Cecilia Begg is the Head Councillor of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation. She is the lone female community leader in what has come to be known as the KI6, a group serving six months for contempt after blockading a mining company from...
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How Climate Change Endangers Human Health
Statement by Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, on World Health Day Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
Court Appointed Expert Says Chevron Should Pay Up to $16 Billion for Polluting Indigenous Lands in Ecuador
Independent analysis validates most claims of plaintiffs in long Ecuador legal battle Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a...
A Memo to John Baird on Carbon Capture and Storage
“It won’t do the job, no one knows if it is safe, and it won’t arrive in time” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link...
A Revolutionary Response to the Climate Change Crisis
“We need an emergency mobilization of society, a five- or 10-year plan to achieve a drastic reorientation of our economy and use of energy. Anything else is simply not serious.” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click...
UK Offset Standard is Off Target
A new government “kitemark” suggests that most carbon offset schemes are flawed, but fails to address the more fundamental problem of paying others to clean up after us Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit...
Land Rights Not Mining Rights: Free Robert Lovelace and the KI 6
A meeting to defend Aboriginal Rights: Wednesday April 9th, Toronto Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend...
Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
“Climate change is both a threat and an opportunity to bring about the long postponed social and economic reforms that had been derailed or sabotaged in previous era” By Walden Bello There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if...
Corporations and Climate Change: From Denial to Greenwash
Global warming, General Motors’ vice-chairperson of global product development Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is “a total crock of shit” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on...
The True Cost of Biofuels
A major study published by The Nature Conservancy and University of Minnesota concludes that land clearing releases 17 to 420 times as much carbon dioxide as is replaced by using the biofuel produced from that cleared land. Share:Click to share on...