Mr. Vaillant is the author, most recently, of “Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World.”
On Thursday, as flames from the Smokehouse Creek fire raced eastward across the Texas Panhandle for the fourth straight day at speeds faster than a person can run, a cold front, driving a snow squall, swept southward over the Great Plains. In an elemental collision, the fire and snow met east of Amarillo, the swirling flakes joining and then melting into the smoke and ash of the colossal prairie fire.
Bob Chamberlin of the First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance says bureaucrats with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans are undermining the transition away from open-net pen fish farms.
‘The program is designed for there to be consequences, but those responsible for spills don’t comply with the law.’
B.C. is not adequately prepared to deal with a serious hazardous spill, according to an audit of the province’s Environmental Emergency Program released Tuesday.
Big Agriculture And Far-Right Parties Set Farmers Against The Environment.
But producers on the ground in Brussels told a different story.
Across France, Italy and Belgium last week thousands of farmers descended on capital cities to express their deep discontent with the European food system.
B.C. premier staking political career on strong climate action policies
With consumers feeling the bite of ever-increasing carbon taxes, and business leaders pushing back on the potential economic costs of B.C.’s climate change policies, David Eby’s NDP government is coming under increasing pressure to take its foot off the CleanBC accelerator.
