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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.
Solutions
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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Green Islam reframes climate responsibility as a sacred act of community care in Indonesia

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NSF grant funding falls by half as Trump administration slashes science budgets

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Disaster aid on a flatbed truck.

Congress proposes major reforms to FEMA in bid to counter Trump cuts

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How fragile power grids and extreme weather combined to cause Europe’s biggest blackout in decades

Regenerative agriculture drought resilience

As regenerative agriculture gains momentum, report warns of “greenwashing”

CLIMATE
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Oil executive without Senate approval reshapes Interior while holding energy investments

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Clean energy investments in GOP-led states face cuts under Trump-backed tax bill