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  1. Alarm sounded as TransCanada set to drill in Bay of Fundy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An open letter was released by 20 groups in New Brunswick opposed to TransCanada's plans to begin drilling in the Bay of Fundy. The procedure has the potential to hurt resident's foundations and drinking water, along with the natural environment.
  2. Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    About the effects of "Chemical Valley" in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area.
  3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  4. Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador
    Iler, Kirsten
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A storm of controversy erupted amongst Canadian lawyers when the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) decided to intervene in Chevron's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal is part of Chevron's battle against Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples who seek to enforce a massive court judgment against the company for environmental damage in Ecuador.
  5. Canary Islands vs. Big Oil
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Thousands of Canary Islands residents and activists have begun campaigning against Spanish oil company Repsol, and the potential oil spill that could devastate the wildlife and tourist and fishing industries.
  6. Chevron's $80 million ad campaign gets flushed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A day-long comedy of errors, and Chevron's waking nightmare, began when Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, together with the Yes Lab, pre-empted Chevron's multi-million dollar "We Agree" ad campaign with a satirical version of their own. The activists' version highlights Chevron's environmental and social abuses -- especially the toxic mess the oil giant has left in Ecuador, which Chevron has been attempting to "greenwash" for years.
  7. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  8. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  9. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  10. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  11. Ecuadoreans Won't Back Down in Fighting Chevron-Texaco Over Amazon Oil Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A class-action lawsuit first filed in 1993 against Chevron-Texaco has taken its toll on the lawyers and Ecuadorean people seeking justice for environmental damage. Hope for justice and healing drives people to not give up.
  12. Ecuador's Bitter Choice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Becker analyzes the politics behind the decision to extract petroleum from Ecuador's ecologically fragile Yasuní National Park.
  13. Fighting fracking in Poland: the farmers resistance movement
    An improverished farming community in Zurawlow is using creative tactics to stop Chevron's shale gas plans
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    When Chevron arrived in Zurawlów, a small village in Poland's rural Grabowiec county, it was like a UFO landing in the open wheat fields. In June last year a high-tech surveillance caravan appeared in the village to stake the firm's claim to the shale gas below.
  14. Fractured Land
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2015
    A Canadian feature documentary film profiling the Dene activist Caleb Behn as he goes through law school and builds a movement around greater awareness of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on First Nations lands.
  15. Gasland
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2010
    Today, communities in the United States are being more and more affected by natural gas drilling and, specifically, hydraulic fracturing.
  16. Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipeline construction site. The hiring came after a request from the corporation for uniformed officers that could "deter protests and prevent delays."
  17. Jurassic Ballot
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do their bidding.
  18. Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands 
    A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding.
  19. Keep it in the Ground
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A campaign by The Guardian newspaper to stop climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the ground, featuring a series of articles on different aspects of the issue across the world.
  20. Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9
    Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to Open' status granted to the Enbridge Line 9B reversal project by the National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.
  21. A Line in the Tar Sands
    Struggles for Environmental Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet.
  22. The Money Gusher
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The oil industry's decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.
  23. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
    April 1 issue
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
  24. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
  25. Peace Out
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
  26. The Politics of Pachamama
    Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    While many economies and citizens have benefitted from the state’s larger involvement in the extraction of these resources, extractivism under progressive governments, as it had under neoliberalism, still displaces rural communities, poisons water sources, kills the soil, and undermines indigenous territorial autonomy.
  27. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    The first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil, Private Empire is the masterful result of Coll’s indefatigable reporting. A penetrating, newsbreaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of ExxonMobil and the place of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy.
  28. Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A groundbreaking study published in Seismological Research Letters has demonstrated a link between hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for oil and gas and earthquakes.
  29. Stupid to the Last Drop
    How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
    As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
  30. Tar Sands
    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    To extract the energy from the Alberta tar sands, the world's ugliest, most expensive hydrocrabon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast areas of boreal forest, and undermining democracy.
  31. Unregulated oil fracking boom does permanent damage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    We know about the dangers of pollution from fracking. But its lethal, long-term byproducts and the ease with which they leak or are dumped may be causing worse problems in a state that can’t even question them.
  32. When oil is more important than life
    Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.
  33. Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In a series of articles based on internal documents from Exxon Mobil going back to the 1970s and on interviews with former company scientists and employees, ICN shows that Exxon's "own research confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming decades ago." Yes, decades ago -- during the late 1970s to be precise.
  34. 'Yes, I Lied': Vindicating Villagers, Star Chevron Witness Busted for Perjury
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Chevron has taken the people of Ecuador and the U.S. court system on a ride, full of lies, deliberate delay, and obstruction of justice, says Amazon Watch.

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