#stopcgl — Public Fediverse posts

The CBC was so proud of this investigatory "scoop" that they released the story on the Saturday of a long weekend and didn't even bother to post it to their social media accounts.

This is unmitigated #copaganda designed to divide those opposed to these disastrous projects. This "investigation" presents no facts, proof, or real suspects. It is basically a police press release. Take it with pile of salt.

#cdnpoli #LandBack #StopCGL #bcpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/when-anarchists-attack

The CBC was so proud of this investigatory "scoop" that they released the story on the Saturday of a long weekend and didn't even bother to post it to their social media accounts.

This is unmitigated #copaganda designed to divide those opposed to these disastrous projects. This "investigation" presents no facts, proof, or real suspects. It is basically a police press release. Take it with pile of salt.

#cdnpoli #LandBack #StopCGL #bcpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/when-anarchists-attack

The CBC was so proud of this investigatory "scoop" that they released the story on the Saturday of a long weekend and didn't even bother to post it to their social media accounts.

This is unmitigated #copaganda designed to divide those opposed to these disastrous projects. This "investigation" presents no facts, proof, or real suspects. It is basically a police press release. Take it with pile of salt.

#cdnpoli #LandBack #StopCGL #bcpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/when-anarchists-attack

The CBC was so proud of this investigatory "scoop" that they released the story on the Saturday of a long weekend and didn't even bother to post it to their social media accounts.

This is unmitigated #copaganda designed to divide those opposed to these disastrous projects. This "investigation" presents no facts, proof, or real suspects. It is basically a police press release. Take it with pile of salt.

#cdnpoli #LandBack #StopCGL #bcpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/when-anarchists-attack

The CBC was so proud if this investigatory "scoop" that they released the story on the Saturday of a long weekend and didn't even bother to post it to their social media accounts.

This is unmitigated #copaganda designed to divide those opposed to these disastrous projects. This "investigation" presents no facts, proof, or real suspects. It is basically a police press release. Take it with pile of salt.

#cdnpoli #LandBack #StopCGL #bcpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/when-anarchists-attack

"Bank funding for fossil fuels often brings dire threats to the lives and livelihoods of local communities around the world"

5 banks in the top 20 in the world. Way to go Canada.

#5 #RBC
#9 #ScotiaBank
#11 #TD
#15 #BankOfMontreal
#20 #CIBC

https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopBayDuNord

#DebtForClimate

Is a "Global South-driven initiative connecting social & climate justice struggles by uniting labor, social and climate movements from the Global South & North toward a common goal of turning debt-trap diplomacy on its head by canceling the debt of impoverished nations as a way to pay for leaving fossil fuels in the ground and financing a just transition."

https://debtforclimate.org/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopBayDuNord

"British Columbia’s natural-gas homes together contribute the same amount of climate pollution each year as:

-More than 870,000 vehicles.
-One car, driven around the equator more than 400,000 times.
-Nearly eight million round-trip flights between Vancouver and Toronto."

https://www.switchitupbc.ca/whats_wrong

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopBayDuNord

From plaintextipcc (.com) on the 'summary for policy makers' page:
"B.1.3 ... emissions from 1850 to 2019 were 2400±240 GtCO2 (high
confidence). Of these, more than half (58%) occurred between 1850 and 1989 [1400±195 GtCO2], and
about 42% between 1990 and 2019 [1000±90 GtCO2]. About 17% of historical cumulative net CO2
emissions since 1850 occurred between 2010 and 2019 [410±30 GtCO2]."

http://plaintextipcc.com/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_SPM.html

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

The National Farmers Union (NFU) condemns the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

“At a time when scientific consensus clearly shows that we must decarbonize our economies and accelerate the transition to clean energy, the statement from CAPP calling for increased oil and gas development is shameful.”

https://www.nfu.ca/cop26-capp-call-for-increased-fossil-fuel-production-shameful/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

#bcflood #extremeweather

"As it stands, there is no detour available or estimated time of reopening, leaving no practical routes between the Lower Mainland and the rest of the province."

https://globalnews.ca/news/8375256/lower-mainland-cut-off-highway-99-closure/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

#bcflood #extremeweather

'Atmospheric river' hits BC ... worst flooding in recorded history in multiple cities.

"Hope recorded 174.1 mm of rainfall on Sunday, breaking their previous ALL-TIME rainfall record by over 40 mm."

"At 100.4 mm on Sunday, the City of Abbotsford recorded its rainiest day in history."

"Mudslides have closed Hwy1 between Popkum and Hope BC"

https://curiocity.com/records-broken-and-roads-closed-due-flooding-from-bc-storm-photos/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

A tip for those trying to get coverage for climate rallies. You don't have to just hope that your local media will show up. What my local group did was submit a press release, which was posted in the local paper before and after the #DefundClimateChaos day of action on October 29. After that day, the paper printed this picture of our group and a blurb mentioning the report 'Banking on Climate Chaos'.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

"Canada is planning to increase oil and gas production, 18 per cent and 17 per cent respectively ... "

"The production gap report outlines Canada’s announced climate targets of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050, but also notes that Ottawa sees the fossil fuel industry as critical for economic growth."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/10/20/news/reducing-oil-and-gas-production-canadas-only-possible-lever-hit-2030-climate-goals

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

"Our new report 'Canada’s Big Oil Reality Check' finds that the climate plans of major oil and gas companies operating in Canada rank among the worst worldwide and will accelerate the climate crisis rather than help Canada and the world limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (ºC)."

http://priceofoil.org/2021/11/03/canada-big-oil-reality-check/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

"Unnatural Gas is a campaign from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) and the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE). We developed this campaign to raise awareness of the climate and health risks of natural gas in BC, and the availability of healthier, non-polluting, and sustainable alternatives."

https://www.unnaturalgas.org/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

"The message was #RBCisKillingMe, and the institution most invested in fossil fuel projects out of Canada’s five top banks, was the primary — but not sole — target at the Toronto event for this global day of action."

"In Vancouver, roughly 200 people crowded onto the sidewalk beside RBC’s main Vancouver office and erected a two-story inflatable dummy of RBC president David McKay."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/10/29/news/climate-activists-target-banks-funding-oil-and-gas-global-day-action

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

Maybe the RBC staff is hoping to outwait the protestors. Maybe they should have checked out what the protestors are sporting.

#RBCoffCampus #DefundCoastalGaslink #stopCGL #environment #OffTheYintah #TorontoActions #RBCisKillingMe #RoyalBankofCanada

Coordinating the Legal Observers for the U of T part of the RBC Off Campus Day of Action. There are also actions taking place at other universities, and we have an LO Team at the York action this afternoon.

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RBC is the number one funder of fossil fuels in Canada and the fifth largest funder in the world, having LED 262 billion dollars Canadian to fossil fuel projects since 2016.

RBC is also the lead financier of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, which does not have the consent of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs who are the rightful title holders of the land the pipeline will cross, and a lead funder of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which does not have consent from local First Nations including the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. By funding these projects, RBC is violating the principles of three, prior, and informed consent under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and ignoring direct calls from the front lines to drop the project.

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DEMANDS:
Thus, we call on the UTSU to cut ties with RBC and develop a pathway to end on-campus relationship by taking the following actions:

1. Release a statement publicly, or sign on to a joint statement of student unions, condemning RBC's complacency in the climate crisis and ongoing involvement in projects that violate the rights and title of Indigenous people, like the CGL and TMX Pipelines.

2. Open a pilot account with Vancity or another credit union, and develop and release publicly a report investigating the process of a full transition away from banking with the RBC.

3. Develop a policy that prohibits banks' sponsorship of utsu events and activities, as well as booting in student union spaces (including club fairs, frosh week, and so on).

4. Disclose the details of the contract that the UTSU holds with the RBC On Campus branch.

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More at the petition:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3jOvED8a1z3QFMo_dQK-bcFUoeAtcs34Awh5pLgnHdFEP7g/viewform?usp=sf_link

#Environment #TorontoActions #LOLife #RBCOffCampus #stopCGL #OffTheYintah

"The Coastal Gaslink (CGL) pipeline project is a 670
kilometer pipeline currently under construction through
unceded 'British Columbia'...
The fractured gas, also called liquid natural gas (LNG)... is fracked in the Montney Shale Formation."

"On November 2nd 2019 the United Kingdom imposed a
moratorium on fracking joining Scotland, Wales, France,
the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany in effectively
banning Fracking."

http://unistoten.camp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/FRACKINGDANGERS.pdf

#Wetsuweten #LandBack #StopCGL

"Overall, #methane in the atmosphere contributed about one-third of global warming over the past decade, with carbon dioxide contributing most of the rest."

"The main sources of methane emissions from human activity are agriculture (especially cattle and rice paddies) and fossil fuels."

Man-made methane: 60%
Natural methane: 40%

https://methaneaction.org/frequently-asked-questions/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

#rbcrevealed

The #DefundClimateChaos day of action is this Friday, 29th of October

"Thousands of people are set to take part in actions spanning 26 countries and every continent on the planet, which is what’s needed to demand the global financial system stop the flow of money to fossil fuels before the UN climate summit in Glasgow starts."

https://rbcrevealed.com/defund-climate-chaos-global-day-of-action-in-26-countries-this-friday/

https://rbcrevealed.com/oct-29th-action-map/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

#BlueHydrogen #fail

"Together with Mark Jacobson, an atmospheric scientist at Stanford University, Howarth set out to document the full emissions picture arising from blue hydrogen production."

"Blue hydrogen is so dirty, in fact, that it’s worse for the climate than burning natural gas for heat in the first place, the researchers found."

https://time.com/6098910/blue-hydrogen-emissions/

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

Took some time off work today to go to the local climate march today. It's true: climate action is the antidote to despair! Definitely out of my comfort zone, marching and chanting down the main street (sidewalk), but in a good way.

I haven't been to one of these things since early last year. Been a while. Good to see the momentum gathering again after months of covid.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #stopCGL

"The City of Vancouver passed a motion Wednesday to oppose the expansion of the Tilbury LNG facility in Delta. The project would both ramp up its capacity to supply local and foreign markets and lead to a boost in upstream emissions."

https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-news/vancouver-latest-city-to-oppose-expansion-of-major-bc-lng-plant-4360287

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

C.A.T. changes Canada's rating to 'highly insufficient'.

Policies & action
Highly insufficient
< 4°C World

"The country’s new and stronger 2030 target is not quite Paris compatible. Its revised climate plan and additional measures announced in the 2021 federal budget are insufficient to meet that target. Canada continues to face challenges in implementing policies."

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/canada/

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

Another forest fire. This is the closest one so far. They're hitting it hard with helicopters and planes.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #XR #FFF #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopLine3

"Rain has fallen on the summit of Greenland’s huge ice cap for the first time on record. Temperatures are normally well below freezing on the 3,216-metre (10,551ft) peak, and the precipitation is a stark sign of the climate crisis."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/rain-falls-peak-greenland-ice-cap-first-time-on-record-climate-crisis

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #XR #FFF #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopLine3

#MethaneLeakage
"A recent study by the Environmental Defense Fund found that 3.7% of natural gas produced in the Permian Basin leaked into the atmosphere. That’s enough to erase the greenhouse gas benefits of quitting coal for gas in the near term."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/methane-leaks-erase-some-of-the-climate-benefits-of-natural-gas/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #XR #FFF #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopLine3

The average temperature is 26C for my city in late June. The highs for the next few days are 41C and 42C. Low of 21 tonight.

To find an air conditioner, I had to drive to the next town this morning. At the food truck for supper, they said they'd heard that a.c. units are sold out up and down the valley.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #stopCGL #stopline3

Bear with me.

I propose that you can burn down your neighbors house, and to 'neutralize' your responsibility for that, I promise not to burn down my neighbor's house.

Or how about this. I propose that you can punch someone in the face, and if you make a deal with me, you can avoid responsibility by having me promise not to punch someone in the face.

Is this how carbon offsets work?

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #stopCGL #stopline3

"Canada has been pledging to reduce our climate polluting for 33 years now. But we've never come close to meeting any of our targets."

"Instead, we've increased our climate polluting by 21 per cent since we started promising to emit less."

"As my chart from that article shows, we are also the only member of the G7 that continues to pollute well above our 1990 levels."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/04/26/news/these-graphics-show-how-world-racing-climate-failure

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #stopCGL

"banks in oil-rich Canada had the highest number of ties to extractive industries – with 35 percent of directors holding past or current positions in the polluting energy sector, including links to high-carbon oil extraction from Alberta’s tar sands reserves."

https://www.desmogblog.com/2021/04/06/revealed-climate-conflicted-directors-leading-the-worlds-top-banks/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #stopCGL

Maybe the RBC staff is hoping to outwait the protestors. Maybe they should have checked out what the protestors are sporting.

#RBCoffCampus #DefundCoastalGaslink #stopCGL #environment #OffTheYintah #TorontoActions #RBCisKillingMe #RoyalBankofCanada

Maybe the RBC staff is hoping to outwait the protestors. Maybe they should have checked out what the protestors are sporting.

#RBCoffCampus #DefundCoastalGaslink #stopCGL #environment #OffTheYintah #TorontoActions #RBCisKillingMe #RoyalBankofCanada

Maybe the RBC staff is hoping to outwait the protestors. Maybe they should have checked out what the protestors are sporting.

#RBCoffCampus #DefundCoastalGaslink #stopCGL #environment #OffTheYintah #TorontoActions #RBCisKillingMe #RoyalBankofCanada

Maybe the RBC staff is hoping to outwait the protestors. Maybe they should have checked out what the protestors are sporting.

#RBCoffCampus #DefundCoastalGaslink #stopCGL #environment #OffTheYintah #TorontoActions #RBCisKillingMe #RoyalBankofCanada

Coordinating the Legal Observers for the U of T part of the RBC Off Campus Day of Action. There are also actions taking place at other universities, and we have an LO Team at the York action this afternoon.

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RBC is the number one funder of fossil fuels in Canada and the fifth largest funder in the world, having LED 262 billion dollars Canadian to fossil fuel projects since 2016.

RBC is also the lead financier of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, which does not have the consent of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs who are the rightful title holders of the land the pipeline will cross, and a lead funder of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which does not have consent from local First Nations including the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. By funding these projects, RBC is violating the principles of three, prior, and informed consent under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and ignoring direct calls from the front lines to drop the project.

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*snip*

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DEMANDS:
Thus, we call on the UTSU to cut ties with RBC and develop a pathway to end on-campus relationship by taking the following actions:

1. Release a statement publicly, or sign on to a joint statement of student unions, condemning RBC's complacency in the climate crisis and ongoing involvement in projects that violate the rights and title of Indigenous people, like the CGL and TMX Pipelines.

2. Open a pilot account with Vancity or another credit union, and develop and release publicly a report investigating the process of a full transition away from banking with the RBC.

3. Develop a policy that prohibits banks' sponsorship of utsu events and activities, as well as booting in student union spaces (including club fairs, frosh week, and so on).

4. Disclose the details of the contract that the UTSU holds with the RBC On Campus branch.

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More at the petition:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3jOvED8a1z3QFMo_dQK-bcFUoeAtcs34Awh5pLgnHdFEP7g/viewform?usp=sf_link

#Environment #TorontoActions #LOLife #RBCOffCampus #stopCGL #OffTheYintah

Coordinating the Legal Observers for the U of T part of the RBC Off Campus Day of Action. There are also actions taking place at other universities, and we have an LO Team at the York action this afternoon.

🌿 • ☘️ • 🍃 • 🌿 • 🍀 • 🍃 • 🍁

RBC is the number one funder of fossil fuels in Canada and the fifth largest funder in the world, having LED 262 billion dollars Canadian to fossil fuel projects since 2016.

RBC is also the lead financier of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, which does not have the consent of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs who are the rightful title holders of the land the pipeline will cross, and a lead funder of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which does not have consent from local First Nations including the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. By funding these projects, RBC is violating the principles of three, prior, and informed consent under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and ignoring direct calls from the front lines to drop the project.

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*snip*

🌿 • ☘️ • 🍃 • 🌿 • 🍀 • 🍃 • 🍁

DEMANDS:
Thus, we call on the UTSU to cut ties with RBC and develop a pathway to end on-campus relationship by taking the following actions:

1. Release a statement publicly, or sign on to a joint statement of student unions, condemning RBC's complacency in the climate crisis and ongoing involvement in projects that violate the rights and title of Indigenous people, like the CGL and TMX Pipelines.

2. Open a pilot account with Vancity or another credit union, and develop and release publicly a report investigating the process of a full transition away from banking with the RBC.

3. Develop a policy that prohibits banks' sponsorship of utsu events and activities, as well as booting in student union spaces (including club fairs, frosh week, and so on).

4. Disclose the details of the contract that the UTSU holds with the RBC On Campus branch.

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More at the petition:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3jOvED8a1z3QFMo_dQK-bcFUoeAtcs34Awh5pLgnHdFEP7g/viewform?usp=sf_link

#Environment #TorontoActions #LOLife #RBCOffCampus #stopCGL #OffTheYintah

Coordinating the Legal Observers for the U of T part of the RBC Off Campus Day of Action. There are also actions taking place at other universities, and we have an LO Team at the York action this afternoon.

🌿 • ☘️ • 🍃 • 🌿 • 🍀 • 🍃 • 🍁

RBC is the number one funder of fossil fuels in Canada and the fifth largest funder in the world, having LED 262 billion dollars Canadian to fossil fuel projects since 2016.

RBC is also the lead financier of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, which does not have the consent of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs who are the rightful title holders of the land the pipeline will cross, and a lead funder of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which does not have consent from local First Nations including the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. By funding these projects, RBC is violating the principles of three, prior, and informed consent under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and ignoring direct calls from the front lines to drop the project.

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*snip*

🌿 • ☘️ • 🍃 • 🌿 • 🍀 • 🍃 • 🍁

DEMANDS:
Thus, we call on the UTSU to cut ties with RBC and develop a pathway to end on-campus relationship by taking the following actions:

1. Release a statement publicly, or sign on to a joint statement of student unions, condemning RBC's complacency in the climate crisis and ongoing involvement in projects that violate the rights and title of Indigenous people, like the CGL and TMX Pipelines.

2. Open a pilot account with Vancity or another credit union, and develop and release publicly a report investigating the process of a full transition away from banking with the RBC.

3. Develop a policy that prohibits banks' sponsorship of utsu events and activities, as well as booting in student union spaces (including club fairs, frosh week, and so on).

4. Disclose the details of the contract that the UTSU holds with the RBC On Campus branch.

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More at the petition:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3jOvED8a1z3QFMo_dQK-bcFUoeAtcs34Awh5pLgnHdFEP7g/viewform?usp=sf_link

#Environment #TorontoActions #LOLife #RBCOffCampus #stopCGL #OffTheYintah

Coordinating the Legal Observers for the U of T part of the RBC Off Campus Day of Action. There are also actions taking place at other universities, and we have an LO Team at the York action this afternoon.

🌿 • ☘️ • 🍃 • 🌿 • 🍀 • 🍃 • 🍁

RBC is the number one funder of fossil fuels in Canada and the fifth largest funder in the world, having LED 262 billion dollars Canadian to fossil fuel projects since 2016.

RBC is also the lead financier of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, which does not have the consent of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs who are the rightful title holders of the land the pipeline will cross, and a lead funder of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which does not have consent from local First Nations including the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. By funding these projects, RBC is violating the principles of three, prior, and informed consent under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and ignoring direct calls from the front lines to drop the project.

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*snip*

🌿 • ☘️ • 🍃 • 🌿 • 🍀 • 🍃 • 🍁

DEMANDS:
Thus, we call on the UTSU to cut ties with RBC and develop a pathway to end on-campus relationship by taking the following actions:

1. Release a statement publicly, or sign on to a joint statement of student unions, condemning RBC's complacency in the climate crisis and ongoing involvement in projects that violate the rights and title of Indigenous people, like the CGL and TMX Pipelines.

2. Open a pilot account with Vancity or another credit union, and develop and release publicly a report investigating the process of a full transition away from banking with the RBC.

3. Develop a policy that prohibits banks' sponsorship of utsu events and activities, as well as booting in student union spaces (including club fairs, frosh week, and so on).

4. Disclose the details of the contract that the UTSU holds with the RBC On Campus branch.

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More at the petition:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3jOvED8a1z3QFMo_dQK-bcFUoeAtcs34Awh5pLgnHdFEP7g/viewform?usp=sf_link

#Environment #TorontoActions #LOLife #RBCOffCampus #stopCGL #OffTheYintah

#DebtForClimate

Is a "Global South-driven initiative connecting social & climate justice struggles by uniting labor, social and climate movements from the Global South & North toward a common goal of turning debt-trap diplomacy on its head by canceling the debt of impoverished nations as a way to pay for leaving fossil fuels in the ground and financing a just transition."

https://debtforclimate.org/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopBayDuNord

"British Columbia’s natural-gas homes together contribute the same amount of climate pollution each year as:

-More than 870,000 vehicles.
-One car, driven around the equator more than 400,000 times.
-Nearly eight million round-trip flights between Vancouver and Toronto."

https://www.switchitupbc.ca/whats_wrong

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopBayDuNord

"British Columbia’s natural-gas homes together contribute the same amount of climate pollution each year as:

-More than 870,000 vehicles.
-One car, driven around the equator more than 400,000 times.
-Nearly eight million round-trip flights between Vancouver and Toronto."

https://www.switchitupbc.ca/whats_wrong

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopBayDuNord

"British Columbia’s natural-gas homes together contribute the same amount of climate pollution each year as:

-More than 870,000 vehicles.
-One car, driven around the equator more than 400,000 times.
-Nearly eight million round-trip flights between Vancouver and Toronto."

https://www.switchitupbc.ca/whats_wrong

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopBayDuNord

"Bank funding for fossil fuels often brings dire threats to the lives and livelihoods of local communities around the world"

5 banks in the top 20 in the world. Way to go Canada.

#5 #RBC
#9 #ScotiaBank
#11 #TD
#15 #BankOfMontreal
#20 #CIBC

https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #fff #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopBayDuNord

"The Coastal Gaslink (CGL) pipeline project is a 670
kilometer pipeline currently under construction through
unceded 'British Columbia'...
The fractured gas, also called liquid natural gas (LNG)... is fracked in the Montney Shale Formation."

"On November 2nd 2019 the United Kingdom imposed a
moratorium on fracking joining Scotland, Wales, France,
the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany in effectively
banning Fracking."

http://unistoten.camp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/FRACKINGDANGERS.pdf

#Wetsuweten #LandBack #StopCGL

#rbcrevealed

The #DefundClimateChaos day of action is this Friday, 29th of October

"Thousands of people are set to take part in actions spanning 26 countries and every continent on the planet, which is what’s needed to demand the global financial system stop the flow of money to fossil fuels before the UN climate summit in Glasgow starts."

https://rbcrevealed.com/defund-climate-chaos-global-day-of-action-in-26-countries-this-friday/

https://rbcrevealed.com/oct-29th-action-map/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL

"Rain has fallen on the summit of Greenland’s huge ice cap for the first time on record. Temperatures are normally well below freezing on the 3,216-metre (10,551ft) peak, and the precipitation is a stark sign of the climate crisis."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/rain-falls-peak-greenland-ice-cap-first-time-on-record-climate-crisis

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #XR #FFF #divest #StopTMX #StopCGL #StopLine3

The average temperature is 26C for my city in late June. The highs for the next few days are 41C and 42C. Low of 21 tonight.

To find an air conditioner, I had to drive to the next town this morning. At the food truck for supper, they said they'd heard that a.c. units are sold out up and down the valley.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #xr #FridaysForFuture #divest #StopTMX #stopCGL #stopline3