Sierra Club Canada

Sierra Club Canada empowers people to protect, restore and enjoy a healthy and safe planet!

Aug 222012
 

Bill C-38 revoked the Environmental Assessment Act.

from Sierra Club Canada

As a result of the new anti-environment Bill C-38, Sierra Club Canada has been forced to withdraw our application for a judicial review of the decision to allow 1600 tonnes of nuclear waste from Bruce Power Inc. to be shipped through the Great Lakes and on to Sweden without conducting an environmental assessment.

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May 082012
 

Hundreds of sites to go black on June 4 to protest "war on nature and democracy."

from Sierra Club Canada

Dear Ruth,

The federal government's war on nature and democracy means silence is no longer an option for Canadians. So I'm urging you to join with Sierra Club Canada and the country's leading environmental organizations in a national campaign to force the government to restore the environmental protection and democratic participation. The campaign aims to force the Harper government to retreat and restore the environmental protection and democratic participation it recently gutted.

We're calling the campaign "Black Out Speak Out" (or using the Twitter Hashtag #BlackOutSpeakOut).

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