sugarmoonaki:

allthecanadianpolitics:

resonance-of-libra:

allthecanadianpolitics:

A group of First Nations plans to launch a slew of legal challenges against the federal government over its approval of the Petronas liquefied natural gas (LNG) project near Prince Rupert, BC.

Calling Justin Trudeau “an outright liar,” Donnie Wesley, the highest ranking hereditary chief of Gitwilgyoots tribe, which has jurisdiction over Lelu Island where the LNG terminal would be built, said the project’s approval on Tuesday was “a slap in the face.”

Wesley told VICE News the federal decision “totally ignored” peer-reviewed, independent science submitted to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency that showed the project would seriously harm the salmon in the Skeena River, the second-largest salmon bearing river in BC, and a significant body of water for First Nations along the river.

“We don’t have a tentative date, but it will be within the 30-day [appeal] period,” Wesley said of his tribe’s legal action. “We’re going to be meeting next week to plan our strategies [and] where we’re going to go with this.”

Wesley’s tribe, along with other First Nation groups and west coast non-profit SkeenaWild, have met with lawyers and are fundraising to apply for judicial review of the decision.

A GoFundMe campaign launched yesterday in support of their legal challenge has raised $3,000 in 19 hours—but Greg Knox, executive director of SkeenaWild, says his group has already raised about $50,000 toward its legal fund, with more fundraising events planned.

“Aboriginal groups and SkeenaWild have been preparing to launch a series of legal actions, and are prepared to go all the way,” the fundraiser states.

“The Skeena Corridor Nations, a powerful group of hereditary leaders from Gitanyow, Lax Kw'alaams, Wet'suwet'en, Gitxsan, Takla, Lake Babine and Haida, are exploring all political and legal options for protecting the Skeena for the long-term.”

“We’ve been preparing for the last year,” Knox said. “Our lawyers are currently preparing to file for judicial reviews.”

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If you ignore the rest of the pipeline stuff I reblogged, that’s fine, but PLEASE check out this gofundme.

Guys, this is my home. The Skeena is my river, my soul. I thought, from all his talk, Trudeau would protect that. I was relieved when he was elected.

I was fucking decieved. Trust me when I say that we in Canada don’t see him as that pretty unicorn the media is playing him up to be.

This is my home. Help me save it. If you can’t donate, share, maybe someone you know can help.

Thank you.

Direct link to the Go Fund me

“The Federal government failed Canadians by approving a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility overtop of critical salmon habitat in the Skeena Estuary. The project would be the largest climate polluter in Canadian history.”

mercyforanimals:

Believe it or not, many people who care about the environment still have no idea that raising animals for food is so incredibly destructive.

Consider some of these facts:

• Animal agriculture uses a whopping 56 percent of water in the United States. In fact, just one hamburger requires 660 gallons of water to produce—the equivalent of 2 months’ worth of showers.

• Because animals are so densely packed on today’s industrial farms, they produce more manure than can be absorbed by the land as fertilizer. The runoff from these facilities grossly contaminates rivers and ground water.
  

• Animal agriculture is culpable for nearly 91 percent of Amazon destruction according to The World Bank.

• Raising animals for food (including land for grazing and growing feed crops) now uses over one-thirdof the earth’s landmass.

• Factory farms have created more than 500 nitrogen-flooded dead zonesthroughout the world’s oceans.

• Raising animals for food produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the cars, planes, and other forms of transportation combined.

• Animals raised for food produce 7 million pounds of excrement every minute.

• A pound of beef requires 13 percent more fossil fuels to produce than a pound of soy.

• Overfishing is pushing our oceans to the brink of collapse, with over 90 percent of large fish at risk for total extinction.

But there’s good news too! Going vegan immediately cuts your CO2 emissions in half and spares countless animals from a lifetime of suffering on factory farms.

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(Source: mercyforanimals.org)