The mission of Fossil Fuel Resistance (FFR) is to oppose the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructures by countering disinformation, raising awareness of the harm that Enbridge is causing in our community, calling out the destructive policies of our provincial government, promoting alternatives to gas appliances, and working with partner organizations towards increasing the production of renewables in Ontario.
In the past, we have coordinated with other organizations to successfully stop an Enbridge pipeline which would have crossed through the Beverly Swamp in rural Hamilton, and are still monitoring the situation.
Getting Off Gas
FFR is the lead action group for the Getting Off Gas campaign. Background information about that campaign can be found here.
In this section, we will provide updates from Fossil Fuel Resistance action group meetings, details of planned events, and news items relating to the campaign.
Recent discussions
The OEB decision
We’re focusing on Doug Ford’s overruling of the OEB’s Enbridge decision. We aim to raise public awareness with a number of street canvassing events, letter writing campaigns, newspaper editorials, and so on.
The fossil fuel hook-up ban
We’re looking to join with groups such as Environmental Defence (ED), Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA), and The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) to have Hamilton pass a municipal ban on fossil fuel hook-ups (even though the Province would strike it down). We also want to promote a conversation about why other jurisdictions, such as Vancouver and Quebec, have been able to do this but Ontario cities can’t.
Other issues
Electric Arc Furnace Dust (EAFD) Recycling Facility
GFL Environmental is proposing to install High Temperature Metal Recovery (HTMR) Electric Arc Furnace Dust (EAFD) recycling technology at its Brant Street facility in Hamilton. The stated purpose is to “receive, store and recycle Ontario waste class 143 (residues from steel making) solid hazardous waste”.
AMD-Enbridge
Work at the Dofasco site is underway. Enbridge’s OEB filing listed a $100 million cost for this “customer-driven” project, to be completed in 2028.
We would like to obtain verification of the emissions reductions claims, possibly via a third-party expert assessment.
Province-wide resistance to Doug Ford
Recent news
Later is Too Late!
About 45 seniors and their supporters, including one on stilts, gathered Tuesday at King Street…
Hamilton City Council today unanimously endorsed a motion supporting the OEB’s rejection of Enbridge’s proposed…
Bill McKibben debunks the fossil fuel industry’s “natural” gas greenwashing arguments
Hailing Biden’s decision to halt LNG export licences, McKibben explains the sleight of hand used…
The NDP’s natural resources critic Charlie Angus tabled a private members bill (C-372) in the…
Over 50 Canadian advertisers and PR agencies have joined a 900-strong global group that has…
What does COP28 have to do with me?
The latest UN Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates (COP28) may seem a…
Enbridge and TC Energy are among the top 10 companies that lobbied most for anti-protest…
Hamilton 350 Committee steering committee member Don McLean spoke at the October 6 meeting of…
Science, one of the most authoritative journals in the world, published an article in January…
The Hamilton 350 Committee, a 14-year-old volunteer climate action organization, supports the students of MacDivest…