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Sarah Korpan

@sarahkorpan.bsky.social
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Person with interests too scattered for a pithy bio. I mostly talk about environmental issues, sometimes for Ecojustice, but opinions are my own

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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It is a reminder that denialism will not be tolerated and signals the collective importance of standing up for what is right and upholding the rights and safety of victims of institutionalized violence." GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/court_reaffi...
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Court Reaffirms Importance of Confronting Residential School Denialism ahead of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So nice to see the BC government picking "confidentiality" for oil and gas companies over transparency on how much those companies pay to profit off our natural resources 🫠 "The NDP government changed the law so that company-specific royalty payments would be shielded from public view" #bcpoli
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BC Changed a Law to Keep Gas Royalties Secret | The Tyee
‘Improved confidentiality’ for oil companies leaves the public without previously available payment data.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 04/09/2026
This kind of report should be accompanied by a press conference—not with some low-level bureaucrat, but with the prime minister. Flanked by all of his ministers. In prime time, with technical briefings. This report says we're facing unimaginable disaster, yet we didn't even get a briefing.
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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The BC Community Bat Program is reminding people it's normal to see a solitary bat roosting out in the open this time of year. They're just resting, be quiet and they'll fly off in the evening. Never handle a bat because there is a risk of rabies. If there's a bat on the ground call 1-855-9BC-BATS.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Eby seems to think it makes him look like a strong, unwavering leader to claim he never blinked or backed down on DRIPA, but it’s gross cowardice to blame the supension on one Indigenous woman in his caucus. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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NDP government to pause DRIPA amendments amid caucus divisions | CBC News
The NDP government is pumping the brakes on its plan to suspend sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, as sources tell CBC News a growing number of NDP MLAs were concerne...
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Now is the time for reconciliation, not unilateral decisions, as the premier has continued to do" Huy’wu’qw Shana Thomas (Laxele’wuts’aat), First Nations Summit Task Group and hereditary Chief of Lyackson
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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip "What we have here today is absolute solidarity on the part of First Nations and our allies who know how critical DRIPA is to the future of reconciliation in BC. It’s the only path forward." at press conference here in Vancouver.
Photo of Grand Chief Stewart Phillip sitting at long table, with Adam olsen on his right. 

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Comments close Monday! Write the EAO today: www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/bc-changes-environmental-assessments #bcpoli #conservation #climate #environment
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B.C. puts forward risky changes for environmental assessments
Founded in 1980 as a registered non-profit society and federal charity, 50,000 supporters, volunteers and activists from coast to coast to coast work together to protect nature, defend wildlife and fight for a stable and healthy climate.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
How successful do y’all think this DST announcement was in distracting folks from DRIPA and the universally hated budget?
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/06/2025
Did you know last month was the 25th anniversary of the Walkerton water contamination tragedy? Anyway, sorry, you were saying something about the need to deregulate environmental approvals to "build Canada"..?
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Ellen Pao @ekp.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Build it and they will ... accelerate climate change help steal from unpaid content creators contribute to underpaying labor further line the pockets of our multibillionaire oligarchs
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
These will probably be the types of projects government will tout as the reason for Bill 15. And no, it shouldn’t take 23 years to build a school! No one wants that. But, once again, many of the tools in Bill 15 are not necessary for addressing this issue. It’s still an overreaching bill.
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Nikki Skuce @nikkiskuce.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Great editorial on the importance of enviro regs and risks of Bill 15 vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
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Opinion: B.C.'s environmental laws are key public infrastructure, not mere red tape
Bill 15 is not just about building schools — it's about dismantling environmental safeguards
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
And with that, the NDP secure their reputation as a government prioritizing ego-driven “Abundance” over their own obligations to DRIPA, and can absolutely no longer be called climate leaders.
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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The B.C. gov’t is trying to push Bills 14 & 15 — laws that sideline First Nations rights in the name of “streamlining” development. They undermine Indigenous sovereignty + ignore UNDRIP. 📣 Add your voice via @BCAFN: 👉 www.bcafn.ca/news/alerts/... #StopBill15 #UNDRIP
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Stop Bills 14 and 15! | British Columbia Assembly of First Nations
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Vancouver Sun @vancouversun.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Before a press conference billed by Premier David Eby as the unveiling of B.C.’s future economic direction, First Nations leaders and environmental activists said “the era of trust is over” when it comes to relations with the NDP government. Read more: vancouversun.com/news/bc-firs...
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'A snake oil salesman': B.C. First Nations call out Premier David Eby before unveiling of economic vision
First Nations say "era of trust is over" with the NDP government, while environmental groups worry legislation will be used to fastrack LNG.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Why is the BC NDP's Bill 15 so controversial? @zoeyunker.bsky.social explains the similarity between this "fast-track" legislation and the BC Liberals' similar approach in days of yore (i.e., the early 2000s) #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...
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With Bill 15, the NDP Is Following the BC Liberals' Approach | The Tyee
When the Campbell government passed a similar fast-track law, New Democrats were outraged.
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
More calls for Bill 15 to be withdrawn Reps from Stand.earth, Wilderness Committee, UBCIC and First Nations Summit are at Mungo Martin house "This is so wrong," says Kwakiutl First Nation Hereditary Chief David Knox "Why are you in such a rush?" he asks of the BC government #bcpoli
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Climate Justice Victoria @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Today in #yyj! RALLY at the B.C. LEGISLATURE on in opposition to BILL 15, featuring @adampolsen.bsky.social. BC Legislature 5:30 - 7. Background on Bill 15 from Adam O adampolsen.substack.com/p/invitation... and @ubcic.bsky.social www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_ubcm_ca... #bcpoli
Graphic #KilltheBill Monday 5:30-7 Show up at the Legislature to let Eby's government know we stand with First Nations.
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Andhra Azevedo @andhraaz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Great to stand together against Bill 15 this morning. This bill is a blank cheque for Cabinet to pick and choose which projects avoid rigorous EA and permitting reqts without any clear guardrails to uphold Indigenous rights and governance and ensure environmental protections.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Nonviolent climate activist Zain Haq was deported from Canada on January 26, 2025. Immigration Minister Lena Metledge Diab still has the power to #BringZainHome. Send a letter today: www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/br...
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Bring Zain Home! - Dogwood
Nonviolent climate activist Zain Haq was deported from Canada on January 26, 2025. Immigration Minister Lena Metledge Diab still has the power to #BringZainHome. Send him a letter today.
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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"It is time for the Eby government to action their commitments to reconciliation and uphold their own laws and processes." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_ubcm_ca...
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First Nations Leadership Council & Union of BC Municipalities call for withdrawal of Bill 15
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
⚡️ TODAY - Call your MLA and tell them to KILL BILL 15 ☎️ David Eby's Bill 15 will remove the climate and nature protection safeguards. We cannot let this Bill pass. Take action 👉 WildernessCommittee.org/KillBill15 #bcpoli #bill15
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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“This government is giving a blank cheque to itself,” said @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social lawyer Andhra Azevedo. #bill15 #bcpoli #biodiversity thenarwhal.ca/bc-bill-15-c...
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B.C.’s controversial Bill 15, explained | The Narwhal
Bill 15 would give the B.C. government sweeping powers to fast-track major projects, from mines to highways
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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨 TAKE ACTION: Stop Bill 15 and the BC NDP's power grab 🚨 Bill 15 is a disaster for the climate, Indigenous rights and our democratic rights in B.C. Write in to tell your MLA to reject this disastrous Bill 👇 #bcpoli #stopbill15
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Stop Bill 15: A power grab that could destroy ecosystems
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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
TOMMORROW 🌲 Join Elder Carl Olsen on May 21 for a guided hike at Goldstream River. This is a chance to connect with the land we’re fighting to protect and learn firsthand about the challenges facing this vital ecosystem. #oldgrowth RSVP 👇
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Hike to protect Goldstream Provincial Park
Goldstream Park is at risk from a senseless highway expansion. Lace up your boots and hit the trail with us to learn from Tsartlip Elder Carl Olsen who has been fighting the highway expansion for…
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Gas prices back up near carbon tax prices just in time for the long weekend. The idea that fossil fuel companies weren’t just going to charge what we always paid and pocket what the government used to bring in carbon taxes is one of the slickest scams ever pulled here. #cdnpoli
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Zoë Yunker @zoeyunker.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
BC is pushing through a law to scrap major parts of its environmental assessment for any project it chooses. That could include new mines. In the US and beyond, deregulation is having a moment. Has it arrived in BC? Such a treat working with @amandafollett.bsky.social on this for @thetyee.ca
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Will Cutting Red Tape Make BC Great Again? | The Tyee
The province is facing opposition to legislation that would streamline approval for infrastructure projects.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Great story from @amandafollett.bsky.social and @zoeyunker.bsky.social, and quotes from my brilliant colleague @andhraaz.bsky.social! With Bill 15, the NDP are asking us to trust them with a blank cheque infra bill. But it’s a level of trust they haven’t yet earned. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...
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Will Cutting Red Tape Make BC Great Again? | The Tyee
The province is facing opposition to legislation that would streamline approval for infrastructure projects.
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"David Eby's BC NDP government has claimed reconciliation as their crowning achievement, yet they push this bill forward despite no consultation with First Nations. This is not how a government committed to reconciliation behaves." Wow. #bcpoli tsartlip.com/w%cc%b1-jo%c...
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W̱ JOȽEȽP rejects unilaterally developed Bill 15, Infrastructure Projects Act, 2025
Statement PDF
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 07/05/2025
The First Nations Leadership Council is sounding the alarm on BC’s Bill 15, which could “greatly impact” First Nations title and rights while expediting projects. “We are deeply alarmed by the Province’s continued backsliding on reconciliation.” - Grand Chief Stewart Phillip @ubcic.bsky.social
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FNLC Questions Regressive, Conflated Infrastructure Projects Act; Alarmed by Province’s Backsliding on Reconciliation Efforts
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Eby claiming Bill 15 is what the public wants is actually egregious, given how the bill enables gov to bypass mandatory public comment from the EA process. Evoking the public while simultaneously enabling his gov to eliminate public voices from critical processes is a baffling move.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Bumping this post from a couple months ago — the current manifestation of BC’s power-grabbing villain era was apparent and thinly veiled from the start of this session.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Eby is now calling closure on a bill tabled mere days ago that mirrors the exact same undemocratic power grab he was criticized for with bill 7. The ego of the NDP is growing far beyond their slim majority. ecojustice.ca/news/ecojust...
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Ecojustice raises concerns over Premier Eby’s overreaching new bill
Bill 15: Infrastructure Projects Act is overly broad and dangerously vague, group says VANCOUVER/UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (MUSQUEAM), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (SQUAMISH) AND səlilwətaɬ (TSLEIL-WAUTUTH) TERRITORIES…
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Today’s throne speech was somehow uninspiring, problematic and confusing all at the same time. One thing was clear though: the NDP have shed any explicit intention of environmental leadership.
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A husband and wife are being forcibly torn apart and these soulless ghouls are celebrating. Don’t ever let conservatives fool you with their fake-ass “family values” grift.
A tweet by BC Conservative Party leader John Rustad, celebrating the deportation of a climate activist with “Woohoo! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Brb going into municipal politics with the sole agenda of banning loud, gas-powered leaf blowers.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Crying in da club* again. *the children’s section of a bookstore
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Imagine feeling more intimidated by a child’s drawing depicting the life-threatening crisis your industry created than the crisis itself.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Still relevant a year later 🫠
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
I KEEP FORGETTING ABOUT THIS APP THERE ARE TOO MANY APPS
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
In cases where First Nations said they needed more time or hadn’t responded to proposed old-growth deferrals, the BC government-run corporation responsible for 20% of logging in the province gave the green light to companies looking to cut at-risk old-growth: www.nsnews.com/highlights/o...
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Old-growth logging, road building can proceed in B.C. without First Nation consent, says memo
A May 2023 memo from BC Timber Sales gives direction for logging to proceed in certain old-growth forests where First Nations haven't responded or where road building elsewhere is deemed not economica...
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
This should be obvious, but just as addressing social biases requires adopting an explicit counter bias (anti-whatever the original bias was), governments that claim to want to increase conservation and protect biodiversity need to adopt an explicit pro-conservation stance. 1/4
My coworker Em with a huge, centuries old cedar tree in an old-growth forest, spring 2021.Em with the stump of the same tree, in a clearcut, spring 2022.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
This place sort of feels like a silly little dinner party with a motley crew of guests.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
It’s almost like billionaires aren’t necessarily smart but instead have the resources to recklessly bop around exploiting labour and expertise until their ego literally costs them.
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Sarah Korpan @sarahkorpan.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
I’m sorry but I’m probably still gonna call these tweets by accident.
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