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Rosebud Sioux Nation President Rodney Bordeaux
US and Canadian Indigenous Peoples United To Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
Monday, December 5, 2011
Washington DC-A delegation of US Tribal leaders gathered together in Washington DC, during the third annual White House Tribal Leaders Summit to call on President Obama to reject a presidential permit for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The leaders presented President Obama with the “Mother Earth Accord” that outlines unique US Tribal and First Nations concerns over [...]
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October 21st, 2011 | Category: Canada, International, News | Shale gas opponents face intimidation
by One Straw Revolution, 10/10/2011
Stephanie Merrill and the NB Media Co-op is reporting that the RCMP and private security firms are placing anti-fracking groups and members under close surveillance and laying criminal complaints against them, while private security firms are harassing ant-fracking protesters.
Shale gas protesters around the province are learning what happens when they speak out publicly against something they feel strongly about. They are being flagged, tagged and targeted – by industry, [...]
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July 12th, 2011 | Category: Canada, International, News | From the New Brunswick Harbinger, July 11, 2011
The Green Party of New Brunswick supports the ongoing efforts of citizens throughout New Brunswick to protect their communities, their drinking water and their air quality from the hazards of shale gas development. Evidence is continually mounting of deteriorating quality of life and health in regions where hydro-fracking for shale gas is being carried out. In addition, studies show that the methane released through fracking makes this unconventional extraction of natural gas a [...]
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June 27th, 2011 | Category: Canada, International, Legal, News | Ottawa – As the first anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s historic recognition of the human right to water and sanitation draws near, the Council of Canadians is releasing a new report today by chairperson Maude Barlow, titled Our Right to Water: A People’s Guide to Implementing the United Nations’ Recognition of the Right to Water and Sanitation. The report is available here.
The report finds that Canada is legally bound to respect the UN vote, and therefore to address [...]
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By Janet M Eaton, Sierra Club Canada, Trade and Environment Campaigner, May 10th, 2011 A Vancouver Sun May 9th article entitled “Is ‘harmonizing’ code for cutting standards?” cites the Canadian government, industry representatives and consumer group reaction to a new Canada-US Regulatory Cooperation Council. [1] [...]
Continue reading Lest we Forget – The new Can-US Regulatory Co-operation Council and Perimeter Security Accord is the next generation of NACC and the SPP.
May 27th, 2010 | Category: Canada, Report | A Montreal study finds heterotrophic bacteria counts, in more than 70 percent of bottled water samples, exceed the recommended limits specified by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP). Researchers from Ccrest laboratories report their results today at the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego.
“Despite having the cleanest tap water a large number of urban Canadians are switching over to bottled water for their daily hydration requirements. Unsurprisingly, the consumer assumes that since bottled [...]
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March 10th, 2010 | Category: Canada, International, Legal, News | Free-trade case targets 2008 move by Newfoundland and Labrador
By NICOLAS VAN PRAET, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 26, 2010
Insolvent pulp-and-paper giant AbitibiBowater Inc. has launched a $500-million free-trade challenge to fight what it contends is the illegal expropriation of its assets in Newfoundland and Labrador. It would be one of the largest such claims brought against the federal government.
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Days before the federal budget is to be tabled, AbitibiBowater has announced it is filing a NAFTA Chapter 11 challenge against Canada for $500 million. “Newfoundland is only taking back the land and water rights it lent Abitibi on condition they produce newsprint. If Abitibi is not going to do that any more, for whatever reason, the province is within its rights to reclaim the land and demand the company clean up what’s left,” states Council of Canadians [...]
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December 1st, 2009 | Category: Canada, Grassroots Movements, International, Resources, Video | Comments are closed Climate Justice is Water Justice rally on Canada’s Parliament Hill. Public control over water resources and services to ensure protection for people and nature was part of the message of the Nov. 29 rally, a part of the Blue Summit organized before the copenhagen negotiations.
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