Council of Canadians
Jan 24 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Join the Council of Canadians— Edmonton Chapter and others concerned about maintaining our beautiful North Saskatchewan River Watershed, while enjoying a fabulous night view of the North Saskatchewan River Valley itself.
Issues and ideas up for discussion include factors affecting the water quality of North Saskatchewan River Watershed and other Alberta watersheds, including aggregate extraction, non-point source pollution (e.g. fertilizer runoff and stormwater input), blue green algae blooms in lakes and fecal contamination at Alberta beaches. Read more »
Penthouse, Grandin Green Co-op Building
9708 110 Street (just west of the North entrance to the High Level Bridge, across from Ezio Farone Park)
Edmonton,
AB
Starting next Tuesday, the public hearings on Enbridge’s destructive tar sands pipeline comes to Edmonton and it’s important that we are there.
Don’t Tar Our Future or BC’s Coast
Rally at the Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Hearings
Wingate Inn (18220-100th Avenue)
Spread the word! Invite your friends to the Facebook event.
Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline is 1,170 km of potential destruction, proposed to go from just outside of Bruderheim, AB to Kitimat, BC. It would carry approximately 525,000 barrels/day of tar sands oil and 193,000 barrels/day of toxic condensate back along the same route to Alberta. The pipeline would cross the traditional and unceded territory of dozens of BC First Nations, over 1,000 streams and rivers – many of them salmon bearing – would go through the Great Bear Rainforest – the last remaining intact temperate rainforests on the planet – and would bring over 200 super-sized oil tankers through one of the narrowest and most dangerous straights in Canada. Every step on this path is a disaster waiting to happen. Each one would be tragic even before there is a spill. And each one can be prevented. Read more »
Wingate Inn
18220 100 Avenue
Edmonton,
AB
On August 10, 2011 the Alberta Utilities Commission gave final approval to Calgary-based Maxim Power for the construction of a new conventional coal-fired plant near Grande Cache. The plant was approved despite soon-to-be introduced federal legislation that will phase out the construction of new plants, and despite a promise made by the former environment minster that they would guard against new plants being rushed through the approval process ahead of the July 1, 2015 implementation date for the new, stricter rules around coal plants. You can read more background on the issue here.
Take Action
A panel featuring Cree Elder Lillian Shirt, Indigenous rights lawyer Clayton Leonard and Indigenous activist and Greenpeace campaigner Melina Massimo-Laboucan.
Many are surprised to learn that within Canada are people who the Public Health Agency of Canada say live in “third world conditions”; in fact, many Indigenous communities on Turtle Island live without access to one of the most basic needs: clean water.
Come to learn about what made this the reality in Canada, and what is being and can be done in the fight for water justice. Read more »
Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex (ETLC) Room 1-007
University of Alberta (East of 116 St between 91 and 92 Avenues)
Edmonton,
AB
Mar 21 2011 - 12:00am - Mar 26 2011 - 12:00am
Check the Edmonton Water Week website for a full slate of events
Edmonton Water Week is a full week of events to mark World Water Day, which falls annually on March 22, following a United Nations initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. Read more »
various locations
Edmonton, AB
The Canadian government is subsidizing the fossil fuel industry to the tune of $1.38 billion per year. $1.38 billion per year means:
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$3,780,822 per day.
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$157,534 per hour.
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$2,625.57 per minute.
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$43.76 per second.
Say what!?
That’s right. Despite all of the clear evidence that we are facing a serious climate crisis as well as diminishing conventional energy resources, our government continues to subsidize some of the world’s richest corporations that are responsible for serious social and ecological damage.
Subsidies drive more production, which drives more emissions. Read more »
Dec 16 2010 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Take a quick break from studying and/or working and come to this important event! You can be a part of protecting Alberta's parks.
This is your chance to find out more & to volunteer to help your parks now. Find out: Read more »
Education Building Room 106
University of Alberta
Edmonton,
AB
Featuring
Maude Barlow
National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly
Ian Douglas
National Coordinator, Fair Water Use Australia (via Skype from Australia)
Other speakers to be announced
FREE (donations accepted) Read more »
Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex (ETLC) 1-001
University of Alberta Campus (East of 116 Street between 91 and 92 Avenues)
Edmonton,
AB
