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July 17, 2024

DEADLINE: Banff Centre's Adventure Filmmakers Workshop

This Banff Centre workshop, Oct 25-Nov 3, 2024, provides the opportunity for independent and emerging filmmakers to turn projects into reality, guided by two of the world’s premier adventure filmmakers. Deadline: Jul 17, 2024.

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July 17, 2024

DEADLINE: Banff Centre's Mountain Writers Intensive

The Banff Centre's Mountain Writers Intensive, Oct 23-Nov 12, 2024, offers writers an opportunity to work on mountain, landscape or environmentally themed writing projects, under the guidance of two celebrated faculty. Deadline: Jul 17, 2024.

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US Agrees With Native American Tribe That Line 5 Pipeline Is Trespassing

"The Biden administration straddled the line on a controversial Canadian oil pipeline in a court filing Wednesday, saying a lower court’s order to drain portions running through tribal land may violate a 1977 treaty but agreeing with a Native American tribe that the operator is trespassing on tribal land."

Source: The Hill, 04/11/2024

"A Great Lakes Pipeline Tangles Politics in Two Battleground States"

"Line 5 crosses tribal lands, runs beneath the water and needs major upgrades. Opponents fear spills. Supporters envision jobs. Everyone sees a fight."

Source: NYTimes, 03/28/2024

LNG To Fuel Conflict, Profit, Warming in Coming Years

A partisan debate has flared over liquified natural gas, as industry, environmentalists and politicians wrangle over LNG’s role in climate change and the energy transition, heating and electricity prices, and international and domestic U.S. politics. Backgrounder lays out LNG’s history, starting with the fracking boom and bringing it up to speed with the war in Ukraine and upcoming presidential elections.

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"Canada, U.S. Launch Intl. Inquiry Into Southeast B.C. Mine Pollution"

"Nearly 12 years after Ktunaxa Nation first urged the Canadian and U.S. governments to task an international body with investigating the mine pollution coursing through its territory, the two countries have agreed to a step the nation says is key to addressing contamination from B.C.’s Elk Valley coal mines."

Source: The Narwhal, 03/12/2024

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