All articles by Patrick Bonin
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Climate crisis: Pressure mounts on oil companies
As summer draws to a close, let's reflect on recent climate news and remember that it's time for oil companies to bear the costs of climate disasters.
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Greenpeace’s reaction to the new electric vehicle availability standard (federal)
“Governments must be bolder and speed up the transition towards electric vehicles, ending any new light-duty gasoline vehicle sales by 2030 at the latest.* Introducing an electric vehicle availability standard…
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Groups denounce gas company’s lawsuit seeking to overturn a Quebec municipality’s partial ban on fossil gas in new buildings: Énergir wants to prevent municipalities from fighting the climate crisis
Sixteen environmental and community groups based in Quebec vigorously denounce Energir’s legal offensive against the small municipality of Prévost and are calling on the company’s owners to intervene. The Quebec gas giant is attempting to overturn a bylaw aimed at limiting the use of fossil-gas-powered equipment in buildings in order to combat the climate crisis. They say…
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LNG project criticized by Quebec environmental review board
In a decision which could have repercussions across the country, a Quebec-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) project is on the ropes after Quebec’s environmental assessment agency found the project’s social…