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Priyanka Vittal and Jesse Firempong: Big Oil’s climate cop-out How Canada s fossil fuel giants are buying influence with police departments to do their dirty work in pipeline fights on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border posted on April 22nd, 2021 at 6:00 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
By Priyanka Vittal and Jesse Firempong
For sci-fi writers, worldbuilding often means dreaming up the vivid and terrifying settings where dystopian stories unfold. In 2021 amid a global pandemic, however, dystopia is a matter of perspective.
As the coronavirus drives this year’s Earth Day events indoors, the chilling effects of climate change have never been clearer.
Earth Day Issue: Big Oil’s climate cop-out
How Canada s fossil fuel giants are buying influence with police departments to do their dirty work in pipeline fights on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border By Priyanka Vittal and Jesse Firempong
Apr 22, 2021
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For sci-fi writers, worldbuilding often means dreaming up the vivid and terrifying settings where dystopian stories unfold. In 2021 amid a global pandemic, however, dystopia is a matter of perspective.
As the coronavirus drives this year’s Earth Day events indoors, the chilling effects of climate change have never been clearer.
Black, brown and Indigenous peoples among us were already confronting nightmarish realities before COVID-19: acts of environmental racism and violence to protect a dying oil and gas industry’s profits.
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In this episode of
Don’t Call Me Resilient, we take a look at land rights and some of the people on the front lines of these battles. These are the land defenders fighting to protect land against invasive development. Both our guests have stood up to armed forces to protect land.
Their work is about protecting the environment. But it is much more than that: it is fundamentally about survival and about the right to live openly on what is stolen land.
Ellen Gabriel has been resisting land encroachment for 31 years. She was at the centre of the 1990 Kanehsatake resistance, (known as the Oka crisis), a 78-day standoff to protect ancestral Kanien’kéha:ka (Mohawk) land in Québec.