiple old-growth logging protesters at Fairy Creek

Saik’uz First Nation says no logging without consent of community

Huu-ay-aht First Nations seek leave to intervene in Teal Jones injunction appeal

West Shore water source could be drained, polluted without proper monitoring, advocates warn – Goldstream News Gazette

Salmon Need Trees | Hakai Magazine

Mahatta River Logging – Ancient Forest Alliance

Proposed changes to forestry policy ‘only a start,’ B.C. Forest Practices Board chair says | CBC News

Habitat protection needs teeth to save salmon in ‘Heart of the Fraser’: B.C. coalition – Agassiz Harrison Observer

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Did resources sit idle? BC Wildfire Service, province questioned about wildfire response – Goldstream News Gazette

Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Letter of Support – Pacific Wild

Dispatch from Fairy Creek – Patagonia

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AFA Photographer TJ Watt receives Trebek Initiative grant and named National Geographic Explorer and Royal Canadian Geographical Society Explorer – Ancient Forest Alliance

A New Bill Could Put BC ‘Back in the Driver’s Seat’ for Forestry | The Tyee

Vancouver Island study disentangles river and marine stressors on salmon and trout – Nanaimo News Bulletin

Fairy Creek forest defenders have cut through the endless inaction on carbon emissions – Forests – Focus on Victoria

B.C. funding caribou extinction through fossil fuel subsidies, tax breaks: study

Immediate action needed as habitat loss, not wolves, drive caribou to extinction – Reporting – Focus on Victoria

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https://ricochet.media/en/3795/unlawful-rcmp-actions-at-fairy-creek-harm-courts-reputation-says-judge-who-quashed-injunction

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/30/Horgan-Failed-Fairy-Creek-Say-BC-Liberals-Greens/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/canada/british-columbia-fairy-creek-protests.html

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-4-fall/critter/spotted-owl-and-college-student

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/10/04/Horgan-Fairy-Creek-Excuses-Betray-Citizens/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/haida-gwaiis-forest-dwelling-hawk-one-of-the-most-endangered-species-on-the-planet/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/10/11/Coastal-GasLink-Blasted-Again-Environmental-Damage/

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/these-forests-should-live-long-and-prosper-star-trek-captain-chides-b-c-premier-on-old-growth-forests-1.5620343

https://thenarwhal.ca/wetsuweten-coastal-gaslink-explainer/

https://ckpgtoday.ca/2021/10/15/saikuz-first-nation-puts-province-industry-on-notice/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/10/19/Why-Its-Hard-BC-NDP-Be-Greener/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/949402926005494/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burrard-bridge-closed-extinction-rebellion-protest

https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/news/10455/more-than-a-quarter-million-people-call-on-british-columbia-government-to-save-old-growth-forests

https://www.facebook.com/wildernesstourismassociation/photos/a.215898869865977/449392133183315/

https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/trevor-hancock-sadly-b-c-is-still-treating-nature-as-resource-to-be-exploited-1.24365892

https://laststandforforests.com/news-media/pacheedaht-community-was-never-consulted-on-forestry-elder-says/

https://www.straight.com/news/dr-margaret-mcgregor-and-dr-larry-barzelai-visit-to-wetsuweten-territory-leaves-a-lasting

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/three-years-after-cleanbc-horgan-still-cant-square-circle-lng

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/gitxaaa-nation-launches-mineral-rights-legal-challenge-against-b-c-government/

BC Ministry of Health

He Went to the ER for Help. Instead, He Ended Up Battered | The Tyee

Human Rights Watch calls heat dome “foreseeable” in report blasting governments’ responses | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

B.C. senior dies after family calls 911, waits 33 minutes for ambulance | CTV News

Good Samaritan stuck on hold with 911 after woman struck by car in Victoria | CTV News

CTV News VI | Video – Must Watch and Your Island News

Call for B.C. inquiry after officials ‘ignore the science’ of airborne COVID-19 spread | CTV News

COVID-19 in B.C.: Dozens dead, hundreds infected, but health authorities fight to conceal hospital outbreak findings | CTV News

Saanichton mother waited an hour and 40 minutes to hear back from ambulance dispatch | CTV News

Family of Chilliwack teen battling leukemia stunned by gaps in B.C.’s health-care system | CTV News

‘Significant risk to public safety’: Warnings and desperation in weeks before B.C. heat dome tragedy | CTV News

Outdoor Halloween activities emphasized as B.C. COVID-19 rates among worst in Canada | CTV News

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/doctors-call-for-end-to-b-c-fur-farming-amid-covid-19-concerns-1.5624021

https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/trevor-hancock-sadly-b-c-is-still-treating-nature-as-resource-to-be-exploited-1.24365892

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/premier-defends-b-c-s-fourth-wave-pandemic-struggle-as-ontario-controls-delta-1.5616009

BC Indigenous Relations

Saik’uz First Nation puts Province/Industry on notice | CKPGToday.ca

Video: Wet’suwet’en Chief Dsta’hyl deactivates Coastal Gaslink Excavator; orders CGL out | Real People’s Media

Indigenous Nation Stopped BC Social Workers From Apprehending Child, 6, on Their Land

Why we must address the colonial dimension of climate migration

How a big win for a First Nation in B.C. could bring change for resource development in Canada | CBC News

B.C. pays Blueberry River First Nations $65 million following court ruling

Pacheedaht Community Was Never Consulted on Forestry, Elder says – Last Stand for Forests

Dr. Margaret McGregor and Dr. Larry Barzelai: Visit to Wet’suwet’en territory leaves a lasting impression | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

BC Environment & Climate Change

BC Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources

BC Forests, Lands & Natural Resources

BC Ministry of Health

BC Indigenous Relations

BC Agriculture, Food and Fisheries

https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/vancouver-island-study-disentangles-river-and-marine-stressors-on-salmon-and-trout/?

BC Solicitor and Attorney Generals, BC Courts

British Columbia & Premier