#speciesatriskact — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/117317008882468803

"… one thing the government back[s] away from — after receiving 26,000 emails — are changes to Species At Risk Act that would have allowed cabinet to approve projects that could lead to the extinction of species."

"Unfortunately, the changes proposed Monday, and the change made in C-5 last year, allow the Carney government to do the same run around Canada’s environmental protections for species at risk, like the orcas, just without the public closely watching."

#BuildingCanadaStrongAct #Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #NoPipelines #Ecocide #ClimateCrisis #SaveTheOrcas #SpeciesAtRiskAct

Why Mark Carney Is Comparing Himself to John A. Macdonald

Sitting in a carefully lit room, with the top button of his shirt undone and the demeanour of…
#Canada #MarkCarney #AmnestyInternational #AsianHeritageSocietyofNewBrunswick #BillC-5 #canadianpacificrailway #DominionSocietyofCanada #donaldtrump #JasonKenney #JohnA.Macdonald #JuliaLevinEnvironmentalDefence #MarkCarneyForwardGuidance #MuhannadMalas #PamPalmater #SpeciesAtRiskAct #StephenMaher #ThéoMartin
https://www.europesays.com/canada/204745/

Re https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-regulation-review-process-9.7337783

Don't be fooled by the claim that "legislation being prepared to preserve Species at Risk Act" SARA needs to be protected from the Gov't of Canada.
Industry has been lobbying for years to gut this law, e.g.; dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32633.68960/1
Shaun Fluker & I showed how DFO attempted to undermine the Act for 1 threatened sp. as an example: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/plrlr/vol42/iss1/6/
#TradeWar is a perfect excuse.
#Conservation #SpeciesAtRiskAct #Canada #CdnPoli #Environment

'The Species at Risk Act was passed in 2002 to protect species like the southern residents and to meet Canada’s commitments to protect biodiversity. No government since then has tried to weaken it' ... until now.

'To achieve the Act’s purposes of preventing extinction and providing for recovery, [the Species at Risk Act] prevents a minister issuing a permit for a project or activity that will jeopardize a species very survival or its ability to recover.'

Mark Carney is trying to change that.

'Carving out an exemption to allow extinction would copy a feature of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, where a committee nicknamed the “God squad” can override extinction protections. Recently, under U.S. President Trump, the “God squad” authorized risking the extinction of rare whale and sea turtles for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.'

#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #SpeciesAtRiskAct #Ecocide #NoPipelines #KillerWhales #ElbowsUp

"Trading oil for orcas is a bargain Canada can't afford"

"If the [Species at Risk] Act is weakened to allow risk to this iconic West Coast population, no species, from caribou to monarch butterflies, will be safe.... It’s not too late to demand a path forward that preserves our natural heritage"

(via West Coast Environmental Law‬ ‪@wcelaw.bsky.social‬)

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-trading-oil-orcas-bargain-canada-cant-afford

#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #SpeciesAtRiskAct #Ecocide #NoPipelines #KillerWhales

Ecologists and other scientists concerned about Canada's proposals to Getting Major Projects Built? You may want to sign on to this open letter to the Government of Canada.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdg7i_X6pkBYw4HeRmWnxDxm7kSJEe21c-WKMXvfk4A93Ijrg/viewform?usp=publish-editor

#Conservation ##Industry #SpeciesAtRiskAct #Cdnpoli

This project can be stopped. The Species at Risk Act prohibits damaging any part of critical habitat, redds, or individuals of any listed species without a permit, including the 2 trout species affected here. Canada can issue permits to allow it, but not for the purpose of allowing coal mining. While a counterargument to this view exists, it must be tested in court. Ecojustice needs to take this on.

https://ecojustice.ca/news/federal-government-turns-back-on-communities-endangered-species-and-environmental-promises-allowing-massive-coal-mine-expansion-to-move-forward/

#CoalMining #abpoli #cdnpoli #EndangeredSpecies #SpeciesAtRiskAct

Lawyer Drew Yewchuk offers a pungent analysis of Canada's long-practiced actions to subvert and ignore the clear requirements of its own law with regard to at-risk species, using the fate of BC's spotted owl as an example.

https://ablawg.ca/2024/07/01/canadian-species-at-risk-where-the-government-ignores-emergencies-and-law/

#cdnpoli #SpeciesAtRiskAct #SpottedOwl #Corruption #Logging #bcpoli

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Contaminates Snowpack across a Broad Region

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.4c02596 OA

A few issues here: (1) expanded mines are up for approval in BC, (2) Alberta has still not given up on approving new coalmines on the East Slopes, (3) two SARA-listed threatened trout species occur in Alberta downwind from the BC mines in the PAC-contaminated plume.
#CoalMine #Contamination #ToxicPlume #PACs #SpeciesAtRiskAct #BCpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli

So, the Environment Minister broke the law. The thing is, is there any consequences, or even stated punishment, for breaking this particular law?

#CDNPoli #SpeciesAtRiskAct #EndangeredSpecies #SpottedOwl

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/environment-minister-broke-law-spotted-owl-1.7231438

Yet again the Government of Canada is found to have broken its own Species at Risk Act. “The machinery of government cannot undermine the clear statutory obligations made to the minister," Roy wrote.

Just one long record of irresponsibility.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/environment-minister-broke-law-spotted-owl-1.7231438
#Canada #SpeciesAtRiskAct #SpottedOwl #EmergencyOrder

Legal scholar Drew Yewchuk skewers the claim of Canadian rule of law and democracy by showing how routine non-compliance (i.e., lawlessness) by our governments subverts both. That's because there is no means of enforcing our laws on governments who break them.

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88372

#RuleOfLaw #Canada #cdnpoli #SpeciesAtRiskAct #AccessToInformation #GovernmentSecrecy

The key point here: Logging the upper Kananaskis will unavoidably damage some part of critical habitat of a protected trout population; will damage its residences; and/or will kill, harm, harass, or take individuals of a SARA-listed species. Any of those are unlawful, offering a means of stopping the logging through court action.

https://www.rmoutlook.com/kananaskis-country/new-studies-reveal-high-risk-to-at-risk-trout-from-kananaskis-logging-8777370

#logging #SpeciesAtRiskAct #abpoli #EasternSlopes #Alberta #Environment #BullTrout

We posted this technical report recently.

Watershed assessments for upper Highwood-Loomis Creek proposed logging 2023-2025.

dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25425889

#watershed #logging #Alberta #EastSlopes #SpeciesAtRiskAct #BullTrout #WestslopeCutthroatTrout #Habitat #Streamflow #Clearcut #Hydrology

Oh look. It's late Friday afternoon.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Business/473787/Alberta-regulator-accepts-Rockies-coal-mine-application-will-call-public-hearing

#Coal #Mining #Alberta #abpoli #Pollution #Selenium #WaterQuality #GrassyMtn #SpeciesAtRiskAct #cdnpoli

Why are species at risk in Canada still in steep decline, even after being listed under the Species at Risk Act? Because dedicated people like this are completely lacking in our responsible government agencies, except for some within Parks Canada.

https://apnews.com/article/endangered-species-act-50-years-government-8274b017d3ca4c61eb571d610aa86d21

#Conservation #Canada #SpeciesAtRiskAct #Science #Integrity #Courage #USA #EndangeredSpeciesAct

The Tyee: No Plan to Reopen BC Grizzly Bear Hunt, Says Minister https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/10/27/No-Plan-Reopen-Grizzly-Bear-Hunt/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #MinistryofWater,LandandResourceStewardship #GrizzlyBearStewardshipFramework #commercialgrizzlybearhunt #grizzlybeartrophyhunting #BCWildlifeFederation #grizzlyhuntclosure #SpeciesAtRiskAct #BCgrizzlybear #BCGreenParty #NathanCullen #KnightInlet #BCNDP

Far from being the saviour of at-risk species, Canada's Species at Risk Act is being used as a legal blueprint for obliterating those highly vulnerable species in the service of industry. SARA could be effective at protecting & recovering at-risk species, but only if the Government of Canada chooses to use it according to its stated purpose and clearly written provisions

#SpeciesAtRiskAct #Extinction #SpottedOwl #BC #Canada #CanPoli

Wondering where Canada's Department of Fisheries & Oceans (DFO) might be headed in administering the country's Species at Risk Act in Alberta? So am I, after examining lobbying by the Alberta Forest Products Ass'n, which wants to "balance" SARA against loggers' economic interests. Draft report for public review here:
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/d9ca53a90/h9sazg4w-x89r7gbs-bmu6qgs5-ns6c9ibb

#SpeciesAtRiskAct #Canada #Alberta #DFO #Lobbying #Law #Policy #Conservation

DFO's subversion of the letter and intent of the Species at Risk Act urgently needs to be adjudicated in court.

#SpeciesAtRiskAct #Conservation #Law #BullTrout #Logging

A classic problem with Canada's Department of Fisheries (DFO's) interpretation of the Species at Risk Act (SARA).

https://www.rmoutlook.com/kananaskis-country/federal-fisheries-agency-investigating-bridge-built-in-k-country-logging-activity-7484638

While the logging company failed to get a permit for this work, the real problem is that DFO would have given them one, as it almost certainly will, unlawfully, for the additional roads & watercrossings required for its logging operations. All of it potentially impacts legally-protected critical habitat for threatened bull trout.
#SpeciesAtRiskAct #BullTrout

Yet more on Canada's treatment of species at risk. Industry trumps any attempt at effective recovery.

H/T Jesse Zeman on the hellsite for drawing attention to this link.

https://thenarwhal.ca/spotted-owl-emergency-order-documents/
#Conservation #Canada #BC #HabitatDestruction #SpeciesAtRiskAct #CumulativeEffects

More on Canada's permitted destruction of legally "protected" critical habitat, harassment of an at-risk species listed under the Species ar Risk Act, and potential damage to, or destruction of redds of a listed trout species at Rock Cr, AB. Amanda Follett Hosgood writes in The Tyee:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/25/Alberta-Pipeline-Endangers-Threatened-Fish/

(See previously https://ecoevo.social/@dmayhood/110724653228022043)

#SpeciesAtRiskAct #Canada #Conservation #Pipeline #HabitatDestruction #Law #Litigation

Just to add hashtags: #Conservation #Canada #SpeciesAtRiskAct #HabitatDestruction #WestslopeCutthroat #Alberta #Pipeline #EnvironmentalDestruction

Lawyer Shaun Fluker critiques EnviroCan's draft Offsetting Policy for Biodiversity with respect to Canada's Species at Risk Act:
- It doesn't appear to meet SARA s.73 requirements.
- "Legal mechanisms under SARA for compliance and enforcement, as well as resources to implement such mechanisms, are currently woefully inadequate to meet the level needed to ensure a biodiversity offset meets its objective on habitat harms."
https://tinyurl.com/53spvxxu
#SpeciesAtRiskAct #HabitatOffsets #Policy #Canada