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‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video

June 20, 2016

‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video A new video released today by DeSmog Canada features an exclusive video interview with Harry Swain, chair of the federal-provincial panel tasked with reviewing the controversial Site C dam. “I think we’re making a big mistake, a very expensive one,” Swain says in […]

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How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames

May 14, 2016

How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames Connecting extreme weather events with climate change isn’t exactly a new thing. After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey in 2012, Bloomberg published a front page spread proclaiming, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” For years, major storms, droughts, floods and fires have been connected to climate change. The climate […]

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How the Media Shapes Public Response to Climate Change

September 15, 2015

How the Media Shapes Public Response to Climate Change Climate change stories that give local information and emphasize positive achievements are more likely to encourage people to become active participants in climate change action than stories of political failures, a newstudy by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has found . Researchers worked with focus groups made […]

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Prime Minister Harper’s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands Pipeline

September 3, 2015

Prime Minister Harper’s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands Pipeline With U.S. President Barack Obama expected to deny a permit to the Keystone XLpipeline this fall, Canada’s oil industry is looking for someone to blame. The National Post’s Claudia Cattaneo wrote last week that “many Canadians … would see Obama’s fatal stab as a betrayal by a close friend […]

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Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change?

September 1, 2015

Will This Be Remembered as The Summer North Americans Woke Up to Climate Change? Smokey haze, intense heat, encampments of evacuated residents next to the highway: these were the conditions that greeted Renee Lertzman when she recently drove through Oregon. It’s no wonder why the environmental psychology researcher and professor resorts to the term “apocalyptic” to describe […]

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Experts Make Case for Letting Canada’s Wildfires Burn

July 11, 2015

Experts Make Case for Letting Canada’s Wildfires Burn Fires ‘reset the landscape to be less flammable,’ say researchers. As climate change is fingered as a catalyst driving the early rash of forest fires across northern and western Canada, experts say the most prudent approach at this stage is to, whenever possible, let the fires burn. Western Canada […]

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