No Big Oil Bailout When Canadians Need It More

Oil and gas companies want to use the COVID-19 emergency to receive a $15 Billion bailout – and our tax dollars could be put in their pockets in a matter of days.

This money should to go to workers, families, vulnerable communities – not the companies that will keep us from tackling the climate emergency.

We need to maximize resources for Indigenous communities and those hardest hit by this crisis: our health care workers and scientists, and those providing much-needed services like food systems and community programs for lower income households.

Statement on COVID-19 Emergency Funding Response

Statement on COVID-19 Emergency Funding Response

Halifax, NS (March 20, 2020) - Sierra Club Canada Foundation applauds federal government actions and co-operation to stop the spread of COVID-19.

“We encourage our leaders to prioritize economic support to reduce the impact on workers, Indigenous communities, and enhance health and science sectors right now, not fossil fuel corporations," says Gretchen Fitzgerald, National Programs Director.

Wild Child COVID-19 Response Policy

Sierra Club Canada Foundation Community Care Policy as of March 16, 2020

We will be following all public health, school, and childcare advice regarding COVID-19 in order to do our part to limit the spread of the virus. 

Please note, although we have not been affected so far by the COVID-19, our programswill be cancelled immediatelyif recommended by public health officials or if our staff people or participants' families report COVID-19 symptoms.

HASTY CUTS TO ALBERTA PARKS SYSTEM NEED TO BE REVERSED

For Immediate Release


Edmonton, AB - (March 9, 2020) Sierra Club Canada Foundation is deeply concerned about the degradation of Alberta’s parks and the impacts these changes will have for conservation, wildlife habitat, accessible recreation, and the status of protected areas in Alberta. Sierra Club Canada Foundation recognizes that habitat alteration and elimination poses the single greatest threat to the continued well-being of healthy and diverse wildlife populations. 

Call For An Inquiry Now - La dernière zone humide de Montréal doit être protégée.

-French will follow-

Turns out no developer has EVER had a project rejected by Québec's Minister of Environment. Never. 

This startling fact came to light in provincial court on Feb 14th, during Green Coalition’s injunction proceedings to stop the destruction of the Technoparc wetlands.

Thanks in large part to the work of Technoparc Oiseaux, the significance of this important wetland is now well documented.

Bigger Steps Needed to Ensure No Right Whale Deaths in Canada in 2020

February 27, 2020

OTTAWA - New measures announced today by Canada's Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Bernadette Jordan and Transport Minister Marc Garneau put much needed protections in place in advance of the spring return of North Atlantic right whales in Canada's waters, according to Sierra Club Canada Foundation, but bigger picture thinking is needed to protect the critically endangered species.

Tell The Government To Invest In Our One Earth.

We are facing a climate emergency and a biodiversity crisis.

Canadians are already experiencing floods, fires, ecological disruption and as our planet continues to warm, our collective well-being is deeply under threat.

There is still time to chart a course to a safe future for all - but we won’t be able to stop this crisis without federal investments in climate action and nature conservation and biodiversity protection.

Sierra Club Canada Foundation Statement Of Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en

Sierra Club Canada Foundation Statement Of Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en

Sierra Club Canada Foundation stands in solidarity with peaceful actions taken to support of the legal jurisdiction that the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs’ hold in their traditional and unceded territories, where the Coastal GasLink pipeline is slated for construction without free, prior and informed consent on their lands.

Take Action -- Demand Oil and Gas Moratorium in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

On January 15th, the Old Harry licence in the Gulf of St. Lawrence expired. The licence issued at Old Harry - the sailor’s name for the devil - was issued by the Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board in 2008. We’ve been fighting it ever since, and continue to fight the illegal extension of the lease in court. It never should have been issued in the first place.