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Enviro Assessment Review for Proposed $1.7-Billion LNG Plant Resumes
Enviro Assessment Review for Proposed $1.7-Billion LNG Plant Resumes Woodfibre LNG approved to continue process after 40-day delay. The B.C. government-led environmental assessment review for a proposed liquefied natural gas plant in Howe Sound has resumed. The 180-day process was paused June 30, after the Squamish Nation issued a 25-point ultimatum to address concerns about […]
Australian Psychological Society “Disturbed” By Climate Denialist Group’s “Misleading” Newspaper Advert
Australian Psychological Society “Disturbed” By Climate Denialist Group’s “Misleading” Newspaper Advert Australia’s peak body representing psychologists has attacked a climate science denial group for a prominent advert taken out in a major national newspaper. The Australian Psychological Society (APS) says the advert from a little-known group “misuses psychology-based arguments” to “mislead the public” on the science of climate change. In a […]
Pope Francis’ Appeal for the Future
Pope Francis’ Appeal for the Future Pope Francis is pleading for world leaders to defend the rights of mankind and the future of nature against the power of corporations and the pillage of “free market” dogma, a warning about the planet’s survival that vested political and media interests reject out of hand, writes Daniel C. […]
Toxic Fallout Continues as Colorado Mine Spill Declared Three Times Larger Than Stated
Toxic Fallout Continues as Colorado Mine Spill Declared Three Times Larger Than Stated Communities declare states of emergency over toxic wastewater flowing through Colorado and New Mexico, heading for Utah A warning sign is displayed along the Animas River as it flows through Farmington, New Mexico on August 8, 2015. (Photo: Alexa Rogals/The Daily Times […]
Moving Towards Sustainability – by Eating Less Meat
Moving Towards Sustainability – by Eating Less Meat The amount of meat humans eat is immense. In 1965, 10 billion livestock animals were slaughtered each year. In 2012, that number was 55 billion. More chickens are killed in the US every year than there are people in the world, and there are one billion cattle […]
Spin Cycle: Will all of the oilsands be developed?
Spin Cycle: Will all of the oilsands be developed? Toronto Centre NDP candidate not the only one to suggest some oilsands ‘may have to be left in the ground’ “A lot of the oilsands oil may have to stay in the ground.” — NDP candidate Linda McQuaig on CBC News Network’s Power & Politics Alberta’s oilsands seem to always be […]
Snatching Defeat
Snatching Defeat “What we must ask is what we intend to sustain when we speak of sustainability? “ Last week we concluded our post on climate change with a quote from James Hansen, “the matter is urgent and calls for emergency cooperation among nations.” All this year we have been leading up to our collective fin de […]
How Sustainable Can Cities be When TheyCan’t Even Deal With Their Own Shit?
How Sustainable Can Cities be When TheyCan’t Even Deal With Their Own Shit? A sewage treatment plant in Hamburg, Germany: The shit never looked so pretty (photo by Mark Michaelis) The Dr. Pooper Papers, Issue #3: Just this past week the City of Toronto wasinformed by the Ministry of the Environment that it must now notify the […]
With Climate Change, a Terrifying New Normal for Western Firefighters
With Climate Change, a Terrifying New Normal for Western Firefighters In the last two decades, officials in Colorado have watched as massive, months-long wildfires have become a regular occurrence in their state. A Yale Environment 360 video goes onto the front lines with Colorado firefighters who describe what it’s like to continuously confront deadly blazes fueled […]
Lifting Ban On U.S. Crude Oil Export Would Enable Massive Fracking Expansion
Lifting Ban On U.S. Crude Oil Export Would Enable Massive Fracking Expansion In a recent Washington Post editorial supporting oil industry efforts to lift the existing ban on exporting crude oil produced in America, the editors stated: “The most serious objection to lifting the ban comes from environmentalists who worry that it would lower fossil fuel prices and […]
The Price Of ‘C’ In China
The Price Of ‘C’ In China Source: U.S. Department of Energy As the chart above indicates, since the end of World War II, the amount of carbon being leaked into the atmosphere has increased almost parabolically, with a brief pause around 1980 after the price of oil had come unhinged from its single digit moorings […]
Syncrude bird deaths, Nexen pipeline spill show oilsands’ degradation of ecosystem: First Nation
Syncrude bird deaths, Nexen pipeline spill show oilsands’ degradation of ecosystem: First Nation ‘Something is seriously wrong,’ says Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation The recent bird deaths at a Syncrude oilsands facility in northern Alberta along with last month’s Nexen Energy pipeline spill — one of the biggest in the province’s history — show the need for better oversight, a local […]
Is Natural Gas As Clean As We Think?
Is Natural Gas As Clean As We Think? This week U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at the American coal industry as part of a comprehensive climate change plan to limit air emissions from what many consider the country’s worst polluter. Under the plan, states will have until 2030 to cut CO2 levels by a third from […]
Are US Regulators Trying to Cover Up Influence Of Lobbyists On New Oil-By-Rail Regulations?
Are US Regulators Trying to Cover Up Influence Of Lobbyists On New Oil-By-Rail Regulations? It’s no secret that the oil and rail industries lobbied the Obama Administration heavily during the creation of new oil-by-rail regulations released this past May, with lobbyists reportedly not even taking a break the day after a major oil train accident. But just how […]
Undamming Rivers: A Chance For New Clean Energy Source
Undamming Rivers: A Chance For New Clean Energy Source Many hydroelectric dams produce modest amounts of power yet do enormous damage to rivers and fish populations. Why not take down these aging structures, build solar farms in the drained reservoirs, and restore the natural ecology of the rivers? Hydroelectric power is often touted as clean energy, […]
