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A video BC Hydro doesn't want you to see...

Everything counts. What you do counts. An incredibly powerful video featuring Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. #NatureNow Video by Tom Mustill / www.grippingfilms.com

Who of you have heard about "The Green New Deal"? Would you like to learn more? Join me TOMORROW @ 1:00pm @ Sooke Community Hall to help us shape the vision for a #GreenNewDeal-- one that cuts global warming pollution, sees the full implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Right to Free Prior and Informed Consent, and the TRC recommendations, creates millions of green jobs, and makes sure no one gets left behind

The NDP came to power with a plan called PowerBC, a comprehensive blueprint for energy projects that would have created jobs all over the province, including in First Nations communities. But BC Hydro has shut down the program that supported development of new renewable energy projects, forcing First Nations like the T’Sou-ke and Tla-o-qui-aht on Vancouver Island to put their detailed plans for wind and run of river projects on hold because BC Hydro won’t buy the electricity. Read on...