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01/09/17
Author: 
George Monbiot
 ‘Hurricane Harvey offers a glimpse of a likely global future; a future whose average temperatures are as different from ours as ours are from those of the last ice age.’ Photograph: ddp USA/Rex/Shutterstock

This is a manmade climate-related disaster. To ignore this ensures our greatest challenge goes unanswered and helps push the world towards catastrophe

01/09/17
Author: 
LOUIS PROYECT

Between 1872 and 1882, Frederick Engels worked on a book titled “The Dialectics of Nature” that sought to apply Marxist dialectics to the natural world.

30/08/17
Author: 
Roger Annis

News and analysis compiled on A Socialist In Canada, Aug 30, 2017

29/08/17
Author: 
Naomi Klein
Hurricane Harvey Houston

NOW IS EXACTLY the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes.

Turn on the coverage of the Hurricane Harvey and the Houston flooding and you’ll hear lots of talk about how unprecedented this kind of rainfall is. How no one saw it coming, so no one could adequately prepare.

15/08/17
Author: 
Stanley Tromp
A panoramic view of Burnaby Mountain, with Kinder Morgan’s oil storage tanks on its southern slope. Across the border, Washington State officials have questions about the makeup of tar sands oil and the diluent that makes it mobile. Photo by Zack Embree

Washington State officials have privately complained about a lack of information — vital for an oil spill response — on the ingredients of the diluent used to help Alberta bitumen flow through Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline.

04/08/17
Author: 
Tim Donaghy

A new analysis from Greenpeace USA finds that the three companies proposing to build tar sands pipelines have a legacy of pipeline spills, and that tar sands pipelines pose a threat to water resources.

 

[Map of 373 U.S. hazardous liquids pipelines spills from 2010 to present for TransCanada (green), Kinder Morgan (purple) and Enbridge (blue). Available online at greenpeace.carto.com. Data: PHMSA & EIA. see original article]

 

26/07/17
Author: 
Kathleen Kirkwood
RICHMOND – Police arrested two protesters blocking a gate at the Kinder Morgan Terminal in Richmond on Monday morning, during a demonstration against the company’s planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline in Canada.  After the arrests at about 10 a.m., two other gates were still blocked at the facility on Canal Boulevard, but police said they would not be taking any others into custody.  Early Monday, about a dozen protesters had secured themselves to oil barrels and had 12-foot-long mock

RICHMOND – Police arrested two protesters blocking a gate at the Kinder Morgan Terminal in Richmond on Monday orning, during a demonstration against the company’s planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline in Canada.

After the arrests at about 10 a.m., two other gates were still blocked at the facility on Canal Boulevard, but police said they would not be taking any others into custody.

26/07/17
Author: 
Kathleen Kirkwood
RICHMOND – Police arrested two protesters blocking a gate at the Kinder Morgan Terminal in Richmond on Monday morning, during a demonstration against the company’s planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline in Canada.  After the arrests at about 10 a.m., two other gates were still blocked at the facility on Canal Boulevard, but police said they would not be taking any others into custody.  Early Monday, about a dozen protesters had secured themselves to oil barrels and had 12-foot-long mock

RICHMOND – Police arrested two protesters blocking a gate at the Kinder Morgan Terminal in Richmond on Monday orning, during a demonstration against the company’s planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline in Canada.

After the arrests at about 10 a.m., two other gates were still blocked at the facility on Canal Boulevard, but police said they would not be taking any others into custody.

19/07/17
Author: 
Anne C. Mulkern

The locales say that actions by oil, natural gas and coal companies intensified climate change

Two California counties and a city yesterday sued 37 oil, natural gas and coal companies and trade groups, saying their actions intensified climate change and exacerbated costly sea-level rise.

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