British Columbia Government Genocide & Ecocide — September 2020

BC Environment & Climate Change

petition: Save the curious Coquitlam BC bear who gently tapped a jogger’s leg!

North Shore residents upset after bear that frequented neighbourhood is put down | CBC News

Shooting of bear in North Vancouver ignites debate over lethal force by conservation officers | CBC News

Petition · Mayor and Council DNV and Premier John Horgan: Justice for Plum – Conservation not Extermination · Change.org

Conservation officers safely capture fruit-loving grizzly in Squamish neighbourhood | CBC News

(2) Barb Murray

Subsidizing Climate Change: How BC gives billions to corporate polluters | Stand.earth

Animal conservation should protect animals not kill them – Adam Olsen, MLA

Shawnigan Lake Woman Prevents a Bear Death – Victoria Animal News

Union challenges court win by Island conservation officer fired for saving bear cubs | Times Colonist

Teens rally in Fridays For Future protest outside federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s North Vancouver office | CTV News

Stop the grizzly killing – Posts

https://www.facebook.com/2308933962668808/photos/a.2310336192528585/2759513557610844/?type=3&theater

https://vancouversun.com/news/u-s-wildfires-should-serve-as-urgent-warning-for-b-c-says-ubc-forest-scientist

https://www.facebook.com/standearth/photos/a.415188889220/10158057472914221/?type=3&theater

https://in-sights.ca/2020/09/25/bc-government-hides-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-climate-delay-hyperloop-train-small-modular-reactors-1.5717438

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/09/29/Fracking-Future-Should-Be-Election-Issue/

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-government-kaska-indigenous-protected-area-foi/

https://thenarwhal.ca/northwest-bc-endangered-species/

https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/09/blame-game-hurts-wildlife

BC Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources

Skeena LNG: five things you need to know about the proposed project in Terrace, B.C. | The Narwhal

Border wildlife cameras show animals facing ‘completely unprecedented’ barrier | Local news | tucson.com

Big Financial Loss Prompts Petronas to ‘Reassess’ Oil and Gas Investments, Expand Renewables – The Energy Mix

Run out the clock on Woodfibre LNG | Wilderness Committee

Site C’s Radical, Risky Makeover | The Tyee

Site C’s radical makeover: What the ‘L’ is going on at problem-plagued dam construction project where costs keep piling up and completion remains years away? | Corporate Mapping Project

TC Energy appoints new head of $6.6-billion Coastal GasLink project as Pfeiffer departs – The Globe and Mail

Mount Polley – Remediation and recovery journal

Wildfire burns Brazil’s largest wetlands, killing thousands of wild animals – ABC News

Highlands association loses in BC Supreme Court, OK Industries allowed to start work on rock quarry

Logging expected to start by month’s end at planned Highlands quarry | Times Colonist

The Site C Mess: Notes for the Investigator | The Tyee

The bottom falls out of BC’s overhyped LNG gamble | Watershed Sentinel

Letter calls for B.C. to freeze Site C dam project while geotechnical risks probed | Globalnews.ca

Rock Quarry Proposal Highland District Victoria BC on Vimeo

https://www.peacevalleyland.com/single-post/2020/09/02/SITE-C-IS-SINKING-INTO-OLD-MUD

https://www.facebook.com/2308933962668808/photos/a.2310336192528585/2759513557610844/?type=3&theater

https://vancouversun.com/news/u-s-wildfires-should-serve-as-urgent-warning-for-b-c-says-ubc-forest-scientist

https://www.facebook.com/EndangeredEcosystemsAlliance/posts/665394460762951?__tn__=K-R

https://www.facebook.com/standearth/photos/a.415188889220/10158057472914221/?type=3&theater

https://in-sights.ca/2020/09/25/bc-government-hides-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

https://www.facebook.com/standearth/photos/a.415188889220/10158060712799221/?type=3&theater

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/open-letter-urges-b-c-to-pause-work-at-site-c-dam-to-review-costs-geotechnical-issues/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/09/29/Fracking-Future-Should-Be-Election-Issue/

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-government-kaska-indigenous-protected-area-foi/

https://thenarwhal.ca/northwest-bc-endangered-species/

BC Forests, Lands & Natural Resources

Stop the Spray BC – Posts

Morale remains strong as protesters near a month of blockades to stop old-growth logging – Goldstream News Gazette

Stop Killing Wolves & Protect Habitat: Save BC’s Caribou from Extinction | Leadnow.ca

Stop the Spray BC – Posts

Stop the Spray BC – Posts

SpiritAnd4Elements – Home

(1) stop the spray bc – Facebook Search

B.C. to protect 353,000 hectares of old-growth forest from logging | CBC News

B.C. government releases old-growth report and responds to decades of activism with solid first steps in key areas | Wilderness Committee

BC’s New Old-Growth Policy: Missing the heart of Old-Growth Forests, But shows some promise — Endangered Ecosystems Alliance

U.S. wildfires should serve as warning for B.C., says UBC forest scientist | Vancouver Sun

B.C. Green Caucus welcomes first steps, calls for full implementation of old growth panel report – BC Green Party

Environmentalists plan to continue old growth logging blockades | Watch News Videos Online

Countering Biomass Disinformation | BC Forests: The Peoples Convergence – YouTube

Whistler holds Forest March to protest old-growth logging – Pique Newsmagazine

Environmentalists plan to continue old growth logging blockades | Watch News Videos Online

Prince George conservationists say B.C.’s new old growth strategy fails inland rainforests – PrinceGeorgeMatters.com

Endangered Ecosystems Alliance – Posts

Arc’teryx Presents: On The Verge – YouTube

Vancouver Island protesters call B.C.’s response to new old-growth report a ‘diversion’ – Goldstream News Gazette

Grand Forks residents launch class action lawsuit alleging negligent logging caused 2018 floods | CBC News

Rolling Justice Bus – Posts

Movement in the Woods | The Tyee

B.C.’s old-growth forest announcement won’t actually slow down logging: critics | The Narwhal

B.C. to destroy old-growth caribou habitat, sabotaging restoration efforts nearby | Wilderness Committee

Clear-cutting, climate change threaten fir reforestation in B.C. Interior, report says | CBC News

The New Faces of BC’s Old-Growth Activism | The Tyee

Protestors rally for B.C. old growth protection | CTV News

Post-secondary students call on Trudeau to abandon TMX | National Observer

Ancient Forest Alliance – Posts

This is #BeautifulBC

Stop the Spray BC – Posts

Forest March BC – Posts

Canada needs a world-class climate law

Conservation groups blast province for logging in caribou habitat near Revelstoke – Salmon Arm Observer

Province’s response to old growth forest report falls short, says Nelson scientist – Creston Valley Advance

B.C.’s Forest Basket—these forests are OURS | Kootenay Business

The Secret to Caribou Recovery? Indigenous Leadership | The Tyee

Armed with new research, ranchers rethink depredation | The NM Political Report

Blame game hurts wildlife | rabble.ca

Forest March BC

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TRUTH ABOUT THE OLD GROWTH REPORT….

” In light of the details I found, the Gorley-Merkel report appears to have been used by Donaldson as little more than sugar coating around a bitter pill. The bitter pill is that, at best, Donaldson is deferring logging for 2 years on 64,191 hectares, almost all of it in Clayoquot Sound. At best, Minister Donaldson’s deferrals amount to 15 percent of the area identified by Price et al. Here are the details:” https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/forests/27/

https://oldgrowthblockade.ca/beautiful-bc-the-wild-within-vs-the-wild-without/

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-government-kaska-indigenous-protected-area-foi/

https://thenarwhal.ca/northwest-bc-endangered-species/

BC Indigenous Relations

Sovereign Likhts’amisyu – Posts

Tensions rise as big game hunters enter Tahltan Nation’s traditional lands | CBC News

Sovereign Likhts’amisyu – Posts

How Canada can power up reconciliation with clean energy projects | Corporate Knights

Activists Take Aim at KKR’s New York Building, in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders | Democracy Now!

Action demanded over death of First Nations youth in Abbotsford group home – Goldstream News Gazette

https://www.facebook.com/2308933962668808/photos/a.2310336192528585/2759513557610844/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/likhtsamisyu/videos/334716274518422/

https://www.facebook.com/likhtsamisyu/videos/732773080605170/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/throne-speech-recycles-hollow-promises-climate-and-environment

https://realpeoples.media/the-source-of-canadas-indian-problem-is-the-theft-of-indigenous-lands-and-resources/

https://www.facebook.com/likhtsamisyu/posts/640601966657353

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-government-kaska-indigenous-protected-area-foi/

British Columbia & Premier

B.C. government undermines information rights: privacy commissioner

B.C. puts several taxes on hold to help on pandemic recovery

SITE C IS SINKING INTO OLD MUD

John Horgan’s LNG follies—what’s a B.C. climate voter to do? | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

Endangered Ecosystems Alliance – Posts

B.C. election: Ecojustice says climate, species, forests must be priorities

So there’s going to be a fall election in B.C.: has the NDP kept its environmental promises? | The Narwhal

COMMENTARY: John Horgan’s risky snap provincial election in B.C. will be watched closely | Globalnews.ca

Vaughn Palmer: Horgan’s mask slips after Furstenau letter challenges premier’s flip | Vancouver Sun

BC Government hides fossil fuel subsidies – In-Sights

Tell Horgan: End fossil fuel subsidies in BC!

Martyn Brown: How Horgan made the B.C. Greens’ central case—no one should be trusted with absolute power | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

Open letter urges B.C. to pause work at Site C dam to review costs, geotechnical issues – Goldstream News Gazette

Beautiful BC: Without the Wild – Old Growth Blockade

The Fracking Industry Is Hurting. Its Future Should Be an Election Issue | The Tyee

‘No mandate’ from B.C. government for new protected areas: FOI docs | The Narwhal

Meet the 8 endangered species that call northwest B.C. home | The Narwhal

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-and-council-dnv-and-premier-john-horgan-justice-for-plum-conservation-not-extermination

https://www.facebook.com/2308933962668808/photos/a.2310336192528585/2759513557610844/?type=3&theater

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-fish-farms-undercount-sea-lice-salmon-risk-1.5718322

https://www.corporatemapping.ca/site-c-makeover/

https://vancouversun.com/news/u-s-wildfires-should-serve-as-urgent-warning-for-b-c-says-ubc-forest-scientist

https://www.stand.earth/publication/Canada-climate-energy/lng-and-fracking-bc/subsidizing-climate-change-how-bc-gives

https://www.facebook.com/wildernesscommittee/photos/a.148544532992/10157678645212993/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/standearth/photos/a.415188889220/10158039867419221/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/567337650286414/photos/a.567343490285830/1326573001029538/?type=3&theater

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/09/23/Site-C-Mess-Investigator-Notes/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/throne-speech-recycles-hollow-promises-climate-and-environment

https://www.facebook.com/rollingjusticebus/photos/a.1634627923419346/2674089746139820/?type=3&theater

https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/the-bottom-falls-out-of-bcs-overhyped-lng-gamble/

https://realpeoples.media/the-source-of-canadas-indian-problem-is-the-theft-of-indigenous-lands-and-resources/

https://www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/news/provinces-old-growth-forest-report-falls-short-nelson-scientist/

https://www.facebook.com/standearth/photos/a.415188889220/10158060712799221/?type=3&theater

https://vimeo.com/462250395

https://www.facebook.com/stopthespraybc/photos/a.509720329363516/1313548588980682/?type=3&theater

https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/09/blame-game-hurts-wildlife