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Coastal GasLink Gets Green Light to Start Pipeline Work Near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre
Coastal GasLink Gets Green Light to Start Pipeline Work Near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre BC approves impact studies and calls for consultation with Wet’suwet’en as work proceeds in contested area. The province’s Environmental Assessment Office has granted Coastal GasLink permission to begin pipeline construction near the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre, the scene of a standoff and arrests in February. […]
Isaias Aftermath: 2 Million Still Without Power Across Northeast; At Least 12 Tornados Confirmed
Isaias Aftermath: 2 Million Still Without Power Across Northeast; At Least 12 Tornados Confirmed Tropical Storm Isaias is long gone, but there’s widespread damage along the East Coast and more than 2 million homes in the Northeast without power. According to PowerOutage.US, 2.2 million of the 6.4 million affected electric customers remain without power in the […]
Climate scientists should admit failure and move on – writes Dr Wolfgang Knorr
Climate scientists should admit failure and move on – writes Dr Wolfgang Knorr TIME FOR ACCEPTANCE The climate crisis demands new ways of thinking – scientists should be first to admit failure and move on. A universal policy failureInarguably, one of the most significant and long-lasting legacies of the 50-year old Apollo programme was the life-changing […]
Escape to Mars after we’ve trashed the Earth?
Escape to Mars after we’ve trashed the Earth? The idea that we can go to Mars is touted by NASA, Elon Musk, and so many others that this dream seems just around the corner. If we destroy our planet with climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, aquifer depletion and more, no problem! We can […]
Fort Nelson’s Gas Boom Went Bust. Who’s Going to Clean Up?
Fort Nelson’s Gas Boom Went Bust. Who’s Going to Clean Up? Ottawa has announced money to clean up the oil and gas industry’s old wells and infrastructure, but critics say it’s not enough. In the face of the economic fallout from COVID-19, it’s easy to forget that some communities in British Columbia were in deep […]
Bigger cuts for Manchester – in its annual greenhouse gas emissions
Bigger cuts for Manchester – in its annual greenhouse gas emissions Manchester now needs to make bigger cuts to its annual greenhouse gas emissions: A commentary on Manchester Climate Change Agency’s Annual Report A brief Annual Report for 2020 has been issued by Manchester Climate Change Agency. It is not a long report so we encourage you to read […]
What Kenney Had to Kill to Embrace Coal
What Kenney Had to Kill to Embrace Coal Alberta’s 1976 Coal Policy protected vital drinking water supplies for much of the province. That’s gone now. Under the cover of a pandemic, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney quietly wiped away a near half-century of safeguards against open pit coal mining in most of the province’s Rocky Mountains […]
Lack of Wild Bees Causes Crop Shortage, Could Lead to Food Security Issues
Lack of Wild Bees Causes Crop Shortage, Could Lead to Food Security Issues Bees are responsible for pollinating key crops like apples, and their decline now threatens crop yields. Pikist Without bees, future generations may not be able to identify with adages like, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ Crop yields for key […]
Towards a great forest transition – part 2
Towards a great forest transition – part 2 A fundamental sea-change is required in the global approach to tackling deforestation, and it requires a new focus on engendering institutions of cooperation rather than competition. The ‘boycott palm oil’ approach has become a staple strategy in parts of the global environment movement, especially in the West. […]
Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK?
Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK? The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report written by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason and sent to the UK Environment Agency. It follows her January 2019 open letter […]
What a milk carton can tell us
What a milk carton can tell us On the package of organic milk from Coop (Sweden) I can read the plastic cap is made out of oil. For some reason they can’t use biodegradeable plastic made from renewable sources. Instead they “support the production of the same quantity of renewable plastic somewhere else”. In addition […]
Chain Reaction
CHAIN REACTION Laurie King shares insights from the Shetland Islands. People across the UK have been growing more vegetables this year. Seed producers have reported a large increase in sales since the appearance of Covid-19. This is not only a consequence of people having more time to invest in their gardens and allotments, but also, […]
China’s Massive Three Gorges Dam On Edge Of Failure
China’s Massive Three Gorges Dam On Edge Of Failure The massive flooding taking place in China continues, for some reason, this story has been widely ignored by mainstream media. It is important because China’s massive Three Gorges Dam is in peril. If the dam fails there will be a staggering loss of lives and property. The Three […]
‘Catastrophic Flooding Expected’ – Hanna Hammers Virus-Infected South Texas
‘Catastrophic Flooding Expected’ – Hanna Hammers Virus-Infected South Texas Tropical storm conditions are expected for South Texas and northeastern Mexico on Sunday after Hurricane Hanna roared ashore on Saturday as a Category 1 storm. Hanna was the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season and came ashore on Saturday afternoon around Port Mansfield, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of 90mph. The National […]
