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 ...
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Tertulia in the time of coronavirus: Daniel Tubb on Gabriel García Márquez [video]
Daniel Tubb, one of the Tertulias Fredericton organizers, delivered a tertulia on Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez on June 10. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Workers strike in Belledune over safety position
Almost 300 workers, members of local 7085 of the United Steelworkers (USW), at the Belledune lead and zinc smelter in ...
Outgoing CUPE NB president Daniel Légère praised as “an elevater”
A chapter in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) New Brunswick’s history has closed with Daniel Légère’s end of ...
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
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 ...
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