[BNS_members] Share your Voice for Climate Action, July 29th, 11:30am Wolfville

[Emily LeGrand]

Also! There is a sign making opportunity tonight at 7pm at the community
oven on Front St by the Library parking lot. Supplies provided!

Emily

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 1:09 PM Emily LeGrand <emilyalegrand at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hello BNS Board and Members,
>
> I'm sending this message with permission from the BNS Board President
> Soren Bondrup-Nielsen.
>
> Like many of you I imagine, the heat waves and forest fires in the West
> recently have made/re-made climate change devastatingly real for us. So,
> Alan Warner, Alison Stuart, and I and many others are working to get our
> voices heard in a local way in Wolfville tomorrow, Thursday, July 29 as
> part of the Canada on Fire Day of Action through 350.org (
> https://act.350.org/event/on-fire-doa/). *We are meeting at Kody Blois's
> office at 11:30 am (**24 Harbourside Drive near Waterfront Park*). The
> aim is to put climate change on the federal and provincial election agendas
> via meeting outside MP constituency offices with a request to commit to two
> items of climate action:
>
>    1. An immediate moratorium on new fossil fuel approvals and a freeze
>    on all fossil fuel expansion projects under construction -- including the
>    Trans Mountain pipeline.
>    2. Just Transition legislation to support workers and communities,
>    especially Indigenous and remote communities as we move towards a 100%
>    renewable energy future.
>
> We are hoping to have a respectful, informed, short conversation with Kody
> Blois with SO MANY people there. We are inviting our local candidates in
> the provincial election as well for the conversation. We are also hoping
> that some folks will bring musical instruments and share a song that is
> meaningful to the event. We need to show that *climate action is a top
> political concern that requires urgent and consistent action.* It will
> not be long (no more than an hour), but this is an urgent issue!
>
> We sure hope to see you there, and please, please forward this to your
> networks so that it radiates out and it becomes a large and diverse group
> of people.
>
> If you can't attend, but support the message, please consider registering
> your support by emailing our MP Kody Blois at Kody.Blois at parl.gc.ca with
> the message about urgent climate action via the moratorium and the Just
> Transition Act.
>
> If you are not sure about the moratorium, please consider these items:
>
>    - Canada provides almost ten times as much subsidy support to fossil
>    fuel companies per capita than the United States (from this Financial
>    Post article
>    <https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/the-worlds-biggest-governments-are-still-propping-up-fossil-fuels>
>    on which countries are still providing fossil fuel subsidies, from a lens
>    of which countries are still making a poor financial investment)
>    - The International Energy Agency in May this year stated in a drastic
>    position-changing report that all remaining fossil fuels need to stay in
>    the ground for a livable future, which explains the Financial Post
>    article's tone. Read more from Bill McKibben in the New Yorker here
>    <https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-international-energy-agency-issues-a-milestone-statement-about-fossil-fuels?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Climate_051921&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9d24a24c17c6adf3c059a&cndid=48640355&hasha=196d02f60777ac9f26556a45fe3f68c2&hashb=e8023088d5fb26f9d52d63e1e5e0dc33ef94ff32&hashc=97a2d9c780cbed2c3b5a4ec3b636091954e571892d464c8518ca30ab7e7c4d1a&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_ClimateCrisis>
>
> Thank you for considering offering your support!
>
> Emily LeGrand
> BNS Board Member
>
> --
> Emily LeGrand (she/her)
>
> *Book & Document Indexer*
> Emilylegrand.com
> *Nature Educator*
> https://valleyflyingsquirrel.wordpress.com/
> I live and work on unceded Mi'kmaq territory.
>
>
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