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The next EH! Board meeting will be on ZOOM
Saturday, September 25 at 9:30 am. If you wish to attend, please email Susan Hay at hayfield@tcc.on.ca to request the agenda, previous minutes and the link to the meeting |
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Where do our political parties stand on climate?
@Climate Action Muskoka's Oliver Klimek put this excellent chart together. This comparison is based on information provided by the Parties on their campaign websites. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all Party statements.
Summary
• In order to avoid the most serious effects of climate change, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommends that global greenhouse gases (GHG) be
reduced by 50% (cf. 2005) by 2030. This conclusion is based on scientific evidence and is not a matter of debate.
• the People’s PC does not accept this conclusion and they do not mandate GHG reductions.
• the Conservative PC does not set a GHG target for 2030; it promises to meet Canada’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, but it plans to reduce Canada’s Nationally Determined
Contribution from 40-45% to 30%.
• the Liberal PC has set a GHG target of 40-45%; this is less than the IPCC recommendation of 50%.
• the New Democratic PC promises to meet the IPCC target of 50%.
• the Green PC has set a GHG reduction target of 60%.
• the Parties share many of the same GHG reduction strategies, but only the NDP and the Green Party meet (or exceed) the IPCC recommended targets.
Sources
People’s Party of Canada: https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/global-warming-environment (Accessed 2021.09.04)
Conservative Party of Canada: https://cpcassets.conservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/15104504/24068610becf2561.pdf (Accessed 2021.09.04)
Liberal Party of Canada: https://liberal.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/2021/09/Platform-Forward-For-Everyone.pdf (Accessed 2021.09.04)
New Democratic Party of Canada: https://www.ndp.ca/climate-action (Accessed 2021.09.04)
Green Party of Canada: https://www.greenparty.ca/en/mission-possible (Accessed 2021.09.04)
Our Summer/now-September Speaker event was held virtually
on Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 7:30 pm EDT
The "Land Back" Movement & Climate Justice:
A discussion with Jaydene Lavallie,
Sakej Ward and Dr. Jen Gobby, activist-scholar.
What does the "Land Back" movement mean?
Why is it central to addressing the climate crisis and how can settler climate activists support it?
on Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 7:30 pm EDT
The "Land Back" Movement & Climate Justice:
A discussion with Jaydene Lavallie,
Sakej Ward and Dr. Jen Gobby, activist-scholar.
What does the "Land Back" movement mean?
Why is it central to addressing the climate crisis and how can settler climate activists support it?
Dr Jen Gobby
Dr Jen Gobby is an activist-scholar and educator based on unceded Abenaki territory in rural Quebec. In 2019, she completed her Ph.D at McGill University as part of the Economics for the Anthropocene partnership and is now a post doctoral fellow at Concordia University in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment. She teaches courses on environment and climate change at Bishop’s University and at McGill’s Bieler School of Environment. She is also a public educator, regularly giving presentations and workshops on a variety of topics including climate justice, theories of transformative change, and building stronger social movements through better allyship, collaborations and solidarity.
Her research is focused on climate policy, climate justice, social transformation and Indigenous – settler relations in social movements in Canada. She is the author of the book More Powerful Together: Conversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders. Jen’s full resumé can be found here: https://jengobby.wordpress.com
Jaydene Lavallie is a Two-Spirit Michif-Cree woman currently living in Dish with One Spoon Territory (Hamilton, ON). She spends most of her efforts on anti-extractive and land defense struggles but has also dedicated herself to defending Hamilton against gentrification, fighting patriarchy inside and outside of organizing circles, and pushing for animal liberation.
Sakej (James) Ward
Sakej (James) Ward belongs to the wolf clan. He is Mi’kmaw (Mi’kmaq Nation) from Esgenoopetitj (Burnt Church First Nation, New Brunswick). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Masters in Indigenous Governance. Sakej has a long history of advocating and protecting First Nations inherent responsibilities and freedoms.
Sakej (James) Ward belongs to the wolf clan. He is Mi’kmaw (Mi’kmaq Nation) from Esgenoopetitj (Burnt Church First Nation, New Brunswick). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Masters in Indigenous Governance. Sakej has a long history of advocating and protecting First Nations inherent responsibilities and freedoms.
For more information about Land Back, please click on this link: https://landback.org/manifesto/
Also: https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org
Also: https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org
Please join our protest to show your support for climate change to be the #1 priority for this election: #Vote Climate!
- Please gather a few minutes before noon on Sept. 8, by the Welcome Centre in Head Lake Park for instructions.
- Check this website after 9 am on Sept. 8 for any updates, such as changes in restrictions on outdoor gatherings if Covid-19 worsens.
- There are ideas for signs in the image below.
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The video of Mitchell Beer's presentation is here https://vimeo.com/591355984
Making Fossil Fuels History:
Can Renewables Get Us There?
Mitchell Beer is publisher of The Energy Mix, a thrice-weekly e-digest on climate change, energy and carbon-free solutions; and president of Ottawa-based Smarter Shift Inc
For more about Mitchell Beer
https://below2c.org/author/mitchell-beer/
https://www.theenergymix.com/author/mitchellbeer/
The County of Haliburton held a Virtual Open House regarding
the Proposed Shoreline Preservation By-Law
on Thursday, July 29, 2021
You can find the presentation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L797DHe6Tw
Susan Hay of EH! made a short presentation.
the Proposed Shoreline Preservation By-Law
on Thursday, July 29, 2021
You can find the presentation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L797DHe6Tw
Susan Hay of EH! made a short presentation.
Minden Times July 21 , 2021
On June 8th, Environment Haliburton chose, to take advantage of a presentation by Dr Andrew Peregrine, Professor and Clinical Parisitologist at the Ontario Veterinary College. It was hosted by the Friends of the Napanee and Salmon Rivers titled:
Ticks and Lyme disease:
A TICKing time bomb in Eastern Ontario"
The talk can be viewed at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTo5cmqExQ
Below is a resource list that Terry Moore put together for a Planet Haliburton program on August, 2018 entitled
Lyme Disease: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
That episode can be heard here:
https://planet-haliburton.zencast.website/episodes/lyme-disease-w-mary-beth-pfeiffer
Resource List
- Biographical info on Mary Beth Pfeiffer:
- Mary Beth Pfeiffer Facebook Page:
- CanLyme: https://canlyme.com
- Tick Removal Kit: https://canlyme.com/product/tick-removal-kit/
- Pets and Ticks: https://www.petsandticks.com
- Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge Health Unit Information on Lyme Disease: https://www.hkpr.on.ca/news_items/keep-your-distance-to-fight-lyme-disease/
https://www.hkpr.on.ca/news_items/time-to-fight-lyme/
- Ticks on the Rise in Haliburton: http://www.haliburtonecho.ca/lyme-on-the-rise
- Mary Beth Pfeiffer Sunday Morning Interview:
Recent Videos From Environment Haliburton
EnviroCafés
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Take the Community Carbon Challenge
from Climate Action Muskoka
Did you know that 80% of your personal carbon footprint falls into the following three areas?
How You Power Your Home How You Travel What You Eat
We recognize that climate change is a global issue and that we must pressure
all levels of government and Banks to invest in a clean, green, just economy.
We know the choices we make in our personal lives DO matter.
Many of us have been acting to reduce our carbon footprint as individuals.
By signing up we become part of the COLLECTIVE community voice speaking together.
Take the Carbon Challenge!
Create YOUR Personal Action Plan!
Reduce your carbon footprint by 8% per year to reach the goal of 50% reduction by 2030.
Go to https://www.climateactionmuskoka.org/
from Climate Action Muskoka
Did you know that 80% of your personal carbon footprint falls into the following three areas?
How You Power Your Home How You Travel What You Eat
We recognize that climate change is a global issue and that we must pressure
all levels of government and Banks to invest in a clean, green, just economy.
We know the choices we make in our personal lives DO matter.
Many of us have been acting to reduce our carbon footprint as individuals.
By signing up we become part of the COLLECTIVE community voice speaking together.
Take the Carbon Challenge!
Create YOUR Personal Action Plan!
Reduce your carbon footprint by 8% per year to reach the goal of 50% reduction by 2030.
Go to https://www.climateactionmuskoka.org/
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Annual General Meeting December 2, 2020 7:00pm Here is a recent piece by Kevin Skerret on Pension Fund Capitalism https://socialistproject.ca/2020/09/pension-fund-capitalism-and-covid19-pandemic-revera/ A VIDEO OF THE PRESENTATION |
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Draft of Shoreline Bylaw
To see the draft of the County Shoreline Bylaw and accompanying documents go here:
Can we protect those natural shorelines from ongoing decline without undermining
shoreline landowner property rights or the shoreline landscape industry?
To shed some light on this and other questions related to the draft County Shoreline Preservation By-law, we speak with shoreline naturalization expert, Julia Sutton, and environmental planning consultant, Stephen Fahner.
Link to Planet Haliburton podcast, March 30, 2020
Background Resources for this broadcast
shoreline landowner property rights or the shoreline landscape industry?
To shed some light on this and other questions related to the draft County Shoreline Preservation By-law, we speak with shoreline naturalization expert, Julia Sutton, and environmental planning consultant, Stephen Fahner.
Link to Planet Haliburton podcast, March 30, 2020
Background Resources for this broadcast
Green ideas for living in Haliburton
Share your own ideas and images!
oliver@web.net
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Share your own ideas and images!
oliver@web.net
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Climate Change Information and Resources
Enviro-Cafés
EH! hosts EnviroCafés on the Second Tuesday of the month alternating between a Minden and Haliburton location.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, physical Enviro-Cafés will be on hold until further notice.
Next EnviroCafé
Tuesday June 9 7:30 pm
will be online
using ZOOM
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, physical Enviro-Cafés will be on hold until further notice.
Next EnviroCafé
Tuesday June 9 7:30 pm
will be online
using ZOOM
To register go here.
Special Speakers
Dr Dan Longboat
EH! invites speakers to address
the AGM as well as a summer event. Recent speakers have included Elizabeth May, Maude Barlow, Norman Yan and
Peter Schliefenbaum.
The 2019 Summer Keynote speaker was
Dr. Dan Longboat
A Way of Life: Indigenous Knowledge
to Sustain the World
the AGM as well as a summer event. Recent speakers have included Elizabeth May, Maude Barlow, Norman Yan and
Peter Schliefenbaum.
The 2019 Summer Keynote speaker was
Dr. Dan Longboat
A Way of Life: Indigenous Knowledge
to Sustain the World
Upcoming Events
Planet Haliburton is a bimonthly program on CANOE FM, our local community radio station, hosted by Terry Moore, Vice president of EH!. Terry covers topics of environmental importance with relevance to the Haliburton Highlands. The program takes an interview format.
Schedule and details here
Schedule and details here
The Ford Fallout: “I’m dreading the day my grandchildren look at me and ask, ‘Why did you let this happen to us?’”
Dianne Saxe, the former environmental commissioner of Ontario, on the dissolution of her office.
BY TORONTO LIFE | DECEMBER 18, 2019
https://torontolife.com/city/the-ford-fallout-environmental-cuts/
After 40 years as an environmental and energy lawyer working all over the province for clients big and small, I gave up everything I had built to become the third (and, alas, last) environmental commissioner of Ontario. My job was to speak truth to power. I was the guardian of the Environmental Bill of Rights and provided all Ontarians with a reliable, independent, non-partisan assessment of the province’s energy, climate and environmental policies.
There is no topic more important, because our home is on fire. My team produced 17 reports, designed and illustrated to make Ontario’s successes, failures and options clear and understandable. People across Ontario relied on those reports, and I criss-crossed the province meeting with hundreds of groups: community associations, farm leaders, real estate brokers, municipal councils, chemists, cabinet ministers and more. Our work inspired and strengthened policies and actions across Ontario, by documenting, for example, the disproportionate pollution of Indigenous communities, the filth poured into our lakes and rivers, and the energy we waste. In 15 languages, including three Indigenous ones, I gave Ontarians the tools to exercise their environmental rights. And, publicly and privately, I coaxed, cajoled, trained and embarrassed the government into fulfilling its own obligations.
“I was always treated with respect, until September 2018, when I delivered a report documenting the destructive effects of the Ford government’s climate actions. Soon afterwards, the province passed special legislation to abolish my office, break the contract all MPPs had unanimously made with me and crush my employees’ union. How did I find out about all this? From the CBC, when a reporter called to ask about my firing.
Twelve of us lost our jobs; several remain unemployed. But Ontario has lost much more. The Ford government has revoked our climate law, cancelled cap and trade and abandoned two-thirds of our climate pollution target. They cut back flood protection. They broke 752 contracts for clean renewable power that we will soon need, cut environmental and energy conservation, allowed endangered species to be killed for a modest price and restricted the ability of municipalities to protect natural areas. They turbocharged urban sprawl, the major driver of Ontario’s climate pollution.
On almost every part of my energy, environment and climate mandate, the Ford government makes claims that contradict the evidence and takes actions that worsen our future. No wonder they wanted to silence me.
The auditor general now can, if she chooses, fulfill part of my old role, and I hope she will. One of her assistants has a title similar to mine, though he has no budget, staff or statutory role of his own, and he does not make himself available to the public. My job was to put the environment first; the auditor general usually evaluates things in terms of money. We’re in a climate and ecological emergency precisely because of the habit of judging everything in terms of money; doing more of that won’t get us out of it.
Ontario was a climate leader until the Ford government was elected. We’ve since become an international embarrassment, and a place where no contract is safe. In 2018, the Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to a Yale professor who showed that carbon pricing is the best and cheapest policy. Yet Ford continues to waste money fighting the federal carbon price, breaking his own promise to drop that attack if Trudeau were re-elected.
Fortunately, my three grandchildren are too young to understand what’s happening, but I’m dreading the day they look me in the eye and ask, ‘Why did you let this happen to us?’ What will I say?”
Dianne Saxe, the former environmental commissioner of Ontario, on the dissolution of her office.
BY TORONTO LIFE | DECEMBER 18, 2019
https://torontolife.com/city/the-ford-fallout-environmental-cuts/
After 40 years as an environmental and energy lawyer working all over the province for clients big and small, I gave up everything I had built to become the third (and, alas, last) environmental commissioner of Ontario. My job was to speak truth to power. I was the guardian of the Environmental Bill of Rights and provided all Ontarians with a reliable, independent, non-partisan assessment of the province’s energy, climate and environmental policies.
There is no topic more important, because our home is on fire. My team produced 17 reports, designed and illustrated to make Ontario’s successes, failures and options clear and understandable. People across Ontario relied on those reports, and I criss-crossed the province meeting with hundreds of groups: community associations, farm leaders, real estate brokers, municipal councils, chemists, cabinet ministers and more. Our work inspired and strengthened policies and actions across Ontario, by documenting, for example, the disproportionate pollution of Indigenous communities, the filth poured into our lakes and rivers, and the energy we waste. In 15 languages, including three Indigenous ones, I gave Ontarians the tools to exercise their environmental rights. And, publicly and privately, I coaxed, cajoled, trained and embarrassed the government into fulfilling its own obligations.
“I was always treated with respect, until September 2018, when I delivered a report documenting the destructive effects of the Ford government’s climate actions. Soon afterwards, the province passed special legislation to abolish my office, break the contract all MPPs had unanimously made with me and crush my employees’ union. How did I find out about all this? From the CBC, when a reporter called to ask about my firing.
Twelve of us lost our jobs; several remain unemployed. But Ontario has lost much more. The Ford government has revoked our climate law, cancelled cap and trade and abandoned two-thirds of our climate pollution target. They cut back flood protection. They broke 752 contracts for clean renewable power that we will soon need, cut environmental and energy conservation, allowed endangered species to be killed for a modest price and restricted the ability of municipalities to protect natural areas. They turbocharged urban sprawl, the major driver of Ontario’s climate pollution.
On almost every part of my energy, environment and climate mandate, the Ford government makes claims that contradict the evidence and takes actions that worsen our future. No wonder they wanted to silence me.
The auditor general now can, if she chooses, fulfill part of my old role, and I hope she will. One of her assistants has a title similar to mine, though he has no budget, staff or statutory role of his own, and he does not make himself available to the public. My job was to put the environment first; the auditor general usually evaluates things in terms of money. We’re in a climate and ecological emergency precisely because of the habit of judging everything in terms of money; doing more of that won’t get us out of it.
Ontario was a climate leader until the Ford government was elected. We’ve since become an international embarrassment, and a place where no contract is safe. In 2018, the Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to a Yale professor who showed that carbon pricing is the best and cheapest policy. Yet Ford continues to waste money fighting the federal carbon price, breaking his own promise to drop that attack if Trudeau were re-elected.
Fortunately, my three grandchildren are too young to understand what’s happening, but I’m dreading the day they look me in the eye and ask, ‘Why did you let this happen to us?’ What will I say?”
Some photos of the ecosystem that the members of Environment Haliburton inhabit
and of the actions and events that we have supported.
and of the actions and events that we have supported.