Lisa Oldring
@lisaoldring.bsky.social
PhD researcher uva.nl/law, human rights & ecocide crime. Senior Fellow @uclapromiseeurope. Mountain culture enthusiast. Elbows up! 🇨🇦
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LIVE: Leaders from Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Assembly of First Nations are in Ottawa to call on the federal government to create a plan to manage the toxic tarsands waste to help protect the health and safety of surrounding communities.
Indigenous leaders call on Ottawa to create plan to manage tarsands waste | APTN News
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November 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
LIVE: Leaders from Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Assembly of First Nations are in Ottawa to call on the federal government to create a plan to manage the toxic tarsands waste to help protect the health and safety of surrounding communities.
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Chief Allan Adam of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation gets it exactly right:
"This province works backwards."
Will the Alberta government ever get serious about the massive harms of oil sands on communities, nature and the climate?
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www.theenergymix.com/oil-sands-ta...
"This province works backwards."
Will the Alberta government ever get serious about the massive harms of oil sands on communities, nature and the climate?
@cape-acme.bsky.social
www.theenergymix.com/oil-sands-ta...
Oil Sands Tailings Plan Sparks Indigenous Opposition, Calls for Federal Oversight
As the Alberta government advances a proposal to treat toxic oilsands tailings stored in massive ponds and eventually release the treated water into the Athabasca River, nearby Indigenous nations are ...
www.theenergymix.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Chief Allan Adam of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation gets it exactly right:
"This province works backwards."
Will the Alberta government ever get serious about the massive harms of oil sands on communities, nature and the climate?
@cape-acme.bsky.social
www.theenergymix.com/oil-sands-ta...
"This province works backwards."
Will the Alberta government ever get serious about the massive harms of oil sands on communities, nature and the climate?
@cape-acme.bsky.social
www.theenergymix.com/oil-sands-ta...
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While everyone is distracted by strikes on #Iran, the conflict, #genocide & crisis in #Sudan is escalating, w/'increased use of heavy weaponry in populated areas and a sharp rise in sexual and gender-based violence... hospitals & medical facilities under siege.' #IHL www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Sudan war intensifying with devastating consequences for civilians, UN Fact-Finding Mission says
GENEVA – The civil war in Sudan is intensifying with devastating consequences for countless civilians caught in the conflict, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan warned...
www.ohchr.org
June 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
While everyone is distracted by strikes on #Iran, the conflict, #genocide & crisis in #Sudan is escalating, w/'increased use of heavy weaponry in populated areas and a sharp rise in sexual and gender-based violence... hospitals & medical facilities under siege.' #IHL www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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In our Open Letter to @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP, 412 legal, human rights, diplomatic, international affairs, social justice, civil society, faith & labour leaders & experts make it clear: Canada must act to end genocide in #Gaza. 🧵1/10
Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza — Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along
We write because of the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month, which is broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organ...
www.alexneve.ca
June 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
In our Open Letter to @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP, 412 legal, human rights, diplomatic, international affairs, social justice, civil society, faith & labour leaders & experts make it clear: Canada must act to end genocide in #Gaza. 🧵1/10
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This is what we call a negative feedback loop in scientific circles!
Burn oil, heat planet, burn forests, shut down oil.
Alberta Wildfires Shut Down About 7% of Canada’s Oil Production
Wildfires in Canada’s energy heartland of Alberta have shut down almost 350,000 barrels of daily heavy crude production — about 7% of the country’s output — as a major blaze near the province’s easter...
www.bloomberg.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is what we call a negative feedback loop in scientific circles!
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Horrifying to read this story - the impact of climate change is here and now in Canada. 30,000 people having to leave their homes, a massive impact on remote Indigenous communities, and smoke causing dangerous air quality levels in North America. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Some wildfire evacuees are leaving their First Nation for first time ever, chief says
About 30,000 people have now been told to leave their homes in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Horrifying to read this story - the impact of climate change is here and now in Canada. 30,000 people having to leave their homes, a massive impact on remote Indigenous communities, and smoke causing dangerous air quality levels in North America. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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It just keeps getting worse. With recent reports of Trump planning to send immigrants (including possibly asylum-seekers & refugees) to #Libya & #Rwanda, it’s all the more urgent for #Canada to withdraw from the #SafeThirdCountry Agreement. For context, read my piece in @thestar.com 👇 #cdnpoli
In the last 100 days, the U.S. has rapidly descended towards authoritarianism & proven it is not a “safe third country” for refugees & asylum-seekers. I explain in @thestar.com why #Canada needs to wake up & suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, now.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
After only 100 days, it’s already clear Trump’s America is not to be trusted. This is what Canada must now do
The Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S. is predicated on the U.S. in fact being safe. It no longer is, writes Amanda Ghahremani.
www.thestar.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It just keeps getting worse. With recent reports of Trump planning to send immigrants (including possibly asylum-seekers & refugees) to #Libya & #Rwanda, it’s all the more urgent for #Canada to withdraw from the #SafeThirdCountry Agreement. For context, read my piece in @thestar.com 👇 #cdnpoli
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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
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May 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
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Olmert … saying what is true and must end … war crimes and crimes against humanity.
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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May 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Olmert … saying what is true and must end … war crimes and crimes against humanity.
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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Such an important legal challenge. The obvious course of action would be to scrap the #STCA. At a minimum we need transparency as to how the federal government can possibly consider DT's USA to be a safe country for refugees.
Groups mount legal challenge against Ottawa over refugee treaty with U.S.
The Safe Third Country Agreement is premised on both countries being safe for refugees, but groups say Canada’s oversight of the deal is ‘fundamentally flawed’
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Such an important legal challenge. The obvious course of action would be to scrap the #STCA. At a minimum we need transparency as to how the federal government can possibly consider DT's USA to be a safe country for refugees.
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One year has already passed. It is time to take action now!
The ECD sets minimum standards, but we have the opportunity to go further and implement not just stricter, but better measures, for the sake of people, planet, and future generations.
bit.ly/2pagerECO
#environment #ECD #EU #ecocidelaw
The ECD sets minimum standards, but we have the opportunity to go further and implement not just stricter, but better measures, for the sake of people, planet, and future generations.
bit.ly/2pagerECO
#environment #ECD #EU #ecocidelaw
European Crime Directive - Factsheet Ecocide — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
A Practical Guide for Transposing the ECD’s Qualified Offence EU Directive 2024/1203 on the protection of the environment through criminal law (ECD) came into force on 20 May 2024. It requires all E...
www.promiseeurope.law.ucla.edu
April 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
One year has already passed. It is time to take action now!
The ECD sets minimum standards, but we have the opportunity to go further and implement not just stricter, but better measures, for the sake of people, planet, and future generations.
bit.ly/2pagerECO
#environment #ECD #EU #ecocidelaw
The ECD sets minimum standards, but we have the opportunity to go further and implement not just stricter, but better measures, for the sake of people, planet, and future generations.
bit.ly/2pagerECO
#environment #ECD #EU #ecocidelaw
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Really proud to stand with WashULaw colleagues in defense of the rule of law during a time of profound crisis. sites.google.com/view/washula...
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Really proud to stand with WashULaw colleagues in defense of the rule of law during a time of profound crisis. sites.google.com/view/washula...
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The people of DR Congo deserve attention and protection.
"Most estimates state that over 6m have died, making it the deadliest conflict since WWII. But many of us who live in Congo believe that the real number is much higher. And the world remains largely silent."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...
"Most estimates state that over 6m have died, making it the deadliest conflict since WWII. But many of us who live in Congo believe that the real number is much higher. And the world remains largely silent."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...
Opinion | Congo Is Bleeding. Where Is the Outrage?
This is not the first time the world has overlooked violence in the country.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The people of DR Congo deserve attention and protection.
"Most estimates state that over 6m have died, making it the deadliest conflict since WWII. But many of us who live in Congo believe that the real number is much higher. And the world remains largely silent."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...
"Most estimates state that over 6m have died, making it the deadliest conflict since WWII. But many of us who live in Congo believe that the real number is much higher. And the world remains largely silent."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...
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February 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Ecocide Law Advisory is live! Check it out and read the manual here ecocidelawadvisory.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ecocide Law Advisory is live! Check it out and read the manual here ecocidelawadvisory.com
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Legal tools for a livable planet: Read all about the launch of Ecocide Law Advisory and the new Manual on the National Criminalisation of Ecocide. 🌍📘 bit.ly/ecocidelaw
February 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Legal tools for a livable planet: Read all about the launch of Ecocide Law Advisory and the new Manual on the National Criminalisation of Ecocide. 🌍📘 bit.ly/ecocidelaw
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Brandi Morin in #Ecuador: A Canadian mining giant vs. the guardians of the Amazon.
The first of four parts in a riveting series about the impact of a Canadian mining project on Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, feat stunning photos by Ian Wilms.
ricochet.media/indigenous/b...
#Indigenous #cdnpoli
The first of four parts in a riveting series about the impact of a Canadian mining project on Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, feat stunning photos by Ian Wilms.
ricochet.media/indigenous/b...
#Indigenous #cdnpoli
Brandi Morin in Ecuador: A Canadian mining giant vs. the guardians of the Amazon
Deep in the Ecuador Amazon, a Canadian-owned mining project threatens the way of life of local Indigenous communities.
ricochet.media
February 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Brandi Morin in #Ecuador: A Canadian mining giant vs. the guardians of the Amazon.
The first of four parts in a riveting series about the impact of a Canadian mining project on Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, feat stunning photos by Ian Wilms.
ricochet.media/indigenous/b...
#Indigenous #cdnpoli
The first of four parts in a riveting series about the impact of a Canadian mining project on Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, feat stunning photos by Ian Wilms.
ricochet.media/indigenous/b...
#Indigenous #cdnpoli
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Thank you to UN OHCHR for hosting yesterday's roundtable on ecocide and human rights. Lisa Oldring and Kate Mackintosh shared updates on efforts to amend the Rome Statute to include ecocide. Special thanks to Pedro Arrojo-Agudo for driving this conversation forward.
📸dominikgehl.com #ecocide
📸dominikgehl.com #ecocide
February 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thank you to UN OHCHR for hosting yesterday's roundtable on ecocide and human rights. Lisa Oldring and Kate Mackintosh shared updates on efforts to amend the Rome Statute to include ecocide. Special thanks to Pedro Arrojo-Agudo for driving this conversation forward.
📸dominikgehl.com #ecocide
📸dominikgehl.com #ecocide
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Missing data, wrong numbers and erroneous claims haunt the Alberta Energy Regulator, which is supposed to hold industry to account.
If the AER is asleep at the wheel, what are the implications for the health of people across Alberta?
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www.theenergymix.com/two-spills-p...
If the AER is asleep at the wheel, what are the implications for the health of people across Alberta?
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www.theenergymix.com/two-spills-p...
Two Spills Per Week: Alberta Regulator Lacks Evidence for Oil Sands Cleanup Claims, Study Concludes
A new analysis of a decade's worth of data kept by Alberta’s oil and gas regulator suggests the agency has made unsubstantiated claims about the success of oilsands tailings spills cleanup.
www.theenergymix.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Missing data, wrong numbers and erroneous claims haunt the Alberta Energy Regulator, which is supposed to hold industry to account.
If the AER is asleep at the wheel, what are the implications for the health of people across Alberta?
@cape-acme.bsky.social
www.theenergymix.com/two-spills-p...
If the AER is asleep at the wheel, what are the implications for the health of people across Alberta?
@cape-acme.bsky.social
www.theenergymix.com/two-spills-p...
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Doctors Without Borders: What our medical teams have witnessed is "consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza." www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-...
Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction
Amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
December 19, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Doctors Without Borders: What our medical teams have witnessed is "consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza." www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-...