Climate Change
Sierra Club appearing on front line of Harper's Battle against the environment
Submitted by Shaima Al-Khalili on Wed, 2012-05-09 10:09This article, written by the National Director of Canadian Youth Climate Coalition in the Huffington Post, puts the Sierra Club at the top of the list of ENGOs under scrutiny by the Harper government.
Harper Government Can't See the Forest for the Trees
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/cameron-fenton/environmentalism-canada_b_14...
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#BlackOutSpeakOut campaign launched by environmental groups
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OTTAWA – According to a national campaign being launched Monday, May 7th by the country’s leading environmental organizations, the federal government’s war on nature and democracy means “Silence is no longer an option!” The campaign aims to force the Harper government to retreat and restore the environmental protection and democratic participation it recently gutted.... Read more »
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'Money Laundering' claim irks green groups
MONTREAL - Environmental groups in Quebec and across Canada are accusing the federal government of engaging in a kind of McCarthyism, painting environmentalists as terrorists and criminals in a bid to discredit and silence critics.
“This is a sustained campaign,” said Steven Guilbeault of the Montreal-based environmental organization Équiterre. “They have been talking about it since January; comparing environmental groups to terrorists, radicals, and money launderers. If I had more money, I would take the minister to court for defamation.”
Guilbeault was responding to various statements by Conservative politicians, including Environment Minister Peter Kent’s recent comments on CBC accusing unnamed environmental organizations of money laundering.
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Ottawa cuts water surveillance amidst warnings to heed global warming
OTTAWA - Environment Canada is cutting the scope of its water surveillance, internal documents show, even as Ottawa is being publicly warned to mind the serious effects of climate change.
A new report from the soon-to-be-defunct National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy warns that both business and government are dragging their feet in preparing for the inevitable effects of global warming.
At the same time, an internal memo from Environment Canada shows that budget cuts will require the department to scale back its monitoring of water ~ the very element that climate change most influences.
"The Sustainable Water Management Division is the most impacted," John Moffet, director general of legislative and regulatory affairs at Environment Canada, says in a note to his colleagues explaining how some of the budget cuts will work. The note has been widely circulated among environmental activists.
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Peace Out, playing at Toronto's Hot Docs festival!
Submitted by Shaima Al-Khalili on Wed, 2012-04-25 08:30
Peace Out, the award winning documentary hailed by critics as “… not just another environmental movie…”, “a thoughtful, clear-eyed exploration of an issue that always ends in costs, trade-offs, and least-bad options” and “a generously inquisitive film, made with an open mind and a fierce sense of commitment” is coming to Toronto’s Hot Docs Film Festival next week.
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