{"id":9092,"date":"2023-01-16T15:06:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T22:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T22:06:48","slug":"event-alert-sue-big-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9092","title":{"rendered":"Event Alert! Sue Big Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

On behalf of the Sustainability Hub at UBC, please see below event for your networks\u00a0????\u00a0You can also engage with our posts on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sue Big Oil: A Made-in-BC Climate Campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thu. Feb. 9, 5-6.30pm PST<\/p>\n

Free in-person and virtual tickets<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/sue-big-oil-a-made-in-bc-climate-campaign-tickets-506858987877<\/a><\/p>\n

In July 2022, Vancouver city councillors voted 6-5 in support of a motion to set aside about $700,000 \u2014 roughly $1 per every Vancouver resident \u2014 to fund litigation against Canada\u2019s biggest producers of oil and gas.<\/p>\n

Join leaders from UBC, West Coast Environmental Law, and Vancouver City Council to find out what this means.<\/p>\n

With law professor\u00a0STEPAN WOOD<\/strong>, activist\u00a0FIONA KOZA<\/strong>, lawyer\u00a0ANDREW GAGE<\/strong>, PhD student\u00a0MANVI BHALLA<\/strong>, and Vancouver City Councillor\u00a0ADRIANE CARR<\/strong>. Moderated by filmmaker and geography professor\u00a0AVI LEWIS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Presented by the Department of Geography Climate Action Committee, Centre for Law and Environment, West Coast Environmental Law and UBC Sustainability Hub.<\/p>\n

This event is part of Climate Emergency week at UBC, which seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC.<\/p>\n

Join our events, workshops and activities during Feb 6-10, and take collective action for justice, people, and our planet.\u00a0https:\/\/sustain.ubc.ca\/cew<\/a><\/p>\n

Natalie Hawryshkewich<\/strong>\u00a0(She, Her, Hers<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Communication and Engagement Specialist
\nSustainability Hub
\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
\nCentre for Interactive Research on Sustainability\u00a02260 West Mall, 2nd Floor\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4
\nPhone 604 827 2606
\nnatalie.haw@ubc.ca<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/sustain.ubc.ca\/hub<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0http:\/\/climateemergency.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The UBC Vancouver campus is situated within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Learn more about our vision for a just and sustainable world, and our 5-year plan to bring it to life.\u00a0<\/em>sustain.ubc.ca\/hub<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On behalf of the Sustainability Hub at UBC, please see below event for your networks\u00a0????\u00a0You can also engage with our posts on\u00a0Facebook,\u00a0Instagram, and\u00a0Twitter. Sue Big Oil: A Made-in-BC Climate Campaign Thu. Feb. 9, 5-6.30pm PST Free in-person and virtual tickets https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/sue-big-oil-a-made-in-bc-climate-campaign-tickets-506858987877 In July 2022, Vancouver city councillors voted 6-5 in support of a motion to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9093,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions\/9093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}