Enbridge and TC Energy implicated in attempts to pervert democracy
Enbridge and TC Energy are among the top 10 companies that lobbied most for anti-protest bills since 2017, along with ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and Marathon Petroleum. According to a report by Greenpeace USA, Dollars vs. Democracy 2023: Inside the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Playbook to Suppress Protest and Dissent in the United States, nine of the […]
Hamilton Airport 20-year plan misses the boat on climate
Hamilton 350 Committee steering committee member Don McLean spoke at the October 6 meeting of the city’s Airport Committee. The agenda subject matter was a 20 year master plan proposed by the airport’s private operators of the city-owned airport. Among the issues raised by Mr McLean was the very limited attention to climate change in […]
Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections
Science, one of the most authoritative journals in the world, published an article in January 2023 providing solid evidence that Exxon Mobile and other fossil fuel corporations had clear knowledge of the harm they were causing. Their modelling was excellent. They knew all along that they were largely responsible for global warming yet they buried the […]
Letter of Support for the MacDivest Hunger Strike
The Hamilton 350 Committee, a 14-year-old volunteer climate action organization, supports the students of MacDivest and applauds their personal sacrifice in launching a hunger strike at McMaster University on March 20. That said, we also wish to express our concern for the health of those involved in the hunger strike. The students are justly opposing […]
Doug Ford promises to pay for carbon-emitting electricity — even after it’s banned
Doug Ford is operating at the height of hypocrisy. He claims his efforts to encourage the mining of cobalt, lithium, manganese, nickel, graphite, and copper, in the “Ring of Fire” in northern Ontario’s boreal forests will help our climate. These elements are used to produce batteries to power electric vehicles. Meanwhile, we learn that he […]
Fridays for Future
Fridays for Future is a youth-led and -organized movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted what she was doing on Instagram and […]