3 results for month: 08/2018
Join NCIO for historic Sept march & coal-funding protest
September 2018 is going to loom large in the history of turning back climate change: the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) is coming to San Francisco, a coordinated climate mobilization will erupt in four hundred cities across the planet the weekend before GCAS, and a wide range of climate justice and environmental stewardship events are scheduled throughout the Bay Area.
No Coal in Oakland will be there. We hope you’ll join us as we tell our story; link Oakland’s struggle with others across our region, state, and world; and press our newest strategy in the fight to keep our waterfront from the toxic grasp of coal-behemoth Bowie Resource ...
Oregon courts let Portland ban on fossil fuel infrastructure stand. For now.
In late 2016, the Portland, Oregon City Council unanimously approved two resolutions protecting residents from fossil fuel projects. They banned construction or expansion of infrastructure to transport or store fossil fuels in the city; and they voted to oppose rail projects planned to carry crude oil through the cities of Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. Subsequently, Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) heard an appeal of these actions led by the Columbia Pacific Building Trades Council, Portland Business Alliance and Western States Petroleum Association.
A winding road through Oregon’s appeals process
LUBA ruled in July 2017 ...
Posturing and evasion from Bank of Montreal
Bank Vows Not to Disavow Financing of Coal Terminal
In response to NCIO's letter to Bank of Montreal’s ombudsperson Bindu Dhaliwal, the bank has responded. Sort of. Michael Torrance -- Chief Sustainability Officer and Associate General Counsel for the bank -- wrote to NCIO at length, but failed to substantively address any issue raised by NCIO's letters to Dhaliwal and to bank CEO Darryl White.
By acknowledging that “for confidentiality reasons we will not be discussing particular clients or transactions with third parties,” Mr. Torrance clearly implies that Bank of Montreal is still involved in financing for the proposed Bowie Resource ...