Showing posts with label mining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mining. Show all posts

Friday, June 27, 2025

The Time Is Now – Kill These Bills. Respect Indigenous Rights

 ⚠️ The Time Is Now – Kill These Bills. Respect Indigenous Rights. 馃

June 27, 2025 – Tkaronto | Unceded Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Wendat Lands

"They treat us like we don’t matter. But we do. We always have."

Idle No More Toronto, Idle No More Ontario, and grassroots Indigenous communities have issued an urgent Call to Action. Our Treaty and constitutional rights are being bulldozed by a wave of provincial and federal legislation aimed at fast-tracking resource extraction while ignoring the inherent rights of First Peoples.

馃敟 These Bills Must Be Repealed:

  • Ontario Bill 5
  • Nova Scotia Bill 6
  • Quebec Bill 97
  • Alberta Bill 54
  • British Columbia Bills 14 & 15
  • Federal Bills C-5 and C-2

These laws are not neutral. Behind slogans like “Elbows Up” lies a Trojan horse—a plan to turn Canada into a global energy and mining superpower at the cost of Indigenous lands, water, culture, and sovereignty.


✊ Youth Are Standing Up — Will You?

Our youth are leading the charge, and they are no longer asking for change—they are demanding it.

“I’m worried someone’s going to get hurt. But I don’t want anything to pass through our lands without our consent.”
– Lashaunda Waswa, Neskantaga Council

We support the Here We Stand youth-led campaign and all the Elders, land protectors, and water defenders taking peaceful, determined action near Queen’s Park and across the country.


馃棑️ JULY 1, 2025 – RALLY & MARCH in TORONTO

馃搷 Location: Behind Queen’s Park, NW side beside Okiniwak Encampment
馃晳 Time: 2:00 p.m.
馃幆 Purpose: Kill Bill 5 and all similar bills. Protect our future. Reclaim the land.

Come stand with us. Bring your voice. Bring your heart. Bring your resistance.


馃敆 Learn More, Share More:


馃摓 Media Inquiries:

Tori Cress, Idle No More Ontario
馃摫 647-201-9207
馃摟 torianncress@gmail.com


✨ This is about the land. This is about the future. This is about justice.

We were Idle No More in 2012. We are Idle No More Again—louder, stronger, and unstoppable.



Friday, May 30, 2025

The Cost of Climate Inaction

The Cost of Climate Inaction: Living with the Consequences

On May 28th, 2025, the peaceful village of Blatten, Switzerland was buried by a catastrophic glacier collapse. Millions of tons of ice, rock, and debris thundered down the mountainside, blocking the Lonza River and burying 90% of the town. A lake is now forming behind the landslide. One man remains missing.

They had early warning signs. They evacuated. But what if this happened at night? Without warning? Or closer to home?

馃彅️ Could This Happen in Canada?

Yes. And we’re not ready.

This summer, thousands of people will vacation across British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon — hiking, skiing, and exploring glacier-fed valleys and peaks. Most won’t realize they’re walking through areas vulnerable to collapse, landslides, or sudden outburst floods.

Melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and heavy rainfall make our mountain communities increasingly unstable. This isn’t just a Swiss disaster. It’s a warning for every mountain town in Canada.

馃實 It’s Not Just About Whistler

Yes, Whistler is high risk — with heliskiing, luxury condos, and ski resorts sitting below melting glaciers. But this is bigger than Whistler.

  • ⛰️ Banff & Jasper (AB)
  • ⛰️ Golden, Revelstoke, and Nelson (BC)
  • ⛰️ Pemberton, Lillooet, and Bella Coola (BC)
  • ⛰️ Yukon glacier regions

Any of these places could experience a glacier-related disaster — and none have a dedicated national safety plan in place.

馃摙 What We’re Calling For

  • 馃洶️ Real-time monitoring of glaciers and landslide zones across Canada
  • 馃毃 Emergency alert systems for landslides, glacier collapses, and outburst floods
  • 馃馃徑馃懅馃徑 Inclusion of Indigenous Elders and Youth in all climate and hazard planning — their knowledge must be respected
  • 馃彏️ A national Glacier & Mountain Safety Strategy before more lives are lost

⚠️ What You Can Do Right Now

If you live in or near mountain regions — or are visiting this summer — here are steps you can take to help protect your family and community:

  1. Talk to your local government: Ask what plans are in place for glacier collapses, landslides, or debris floods. Demand public awareness campaigns and signage.
  2. Contact your MP and MLA: Tell them you want federal and provincial glacier hazard monitoring and early warning systems.
  3. Share this story: Use your voice. Post this blog, talk to your hiking group, and raise awareness before another tragedy occurs.
  4. Listen to Indigenous communities: They’ve warned about these land shifts for generations. Invite their guidance and elevate their voices in local decisions.
  5. Join or create a local advocacy group: Push for climate adaptation planning that includes tourism zones and backcountry trails.

馃尶 This Is About More Than Tourism

It’s about putting life over luxury, prevention over PR, and honouring the land before it takes more than we can give back.

Tourists may not know. But our governments should.
If they stay silent, they’ll have to answer for the consequences.

⏳ Don’t Wait for a Canadian Blatten

馃摙 Speak now. 馃摗 Prepare now. 馃洃 Protect now.

Written by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita
#ZipolitaSpeaks #ListenToTheLand #CanadianClimateAction #GlacierRiskCanada

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Hope, BC: A Place Worth Protecting

 Hope, BC: A Place Worth Protecting

Hope, British Columbia, has always held a special place in my heart. I grew up there, surrounded by its breathtaking landscapes—the turbulent, muddy Fraser River carving its way through the valley and the striking blue-green waters of the Coquihalla. It’s a pristine place, a gateway to the wilderness, but now it faces yet another threat: a proposed gravel pit expansion that could scar the land forever.

My Deep Roots in Hope

My great-great-grandfather, John Enos (Joao Ignacio d'Almada), nearly drowned on a raft during the Gold Rush, trying to navigate the mighty Fraser. My parents owned a small resort nine miles north of Hope until my father passed, and my mother moved us away. But even as life took me elsewhere, Hope always called me back.

During the early days of COVID, I returned and spent two months there, alone, riding my bike through its quiet streets, rediscovering the beauty I had always cherished. It felt untouched, sacred—until I noticed the changes.

The Changing Face of Hope

Housing was nearly impossible to find. Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX) workers had rented out motels and homes, driving prices sky-high. A darkness seemed to hang over the town—not just from the environmental strain but from something deeper. Women had gone missing, and during my stay, search efforts uncovered a murder victim. The energy felt unsettling. I ultimately left because I no longer felt safe.

Now, on top of all this, they want to expand a gravel pit?

Why We Need to Fight Back

The proposed expansion of the Hope Ready Mix Ltd. gravel pit on Kettle Valley Road would devastate the environment and the community. The plan includes:

  • Expanding the mining area to 50 hectares, affecting already fragile ecosystems.
  • Increased truck traffic, bringing dust, noise, and safety concerns.
  • A threat to tourism, which thrives on Hope’s stunning landscapes and outdoor appeal.

The Community Speaks

A town hall meeting was held, where over 300 residents voiced their concerns, yet representatives from the Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals failed to show up. If they won’t listen, we have to make them.

A petition, Stop the Hope Cemetery Pit Expansion, is already gathering signatures. But we need more voices.

What You Can Do

  1. Sign the Petition – Stop the Hope Cemetery Pit Expansion
  2. Email Decision Makers – Tell them this project is NOT welcome in Hope.
  3. Share This Story – The more people who know, the louder our voices become.

Hope Deserves Better

I understand the fear of speaking out. I’ve seen too many cases where corporations push through their plans, ignoring the voices of the people. But I also know that silence guarantees defeat. With so many fires, floods, and environmental crises happening around us, we cannot afford to let this happen.

Hope, BC, is more than just a town—it’s a place of history, natural beauty, and community. Let’s fight for it before it’s too late.

Are you with me?

Remember you can also

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Friday, May 26, 2017

What if the Mount Polley Disaster happened to Stanley Park?

My friend from San Francisco visited last week and he just loved Vancouver. He  thought it was paradise. So clean and pretty..so GREEN!

We are blessed. I haven't actually ridden around  STANLEY PARK  yet this year...need to get my bike fixed but I do love it there. As well as the millions of others that have visited.

Now for a second, let's think the UNIMAGINABLE!
That someone poured TOXIC SOUP all over our precious gem.
What would happen? OUTRAGE right?




So that already happened for real.
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/08/call-out-to-indigenous-people.html 

It is called the MT. POLLEY DISASTER as YET nothing is happening. People are too busy with their own lives and because it's out of sight out of mind, we don't think about it and of course it is so HORRIBLE we don't want to think about.

This is reality folks. This could REALLY HAPPEN TO YOUR HOME!! 

How would you feel?


 How would you feel? Think, how would you feel if this happened to your home and no one did anything, ....no one listened...the government and the politicians and police....the law...did nothing...

Because that is how corporations works. They are protected by the government, by corrupt greedy politicians and CEO and they force the police to protect them because of laws invented and put forth by the corporations. The best example of this is what happened at Clayoquot Sound. You must watch this video to UNDERSTAND the true SCOPE of the warped laws that have been created by the corporations and carried out by the law. IT IS SO WRONG. It makes the good guys bad and the bad guys good. THIS MUST CHANGE if there is any hope for our children and children's children.



WHAT KIND OF LIFE DO YOU WANT?




This is how high the TOXIC MUD was when it came through. NOW imagine this was our beloved STANLEY PARK, what would you do? what wouldn't you do.

REALITY CHECK FOLKS. Why is STANLEY PARK more important that this paradise lost?
(printscreen from video below)





So I get it, there's a bunch of old dudes with lots of money and they think they are entitled to everything because sadly that was the bs that they have been fed, taught and raised with. They are the old unenlightened ones...but it is time for them to move on...they will die off soon but their evil toxic legacy will live on for centuries...millenium because you CAN NOT CLEAN THIS UP!!!


The damage done to MOTHER EARTH  in the last 200 years is EPIC in scale to a meteor destroying the dinosaurs.

Soon we will be the dinosaurs.

Think about that ....think long and hard...because it's the truth. UNLESS we change our ways...


Related Links:
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/10/kiss-super-natural-british-columbia.html 
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2017/05/greeeen-eeen-eeen-green-green-green.html

Friday, June 24, 2016

Nochixtl谩n, Oaxaca, Chiapas- is it really about oil and gas and mining?

 Translated with Google from here http://desinformemonos.org.mx/mineria-el-fondo-de-la-masacre-de-oaxaca/ 
The slaughter of Nochixtl谩n, Oaxaca where 11 people were killed, more than a hundred were wounded and 18 were taken from a funeral to be presented as arrested by the Federal Police, not only shows the serious democratic setback that lives Mexico, where a demonstration civil responds with the use of firearms heavy gauge despite being banned to discourage any social protest in international protocols.

They also show the inability of Education Secretary Aurelio Nu帽o, to engage in dialogue and make educational reform that includes actors teaching-learning process fully in promoting education in Mexico.

But Beyond releasing a communication channel, what are the underlying reasons for the Mexican government will act in this way? What hidden and open interests are expressed behind this slaughter? Why the savaging of federal police against the people of Nochixtl谩n ?, because this place ?. Let us try to approach an answer.

Pe帽a Nieto's government made a series of constitutional amendments with its structural reforms that are to enable the dispossession of land in rural and indigenous areas of Mexico. Unlike the reform of the 90 foreign capital can now fully invest and through national hydrocarbons law to establish schemes are bonded -so definen- where farmers can receive an income only for oil exploration, gas and minerals. It is defined in this regard as priority use energy and mineral food under production or livestock. This reform has progressed strongly in northern states of the country and particularly in Veracruz. Dispossession and effects on health by mining and fracking (exploitation of oil and gas through the fracture of the earth with high pressure water) already live and be felt in many regions of Mexico.

But it is in the southern states and southeastern Mexico, where agrarian tradition is more strongly where capital faces resistance and resolute opposition to their interests. Coincidentally 1. June a few days before the repression in Oaxaca Decree of Special Economic Zones through which spaces for transnational capital (ECT) that would allow them to build infrastructure enclave necessary for the exploitation and export of mineral resources are built was given, energy (such as wind power already installed in the Oaxacan isthmus) and biofuels that have relevantly these areas.

Therefore, what takes place in the state of Oaxaca is the process of breaking down social and community fabric through violence (siege common) would allow the use and full provision of these areas to the dynamics of accumulation by dispossession they have foreign mining companies and domestic and foreign capital were auctioned in rounds 1 and zero last year.

This is serious, if we look at a map can think that this process of erosion and violence of the ordinary, start strongly in the state of Michoacan with full control of drug trafficking in many territories (remember the Michoacan family and massacres of Apatzingan and Tanhuato) under tackles Guerrero Iguala where the slaughter of students showed Ayotzinapa alliances of political power with drug trafficking and mining gold mining in the region. And now comes to Oaxaca precipitously with this news goes around the world. This trend towards the south makes us the question: After Oaxaca, follows a new slaughter in Chiapas then? At bottom this logic Shock -retomando to Naomi Klein looking deterritorialise these spaces, that is, that people leave their other productive and campesindia rationality logic (Bartra) to fully impose their status as employees and agricultural subordination to the needs of transnational financial capital.

The head of the federal police and ultimately responsible for the slaughter of Oaxaca, Enrique Galindo, short and a long list of violent evictions and extrajudicial executions. He led the eviction of teachers socket Mexico City in 2013 with several beaten and gassed. On 20 November 2014 the expulsion of the socket also led the big demonstration that the parents of the missing students Ayotzinapa. Under his leadership the elimination of self-defense in Apatzingan Michoacan, leave 16 dead in January 2015 and Tanhuato were killed 43 people accused of drug traffickers.

Therefore, you can not say that Galindo has no experience in the subject. It was something coldly calculated what happened in Oaxaca on Sunday, which was not anticipated that would film activating firearms, which still denied to date.

Nochixtl谩n, Oaxaca according to studies by the Ministry of Economy government EPN has a mining potential dating from the colonial era to the case of gold and silver mines of El Dorado and La Soledad and since the middle of last century for Manganese . It has five areas of minerals that are Huaclilla-El Parian, Buenavista, Jaltepec, Jalpetongo and La Joya. It maintains one of the highest averages of ore per ton obtaining in that territory and there is a potential for exploitation of gas. And it is area link between mining areas of the Oaxacan Mixteca where private companies like AHMSA Northern Minerals group have begun exploitation of iron ore, affecting the rights of indigenous peoples.

According to information from the Secretariat of Energy of the federal government more than 15 percent of the Oaxacan territory -more than one million hectares is already leased to mining companies for exploration and exploitation. Among these they include foreign and Mexican companies such as Golden Trump Resources SA de C.V., Linear Gold Corp, Arco Resources Corp., Zalamera, S.A. de C.V. Chesapeake Gold Corp subsidiary, Portland Cement Cruz Azul, SCL, Fortuna Silver-Continuum Resources, Compania Minera del Norte, Aurea Mining Inc., Linear Metals Corp, Radius Gold, Silver Mining Company Real, Newcoast Silver Mines LTD, Aura Silver Resources Inc- Intrepid Mines Ltd.

Already in February this year residents of 48 communities and representatives of 30 organizations demanded the cancellation of 400 concessions and 35 mining projects in indigenous areas of Oaxaca, civil organizations such as EDUCA, Legal Tequio, Union of Organizations of the Sierra Ju谩rez of Oaxaca and Service the Mixe, among others, supported this statement.

Criminalizing and kill members of organizations like the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations (FIOB), the Council for the Defense of People's Rights (CODEP), the Popular Revolutionary Front (FPR) or the Commune of Oaxaca, among other organizations only has the aim of terrorizing the state and to fully carry out mining activities with its consequent effects on life and indigenous culture, the environment, health and social relationships.

The strategy in the sense of territorial division is something they have done political parties, but in this particular fight the teachers have had to face, and unite the people of the different regions of Oaxaca, Chiapas and Guerrero, where fighting not it is strictly for educational claims but moved already to the defense of the territory, life and ecology. Perhaps that is what detected the federal forces in Oaxaca and wanted to give this coup that would break those social and community self ties.


Read more here.(In Spanish)

La masacre de Nochixtl谩n, Oaxaca donde 11 personas perdieron la vida, m谩s de cien quedaron heridas y 18 fueron sacadas de un funeral para ser presentadas como detenidas por la Polic铆a Federal, no s贸lo muestra el grave retroceso democr谩tico que vive M茅xico, donde a una manifestaci贸n civil se responde con el uso de armas de fuego de calibre pesado pese a estar prohibidas para disuadir cualquier protesta social en los protocolos internacionales.

Tambi茅n muestran la incapacidad del secretario de Educaci贸n, Aurelio Nu帽o, para entablar un di谩logo y realizar una reforma educativa que incluya a los actores del proceso de ense帽anza-aprendizaje plenamente en el impulso de la educaci贸n en M茅xico.


http://desinformemonos.org.mx/mineria-el-fondo-de-la-masacre-de-oaxaca/ 



Related:

Help Oaxaca!!! HUMAN RIGHTS #SOCIALJUSTICE

 http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.ca/2016/06/help-oaxaca-human-rights-socialjustice.html 




After 10 days of highway blockades, shortages of fuel, food, medications and cash are becoming evident in Oaxaca, where the economic costs of protests by teachers and allied organizations are now estimated to total 2.7 billion pesos, or US $148 million.

There were 18 blockades reported to be in place two days ago.

Today, despite talks between teachers and the federal government in Mexico City last night, there are three more.


21 highway blockades today in Oaxaca 
Food, fuel shortages reported as teacher protests continue -
 http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/21-highway-blockades-today-in-oaxaca/


Sunday, February 21, 2016

Part 8 - Stephen Harper Protest Songs

Together we can make great changes in Canada! We have done so much!

We got rid of Stephen but we have a lot of work to do!

Let's Unite and Make Canada the country we know it can be.
Write a song, make a video, book, painting but do something to make your voice heard!!


http://savemycoast.blogspot.ca/














Friday, February 5, 2016

The truth is it's in everyones backyard...

Opinions, wow, they can bring out such strong emotions.  I find many people do not care because it's not in their backyard....but if it was, it'd be a whole new ballgame.

The truth is it's in everyone's backyard...

It's sad because it can pit neighbour against neighbour, families against each other. I pray for peace and calm and rational thought. It's hard when your are scared, hungry and you life is turning upside down.

We are going to see a lot more of this, as people stand their ground and fight for the homes (clean water, shelter and food) against corruption and big Fossil fuel, LNG, Mining, Fishing, Logging.

The earth is sick, people are sick, people want and need change. It will not be easy.


I saw letter that was shared through FB today and had many disturbing issues and I want to share my opinion and maybe enlighten some of you that could be interested in opening your mind and looking at it from a different angle, just so you can see both sides and then make an informed opinion based on facts and not just on fear or even someone elses fears or someone lies.

Bitumen is a whole new ball game, it's not like old oil, it's basically asphalt they turn into oil that can be made thinner and runny and this is just my definition, read the correct wording below. 

But inform yourself. We all need to work together.


Bitumen has an extremely high viscosity, between 8 to 10 API degrees (at ambient temperatures), rendering it unusable for use in electric power stations.

Bitumen can be modified by mixing it with fresh water and a small amount of phenol-based surfactant. The resulting mixture has properties similar to conventional fuel oil.[citation needed]

A newer version of bitumen-based fuel has replaced the original version with an alcohol-based surfactant, making it easier to transport the fuel and eliminating the health concerns associated with the phenol group of surfactants.[citation needed

The page takes you to asphalt  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt
It is mucher thick and extremely difficult to deal with.

Oil Sands

2) The oil being pumped to the Valdez station was not Bitumen but created a huge disaster anyhow.
 Valdez Disaster happened, that project started in 1951 due to wars and oil shortage fears

Good grief people we are in 2016. 
Everyone woke up in 1962, Silent_Spring the year I was born but somehow they fell back to sleep.

We are waking up again though, we are much wiser, we understand that when you kill mother nature, she will come back and kill you in the form of flood, mudslides, hurricanes, earthquakes(fracking), water pollution (Flint)- thus cancer and death or no drinking water -
drought.
Please Inform Yourself
Listen to what Elizabeth May said

 Watch this!! Please!! Inform yourself! 



And yes the US has been all over putting in pipelines and as a result many lives and countries are suffering from terrible things because of it.

Please review these links below. This is nothing new. As the people of Ecuador what it's like. Would would you like to trade places with them. Do you want to live their life. Why is yours or mine so much more important than theirs.

LOOK WHAT THESE PEOPLE IN ECUADOR HAVE LIVED &; DIED THROUGH

Google Ecuador oil spill photos
https://www.google.ca/search?q=ECUADor+oil+spill+photos&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifiKChiOHKAhUU82MKHQ-QBPUQ_AUICCgC&biw=1366&bih=659



Look through these links, I have been following this since 1995, 
it's terrible how these people suffer

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.mx/2011/05/save-amazon-send-chevron-message.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.mx/2011/04/battle-brews-over-ecuadors-new-drilling.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.mx/2011/02/indigeous-ecuadorian-woman-humbles.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.mx/2012/02/amazon-watch-uwa-leader-bogota-2012.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.mx/2011/03/amazon-watch-keeping-eye-on-amazon.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.mx/2011/02/huaorani-moi-ecotourism-operation-auca.html
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.mx/2011/03/kogi-mamos-message-from-heart-of-world.html

Why can corporations go in and do so much damage and not be held responsible.

Look at Kalamazoo and the Gulf of Mexico,
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/stop-neb-saveourcoast-saveourchildren.html

Canada is by no means innocent, I was so shocked a few years ago to find out the truth about mines and all sorts of destruction going by Canadian corporations all over the world.

IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE!!
https://www.pinterest.com/zipolita/the-changerz/


I don't want live like that, I don't my child live like that and I don't want you live like that. And we have had an oil spill our neighbourhood, (have you?) many actually, many close calls. Have you experienced.

http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20150527/documents/ptec1presentation.pdf

http://civic.neulion.com/cityofvancouver/index.php?clipid=3494218,000


Let us not forget this disaster- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaster

Do you want something like this to happen to your child or grandchildren, dog, cat , anything you actually love. 

Please think it through very carefully. There are other ways, it's time to change. Greener ways. http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/04/burrard-inlet-english-bay-toxic-heavy.html









The rest of the blaming I'm not going to play that game.




I realized a lot has changed in 4 months SINCE that person wrote that letter,  maybe many people still think like this. I hope not, I hope people can open their minds and look at the bigger picture. I know people are hurting. 

I have been hurting for years, and I have seen many people hurting, isn't it time we help everyone and have respect for nature and the earth instead of carving it up and polluting it and just taking what we want and not giving a shit about anyone or anything else. There is too much greed in the world. Let's try and fix that. http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/12/do-not-despair-you-people-have-power.html




This timeless speech from Charlie Chaplin couldn't be more relevant today... Taken from his 1940 movie The Great Dictator, Charlie delivers a hair raising speech that we should all take a moment to think about! The man famous for not speaking, comes up with one of the greatest speeches ever...
Posted by Motograter on Saturday, November 14, 2015

Corruption had made us take wrong path...Tesla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla was heading a different way...what if we had that way. We have other options. We must try. When homes are $1 million, and rents are 3/4 of check, and food prices are going higher by the minute, cities will implode and it doesn't matter how much oil they have.  

There are big problems with the whole oil industry, with the mining, logging,  fishing, farming where ever you are destroying the earth and not respecting it. 

Climate Change disasters are real and they caused by pollution and everything that comes when you destroy environments. 

Who suffered last summer when we couldn't go outside because the Forest Fire smoke was so bad. This will continue. 

What about my friends and family in Mexico, whose beach, just gets eaten away when huge storms come in and lives and homes are lost when huge hurricanes come http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.ca/2015/11/terrifying-footage-of-hurricane.html



What about the Marshall Islands, you want to go live there, raise your children there? The islands are literally disappearing. 
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/12/marshall-islands-i-hear-you.html  

We can not do things on a mass scale, maybe for a while but as we all know, nothing last for ever....or does it???




I can't let you go off with all this depressing info. We can change. Change is happening. I hear more people getting enlightened everyday. We have to work together, it's the only way....think smaller, local, community, neighbour, treat others as you wish to be treated...that's a really a biggy, try it...


Friday, December 18, 2015

CLEAN UP YOUR MESS VALE!!

A general view of where a dam burst in the Brazilian village of Bento Rodrigues in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, Nov. 6, 2015.  Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images



Published on Dec 9, 2015
On 4th Dec 2015, the world's biggest ore producer, Vale, held a shareholders' meeting and press conference at the Mayfair Hotel, London.

A month earlier, on 5th November, two tailings dams burst in the state of Minas Gerais in the south-east of Brazil. The dams were managed by Samarco, a joint venture between Vale, and the Anglo-Australian mining giant, BHP Billiton.

An environmental disaster was unleashed as 60 million cubic metres of toxic slurry flattened five settlements and filled the River Doce floodplain. Twenty three people were killed, 600 displaced, and a quarter of a million left without clean water.

The dirty mud has since travelled 500km to the ocean, and despite assurances from Vale, the UN have backed up local studies that show the effluent is high in toxic metals including arsenic.

This is the fifth accident in two years in the area, and Vale (given the 'Nobel Prize of Shame' in 2012) had ignored prior warnings about tremors and the structural integrity of their dams.

Protesters gathered outside the Mayfair hotel and gave Vale a demonstration of mud contamination and a clean-up, as Brazilian performance artist, Tiago Gambogi, was joined by independent activists, supported by members of London Mining Network, and BP or not BP.







Related Link
http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/when-will-we-stop-destroying-our-mother.html

Monday, November 16, 2015

When Will We Stop Destroying Our Mother-#BRAZILIANFUKUSHIMA

Rescue teams in southern Brazil raced to save victims and determine casualties Friday morning, hours after a dam burst at a mining waste site owned by two of the world’s largest mining companies, Vale and BHP Billiton Ltd.



#brazilianfukushima #miningkills to help: riodoce.help
Posted by Leonel Zozoia莽a on Monday, November 16, 2015
#SOSRIODULCE #MININGKILLS #VALEMATA #BHPKILLS #BRAZILIANFUKUSHIMA

http://www.ibtimes.com/brazil-dam-break-disaster-photos-toxic-red-mud-buries-village-mariana-minas-gerais-2172880

A general view where a dam burst in the village of Bento Rodrigues in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2015. Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images

The collapsed dam in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, unleashed a surge of thick, red toxic mud that devastated the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues.


A general view of where a dam burst in the Brazilian village of Bento Rodrigues in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, Nov. 6, 2015.  Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images

 Reports of the death toll and injuries from the disaster, which occurred Thursday afternoon, varied greatly. A spokesman for firefighters in the rescue confirmed with Reuters 30 injuries and at least two deaths, but said the count was likely to rise as more mudslides were possible and rescue efforts continue. 

Mariana fire chief Adao Severino Junior told AFP news agency more than 50 were injured in southeastern Minas Gerais state and at least 17 people died. Several people were also reported missing. Read more here
Rescue workers drive on a road blocked with mud after a dam owned by Vale and BHP Billiton Ltd. burst in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2015.  Reuters/Ricardo Moraes
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Friday, September 25, 2015

Do NOT mine your MOTHER!!

NO PIPELINES!! NO TARSANDS! NO NEB!
RESPECT YOUR MOTHER!!



From the video
First Nations vow to protect lands and waters stating no consent means no pipelines.

Montreal — First Nations women and supporters sent a clear message to TransCanada this Wednesday evening that the Energy East pipeline is not welcome through First Nations lands.


“What we want TransCanada to understand is that no means no. This is Kanien’ke, this is Mohawk Land and we are tired of occupation, we are tired of environmental disaster.” said Lickers at Wednesday night’s hearing. “This is our land and we are going to protect it.”

Amanda Lickers and Vanessa Gray were 2 of several First Nations opponents to the Energy East present to express their outrage at the public hearings hosted by the Communaut茅 m茅tropolitaine de Montr茅al.

The purpose of the hearings is to establish a community report to submit to Office of Public Hearings on the Environment (BAPE) and the National Energy Board (NEB).

“But the consultation process does not work”, states Lickers, whose family is from Six Nations of the Grand River, “the NEB hearings for Line 9 were clear as day - between technical and engineering data to basic violations of treaty and territory agreements, Enbridge should have been denied their application but instead they were rubber stamped.”

“TransCanada's Energy East pipeline threatens the chance of a sustainable future.” says Vanessa, co-founder of Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia Against Pipelines. “TransCanada has already proven to be a dangerous company for Indigenous peoples protecting their territory. Taking back our inherited right to live with the land means we must defend the land and water at any cost.”

After Lickers and Gray took the stage with a banner, the room erupted in chants from supporters, “No consent, no pipelines” and “No tar sands on stolen native lands” as dozens of supporters shut down the hearings in support of First Nations.

The process for public consultation excludes First Nations interests by relying on Crown policy for assessing environmental impacts. “Energy East itself actually violates the Haudenosaunee constitution - the Great Law of Peace - as it jeopardizes future generations access to clean, drinkable water, while expanding the environmental destruction of the tar sands at ground zero in Athabasca.”

But it isn’t just tar sands mining and pipeline transport that those opposing the pipeline development are concerned about. TransCanada requires super tanker transport and new marine terminals to be built for the Energy East, which puts the entire St. Lawrence waterway at risk of bitumen spills as well as threatening delicate Beluga habitat.

First Nations women and supporters sent a clear message to TransCanada