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‘Get lined up’: Alberta gas producer’s demise leaves long list of creditors and costly messes
‘Get lined up’: Alberta gas producer’s demise leaves long list of creditors and costly messes Who will have to pay to clean up after Lexin Resources? Maureen and Wendell Strong have two former Lexin Resources natural gas wells on their land near Nanton, Alta. The province’s energy regulator shut down the struggling company back in […]
Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America’s Door
Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America’s Door Pair of new studies show how American climate refugees will ‘reshape’ population landscape of the nation The Chelan Butte fire encroaches on homes in coastal Washington state. (Photo: Ben Brooks/cc/flickr) Americans in many cases have been slow to acknowledge the real threats posed by […]
Climate change causes glacial river in Yukon to change direction
Climate change causes glacial river in Yukon to change direction Glacier retreated so much that its meltwater switched course, in an event not documented in modern times Geoscientist Dan Shugar gazes out over exposed sediments and dust storms at Kluane Lake in the Yukon in the summer of 2016. Covered in water just months before, […]
Blowout Week 172
Blowout Week 172 In this week’s Blowout we return to Brexit and its impacts. It is now reported that following Brexit the UK will “scale down its concern over climate change” and scrap the EU’s 15%-of-total-energy-from-renewables-by-2020 target. Can outright repeal of the 2008 Climate Change Act be far behind? Telegraph: Britain preparing to scrap EU […]
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit
How a Judge Scrapped Pennsylvania Families’ $4.24M Water Pollution Verdict in Gas Drilling Lawsuit For many residents of Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, it’s been nearly a decade since their lives were turned upside down by the arrival of Cabot Oil and Gas, a company whose Marcellus Shale hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) wells were plagued by a […]
Climate Change Has Already Had a Negative Impact on Animals on Every Continent
CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ALREADY HAD A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON ANIMALS ON EVERY CONTINENT A new study has revealed that we have underestimated the impact climate change has had on endangered species around the world. These effects have been particularly traumatic for mammals and birds on the endangered species list – even species included on the […]
Communications breakdown: Can we even talk about our environmental and energy problems?
Communications breakdown: Can we even talk about our environmental and energy problems? Conversations that seek genuine understanding by all sides ultimately require a common frame of reference. If we aren’t talking about the same things, how can we understand one another? We usually refer to this as talking past one another. Sometimes this happens because […]
Droughts, floods from weird jet stream linked to Arctic heat
Droughts, floods from weird jet stream linked to Arctic heat Something strange is going on, with more incidences of unprecedented heat waves, droughts and flooding happening in recent years, and based on the latest research, it’s looking more and more like climate change is to blame. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on […]
Did The EPA Just Go Rogue Again
Did The EPA Just Go Rogue Again In late January, days after Donald Trump became president, various government workers employed by the EPA “defied” the president with what at the time appeared to be rogue twitter accounts emerging from the environemntal agency, most notably the Badlands National Park which slammed Trump’s climate change proposal. “Today, […]
Water Wars Coming To California? Is The Drought Really Over?
Water Wars Coming To California? Is The Drought Really Over? Authored by Capt. William E. Simpson II – USMM Ret., In California, the poor growth and development policies that have resulted from a lack of vision have led-to and are continuing to lead Californians down a path of unsustainable growth and a widening gap between the […]
50 Million Americans Brace For Major Blizzard In US Northeast
50 Million Americans Brace For Major Blizzard In US Northeast A major Nor’easter threatens to shut down travel due to heavy snow and strong winds from Washington, D.C., to New York City and Boston early this week, as weather forecasters on Sunday put the U.S. East Coast on a blizzard watch, warning some 50 million […]
Faulty Logic Fuels Fossil Fools
Faulty Logic Fuels Fossil Fools Apparently, fossil fuel companies protect watersheds and rivers by removing oil. That’s according to comments on the David Suzuki Foundation Facebook page and elsewhere, including this: “The amount of contamination occuring [sic] from extraction is far less than if we just left the oil there to continue polluting the waterways.” […]
Could Artificial Earthquakes Trigger Disaster? Oklahoma’s Risk “Now Equal to That of San Francisco”
Could Artificial Earthquakes Trigger Disaster? Oklahoma’s Risk “Now Equal to That of San Francisco” While Oklahoma has had a handful of notable earthquakes over the past century, it was essentially never an earthquake state. And rightfully so, given that the USGS and other officials, up until quite recently, ranked Oklahoma’s earthquake hazard level at the […]
California Floods To Trigger “The Big One”? – Geologists Warn Of Quake Risks From Snowpack, Rising Reservoirs
California Floods To Trigger “The Big One”? – Geologists Warn Of Quake Risks From Snowpack, Rising Reservoirs For years geologists have warned that Southern California is overdue for “The Big One”, a massive 8.0 or greater earthquake that would undoubtedly cause unprecedented death and destruction in several heavily populated urban centers sprinkled along the San […]
Study Finds Connection Between Living Near Oil and Gas Development and Childhood Leukaemia
Study Finds Connection Between Living Near Oil and Gas Development and Childhood Leukaemia With the rise of new technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling, oil and gas development in the United States has exploded over the past 15 years. As development expands, it’s also pushing ever closer into areas where people live. It’s been estimated […]
