Issues | Elizabeth May

All-Time Record Loss of World’s Sea Ice Can No Longer Be Ignored

The Green Party today called on Stephen Harper to provide Canadians with the kind of leadership needed at a time of environmental crisis – instead of promoting a…

Post date August 27, 2012
Post categories In Press Releases
Tags Arctic, Climate Change, Environment, Resource Development

Reckless Promotion of Maritime Offshore Drilling Opposed

This hasn’t been a good week for Canadians who care about their environment. The oil and gas industry on the East Coast moved closer to exploiting the Gulf…

Post date August 24, 2012
Post categories In Press Releases, Publications
Tags Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Energy, Environment, Gulf of St. Lawrence, NGOs, Offshore Drilling, Petroleum

The shell game

The idea of a shell game is simple enough. Three small shells or cups glide around a surface, hiding one small object. Wikipedia notes that this game is…

Post date August 23, 2012
Post categories In Articles by Elizabeth, Island Tides, Publications
Tags Alberta, British Columbia, Enbridge Pipeline, Energy, Environment, Northern Gateway Pipeline, Petroleum, Pipelines, Science, U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

Canadians want more product labeling, not reductions in food and drug regulations

In all the slashing and burning of existing environmental laws, the dramatic reduction of oversight of the Canadian domestic spy agency, the loss of sovereignty in allowing US…

Post date August 20, 2012
Post categories In Articles by Elizabeth
Tags Bill C-38, Consumer Protection, CSIS, Environment, Food and Consumer Products of Canada, Food Labelling, Food Safety, Prescription Drugs, Statutory Instruments Act

Elizabeth May’s Keynote Address to Convention 2012

[UVfP0B8Qltc] Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, delivers the keynote speech to the Green Party’s 2012 National Convention,…

Post date August 19, 2012
Post categories In Uncategorized
Tags Climate Change, Environment, Green Party, Political Conventions, Saanich-Gulf Islands, Sidney

Oshawa Ethanol Plant More Greed Than Green?

The Harper Conservatives’ latest move to support the building of a $200-million ethanol processing plant on Oshawa’s valuable waterfront is tainted in several ways important to Canadians. The…

Post date August 13, 2012
Post categories In Press Releases
Tags Agriculture, Bill C-38, Biofuel, Corn, Energy, Environment, Ethanol Processing, Greenhouse Gasses, Oshawa, Oshawa Harbour Commission, Petroleum, Transportation, Wetlands

Harper Conservatives’ Emission Cuts Are Just More Hot Air

The Harper Conservatives released their updated Canada’s Emissions Trends Report yesterday and, true to form, Environment Minister Peter Kent is determined to take credit for the fact that…

Post date August 9, 2012
Post categories In Press Releases
Tags Cheating, Climate Change, COP15, Environment, Greenhouse Gases

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

The Green Party of Canada is joining with many across the globe to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People on August 9. This year’s theme…

Post date August 9, 2012
Post categories In Press Releases, Publications
Tags Culture, Enbridge Pipeline, Energy, Environment, First Nations, Health, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Northern Gateway Pipeline, Petroleum, Pipelines, United Nations

When it Comes to the Pipeline, Harper Talks in Circles

Yesterday in British Columbia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to sound a note of reason on the subject of the increasingly unpopular proposal to build 1,100 kilometres of…

Post date August 9, 2012
Post categories In Blogs, Publications
Tags Bill C-38, China, Enbridge Pipeline, Energy, Environment, Northern Gateway Pipeline, Oil Sands, Oil Tankers, Petroleum, Pipelines, Science

Long August Weekend covers new Harper deadline

On Friday, August 3, 2012, Environment Minister Peter Kent sent a letter to the Joint Review Panel currently studying Enbridge’s proposal to build a twinned pipeline over 1,100…

Post date August 7, 2012
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Tags Bill C-38, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, Enbridge Pipeline, Energy, Environment, Fisheries Act, National Energy Board, Nothern Gat, Oil Sands, Petroleum, Pipelines

National energy strategy possible, federal leadership missing

For decades, the legacy of the National Energy Program left politicians so shell-shocked and risk-averse that they were unwilling to even moot the need for a national energy…

Post date August 6, 2012
Post categories In Articles by Elizabeth, Publications
Tags Biomass Energy, Carbon Pricing, China, Climate Change, Council of Chief Executives, Energy, Energy Conservation, Energy Security, Energy Sovereignty, Environment, Geothermal Energy, Hydroelectricity, Kazakhstan, National Energy Program, Nigeria, Northern Gateway Pipeline, OECD, Oil Sands, Oil Tankers, Petroleum, Pipelines, Renewable Energy, Saudi Arabia, Solar Energy, Tidal Energy, United States, Venezuela, Wind Energy

Greens, Coalition, and Scientists Demand Exploration Halt in Gulf

The Green Party of Canada, the Save Our Seas and Shores Coalition, and two prominent scientists today called for an exploration and drilling moratorium in the Gulf of…

Post date August 1, 2012
Post categories In Press Releases
Tags Acadia, Bill C-38, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, Dalhousie University, Energy, Environment, First Nations, Fisheries, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gulf Oil Spill, Mi’kmaq, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Oceans, Offshore Drilling, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Save Our Seas and Shores Coalition

The Search for Heroes

On Wednesday, June 13, just after Question Period and before the tabling of amendments to the Omnibus Budget Bill C-38, a rally took place outside Parliament. The online…

Post date July 26, 2012
Post categories In Island Tides
Tags Asbestos, Bill C-38, Bob Mills, Budget, David Anderson, Democracy, Environment, Federal Budget, Fisheries Act, Herb Dhaliwal, John Fraser, Kevin Page, leadnow.ca, Linda Keen, Munir Sheikh, Muzzling Scientists, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Richard Colvin, Tom Siddon

May Demands Public Inquiry into Future of Strategic Resource – Latest Chinese Acquisition in Oil Sands Raises Serious Concerns

The proposed purchase of Calgary-based Nexen Inc., Canada’s 12th-largest energy company, by the China National Offshore Oil Company, CNOOC Ltd., for $15.1-billion (U.S.) should be setting off alarms…

Post date July 24, 2012
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Tags Bill C-38, China, China National Offshore Oil Company, Energy, Environment, Foreign Investment, International Affairs, Nexen, Oil Sands, PetroChina, Petroleum, Privy Council Office, Sinopec, Talisman

Canada still has no plan to address climate change

There is no shortage of compelling issues to discuss in a Hill Times Environmental Policy briefing. Even listing, without describing, the catalogue of assaults on environmental law and…

Post date July 16, 2012
Post categories In Articles by Elizabeth, Publications
Tags Agriculture, Arctic, Bill C-38, Bitumen, Brian Mulroney, China, Climate Change, COP17, Energy, Environment, Environmental Assessment, Experimental Lakes Area, First Nations, Fisheries, Fisheries Act, Flooding, Forest Fires, Government Data, Heat Wave, Ice Cores, Insurance Industry, Jasper National Park, Kyoto Protocol, National Energy Board, National Parks, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Natural Science, Navigable Waters Protection Act, NGOs, Oil and Gas, Oil Sands, Oil Tankers, Ozone Layer, Pipelines, Species at Risk Act, Tom Siddon, Tornadoes, Wildfires

Values that rub off

Canada has two approaches when dealing with totalitarian regimes. If they have no money or inclination to invest, we are quick to condemn and to shut such nations…

Post date July 12, 2012
Post categories In Articles by Elizabeth, Island Tides, Publications
Tags Bill C-38, Bitumen, Brian Mulroney, CANDU, Chamber of Commerce, China, Cuba, Energy, Environment, Environmental Assessment, Foreign Investment, International Affairs, Nuclear Industry, Oil Tankers, Petro-China, Privy Council Office, Sierra Club, Sinopec, South Africa

Harper Conservatives’ Policies Make Mockery of International Convention to Protect Wetlands

The 11th Meeting of the UN Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP11) wrapped up today in Bucharest, Romania. This international effort to…

Post date July 12, 2012
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Tags COP11, Environment, Fisheries, Fisheries Act, Oil Sands, Peatlands, Wetlands

Correcting scientific errors

Publication Source: Sooke News Mirror Source Link: View the full original article >> Author: Andrew Weaver A recent letter dismissed scientific concern over increasing ocean acidity as a…

Post date July 11, 2012
Post categories In In the News
Tags Climate Change, Environment, Greenhouse Gases

Greens Urge Government to Re-instate IJC on Great Lakes Water Quality Nuclear Task Force

The Green Party of Canada is calling on the government of Canada to re-instate the International Joint Commission (IJC) on Great Lakes Water Quality Nuclear Task Force complete…

Post date July 11, 2012
Post categories In Press Releases
Tags Energy, Environment, Great Lakes, Nuclear Industry, Pollution, Water Pollution

World Population Day

This year, World Population Day comes in the midst of a life and death debate about how Canadian society wants to react internationally to key issues, including poverty,…

Post date July 11, 2012
Post categories In Press Releases, Publications
Tags CIDA, Education, Environment, Equality, Health, Human Rights, Overseas Development Assistance, Population, Poverty, Sustainable Development, United Nations, WHO, World Health Organization

Coal Exploration to Begin in Fragile High Arctic

Canada Coal Inc.’s plan to begin exploratory drilling on Ellesmere Island next summer raises concerns about wildlife habitat and ancient fossil site protection. It also raises questions about…

Post date July 6, 2012
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Tags Coal, Dalhousie University, Ellesmere Island, Energy, Environment, PEARL

B.C. must act on Lyme disease recommendations

Publication Source: Victoria Times Colonist Source Link: View the full original article >> Author: Gwen Barlee Two weeks ago, something remarkable happened. Dr. Robbin Lindsay, a research scientist…

Post date July 5, 2012
Post categories In In the News
Tags Climate Change, Health, Lyme Disease

Bev Oda deserves a defence

Okay. Admittedly that may be the most unpopular title of a blog I have ever tapped out on my laptop. I can’t and won’t explain or defend the…

Post date July 3, 2012
Post categories In Blogs
Tags Bev Oda, Environment, MP Expenses, National Security

Process at House has been hijacked

Publication Source: The Windsor Star Source Link: View the full original article >> Author: Kyle Billing As a member of a country that has roughly a one-third majority…

Post date June 29, 2012
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Tags Bill C-38, Budget, Environment, Federal Budget, Finance, Parliamentary Process

As Parliament rises for the summer…

The appalling 420 page so-called omnibus budget implementation bill, C-38, will likely clear the Senate before you read this. All 700+ of the Opposition amendments were defeated after…

Post date June 28, 2012
Post categories In Island Tides
Tags Bill C-38, Bill C-436, Budget, Environment, Federal Budget, Finance, Parliamentary Process