From Colombia to New Brunswick: What does a just energy transition look like for where “blood coal” is extracted and burned?
With New Brunswick planning to close its Belledune coal plant in 2030 as part of Canada’s transition off coal, advocates ...
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Lido Pimienta raises pandemic relief funds for Indigenous Wayúu affected by the mining of coal destined for New Brunswick
When Toronto-based artist-musician Lido Pimienta performed at a Pitchfork stay-at-home concert this past April, she chose to spotlight Fuerza de ...
How do you wash your hands if you don’t have any water? Emergency aid needed for communities in La Guajira
Editor’s note: NB Power sources coal from the Cerrejón coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia. Read more here. How do ...
Getting off coal: report offers solutions for a “just transition” in NB
A federal joint task force report seriously addresses how coal energy workers in Canadian communities can transition away from coal ...
Challenging NB Power’s use of “blood coal” from Colombia
New Brunswick’s economy has long centered on resource extraction. Timber, mining, and oil and gas, significant contributors to the province’s ...
NB government fights climate change cautiously
Under federal pressure, the government of New Brunswick has introduced climate change legislation. It calls for a threefold reduction in ...
Colombia’s largest indigenous group is dying with media complicity
Editor's note: NB Power sources some of its coal from the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. Earlier this week, on ...
Solidarity groups support demands of Colombian communities displaced for coal [updated]
St. Thomas University Social Work students working with Refugees Welcome Fredericton drew attention to Colombian blood ...
NB Power asked to put conditions on blood coal from Colombia
Fredericton - A Colombian union leader, lawyer and survivor of eight assassination attempts told a crowd gathered on November 24 ...
Colombians pay the price for New Brunswickers’ comfort and complicity
A case of environmental racism in New Brunswick concerns the coal extracted from mines in Colombia that is then exported ...
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