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Energy Files: Defra report reveals extent of impacts on people living near fracking wells
Energy Files: Defra report reveals extent of impacts on people living near fracking wells People that live near fracking sites could be affected by health problems and financial hardships – and fracking might not even help climate change – a government report has revealed. The report – which was initially heavily redacted but has now been […]
Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending
Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending The Sierra Club sent a letter to President Obama this week, urging the President to make good on his promise of increasing transparency in Washington. Specifically, the environmental group wants the administration to be forthright about the political spending of mega-polluters and their government contracts. Courtney Hight, director […]
Supreme Court Rejects Argument to Dismiss Landmark Fracking Case
Supreme Court Rejects Argument to Dismiss Landmark Fracking Case Jessica Ernst’s charter claim hearing slated for 2016. The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a motion by the country’s most powerful energy regulator that Jessica Ernst’s case involving fracking and groundwater contamination raises no significant constitutional claim and should be dismissed. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin ruled that […]
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change This is a guest post by David Suzuki. If nothing else, the G7 countries’ recent agreement to end fossil fuel use for energy by 2100 signals a shift in the way we talk and think about global warming. Previous agreements were about reducing carbon emissions from burning coal, […]
Agriculture beyond water
Agriculture beyond water Drought is becoming more prevalent and causing havoc for food producers around the globe. Many regions have been hit by severe water scarcity over the past few years and this trend seems set to continue. New data from NASA shows how the world is running out of water, with more than half of […]
New York State Ban On Fracking Made Official
New York State Ban On Fracking Made Official “After years of exhaustive research and examination of the science and facts, prohibiting high-volume hydraulic fracturing is the only reasonable alternative.” Those were the words many activists in New York never expected to hear from Joe Martens, head of the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, but they were […]
Is Fukushima Getting Worse?
Is Fukushima Getting Worse? Straight Disaster The Fukushima multiple nuclear disasters continue spewing out hot stuff like there’s no tomorrow. By all appearances, it is getting worse, out-of-control nuclear meltdowns. On June 19th Tepco reported the highest-ever readings of strontium-90 outside of the Fukushima plant ports. The readings were 1,000,000 Bq/m3 of strontium-90 at two locations near […]
Earthcare, Literally Speaking
Earthcare, Literally Speaking A version of this essay appeared in the May-June 2015 edition of BeFriending Creation, the newsletter of Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW), with the title “An Earth Testimony.” In light of the Pope’s climate encyclical, it seems appropriate to share more widely. From the beginning, care for the living Earth and all its creatures has been woven […]
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science Canada’s leading climate conspiracy theorists, the Friends of Science, are out this week with a critique on climate change that would make even Chicken Little blush. In a press release issued Thursday, the Friends of Science state that if plans proceed to move our country away from carbon-intensive fuel sources like oil and coal, “Canada […]
Beyond the Real Time Catastrophe of Capital
Beyond the Real Time Catastrophe of Capital Dystopia Now A Pundit Takes on the Pope: “Dynamists” and “Catastroophists” In a recent column on Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, Laudato Si, the conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat says that “After this document, there’s no doubting where Francis stands in the great argument of our time….But,” Douthat elaborates, “I don’t mean […]
Leaking Las Vegas: Lake Mead At Record Lows, “We Have To Change”
Leaking Las Vegas: Lake Mead At Record Lows, “We Have To Change” This is it, warns one water advocate, “it really does (make critical) the fact that we have to start changing.” Lake Mead water levels have sunk to their lowest levels on record (below the levels when the dam was built) at 1075 feet. This […]
Why B.C. may be in for a long, hot summer
Why B.C. may be in for a long, hot summer A dry spring, a warmer than usual Pacific Ocean, and an El Niño means the hot weather could be here to stay Whenever temperatures approach 30 C in Metro Vancouver, it’s a talker. While the thermostat does get close once or twice each summer, this particular heat […]
EPA’s New Fracking Study: A Close Look at the Numbers Buried in the Fine Print
EPA’s New Fracking Study: A Close Look at the Numbers Buried in the Fine Print When EPA’s long-awaited draft assessment on fracking and drinking water supplies was released, the oil and gas industry triumphantly focused on a headline-making sentence: “We did not find evidence of widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.” But for fracking’s […]
