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Exclusive: Release of Inspection Reports From TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Expose Risk of Future Spills
Exclusive: Release of Inspection Reports From TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Expose Risk of Future Spills The US government agency responsible for interstate pipelines recorded a catalog of problems with the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline and the Cushing Extension, a DeSmog investigation has found. Inspectors at the US Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) observed TransCanada’s […]
Massive Fire Burns At Gateway Town To Alberta’s Oilsands; 30,000 Evacuated
Massive Fire Burns At Gateway Town To Alberta’s Oilsands; 30,000 Evacuated Residents of neighborhoods in the Canadian boomtown of Fort McMurray – considered the gateway to Alberta’s oil sands as the Athabasca oil sands are roughly centered around the town – are under mandatory evacuation as a massive wildfire has jumped across Highway 63 and […]
The Global Growth Funk
The Global Growth Funk NEW YORK – The International Monetary Fund and others have recently revised downward their forecasts for global growth – yet again. Little wonder: The world economy has few bright spots – and many that are dimming rapidly. Among advanced economies, the United States has just experienced two quarters of growth averaging […]
Ethics and Ecosystem Interactions: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters
Ethics and Ecosystem Interactions: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters The problem with ecosystem interactions Here’s a phrase that’s lately been haunting me: “the extinction of ecosystem interactions.” I first encountered it in science writer Connie Barlow’s fascinating book, The Ghosts of Evolution, which is about the plants, mainly trees, that have lingered into modern times even though […]
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s By Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, April 26, 2016 – 09:19 Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. DeSmog has uncovered Exxon corporate documents from the late […]
Earth Changes In 2016? How To Get Prepared For The Coming Earthquakes And Volcanic Eruptions
Earth Changes In 2016? How To Get Prepared For The Coming Earthquakes And Volcanic Eruptions All over the world seismic activity is increasing. In recent weeks we have seen a dramatic earthquake in Ecuador, more than 600 earthquakes have experts extremely alarmed about what is happening to Japan’s southern Island, and 37 volcanoes around the planet are erupting right […]
A carbon tax is bad for Alberta
A carbon tax is bad for Alberta Yesterday, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley asserted that Canada was “absolutely” closer to a new pipeline due to her province’s new carbon tax. According to the premier, “Alberta is not the Alberta that they thought of a year ago, or two years ago, or three years ago. After years of […]
Trouble in Paradise: Fatal Blight Threatens A Key Hawaiian Tree
Trouble in Paradise: Fatal Blight Threatens A Key Hawaiian Tree The ʻohiʻa is Hawaii’s iconic tree, a keystone species that maintains healthy watersheds and provides habitat for numerous endangered birds. But a virulent fungal disease, possibly related to a warmer, drier climate, is now felling the island’s cherished `ohi`a forests. Rikki Cooke/The Nature Conservancy An ‘ohi’a […]
Gov. Cuomo Rejects the Constitution Pipeline, Huge Win for the Anti-Fracking Movement
Gov. Cuomo Rejects the Constitution Pipeline, Huge Win for the Anti-Fracking Movement In a win for climate activists and the anti-fracking movement, and a blow to fossil fuel polluters and the federal regulatory agencies that enable them, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) denied a key permit to companies seeking to build a […]
‘People should be terrified fracking is spreading’ – Australian MP who set river on fire to RT
‘People should be terrified fracking is spreading’ – Australian MP who set river on fire to RT Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham © RT Fracking should be banned as a “global threat” as it causes methane leaks contaminating water in the communities near gas wells, says an Australian MP who literally set a river ablaze to […]
Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won’t Frack the Rich
Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won’t Frack the Rich Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the “big houses” of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country’s most prominent shale drilling companies told a gathering of attorneys at a seminar on oil and gas environmental law earlier this […]
Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes On Climate Denialist Joe Bastardi the ‘Goebbels’ Guy
Bill Nye the Science Guy Takes On Climate Denialist Joe Bastardi the ‘Goebbels’ Guy You might have heard that quote from outspoken American author Upton Sinclair, who once wrote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” The quote is often used to illustrate […]
Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds
Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds In the face of rising temperatures and worsening drought, the world’s repositories of agricultural seeds may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions. But keeping these gene banks safe and viable is a complicated and expensive challenge. During the 872-day German siege of […]
