Direct Actions / Petitions
Petition - Trudeau: It’s time to end drinking water advisories in First Nations
- 174 advisories - in May 2018, there were 174 drinking water advisories in over 100 First Nations
- 20 years - some of the advisories date back to 1995
- 73% of First Nations water systems are at high or medium risk of contamination
> Sign the petition: Council of Canadians
Petition: Protect Every Lake and Every River
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has begun a major review of our water laws.
Four years ago, the Harper government removed protections from 99% of the lakes and rivers in Canada under the Navigable Waters Protection Act and gutted other important environmental and water laws. This paved the way for industrial projects that could threaten water, leaving it vulnerable to dams, mining, pipelines, logging, fish farms, liquefied fracked gas terminals and more.
> Sign the petition: Council of Canadians
Petition & Pledge: Nestlé and bottled water have to go!
On January 18, the Ontario government announced it would raise the fees that bottled water companies like Nestlé pay to pump out millions of litres of groundwater every day.
The new fee?
One-twentieth of a penny per litre!
This new fee is clearly not going to protect vulnerable groundwater sources from being exploited and wasted as single use, disposable bottled water.
> Read more: Council of Canadians
> Sign: Boycott Nestle pledge
Protect salmon from LNG!
Lelu Island in northern B.C. is home to a delicate salmon estuary. It’s also where Pacific Northwest, led by multinational gas giant Petronas, wants to build a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant.
The plant could cause the collapse of the second-largest salmon run in Canada, as recently seen in a similar situation in Russia. Local Indigenous people would not have access to Lelu Island nor be able to engage in their cultural practices.
The nine allied tribes of Lax Kw'walams, who depend on the salmon, are asserting their right to self-determination and to refuse this project. Hundreds of organizations have signed an open letter, standing with Lax Kw'alaams’ Hereditary Chief Yahaan.
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) recently released its draft environmental assessment of the project. It found the plant would lead to increased climate pollution, but denied any impact on salmon. The CEAA’s findings, however, conflict with peer-reviewed scientific research conducted on behalf of the Lax Kw’walams.
Both Indigenous communities and environmental scientists recognize Lelu Island as a vital ecosystem for sustaining salmon. Young salmon use the area to transition from freshwater to seawater, making Lelu Island one of the worst possible places for industrial development.
Furthermore, LNG terminals – and the fracking required to feed them – are inconsistent with the Trudeau government's commitment in Paris to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
The federal government is inviting public comments on the CEAA’s draft environmental assessment report of this project. Now’s your chance to send a strong message that the Trudeau government must prioritize Indigenous relations, protect the salmon-fishing economy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions!
> Read more & send your message at the Council of Canadians
Birch Bark Canoe Building Project
Hi, my name is Sylvia Plain, I am the founder of the Great Lakes Canoe Journey, a project that envisions bringing together the citizens of the Great Lakes Basin on an annual basis by way of canoes to celebrate our relationship to the waterways, to each other, and to learn about Anishinaabe canoe culture and canoe building.
It is now 2016 and the Great Lakes Canoe Journey is reaching out to ask for your assistance to help us raise funds to build a birch bark canoe, to be able to employ youth to learn how to build a birch bark canoe and to organize a canoe journey this upcoming summer.
> Read more & support the Birch Bark Canoe Building Project
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has begun a major review of our water laws.
Four years ago, the Harper government removed protections from 99% of the lakes and rivers in Canada under the Navigable Waters Protection Act and gutted other important environmental and water laws. This paved the way for industrial projects that could threaten water, leaving it vulnerable to dams, mining, pipelines, logging, fish farms, liquefied fracked gas terminals and more.
> Sign the petition: Council of Canadians
Petition & Pledge: Nestlé and bottled water have to go!
On January 18, the Ontario government announced it would raise the fees that bottled water companies like Nestlé pay to pump out millions of litres of groundwater every day.
The new fee?
One-twentieth of a penny per litre!
This new fee is clearly not going to protect vulnerable groundwater sources from being exploited and wasted as single use, disposable bottled water.
> Read more: Council of Canadians
> Sign: Boycott Nestle pledge
Protect salmon from LNG!
Lelu Island in northern B.C. is home to a delicate salmon estuary. It’s also where Pacific Northwest, led by multinational gas giant Petronas, wants to build a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant.
The plant could cause the collapse of the second-largest salmon run in Canada, as recently seen in a similar situation in Russia. Local Indigenous people would not have access to Lelu Island nor be able to engage in their cultural practices.
The nine allied tribes of Lax Kw'walams, who depend on the salmon, are asserting their right to self-determination and to refuse this project. Hundreds of organizations have signed an open letter, standing with Lax Kw'alaams’ Hereditary Chief Yahaan.
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) recently released its draft environmental assessment of the project. It found the plant would lead to increased climate pollution, but denied any impact on salmon. The CEAA’s findings, however, conflict with peer-reviewed scientific research conducted on behalf of the Lax Kw’walams.
Both Indigenous communities and environmental scientists recognize Lelu Island as a vital ecosystem for sustaining salmon. Young salmon use the area to transition from freshwater to seawater, making Lelu Island one of the worst possible places for industrial development.
Furthermore, LNG terminals – and the fracking required to feed them – are inconsistent with the Trudeau government's commitment in Paris to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
The federal government is inviting public comments on the CEAA’s draft environmental assessment report of this project. Now’s your chance to send a strong message that the Trudeau government must prioritize Indigenous relations, protect the salmon-fishing economy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions!
> Read more & send your message at the Council of Canadians
Birch Bark Canoe Building Project
Hi, my name is Sylvia Plain, I am the founder of the Great Lakes Canoe Journey, a project that envisions bringing together the citizens of the Great Lakes Basin on an annual basis by way of canoes to celebrate our relationship to the waterways, to each other, and to learn about Anishinaabe canoe culture and canoe building.
It is now 2016 and the Great Lakes Canoe Journey is reaching out to ask for your assistance to help us raise funds to build a birch bark canoe, to be able to employ youth to learn how to build a birch bark canoe and to organize a canoe journey this upcoming summer.
> Read more & support the Birch Bark Canoe Building Project