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- Academics Urge Government Climate Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
- Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
- Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador
Iler, Kirsten
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A storm of controversy erupted amongst Canadian lawyers when the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) decided to intervene in Chevron's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal is part of Chevron's battle against Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples who seek to enforce a massive court judgment against the company for environmental damage in Ecuador.
- Canadian Polar Commission
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Des jeunes participent à une occupation pacifique pour la justice climatique à l'intérieur du Comité sur l'Environement de la Chambre des Communes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Six jeunes ont entrepris une occupation pacifique à l'intrieur du Parlement canadien, à
l'occasion d'une rencontre du Comité permanent de l'environnement et du
développement durable dans l'édifice du centre.
- A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Gulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export?
Follow the Oiltanking Trail
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s KeystoneXL pipeline, but incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already promised it will get another vote when the GOP-dominated Senate begins its new session in 2015.
- Poisoned Skies
Who'll Stop Acid Rain?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
The authors chronicle the decade-long struggle to get government action against acid rain - a devastating form of pollution.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Youth Stage Peaceful Sit-in for Climate Justice inside House of Common's Environment Committee
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Six youth staged a peaceful sit-in inside the Canadian parliament, at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, pledging to stay until the Harper government acts to combat the climate crisis.
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