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Flashpoint Issue 2015: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline | Environment News Service
Flashpoint Issue 2015: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline | Environment News Service. WASHINGTON, DC, December 29, 2014 (ENS) – A renewed battle over the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is shaping up for the new year in North America. The Republicans, who favor the Alberta-Gulf Coast pipeline because of the jobs and energy security they […]
Australian emissions set to soar: new report shows carbontax was working | Climate Citizen
Australian emissions set to soar: new report shows carbontax was working | Climate Citizen. Just two days before Christmas Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt released the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory June quarter update report which shows that Labor’s Carbon pricing, abolished in July 2014, was being highly effective at reducing emissions, especially from the electricity generating sector. […]
Scottish Government Confirms Ebola Diagnosed In Glasgow Patient | Zero Hedge
Scottish Government Confirms Ebola Diagnosed In Glasgow Patient | Zero Hedge. We wonder if England will be reconsidering the secession vote? *SCOTTISH GOVT: CONFIRMED EBOLA CASE DIAGNOSED IN GLASGOW *SCOTLAND: PATIENT IS A HEALTH CARE WORKER, RETURNED FROM SIERRA LEONE DEC. 28 After Japan’s stock market slid overnight following reports of Ebola in Tokyo, one wonders […]
Resource Insights: Five energy surprises for 2015: The possible and the improbable
Resource Insights: Five energy surprises for 2015: The possible and the improbable. The coming year is likely to be as full of surprises in the field of energy as 2014 was. We just don’t know which surprises! I am not predicting that any of the following will happen, and they will be surprises to most […]
Future Shock – Crash Course Chapter 25 | Peak Prosperity
Future Shock – Crash Course Chapter 25 | Peak Prosperity. Here at the penultimate chapter of The Crash Course, everything we’ve learned comes together into a single narrow range of time we’ll call the twenty-teens. What this chapter offers is a comprehensive view of how all of our problems are actually interrelated and need to be viewed […]
Canadian Government: This Reporter’s Question About ALEC ‘Undeserving of Response’ | DeSmog Canada
Canadian Government: This Reporter’s Question About ALEC ‘Undeserving of Response’ | DeSmog Canada. As some of you may know, I’ll be starting a new rolein January 2015 as an investigative resources correspondent for Reuters. Getting access to records about government decisions and policies has long played a key role in the work of many journalists around the […]
More rain forecast for flood-hit SE Asia – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English
More rain forecast for flood-hit SE Asia – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English. People in South East Asia have been warned to prepare for more flooding, after days of heavy rain across the region that has killed dozens of people and displaced tens of thousands in Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Weather forecasters on Sunday […]
Heft Notes: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”
Heft Notes: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”. Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything (2014) is an important contribution to the discussion of strategy and tactics for climate action. Klein has covered a lot of bases in her description of the importance of climate change as an issue demanding concerted action, the social forces which are contributing to the […]
Satellite Provides Sharper Picture of Shrinking Ice Sheet – Truthdig
Satellite Provides Sharper Picture of Shrinking Ice Sheet – Truthdig. LONDON—Greenland’s ice sheet shrank by an average of 243 billion tonnes a year between 2003 and 2009—a rate of melting that is enough to raise the world’s sea levels by 0.68 mm per year. In what is claimed as the first detailed study, geologist Beata […]
French Alps hit by massive snowfall, thousands of cars stranded (PHOTOS) — RT News
French Alps hit by massive snowfall, thousands of cars stranded (PHOTOS) — RT News. Massive snowfall, aggravated by strong winds and ice in the French Alps, has trapped thousands of holidaymakers, with up to 15,000 people forced to spend Saturday night in emergency accommodation centers in the Savoie region in southeastern France. Conditions remained difficult […]
Canada’s Mining Sector Braces For Challenging Year In 2015
Canada’s Mining Sector Braces For Challenging Year In 2015. MONTREAL – Canada’s mining sector is bracing for another challenging year in 2015 as slower growth in China is expected to continue to dampen selling prices for many metals. Iron ore suffered the biggest drop in the past year, losing nearly half its value to reach […]
Broken Hill’s water to run out by August 2015 amid major drought – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Broken Hill’s water to run out by August 2015 amid major drought – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Drilling work has started in Broken Hill in far west New South Wales to find an emergency water supply for the drought-stricken town. The iconic mining city is due to run out of good quality water by […]
Malaysia Evacuates Over 130,000 as Floods Kill at Least Five – Bloomberg
Malaysia Evacuates Over 130,000 as Floods Kill at Least Five – Bloomberg. Malaysia evacuated more than 130,000 people as the worst floods in decades left at least five dead. More than 330 were displaced in the southwestern state of Negeri Sembilan today, bringing to eight the number of states affected by the heavy rainfall that began […]
Bloom Lake hit with record environmental fine – Business – CBC News
Bloom Lake hit with record environmental fine – Business – CBC News. A mining company has plead guilty to 45 charges under the fisheries act and will pay a $7.5-million fine for improperly releasing pollutants into fish-bearing waters. Bloom Lake General Partner Ltd. has been ordered to pay the fine because the Triangle Tailings Pond dam […]
From Bad to Worse: A Roadmap to Global Burning | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
From Bad to Worse: A Roadmap to Global Burning | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. The “Lima call for climate action” which came out of the recent UN climate talks, establishes a roadmap to a post-2020 agreement that will be weaker than the ongoing Cancun Agreement (for 2012-2020), and […]
