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What is Mackenzie WILD?
Deh Cho, the Mackenzie River, is Canada’s wildest big river flowing through globally important forests and tundra teeming with caribou, moose, geese, wolves, and bears. Indigenous People have conserved and stewarded the lands, waters and wildlife of the Mackenzie Valley from time immemorial.
Sierra Club Canada believes that the proposed $16 billion Mackenzie Gas Project brings significant sustainability challenges to the North, for Canada and the planet, harming ecosystems and wildlife and disrupting communities, while creating few permanent jobs in the Northwest Territories.
The Mackenzie WILD program says that oil and gas industrialization is not the only option for the North.
Mackenzie WILD envisages a future for the Mackenzie Valley in which biodiversity and ecological integrity are maintained, sustainable and healthy communities are developed, rights of Indigenous People are respected, and Canada keeps its commitments to protect our climate by upholding our legal responsibilities under the the Kyoto Protocol.
Our Demands:
* Support Canada’s commitments to protect the global atmosphere
* Protect the biodiversity and ecology of the Mackenzie Valley
* Ensure sustainable, healthy Mackenzie Valley communities
* Respect the rights of Mackenzie Valley Indigenous People
Available evidence is such that none of these objectives will be met if the Mackenzie Gas Project proceeds as proposed, on account of the environmental and social damage that the MGP itself will cause, not to mention the environmental damage caused by oil and gas industrialization of the Mackenzie watershed that the MGP would trigger.
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In war, first disrupt communications …
Submitted by John Bennett on Fri, 2011-10-14 09:51
We got the word last night. The federal government won't be funding the Canadian Environmental Network (CEN) any more. The network consists of 600 groups from coast to coast to coast.
The news came about the same time Heritage Minister James Moore tweeted the announcement of his new War of 1812 iPhone App - part of a $29 million program to celebrate a 200 year old war.
CEN is a coordinating body that doesn't take stands. It just helps environmental organizations network and facilitates communication with the federal government. It’s the very definition of non-partisan. ... Read more »
Decision day for Mackenzie pipeline
The National Energy Board will hand down its ruling Thursday on the $16-billion Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline project.
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Peter Linder with Delta One Capital tells 660News he doubts the pipeline will ever be built. [...]
The executive director of Sierra Club Canada agrees.
John Bennett says thanks to bleak return prospects, it looks like the environmental movement won't have to worry about the impact the development will have on the northern Canada.
Link to source site:
http://www.660news.com/radio/660news/article/158182--decision-day-for-mackenzie-... Sierra Club Canada joins with No Tar Sands Oil Network on letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on her trip to Canada
Sierra Club Canada joined with the No Tar Sands Oil network group on a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chair Edward Markey in preparation for their September 2010 trip to Canada. The letter thanks them for their efforts to transition the United States to a clean energy future. It also highlights the importance of stopping the Keystone XL pipeline so as to stop America's increasing addiction to the world's dirtiest oil... so that a clean, just, energy future can be possible.
Link to source site:
http://dirtyoilsands.org/publications/no_tar_sands_oil_letter_to_house_speaker_n... Governments cool to Mackenzie guidance
Territorial and federal governments have agreed with fewer than a dozen of almost 200 recommendations made by a panel supporting a proposed Mackenzie Arctic pipeline, according to a new report.
The Northwest Territories and Ottawa said Tuesday they agreed with 10 of 115 recommendations made by the joint review panel directly linked with the governments to mitigate social and environmental impacts of the $16.2-billion natural gas project.
The governments rejected outright 28 out of a total 176 recommendations the joint review panel deemed critical to the sustainability of the project.... Read more »
Link to source site:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Governments+cool+Mackenzie+guidance/3047... Mackenzie pipeline report gets red light from feds
The controversy surrounding the regulatory process of the Mackenzie gas pipeline continues after Ottawa rejected most of the recommendations in a report on the socio-environmental impact of the massive project.
After half a decade of work, the government-appointed panel issued 176 recommendations, 115 of which were directed at the federal and Northwest Territories government.
Ottawa has accepted 10, accepted the intent of another 77 and refused to accept the balance of the recommendations aimed at government.
Additional Excerpt:
Environmentalists were furious.
“Years of research, public hearings, studies and community engagement is being thrown in the wind,” said Sheila Muxlow, the Sierra Club’s director for the Prairies.
“This is an insult to the effort and expertise that went into the joint review panel over the past five years.”
Link to source site:
http://www.calgarysun.com/money/2010/05/19/14001516.html 
