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Court Tosses Youth Climate Lawsuit Against Canada

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Read time: 5 mins The Federal Court of Canada has decided to dismiss a climate lawsuit based on constitutional rights and brought by 15 young Canadians against the federal government. Tags: climate lawsuits canada Juliana v. United States youth climate lawsuits

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Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies

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Read time: 12 mins Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. Tags: Trans Mountain Expansion Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indigenous communities Tiny House Warriors Kanahus Manuel

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New Documents Reveal Exxon-owned Canadian Oil Giant's Shifting Climate Change PR

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Read time: 9 mins It was 1971, less than a year after the world’s first Earth Day, and in Canada an oil giant was worried. Tags: Imperial Oil ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) climate science denial oil industry public relations Gasoline

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Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids

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Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police continued their raids on Wet'suwet'en land in British Columbia. Tags: British Columbia Coastal GasLink indigenous communities Wet'suwet'en RCMP Read time: 3 mins By Julia Conley , Common Dreams.

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Years Before Exxon Valdez, Documents Show Exxon’s Imperial Oil Prioritized Public Image Over Spill Impacts

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Read time: 8 mins On February 4, 1970, the oil tanker SS Arrow was carrying a cargo of heavy bunker oil for Imperial Oil Limited when it encountered rough weather off the east coast of Canada. Tags: Imperial Oil ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) oil spills oil industry public relations

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Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’

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The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil. CDPQ holds a 12.62

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Media Brief: Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations

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The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035. The effects of the climate crisis could cost Canadians some $700 per year by 2025—a price tag that is expected to double or triple by 2050.