Nova Scotia Coalition for Climate Action
The Nova Scotia Coalition for Climate Action formed to coordinate organizations focused on creating just solutions to climate action through provincial and national initiatives. The NSCCA is made up of environmental, faith-based, social justice, and education organizations as well as concerned individuals.
Key activities Sierra Club has engaged in with the NSCCA include:
- coordinating annual Day of Climate Action activities for Nova Scotia;
- hosting expert panels on topics ranging from UN climate negotiations to impacts of tar sands on downstream communities; and
- encouraging local leaders to support Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act.
For more details on the Nova Scotia Coalition for Climate Action, please go here or contact Gretchen Fitzgerald at (902) 444-3113 or gretchenf@sierraclub.ca.
Sierra Club Atlantic Petition to Ban Fracking to be Presented to NS Legislature
On Thursday, April 5th, at approximately 9 am NDP MLA Gary Burrill will present Sierra Club Canada-Atlantic Chapter’s petition calling for a legislated ban on hydraulic fracturing to the Nova Scotia Legislature.
The petition garnered over 2500 signatures collected in a couple of months and hundreds of these signatures were collected by High School student Chris Dufour.
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Atlantic Leader's Questionnaire
Submitted by Margaret Hoegg on Thu, 2011-04-28 16:34
We asked all the candidates in Atlantic Canada to respond to 7 questions that are of concern to Sierra Club members ... and the responses are now compiled!
We believe we have made some headway in educating candidates on many of these issues, and are very grateful for the time they took to answer us during what is a very grueling and stressful time.
What remains is for them to keep their commitments, once they are elected.
We were disappointed that more candidates did not respond to our questionnaire: two candidates from the Liberals and Conservatives answered our questions. The NDP Party took the time to summarize their responses, and we received individual answers from a total 9 Green and 12 NDP candidates.
Key points of agreement in the answers we received:... Read more »
Sierra Club Atlantic Presentation to New Brunswick Energy Commission
2011-02-17
Presented by Larry Lack On behalf of the Sierra Club of Canada, Atlantic Canada Chapter
to
the New Brunswick Energy Commission
The mandate of the Commission is "to conduct a broad public consultation and report to government on a long-term energy plan. More information on the commission and its mandate is available online."
Our report made the following recommendations:
- conservation should our very first order of business
- New Brunswick should establish a minimum efficiency for biomass projects
- encourage and give priority to cooperative, community controlled utilization of our crown lands and other forests
- create disbursed, well-distributed smaller generating facilities, using diverse power sources including sustainable biomass wood-fired generators and carefully located wind, wave, tidal and solar energy
- create incentives for clean renewable energy sources with a policy known as the Feed-in Tariff (FIT)
- shale gas exploration and development should not be encouraged or permitted in New Brunswick
- rather than planning on or building for energy exports, New Brunwick should gear its economy around energy self sufficiency for our province and for its diverse regions
- a healthy, reliable self-sufficient energy system for New Brunswick should and must include net metering of electricity
For more details on these recommendations, please see the complete document, below.
Presentation to New Brunswick Energy Commission
On behalf of the Sierra Club of Canada, Atlantic Canada Chapter
17 February 2011
Saint John, New Brunswick
Good Afternoon Energy Commission members and Ladies and Gentlemen:
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Nova Scotia: Electro-State
Nova Scotia could soon follow in the footsteps of the Alberta tar sands energy boom. But instead of exporting upgraded bitumen, Nova Scotia – the province with the 4th largest amount of greenhouse gas emissions - would play a rather ironic role: that of renewable energy exporter.
“We’re becoming a sort of an electro-state the same way that you can be a petro-state like Alberta where, you know, very few interests really are the dominant players in the society,” says Neal Livingston. “All this hooey we heard about having to be better [grid]-connected to north-eastern North America, when you think about it now, it’s all about our preparation for export.”
Livingston, a filmmaker with 40 titles under his belt, has been a renewable energy practitioner in Cape Breton for 30 years. He owns the Black River brand of renewable energy companies, the holdings of which include a hydro facility and several industrial scale wind turbines in development. This week he delivered a public presentation to a small crowd gathered at The Hub in Halifax.
Livingston has been trying to sound the alarm on Nova Scotia’s energy policy by calling into question the motivations behind the government’s new Renewable Electricity Plan. The recently released plan requires that, by 2025, 40% of the electricity that Nova Scotia Power sells in a given year must come from renewable energy sources.
Link to source site:
http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/nova-scotia-electro-state/5199 JASON PRIESTLEY JOINS FIGHT TO PROTECT GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE FROM OIL AND GAS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE– November 25, 2010
Nova Scotia– The battle to protect the Gulf of St. Lawrence from oil and gas development received a major boost this week when Canadian-born Hollywood celebrity, Jason Priestley, lent his support to the cause. Priestley donated his time and considerable talents to shooting a short video asking for a moratorium on oil and gas in the Gulf.
“We are thrilled to have Jason Priestley join the battle to protect our Gulf,” says Gretchen Fitzgerald of Sierra Club Canada. “We hope he will draw greater attention to the critical need for action on this issue.”
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