Cabinet’s decision to greenlight the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project is a step backwards for salmon and killer whales. This decision will have significant and permanent adverse effects on endangered Southern Resident killer whales and threatened Chinook salmon. The approved expansion will double the capacity of the existing Port of Vancouver and Westshore facility (near Delta, British Columbia), extending it…
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GSA responds to removal of Discovery Islands fish farms
DFO Minister announces licences for 15 open-net pen fish farms not renewed
Today, the federal Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Joyce Murray, announced she will not renew licences for 15 open-net pen fish farms in the Discovery Islands, upholding the previous direction that former minister Bernadette Jordan established but was set aside – a ruling based on procedural fairness – by a federal judge. In response, Georgia Strait…
Read more »BC Climate Action Report Card grades the Province with an ‘F’
Broad coalition calls for urgent climate action from B.C. Premier-designate David Eby to prevent more fires, floods, and fossil fuel expansion
Youth demand climate action at the Global Climate Strike in Squamish, September 2019. Photo: Tracey Saxby The BC Climate Emergency Campaign has issued a failing grade to the Province for its progress on implementing 10 urgent actions to confront the climate emergency. The Report Card is based on an open letter that was first published in…
Read more »HISTORIC WIN: Vancouver votes to fund climate lawsuit against Big Oil
VANCOUVER/Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh Territories – The Sue Big Oil campaign applauds the City of Vancouver’s historic vote this afternoon [6-5] to allocate funds towards a future class action lawsuit by local governments against global oil and gas companies for climate costs. The commitment is a first step in the Sue Big Oil campaign’s call for BC local governments to…
Read more »GSA is signatory on letter to federal Cabinet to end fossil fuel subsidies
To: The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources Canada The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change c.c. Federal Cabinet Re: Ending fossil fuel subsidies and public finance We welcome the commitments made by the Government of Canada to end subsidies and public financing for the fossil…
Read more »Judge sets aside federal decision to phase out salmon farms in B.C.’s Discovery Islands
A federal judge has set aside a December 2020 decision by the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans to phase out open-net fish farming in B.C.’s Discovery Islands by June 2022. Ruling on primarily procedural grounds, the judge outlined the proper approach the Minister should follow to make such a decision to remove open-net salmon farms from this area, based…
Read more »Georgia Strait Alliance responds to new TMX conditions
Image by Jennie Wyatt. Yesterday, the Province of B.C. released the long-awaited new Environmental Assessment conditions for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. In response, Georgia Strait Alliance’s Energy Campaigner Andrew Radzik said: “The new conditions – to study the human health impacts of an oil spill and the collection of baseline data for B.C. shorelines in…
Read more »New analysis finds the BC climate plan still lags behind Pacific Coast neighbours
Since 2010, B.C. has experienced a 10.7% increase in emissions, which is considered to be very high. The Province’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions inventory shows that in the first year of data available under CleanBC, emissions continued to rise, and the federal inventory shows that they are rising faster than the national average. Last week, the B.C. Government released…
Read more »GSA responds to CleanBC: a climate roadmap going nowhere
Image by Gerd Altmann, Pixaby. Andrew Radzik, Energy Campaigner at Georgia Strait Alliance, responds to the Province’s CleanBC Roadmap announced today, saying: “People across BC felt the climate crisis this year. Hundreds died during the Heat Dome event, thousands were evacuated due to wildfires, and hundreds of thousands faced choking smoke. We desperately need a bold…
Read more »Georgia Strait Alliance response to Province’s sector targets to reduce climate emissions
Image by Li-An Lim. In response to the Province of B.C. splitting the economy into four sectors to establish targets for climate emissions reductions by 2030, Georgia Strait Alliance’s Energy Campaigner Andrew Radzik, says: “We applaud the B.C. government for setting a standalone target for the oil and gas industry. However, we are concerned with how…
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