I was 13 yrs old & being taught how to target shoot pop cans with a pellet rifle. Jake Masselink - one of our family's sponsors who funded our family to come to Canada & helped us apply for asylum & then Canadian citizenship - was teaching me. It was on #PenderIsland at their family homestead, in Hope Bay. My 2 brothers are waiting their turn.
Jake worked for #BCgovernment, in #BCParks department for decades. He's an #environmentalist & one of the first white persons I learned to trust. He taught me how to kayak too. I have many wonderful family memories of our times on Pender, with the Masselink family.
This outtake from Environmental Planning students at #RoyalRoadsUniversity, recounts some of their more challenging experiences with BC's oldest park on #VancouverIsland.
The former federal leader of the Greens & six supporters spent Sunday night at a #logging site in the Styx Valley after harvesting machines moved in about a week ago.
Nobody is going to support you making life harder for people, taking their personal property, imposing taxes, causing fuel shortages, etc.
#ClimateChange is unstoppable now, this isn't the 80s. You could shut down the whole world tomorrow and it would still have 2 degrees warming at least.
Animals are not people.
Expensive less efficient technologies do not replace cheap efficient ones.
From last Autumn when Anjali came over from Vancouver to pick me up for some collaborative political work. She loved my #LittleFreeLibrary in South #Saanich 😊📚
Does anyone need a #Bluesky code? I have a few & would love to give them to critical academics or #vegan, #environmentalist, pro-#Palestine comrades… maybe you know people who fit that bill and are still stuck on Xitter?
(I love Mastodon but I think BSky is attracting more former chronic #Xitter users to switch over, and really, whatever works at this point)
By CLAIRE RUSH
Updated 6:41 PM EDT, October 19, 2023
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — "Federal regulators on Thursday approved the expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest over the protest of environmental groups and top officials in West Coast states, who said it goes against the region’s plans to address #ClimateChange and could pose a #wildfire risk.
"The project, known as GTN Xpress, aims to expand the capacity of the Gas Transmission Northwest pipeline, which runs through Idaho, Washington and Oregon, by about 150 million cubic feet (4.2 million cubic meters) of natural gas per day. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave it the green light in a vote on Thursday.
I am Chris and from Los Angeles and
spend time between there and Japan.
I write technical documentation and
training and love to build community
I love to travel, repair and tinker.
I take pictures, trips, walks and bike rides.
Once again #Norway has erupted in #Indigenous and #environmentalist protest- but also something more:
Norway's legal system, the safety of all citizens, is at stake.
The Government has now for two years ignored the Supreme Court's decision in the #Fosen case.
Yesterday a protest camp was put up outside parlament and #Sámi activists entered the building for peaceful protest. They were carried out by police in the night.
"Tokyo Electric Power Company (#TEPCO) announced that facilities used to release the nuclear-#contaminated wastewater from the #FukushimaDaiichi#Nuclear Power Plant into the sea will be put into trial operation on Monday, according to local media outlets. The move is widely seen as a pilot for #Japan's formal dumping plan.
"After TEPCO sent seawater into an underwater tunnel designed to dump the nuclear-contaminated water into the #ocean last week, the marine #fish caught in the harbor of the plant were found to have 180 times the maximum limit of the #radioactive element #caesium allowed in Japan's food safety law.
"Despite this worrying result, the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA) asserted in a report released on May 31 that TEPCO had demonstrated 'capabilities for accurate and precise measurements of the radionuclides present in the treated water stored on site.' The report concluded that no additional radionuclides at significant levels were detected. The contradicting findings make the public even more concerned about Japan's dumping plan."
"In an interview with Chinese media, #ShaunBurnie, an #environmentalist who has stayed in Japan for almost 30 years, straightforwardly expressed his disagreement with the IAEA's report. TEPCO has only tested 20 percent of the #wastewater tanks, Burnie said. In addition, third-party laboratories in the U.S., Switzerland and South Korea have taken the samples of only 25-liter water (before dilution) each, while there's more than 1.3 million metric tons of nuclear-contaminated water stored in the plant. The amount of samples was unbelievably limited."
Ads can see you too and they collect a lot of data of you, which will be processed, sold, processed again and sometimes an #ai is involved to process it even more and create connections with other data.
The CO2 output of all this processes is really high. You can end it by installing an add-on called #ublockorigin for your browser:
And it already blocks a lot of stuff after installing. But I would recommend to go to the settings and activate some more filters, like the annoyance or social media filter.
btw. you will love the element zapper. It allows you to select an item on a website and just hide it! It is one of the best things to hide annoying stuff.
Tribal coalition, environmentalists back Bears Ears land swap between Utah, feds (www.fox13now.com)
A commission made up of Native American tribal leaders will support a massive land exchange inside Bears Ears National Monument.