A-Dub 🥝hahaha excellent!
the current conservative coalition government of New Zealand has approved a prospecting permit within Te Wāhipounamu, one of the country's three UNESCO World Heritage Sites 🤦🏼♂️
CBC British ColumbiaRights and reconciliation collide in B.C.
A conflict playing out in British Columbia is testing the limits of reconciliation in the province. It’s a fight that involves resource extraction, democracy, political flip-flops, and a test of values.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/rights-and-reconciliation-collide-in-b-c-9.7172639?cmp=rss
A conflict playing out in British Columbia is testing the limits of reconciliation in the province. It’s a fight that involves resource extraction, democracy, political flip-flops, and a test of values.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/rights-and-reconciliation-collide-in-b-c-9.7172639?cmp=rss
CBC Top StoriesRights and reconciliation collide in B.C.
A conflict playing out in British Columbia is testing the limits of reconciliation in the province. It’s a fight that involves resource extraction, democracy, political flip-flops, and a test of values.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/rights-and-reconciliation-collide-in-b-c-9.7172639?cmp=rss
A conflict playing out in British Columbia is testing the limits of reconciliation in the province. It’s a fight that involves resource extraction, democracy, political flip-flops, and a test of values.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/rights-and-reconciliation-collide-in-b-c-9.7172639?cmp=rss
The Inquisitive BiologistThis week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from the January clearance sale of my employer:
- The Rise of Horses: 55 Million Years of Evolution from Johns Hopkins University Press (one I might just review in tandem with a more recent book on horse evolution. At some point.)
- Extraction to Extinction: Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources from @sarabandbooks.
- The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World from WH Allen. Somewhere there is a review series brewing about long-term thinking (no, not *that* sort of long-termism!)
#Evolution #Horses #NaturalResources #ResourceExtraction #Environmentalism #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
CBC CanadaWatchdog's report on controversial RCMP unit delayed due to lack of chairperson
A years-long investigation into a special RCMP unit that polices protests against resource extraction in British Columbia is finished but can’t be finalized because the RCMP's oversight body has been without a chairperson for more than a year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-cirg-crcc-report-delay-9.7151904?cmp=rss
A years-long investigation into a special RCMP unit that polices protests against resource extraction in British Columbia is finished but can’t be finalized because the RCMP's oversight body has been without a chairperson for more than a year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-cirg-crcc-report-delay-9.7151904?cmp=rss
Zeke 🇨🇦@grrlscientist
The BC government has not enacted stand-alone legislation to protect at-risk species, relying instead on existing laws and regulations, which critics argue offer limited and fragmented protection.
Maximize resource extraction regardless of the harm caused to the ecosystems.
#EcosystemsCollapse
#ResourceExtraction
#OldGrowthForests
#Wildlife
The BC government has not enacted stand-alone legislation to protect at-risk species, relying instead on existing laws and regulations, which critics argue offer limited and fragmented protection.
Maximize resource extraction regardless of the harm caused to the ecosystems.
#EcosystemsCollapse
#ResourceExtraction
#OldGrowthForests
#Wildlife
CBC: "There are billions of tonnes of valuable minerals for electric vehicle batteries and energy storage at the bottom of the ocean, and a Canadian-registered company is leading the race to mine them."
me: those minerals are not **for** electric vehicle batteries or energy storage. they're naturally occurring and sea beds deserve to be left in peace.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/seabed-mining-isa-trump-9.7136815
#UnderminingISA #InternationalLawOfTheSea #ResourceExtraction
U.S. pushes ahead on deep-sea mining. The rest of the world isn’t so sure | CBC News
Even as the race to mine the ocean floor for important minerals intensifies, a UN-body tasked with establishing regulations for the emerging industry ended a key global meeting this week without a new mining code.
'The world should see this', say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers
"For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia's current activities in the far south eastern corner of the republic, South Papua province, surpass all."
ICYMI: from NZ far-right expert Byron Clarke
"I was asked by the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa to speak on the topic of the far-right & the right at their recent 50th anniversary event. CAFCA has, for half a century now, been drawing attention to issues related to privatisation & the buying up of Aotearoa’s resources by multinational corporations. Below is the text of the talk in full."
https://www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/the-new-zealand-far-right-and-the
