Rallies & Actions
Feb 3 2012 - 12:00am - Feb 14 2012 - 12:00am
Change of Date: Save Our Forests Rallies moved to February 14
The Issue
Southern Alberta’s forests need your help! Clearcut logging in the Castle is beginning right now, and a similar program is scheduled to begin near Bragg Creek in the summer. Now more than ever Albertans can help keep the momentum going for changes in how our forests are managed.
Below, we outline three opportunities which are coming up in the following week; opportunities for you to lend your support. Read more »
Feb 14 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
The Issue
Southern Alberta’s forests need your help! Clearcut logging in the Castle is beginning right now, and a similar program is scheduled to begin near Bragg Creek in the summer. Now more than ever Albertans can help keep the momentum going for changes in how our forests are managed. Read more »
Outside the McDougall Centre
455 6 Street SW
Calgary,
AB
Take action TODAY to stop logging of Alberta's Castle Special Management Area, and support its permanent protection. The Castle was announced as a protected area in 1998, but the Alberta government never turned that announcement into law.
With your help, we have delayed the logging for months, but now Spray Lake Sawmills' equipment is on-site and ready to start clear-cutting. Read more »
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
The Government of Canada says it's committed to openness and transparency, but it has yet to make information about who is breaking environmental laws, and what it's doing to prevent and punish those violations, easily accessible through an online database. Read more »
Jasper is our national park not a theme park!
Canada’s treasured Jasper National Park could be on its way to gaining a theme park-like attraction. Brewster Travel Canada, owned by a US-based company, wants to blast out the side of the cliff beside the Icefields Parkway to build the “Glacier Discovery Walk” – a massive infrastructure “skywalk”, and charge people who wish to admire the view. Read more »
Right now the Canadian government is in Durban, South Africa trying to block any progress on an International response to the growing climate crisis. They are actively trying to thwart the process. Luckily, people right across Canada, joined by people all over the planet aren't going to let them.
We, the 99% know capitalism is broken and can’t fix the earth. Their solutions are killing the planet and poisoning our communities. Read more »
Alberta Legislature
Edmonton,
AB
Sep 24 2011 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
Edmonton 350, a group of Edmontonians concerned about the environment, is organizing Moving Planet Edmonton, as part of 350.org’s Moving Planet day of action.
Scheduled for September 24, Moving Planet is “a worldwide rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis -- a single day to move away from fossil fuels.”
Here’s the schedule for the rally: Read more »
Alberta Legislature Building
Edmonton,
AB
105 Street & Whyte Avenue
Edmonton,
AB
Editor's Note: On June 30, 2011, the Alberta Utilities Commission expedited approval of Maxim Power Corp.'s proposal, in what many are viewing as a cynical attempt to avoid the proposed Federal coal plant regulations. See this post for more background.
As the world grapples with climate change, the Alberta government is poised to grant approval to a new coal-fired power plant without even holding a public hearing. Read more »
