Rebekah Diski | Facts Not in Dispute
Wong was sentenced to 28 days in prison in 2019 for her part in another pipeline protest at the Westridge Marine Terminal, Burnaby. The judge rejected her argument that her actions ‘were motivated by necessity due to climate crisis’
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When pundits, journalists and scientists talk about the climate crisis as the dawn of a new era in history, they plaster over the long-simmering injustices that create climate vulnerability in the first place: poverty, oppression, conflict and colonization.
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For decades, Big Oil companies and the products they sell have generated the majority of all global greenhouse gas emissions and defrauded the public to block climate action, despite knowingthat these actions would lead to lethal and, in their own words, “globally catastrophic” climate consequences. A growing number of legal experts believe these
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