#trans mountain pipeline

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Trans Mountain says it is in the process of wrapping up work to install its pipeline through a sacred Secwépemc site, bringing its expansion project one step closer to completion. The pipe installation, which involved digging a 1.3-kilometre trench through an area with a known burial site, was allowed to proceed after years of back and forth between the company, the Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation and federal regulators. The Canadian government bought the pipeline nearly six years ago and vowed to move ahead with its expansion, saying it was in the public interest. It is managed through a Crown corporation. “It’s devastating to many people that this happened,” said Mike McKenzie, a Secwépemc knowledge keeper. “Canada had a serious obligation to the Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc and all Canadians to uphold Secwépemc law in a good way, to embody reconciliation in their work.”

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #first nations #Secwépemc Nation #pipelines #trans mountain #trans mountain pipeline #oil #fossil fuels #racism #settler colonialism

[thatwitchybitchandco]

What do orcas, hummingbirds & salmon have in common? They're all at serious risk from the Trans Mountain pipeline. Help put an end to it by getting Library Mutual to stop providing insurance for it.

#orcas #hummingbird #hummingbirds #salmon #fish #birds #bird #climate change #climate emergency #climate activism #climate justice #climate and environment #trans mountain pipeline #tmx #pipeline #save earth

[animeistro]

BC coulda had a Trans Mountain. But nooooo we got this bullshit instead.

#Trans Mountain pipeline

[mxstardxst]

Some info on the Trans Mountain pipeline: 

Most of the refined bitumen from the oil is shipped across the ocean for international consumption, mainly in the Pacific Rim markets. Near none of it is kept here in the US or Canada.

The tank farm for it is only about 0.5 miles away from the Simon Fraser university, with the only intersection on and off campus being placed in between. There’s a grove of trees around campus leaving a disastrous accident waiting to happen. Firemen have said the best option when a fire does happen (note when not if) is to stay put, noting that the fire would raise and block off any exit out. This would cause delirium, nausea, breathing problems, unconsciousness, all the way to death. 

Since the 60s’ Kinder Morgan, the company with this pipeline hasn’t gone any longer than 4 years without a spill. That’s 62 years running.

There’s a habitat of orcas living in the southern Salish sea, and oil spills have caused pollution to the point of their food and one families baby orca dying. 

The fumes from the bitumen along with the smoke made in refineries has been shown to cause cancer along with asthma and heart issues. 

Not to mention that many Indigenous people’s water will be at high risk of being polluted from an oil spill, could also spill onto their land and suffocate anything growing. It would disrupt the homes of animals living nearby which would also disrupt the lifestyle many Indigenous people lead, of hunting and fishing. 

There’s more, but this is more than enough to show that this pipeline can’t be built under any circumstances. 

#stop the pipeline #trans mountain pipeline

[faggotbetweenrevolutions]

Pipe(line)

#itellyouthistobreakyourheart #poetry #trans poetry #transsexual #anarchist #collage #multimedia #mvp #mountain valley pipeline #frontline #appalachia #line 3 #standing rock

[walrusmagazine]

Could an Indigenous-Owned Pipeline Be a Force for Good?

A wealth gap exists between Indigenous peoples and other Canadians. Some First Nations believe buying the Trans Mountain pipeline might fix it

Project Reconciliation is now in discussions with the federal government. The company won’t disclose how many Indigenous nations have signed on. It has also yet to disclose how much those nations are willing to pay and what the costs of debt will be. But, to some, signing on isn’t just a question of revenue—there is also the risk the pipeline could go ahead with no Indigenous partners at all.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Christopher Dupon-Martinez (christopherduponmartinez.com).

#Environment #Indigenous #Pipeline #Trans Mountain #Project Reconciliation #December 2022 #Illustration #Zoë Yunker #Christopher Dupon-Martinez

[bts-trans]

[KOR/ENG LYRICS] Yun by RM (with Erykah Badu)

결국 진리에 살다가 가야 한다는 거야. 우리 또한 그자리에서는 At the end of the day, we have to live while holding on to truth. In that place—

인간의 본질인데 it’s human nature but

진선미 진실하다는 진자하고 착할 선자하고 아름다운 미, 내 생각에는 진 하나만 가지고 다 해결되는 거야 “Jin. Seon. Mi”. “Jin” meaning truth, “seon” meaning “goodness”, and “mi” meaning “beauty”. In my opinion, just having truth alone solves everything.*

F*** the trendsetter

I’mma turn back the time

Back the time, far to when I was nine

좋은 것과 아닌 것밖에 없던 그때 When there was nothing but the good and not good

차라리 그때가 더 인간이었던 듯해 It feels like I was actually more of a person back then

이쪽저쪽에서 받았던 손가락질들이 Fingers pointed at me from all sides

이젠 가야 할 곳이라며 저 산을 가리키지 Now they say there’s a place I must go, and point at that mountain over there

That’s where you belong

Oh you gon’ be alone if

뭣도 아닌 그 진심들을 고집하면은 you keep stubbornly hanging on to that truth, it means nothing

팀 빠진 넌 사실 뭣도 아니야 너는 Without your team, you’re nothing honestly

고속도로서 오솔길로 가려 해 너는 You’re trying to go from a highway to a little trail

그냥 내 말 좀 들어 그러다 다 잃어 Just listen to me, you’ll lose everything that way

늘 그랬듯 you go with the flow, you get better Like always, you go with the flow, you get better

F*** that s***, 에뜨랑제의 lifestyle F*** that s***, the lifestyle of an étranger

늘 나의 자리는 경계선의 pipeline I always stand on boundary pipelines

여전히 난 허락되지 않는 꿈을 꿔 I still dream dreams I’m not allowed to

아무도 보지 않는 춤을 춰 I dance dances no one sees

You keep the silence

‘Fore you do somethin’

You be a human

Till the death of you

I wanna be a human

‘Fore I do some art

It’s a cruel world

But there’s gon’ be my part

Cuz true beauty is a true sadness

Now you could feel my madness

I wanna be a human

'Fore I do some art

It's a cruel world

But there's gon’ be my part

Cuz true beauty is a true sadness

Now you could feel my madness

그는 말했지 늘, 먼저 사람이 돼라 He always said, “be a human first”

예술 할 생각 말고 놀아 느껴 희로애락 Don’t think about making art, just feel all the pain and pleasure, the joy and sorrow

What is it with the techniques

What is it with the skills

What is it with all the words

In your lyrics that you can’t feel?

나 당신이 말한 진리가 뭔지 몰라 다만 I don’t know what the truth that you spoke about is, but

그저 찾아가는 길 위 나의 속도와 방향 I just go on the paths I find, in my own speed and direction

You’re dead, but to me you the f***in’ contemporary

여전히 이곳에 살아서 흘러 permanently Still living here, flowing permanently

이 모든 경계의 위에 선 자들에게 To all those who stand on boundary lines

반드시 보내야만 했던 나의 밤을 건네 I give you these nights that I just had to spend

반짝이는 불꽃은 언젠가 땅으로 Shimmering fireworks eventually fall to the ground

카이사르의 것은 카이사르로 Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s*²

시커멓게 탄 심장 A heart that’s burnt black

재를 뿌린 그 위에 시를 쓰네 I write poems where the ashes were spread

사선을 오갔던 생과 To a life that went back and forth between life and death and

당신이 마침내 이 땅에 남긴 것들에게 To the things that you left behind in this earth in the end

나 역시 그저 좀 더 나은 어른이길 I, of course, just hope to be a better adult

You keep the silence

'Fore you do somethin'

You be a human

Till the death of you

I wanna be a human

'Fore I do some art

It's a cruel world

But there's gon’ be my part

Cuz true beauty is a true sadness

Now you could feel my madness

I wanna be a human

'Fore I do some art

It's a cruel world

But there's gon’ be my part

Cuz true beauty is a true sadness

Now you could feel my madness

죽기까지 못할꺼야 I won’t be able to do it till I die.

그렇게 하고 싶은데 안돼요 I want to do it that way, but I’m not able to.

그럴려면 이 욕심도 다 버리고 In order to do it, you have to get rid of your greed.

모든 욕심 다 버려야 해 You have to get rid of all of your greed

천진무구한 세게로 돌아가야지 and go back to a world of perfect innocence.

그리고 약간 And well,

나는 그렇게 하고 싶은데 I want to do that.

왜 안 되는 거야 But why can’t I?

근데 죽을 때까지 그렇게 해보려고 노력을 해야지 But I have to keep trying till I die.

그게 인간의 목적인 것 같아 I think that is the purpose of human beings.*

Translators’ Notes:

*The dialogue translated in this section is our best guess, as the nature of vocal sample makes it difficult to hear the words clearly.

2. From Matthew 22:21.

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[zvaigzdelasas]

Blaming Moscow, the EU and Azerbaijan think that Russian backed separatists in Armenia are aching to start another war.[...]

The main problem now is with a region in Azerbaijan known as the Karabakh , patrolled by Russian peacekeepers, along with ethnic Armenians who live there and do not want to become Azerbaijani citizens. Karabakh is a mountainous area is in between the two countries, once part of the USSR.

Armenia took the Karabakh region over in a war in the 1990s from Azerbaijan but lost it in the last cease-fire. The two neighbors are still at loggerheads, and tensions are rising at a time when Azerbaijan has a memorandum of understanding with the EU in a lucrative gas deal signed in July 2022. The agreement with Azerbaijan will supposedly double imports of natural gas to at least 20 billion cubic meters annually by 2027. The EU is seeking alternative suppliers to Russia. "Azerbaijan's role as a reliable energy partner is important on the global landscape. By committing to increase natural gas supplies to 20 billion cubic meters by 2027, Azerbaijan is already significantly contributing to strengthening Europe's energy security," British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in his address to the participants of the Baku Energy Week conference, which ended in the capital city of Baku on June 6.

In the past 12 months, the EU’s energy partnership with Azerbaijan has become one of Europe’s topmost essential strategic relationships. Several EU member states are already importing and using Caspian gas from the Caspian Sea, where Azerbaijan is located. Deliveries began in 2020 using the Trans-Adriatic and Trans-Anatolian pipelines included in the Southern Gas Corridor. In increasing numbers, Azerbaijan gas has been heading to Italy, Croatia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Romania, Greece, Austria and Bulgaria.[...]

Could the border problems in the Karabakh, once part of the Soviet Union, upend the European gas deal? “Major oil and natural gas export from Azerbaijan is not dependent on a peace accord between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” says Brenda Shaffer, a faculty member at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in California. She is an expert on Caspian energy and a non-resident fellow at The Atlantic Council.

“The results of the 2020 Armenia-Azerbaijan War impacted the security of the energy export corridor,” she says. “Armenia is now deterred from attempting to attack that corridor, as it did in the past.”[...]

The EU sent a civilian mission to help police the Armenian side of Karabakh region. Azerbaijan was reportedly not happy with the EU presence there, according to a report by Politico EU.[...]

“We are warning certain countries that stand behind Armenia from here…to stop these dirty deeds,” [Aliyev] said in his March 18 statement. “The mediators involved in the Karabakh conflict [try] not to solve the issue but to freeze it,” he said, adding that ethnic Armenians living in the Karabakh region, now Azerbaijan, were not getting any special guarantees beyond what an Azerbaijani citizen would get.[...]

The one name that always comes up in this story is a famous Armenian financier named Ruben Vardanyan. He is close to Vladimir Putin [...]

On May 28, Vardanyan said separatists should not sign onto any agreements with Azerbaijan on his Russian language Telegram channel. He brought up the awful specter of the Armenian genocide to win them over. He wrote: (Azerbaijan president) “Aliyev has one strategy — the expulsion and genocide of the people of Artsakh.” Artsakh is what Armenians call the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. “The last line has been passed. You either stand up for Artsakh, or against the entire Armenian people.” Vardanyan has been entwined in the separatist government for some time. On his Twitter page, Vardanyan writes about human rights issues related to Karabakh region and has been especially vocal about the alleged [sic] blockade of a road connecting the region to Armenia.[...]

Azerbaijan’s blockade, or checkpoints as they call them, have allegedly been designed to stop any threats of arms flow into Karabakh. Moreover, Armenia is one of Russia’s ways to get around sanctions. Armenia has been a source for banned products to get into Russia – namely computer electronics, such as microchips used for military weapons, The New York TimesNYT reported in April. Still, for Armenian separatists, the checkpoint is a blockade as it seals off the only road to Armenia. Some say the road is completely closed, and that there is no checkpoint except for maybe official government vehicles.

On June 21, separatists called for an international intervention, saying humanitarian aid could not get to the region because of the situation Another war between Armenia and Azerbaijan is unlikely to stop gas flows, but that depends on whether Europe picks sides. If they come out as anti-Azerbaijan, sanctions could undermine EU energy policy yet again. This is the worst-case scenario. As it is, the U.S. is looking anti-Azerbaijan. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in Washington held a hearing on June 21 spotlighting Azerbaijan’s checkpoints in the Karabakh. At least one member of the Commission, Hollywood, California Congressman Adam Schiff, called for sanctions in his written statement. He even referred to Karabakh by Vardanyan’s preferred term, “Artsakh”. Maybe Clooney got to him.

Would Washington again sanction a country important to European energy security? It’s done so before.[...]

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is under pressure to protect the rights of the ethnic Armenians in Karabakh, but Baku naturally wants the separatist government and military structures to be dissolved. They want the Armenians there to become full Azerbaijani citizens, Reuters reported.

Azerbaijan denies Vardanyan’s take that they are putting the Armenians through another genocide or that the road checkpoints are designed to make life miserable. [...]

A calm Caucasus is imperative to ensure Europe’s energy security.

Mask fully off moment [25 Jun 23]

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

Infrastructures of Violence

Solarpunk isn’t new to debates about violence, its pros and cons, whether it is a true reflection of the movement’s values or antithetical to its ethical commitments. I figured I’d give my own two cents’ worth here; I know I might be retreading old ground, but given this season’s focus on housing in particular and the built environment generally, I wanted to address this topic specifically.

Before I begin, though, I want to note that I am deeply indebted in my thinking to Rob Nixon, specifically his book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor for giving me language and a framework of thinking about this issue. There are many types of violence, it turns out! Some are just harder to see than others. On top of that, who is labelling what action as “violent”? Who gets to define violence? These are some of the questions I tend to chew over whenever the word is used.

Today, I want to talk about how infrastructure and violence are intrinsically linked, and not just in the sense of clashes between the people living there. Architecture can perpetrate violence simply in its design: take hostile architecture, for example. Apart from threatening violence in actual physicality, hostile architecture perpetrates a violent ideology: there are people who do not matter, who need to be shooed away, who don’t deserve basic human kindness or decency. This is a forerunner to genocidal action - the constant dehumanization of a particular population, making it easier to eventually do actual, physical, spectacular violence to them without causing much psychic damage to/causing protest from the rest of the population.

In my view, solarpunks’ goals are to create a world where that ideology is, as Christina put it, “beyond the pale”. A world where compassion reigns and every individual matters as an important part of the community. A world where disputes are resolved through skillful negotiation, where interpersonal conflict is arbitrated with compassion, where peace and care are valued and valorized.

We don’t live in that world yet. And it will take a lot of intentional choosing of nonviolence as well as organized opposition to a status quo that interprets any opposition to it as necessarily violent. Taking an example from my own society and culture, Canada has a history (though recent) of branding enviromentalists as terrorists, with terrible consequences. A recent episode of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) podcast “What on Earth?” explored how misogyny and racism can combine with anti-environmentalist sentiment into a toxic stew that greatly affects female environmentalists, and thus can have a chilling effect on women’s speech and actions. (Because Canada was first and foremost founded as a resource colony to extract goods for Europe, and only became a country after negotiating with the companies that had laid claim to Northern Turtle Island, any opposition to the extractive settler-colonial mindset is labelled domestic terrorism).

Speaking of racism, Canada, the status quo, and the violence inherent to certain forms of infrastructure, both 1990’s Oka Crisis and the current struggles of the Tiny House Warriors come to mind. The Oka Crisis, or Kanehsatà:ke Resistance, was basically a struggle over whether the township of Oka, Quebec, had the right to build condominiums and expand a golf course over disputed land that also included an Indigenous burial ground. Mohawk protestors blockaded a highway with trees and trucks; the Quebec Police, the Canadian Army, and the RCMP showed up with tanks. To defend infrastructure.

The Tiny House Warriors are a group of Indigenous-led protestors who are part of a mission to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline from crossing unceded Secwepemc Territory by building infrastructure of their own - tiny houses. Ten tiny houses were built in strategic places along the Trans Mountain pipeline route, reasserting Indigenous presence on their own land. They are now in court, after having been attacked and abused (sometimes physically) for their commitment to fighting violent infrastructure with infrastructure that asserts their sovereignty and provides homes.

The label of violence can be stretched, in this way, to cover even peaceful protestors. Or artists - Elizabeth LaPensée's short video game Thunderbird Strike, wherein the player directs a thunderbird to attack the oil pipeline and infrastructures encroaching on the land, was described by a Minnesota politician and oil lobbyists as “encouraging eco-terrorism”.

Much like the debater who takes a critique of their argument as an ad hominem attack, there are governments that see only violence in certain actions that solarpunks may not see as violent at all.

The violence against the Wet’suwet’en protestors, the #NoDAPL protestors, and many, many more is sourced in how those who defend the status quo see any movement against it as violence or the threat of violence, and feel justified in retaliating with force. Never mind the centuries of colonial violence and dehumanization, the official doctrine stating that non-Christians and their lands were fair game for European state invasion, the historical and ongoing land theft and consequent forcing of people out of their homes to live in unfamiliar places, the brutal repression of language and culturally important ceremonies… I could go on, but I won’t. According to the status quo, though, those aren’t technically violent acts - or, if they could be called “violent", they happened in the past, and so somehow do not count, as if history doesn’t shape our present or memory is no object.

All that said, I’m not sure where that leaves us. I do know that solarpunk is not okay with interpersonal violence at all, nor is it okay with war, oppression, torture, subjugation…. those are all the easy violences, the ones we can immediately see, identify, and react to.

But violence against infrastructure? When the term “violence” is defined by the very forces we are actively attempting to dismantle? I don’t think that acting in defense of one’s safety is wrong: pushing back against violent infrastructure might look like blockading a road or railway. It might look like tiny houses, built in the path of a pipeline. It might look like sabotaging the machines in a warehouse. It might look like a group of people united by the belief that human life and the health of the land is more valuable than any profit that could be made from this infrastructure, any benefit it might give.

To dismantle infrastructures that perpetrate violence is to commit violence. So perhaps the aims of solarpunk could be interpreted as violent in that sense, because destroying, hindering, and otherwise f&%ing up fossil fuel infrastructure, or military weaponry, or modifying hostile architecture to make it human-friendly… that is, in the eyes of society at large, violent.

I think I’m starting to think myself in circles, however. It’s time for some input, because this is just how I’m thinking about this issue, and it’s by no means any sort of manifesto or final word on the subject; it’s necessarily restricted by my own biases and location, and I need perspective. So, what do you think?

#solarpunk #violence #indigenous sovereignty #status quo #capitalism #architecture #infrastructure #homes #buildings #urban design #city planning

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) on Thursday ordered the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project to stop work in a wetland area near Abbotsford, British Columbia, after inspectors found several environmental and safety-related non-compliances. The order is the latest hold-up for the Canadian government-owned project, which has been plagued by years of regulatory delay, environmental opposition and massive cost overruns. Some of the non-compliances include insufficient fencing to protect amphibians and unapproved vegetation clearing, the regulator said in a notice on its website. The CER issued an Inspection Officer Order to Trans Mountain ordering it to stop work in the wetland until the non-compliances are corrected, investigate their root cause and conduct a safety inspection to confirm the site is safe for work.

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#Trans Mountain Pipeline #Kinder Morgan #british columbia #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics

[thatwitchybitchandco]

Please register for the Stop Trans Mountain Pipeline webinar!

#important #webinar #trans mountain pipeline #trans mountain #climate change #native rights #Indigenous rights #climate action #climate justice #climate activism #nature #pipeline #water protectors #land back #water is life #environmentalism #environmental activism #climate emergency

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Long post:

After six years, this is incredible!

I hope he has enough time to process his experiences should it become a legal matter

Alex was taken on holiday to Spain by his mum and grandfather in 2017, but they never came home. His mum and grandad did not have legal guardianship. It was believed they may have gone to Morocco to join a commune

Alex was from Oldham and lived with his grandmother. His mother and grandfather are very spiritual, which is not a bad thing, but even former friends of hers made videos after his disappearance saying there were 'real concerns' about her parenting. They didn't pay any bills (seemingly deliberately rather than being impoverished) and were eventually evicted. The house had no electricity, and there was a pile of mail from spiritual groups and bailiffs and such

Now I definitely don't agree with kicking people out of their homes, but this is where personal experience, and the spiritual-to-fascism pipeline comes in. Nine years ago, I went to a protest in Bury, near Manchester (Oldham is also near Manchester) because a friend, who attended many protests in Manchester and talked about 'raising the vibration of the planet' was being kicked out of his house because he, too, refused to pay council tax. Loads of people turned up, and the police called off the eviction because there were too many people there. The video still does the rounds in alternative circles, and it has me and my mum in it. However, he was evicted at a later date instead.

He became more religious in the Christian sense, alas, it did not make him in any way a better person. He became more bigoted, hating on Muslims in particular, then LGBT people... especially those two groups of people. Now he runs a far-right 'truther' newspaper and did an interview with the BBC which was investigating him. Yes, you're a white dude, but you look like Yasser Arafat. You're putting yourself in danger with your own stupidity and hatred 🤦🏻‍♀️

This 'newspaper' is harassing a Northern Irish mother whose son sadly killed himself, but they insist he was killed by vaccines. They run smear articles against her and her lawyer. They reportedly supported that far-right coup attempt in Germany with the butthurt 'prince'

He also appeared on This Morning to talk about the Earth being flat. All of us who knew him previously pointed out what a bigoted moron he had become

I also have a family member who used to read spiritual magazines (think crystals, essential oils, predictions etc.), but stopped buying them because they were 'owned by Soros'. They also read David Icke books, and refused to believe anything I said about Gaddafi until it turned out David Icke said the same stuff (but he conveniently never mentioned the Jamahiriya system, and now he hates on trans people all the time)

Alex's story sounds like something out of one of those French movies, or even a certain Simpsons episode. He just said his mum was 'weird', but sadly it wouldn't surprise me if she was emotionally abusive and/or manipulative. His grandmother said that while on holiday, she had a video call with Alex and at one point, he asked 'When are we going home, Mum?' and his mum said 'Turn that off now, no more contact, that's it.'

The fact that they were living in tents and caravans brings to mind the recent Constance Marten case. With that in mind, it's a good thing that Alex was a teen and not a baby in the mountainous French winter

Maybe one day, we'll know his full story

#Alex Batty #missing people #England #Britain #UK #France #Spain #Morocco #spiritual to fascism pipeline #critiques of the 'truther' movement #from someone who used to be in it #i turned away from it after i realised how hateful a lot of them were and when they all started simping for Trump

[oneandonlysquish]

I really need people to see this

CANADA STOP KILLING THE ORCAS

Orcas are an endangered species, and now their habitat and way of life will be heavily affected if the Trans Mountain pipeline is built right through their environment. The Canadian government still plans on building the pipeline and even plans on finishing it in the third quarter of this year ( sometime around July-September )

Here is a link to the petition to tell the Canadian government to choose orcas, not oil :

#stop killing orcas #environment #canadian government #save the orcas #save our waters #save our planet #stop the pipeline

[canadianabroadvery]

"...  failures transcend notional divisions between left and right. Smith rails against the hostility of Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberals to Albertan industry. Yet Trudeau’s government bought the project to construct the Trans Mountain Pipeline when its American investors abandoned it. The New Democratic Party (NDP) in British Columbia fiercely opposed this plan to bring diluted bitumen from Alberta to tidewater at Vancouver, rightly fearing the grave damage that bitumen spills could do to marine environments. Yet the same provincial NDP is championing the construction of a new facility at Kitimat for the export of liquid natural gas — a euphemism for methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. By June 2023, with most of the wildfire season still to run, British Columbia had already recorded its worst ever year for acreage of forest burned, but that has not dented the NDP’s enthusiasm for the jobs that this “clean” facility will generate. ..."

#canpoli #global climate crisis #alberta politics #bc politics #wild fires

[raymend]

the king of the mountain enjoyer tomboy to trans gay deranged guy pipeline

#ray.txt

[sataniccapitalist]