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The Bulletin: December 17-23, 2025
The Bulletin: December 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. A slow-motion water crisis is unfolding around the world Should We Be Talking About Collapse This Is What It Looks Like When Shit Hits The Fan Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance – […]
Global warming was blamed for evaporating the Great Lakes, now blamed for high water levels in Chicago’s ‘climate emergency’ – Updated 2
Global warming was blamed for evaporating the Great Lakes, now blamed for high water levels in Chicago’s ‘climate emergency’ – Updated 2 “What we are seeing in global warming is the evaporation of our Great Lakes.” That was Illinois Senator Dick Durbin in 2013 when Lake Michigan was at a record low. You can find plenty of […]
Nestlé’s Profits Trump Clean Water in Flint
Nestlé’s Profits Trump Clean Water in Flint Screw the people of Flint, or so goes the mantra of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), which last month approved a controversial permit that will allow Nestlé to pump and bottle 400 gallons of fresh water per minute from the state’s White Pine Springs, near the […]
The pumped hydro storage potential of the Great Lakes
The pumped hydro storage potential of the Great Lakes The potential energy contained in the waters of the Great Lakes amounts to approximately six thousand terawatt hours, enough to supply the US and Canada with electricity for an entire year were the lakes to be drained to sea level. This of course will never happen, […]
Last record-breaking winter with snow hits Canada, US, before “nobody knows what snow is”
Last record-breaking winter with snow hits Canada, US, before “nobody knows what snow is” UPDATE: Record breaking snow falling in upstate New York. Pennsylvania. The airport in Erie, Pennsylvania, has had a whopping 65.1 inches of snow from this lake effect event — the highest snowfall total from any event on record in Erie. (Heavy […]
Scientific concern begins over lack of Great Lakes’ ice
Scientific concern begins over lack of Great Lakes’ ice Thursday, February 4, 2016, 2:56 PM – Ice coverage on the Great Lakes is near record-low levels for this time of year, and scientists are concerned about the effect this will have on wildlife species in the months to come. Southern Ontario set some record high temperatures on […]
Microplastics at ‘alarming levels’ in Canadian lakes and rivers
Microplastics at ‘alarming levels’ in Canadian lakes and rivers Microbeads just tip of plastic iceberg floating in Canadian waters Tiny plastic pellets called microbeads have gotten a lot of attention as a major water pollutant, but less-discussed microplastics are equally concerning, according to new research being done in Canada. “In recent years, they’ve been detected […]
Cheers! Ontario takes action to limit water transfers within the Great Lakes basin | – Environmental Defence
Cheers! Ontario takes action to limit water transfers within the Great Lakes basin | – Environmental Defence. By Anastasia Lintner, Lintner Law and Nancy Goucher, Environmental Defence Last Thursday, the Government of Ontario filed a new regulation that, commencing on January 1, 2015, will stop diversions of water from one Great Lakes watershed to another […]
