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Coastal GasLink Pipeline protests
Credit: Mark Klotz/Flickr

Trial of land defenders fighting the Coastal GasLink Pipeline is put on hold as Canadian police come under scrutiny for excessive force

The defense for three activists from First Nations argues abuse of process by security forces around the pipeline construction site, as the U.N. and Amnesty International allege excessive force, surveillance and criminalization of land defenders.
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CGL drill site arrests
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Trial begins for land defenders arrested at CGL drill site

Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, Shay Lynn Sampson and Corey Jocko face criminal contempt charges.
Causes
RCMP protecting CGL pipeline
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RCMP spent record amount to protect CGL pipeline last year

The force spent $11 million to patrol a remote road in Wet’suwet’en territory.

Causes
Private equity giant KKR is funding environmental racism
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Private equity giant KKR is funding environmental racism, new report finds

The climate impacts of the private equity industry create significant harm to BIPOC communities in Texas, Louisiana and British Columbia, Canada, it found.
Politics
Coastal GasLink Pipeline politics
BigStock Photo ID: 165844508
Copyright: Leonid Eremeychuk
Release: Signed model release filed with Bigstock.

Have a dozen stop-work orders changed anything for CGL?

BC’s Environmental Assessment Office says things have improved. We won’t know until the next big downpour.
Causes
Coastal GasLink sediment spills
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Photos show Coastal GasLink sediment spills into wetlands, rivers

On an Indigenous-led monitoring flight over the Coastal GasLink pipeline, The Narwhal documented worksites overwhelmed by spring melt and numerous environmental infractions including slope failures, flooded worksites and sediment entering wetlands and waterways
Threatened Telkwa caribou herd
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(NPS Photo/Katie Thoresen)

The last 33 caribou: fighting for a Wet’suwet’en herd’s survival

Surrounded by industrial development and human habitation, less than three dozen caribou remain on Wet’suwet’en territory. As government biologists fight to keep the herd alive, recovery efforts will need to look to the past to plan for the future.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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The rain is cleaner, but now it’s full of plastic and forever chemicals

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House spending bill could lead to government shutdown

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Trump administration sued over frozen climate funds

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Farmers face funding cuts as Trump administration reconsiders climate-linked grants

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Major U.S. banks drop out of climate pledge, raising calls for regulation

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EPA urges White House to eliminate key climate rule

CLIMATE
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A cargo ship collision in the North Sea raises fears of toxic contamination

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US Supreme Court clears way for climate lawsuits against Big Oil