It’s been six years since the massive fire known as The Beast tore through Canada’s largest oil and gas hub, causing the costliest natural disaster in this country’s history.
The link between culture and environment is clear among Indigenous people and also that environmental degradation affects the health and well-being of not only the First Nations people but everyone.
The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline pulled the plug on the contentious project Wednesday after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit on the day he took office.
Former Democratic vice president Joe Biden looks set to take over the U.S presidency. If he succeeds, one of the biggest shifts in the U.S./Canada relationship will involve climate change policies.
A review on natural gas fracking by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment recommends a “rapid and just transition away from natural gas and oil extracted with fracking to clean and equitable renewable energy sources.”
