Sierra Club Canada - Current Campaigns
- Nuclear-Free Canada
- Climate Change
- Water
- Help Bruno Protect the Churchill River
- Action Grizzly Bear
- Stop Castle Logging
- Bin Talk Ottawa
- Chemicals and Cosmetics
- Help Save Alberta’s Woodland Caribou
- Tell the Harper gov't to fix its limp, ineffective coal regulations!
- Trade and Environment
Ottawa’s new anti-terrorism strategy lists eco-extremists as threats
After vowing to take on radical environmentalists determined to stop the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Harper government has released a new anti-terrorism strategy that targets eco-extremists as threats.
With his announcement this week, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has increased the concern among environmentalists that Ottawa regards them as implacable adversaries to be monitored and battled, rather than well-meaning advocates to be consulted.
“This is just one more step in their attempt to marginalize the environmental movement and to quiet its voice,” John Bennett, executive director of Sierra Club Canada, said Friday. “It’s an indirect suggestion that somehow environmentalism is attached to terrorism and that’s just wrong.”... Read more »
- Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta
- Climate Change
- Ecosystems
- Forests
- Forests and Climate Change
- Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines
- Energy Onslaught
- Forests and Biodiversity
- Nuclear Phaseout
- Wilderness and Species Conservation
- Oceans
- Toxics
- Trade and Environment
- Government
- Radioactive Waste
- Nuclear-Free Canada
- Endangered Species
- Atmosphere & Energy
- Health & Environment
- Transition to Sustainable Economy
Are Canadian environmentalists a terrorist threat?
In a report released yesterday outlining the federal government’s new counter-terrorism strategy, Public Safety Canada listed environmentalists among other “issue-based domestic extremists” that could pose a threat to Canadians.
Responding to the report, Sierra Club Canada director John Bennett said this portrayal is aligned with officials’ attempts to silence environmental groups opposed to major energy projects like the Northern Gateway pipeline.
“We are one of the few segments of Canadian society that has continually stood up to the present Conservative government and been able to be effective at raising issues," said Bennett.... Read more »
Canadian Environmental Network blind-sided by elimination of core funding
The Canadian Environmental Network is reeling from the elimination of its core funding by Environment Canada, and last week the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency told the Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development that it’s bracing for a 43 per cent cut to its budget for 2012-2013. Green Party leader Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf Islands, B.C.) says the government is waging war on the environment.
The Canadian Environmental Network, which has facilitated communication between the federal government and community-based environmental groups for over three decades, was notified that it would lose its core federal funding of $547,000 next year.
... Read more »
Environmental Groups Urge Rejection of Revised Fish Lake Mine Proposal
VICTORIA and VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Taseko’s revised proposal for a Fish Lake gold and copper mine would be even more of “an environmental disaster” than the company’s original proposal and must be turned down for federal public review, 11 environmental groups said today.
The Canadian Environment Assessment Agency (CEAA) is scheduled to decide by November 7 whether to accept for review Taseko’s revised “New Prosperity Mine” project in B.C.’s interior--a project the company itself has said would wreak more damage than its first proposal. Taseko’s first $1 billion proposal was rejected by the federal government last November, following initial approval by the B.C. government. ... Read more »
