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Peter McCartney

Peter McCartney is a Climate Campaigner for the Wilderness Committee.

Kinder Morgan goes rogue, proving it can’t be trusted

After swimming 1,300 kilometres upstream to their spawning grounds near the headwaters of the Fraser River, Chinook salmon returning to Swift Creek this year found their gravel beds blocked by a...
Peter McCartneyOct 3rd, 2017

PM’s pipeline panel has only made things worse

There’s nothing more disrespectful than pretending to listen.  That’s exactly what the federal government did this summer when they sent their hand-picked panel to listen to communities along...
Peter McCartneyNov 3rd, 2016

Our new climate denial is even more dangerous

Globally, it appears we’ve just been through a record hot April. It followed a record hot March. Which followed a record hot February, after a record hot January, and so on for the last year. Not...
Peter McCartneyMay 11th, 2016