Ecocide Canada — January 2020

Environment & Climate Change Canada

8 Reasons To Reject Teck’s Massive New Tar Sands Mine – Environmental Defence

The Justin Trudeau Climate Playbook Version 2.0 – Below 2C

Freezing bear cub delivered to B.C. wildlife centre prompts calls for updated COS policies | Globalnews.ca

Environmental Defence Canada

Author Jeremy Rifkin makes case that Canada is risking its economic future by keeping spigot wide open for oil and gas | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

Teen activist Autumn Peltier appears at World Economic Forum with criticism for federal politicians | CBC News

How did VW avoid criminal charges in Canada over its emissions cheating? – Macleans.ca

Is climate action a $26-trillion opportunity? ‘A little baloney’ in minister’s claim – Goldstream News Gazette

Petition · Policy Change for Bears NOW! in the BC Conservation Office Service · Change.org

Choose Climate, Reject Teck. It’s A NO-Brainer – Below 2C

(2) Climate Strike Against TMX Tar Sands!

Rolling Justice Bus – Posts

PRESS RELEASE: Salish Sea Herring Collapse Looms As DFO Bows to Industry, ignoring its own science, indigenous knowledge and public outcry | Pacific Wild

Canada’s wood bison near proposed oil project face ‘imminent threats’: minister – Reuters

https://www.cheknews.ca/un-racism-committee-calls-for-halt-to-site-c-trans-mountain-and-lng-pipeline-635045/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/01/07/Trans-Mountain-deal-bleeds-billions/

https://cklbradio.com/2020/01/16/smiths-landing-chief-fighting-to-be-heard-on-proposed-teck-frontier-mine-oilsands-project/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/oil-and-gas-industry-climate-change-international-energy-agency-1.5433475

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/

http://peoplesvoice.ca/2020/01/20/growing-resistance-against-horgan-and-trudeau-energy-policies/

https://www.straight.com/news/1352781/climate-activists-arrested-david-ebys-office-rcmp-orders-others-out-jonathan-wilkinsons

Fisheries & Oceans Canada

Along the Fraser: food banks for eagles in crisis? – Maple Ridge News

Fish Farm legal challenges heading to court in 2020

Pacific salmon and steelhead trout watch

Petition · Stop the west coast seal slaughter before it starts! · Change.org

The virus PRV brings out the worst in DFO – alexandra morton

The “generational amnesia” of scientific baselines | Watershed Sentinel

Indigenous Relations

Indigenous people often denied access to Canadian institutions because of status card misinformation | CBC News

https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2020/01/canadas-long-history-criminalizing-indigenous-resistance

https://www.facebook.com/CoastProtectors/photos/a.1357268160999108/2939798929412682/?type=3&theater

https://cklbradio.com/2020/01/16/smiths-landing-chief-fighting-to-be-heard-on-proposed-teck-frontier-mine-oilsands-project/

http://peoplesvoice.ca/2020/01/20/growing-resistance-against-horgan-and-trudeau-energy-policies/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rcmp-complaint-filed-by-coalition-that-includes-wet-suwet-en-hereditary-chiefs-1.5445950

Provinces & Territories outside BC (B is reported separately)

Get used to it, Alberta: the world is learning how to talk about climate change | rabble.ca

Ontario holding public consultation on making spring bear hunt permanent | CTV News

Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada | The Tyee

Why many Alberta oil and gas companies aren’t paying their taxes | The Narwhal

Former Alberta politician on tax strike over unpaid property taxes from oil companies to municipalities | Globalnews.ca

‘Hidden danger’: Life for farmers atop Alberta’s 400,000 kilometres of pipelines | The Narwhal

Report ‘buried’ by Alberta government reveals ‘mounting evidence’ that oil and gas wells aren’t reclaimed in the long run | The Narwhal

Fracking to blame for earthquakes, seismic ‘clusters’ in central Alberta | CBC News

Oil and gas companies owe Albertans $20 million in unpaid land rents | The Narwhal

Possible sale of Crown-owned coastal area in Nova Scotia raises concern | CTV News Atlantic

Alberta landowners urge farmers to cut power to oil and gas wells with unpaid debts | The Star

Report ‘buried’ by Alberta government reveals ‘mounting evidence’ that oil and gas wells aren’t reclaimed in the long run | The Narwhal

Opinion: Trump-style politics the new normal in Alberta | Edmonton Journal

Proposed gold mine in Nova Scotia threatens Atlantic salmon | rabble.ca

Cenovus announces $50M to build homes on First Nations communities | Calgary Herald

Companies could release treated tailings water into Athabasca by 2023 | Edmonton Journal

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-ndp-urges-government-to-shut-down-energy-war-room-following/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/alberta-orphan-wells-liability-audit-review-1.5433603?

https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/01/support-trans-mountain-expansion-drops-under-jason-kenneys

Prime Minister, Canada, Agencies

10 Years Of Canadian Climate (In)Action Shows We Didn’t Get Much Done | HuffPost Canada

CHDC LAWSUIT | Canadian Horse Defence Coalition

Trans Mountain Deal Was Structured to Bleed Billions, Finds Economist | The Tyee

Global warming could render the assets of many financial companies worthless, Mark Carney warns | Financial Post

17 Horses Die on Way to be Slaughtered for Human Consumption | Canadian Horse Defence Coalition

SCC dismissal leaves environment, communities, vulnerable to toxic spills

Canada slips in global corruption ranking in aftermath of SNC-Lavalin scandal – Goldstream News Gazette

Quick Vote Push on Trade Deal with Fossil Concessions – The Energy Mix