Ecology/Environment

The time-bomb town Ontario didn’t defuse

19/08/22

Author:

EMMA GRANEY, CHEN WANG, JEFF GRAY AND COLIN GRAF

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The first sign that something was wrong in Wheatley, Ont., came via a call to 911 on June 2, 2021, at 2:22 p.m. Building owner Whit Thiele had discovered a gas leak.

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Mr. Thiele had bought 15 Erie St. North in 2016 and turned it into a popular local pub called The Pogue, but the business had struggled during the pandemic and eventually closed.

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Canada

Ecology/Environment

LNG - Fracking

Class Struggle or Degrowth

17/08/22

Author:

Gray Maddrey, originally published by Uneven Earth

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Resiliance

Without class struggle the emancipatory potential of degrowth will fail to be realized. A revolutionary pedagogy can help to unify them.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Mass Death of Sequoias Is the Harbinger of Earth Systems Collapse

17/08/22

Author:

Bruce Melton

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Truthout

Climate change is killing giant sequoias in numbers that portend ecological disaster unless radical action is taken to reverse the impacts of the climate crisis. Sequoias, once deemed “unburnable,” began to be widely destroyed by fire in 2015, and then in 2020 and 2021, California fires tripled in area covered.

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MPs raise concerns over pipeline construction obstructing salmon run

15/08/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

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National Observer

A dead salmon is photographed in the Coquihalla River near a Trans Mountain worksite. Photo by Kate Tairyan

Aug. 12, 2022

Four B.C. MPs are urging the federal government to halt the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline and expansion project at least until salmon have finished spawning. The call comes after environmental group Protect the Planet documented salmon dying near a Trans Mountain worksite in Hope, B.C., last week.

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Human pathogens are stowaways on floating plastic

02/08/22

Author:

Michael Allen

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National Observer

For microbes in the ocean, floating plastic is a new potential ecosystem. And those microbes include pathogens that can make people sick. Photo by NOAA

Aug. 2, 2022

This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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Ecology/Environment

Oil - Pipelines

Social

Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia

31/07/22

Author:

Potsdam Institute

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Potsdam Institute

Fig. 1: Increasing heatwave trends over the midlatitudes and Europe.

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Climate Change

Climate Science

Ecology/Environment

How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia

29/07/22

Author:

Ashley Braun, originally published by Hakai Magazine

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Resilience

On Calvert Island, British Columbia, the subtle rock line of an extant clam garden is a reminder of how Indigenous peoples turned the sea into a shellfish garden. Photo courtesy of the Hakai Institute

July 20, 2022

By focusing on reciprocity and the common good—both for the community and the environment—sea gardening created bountiful food without putting populations at risk of collapse.

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Cost of Coastal GasLink pipeline leaps 70% to $11.2 billion

29/07/22

Author:

Christopher Reynolds

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National Observer

Until Thursday, the cost estimate for the 670-kilometre pipeline, which aims to carry natural gas to the LNG Canada processing and export facility in Kitimat, B.C., stood at $6.6 billion. File photo

July 28th 2022

The projected cost of the contentious Coastal GasLink pipeline spanning northern British Columbia has jumped 70 per cent to $11.2 billion in the wake of a freshly inked deal between operator TC Energy Corp. and the group building a liquified natural gas terminal on the West Coast.

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Hell yes, we should sue Big Oil

27/07/22

Author:

Sandy Garossino

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National Observer

A home is surrounded by floodwaters caused by heavy rains and mudslides throughout Sumas Prairie near Chilliwack, B.C., Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Jul 27, 2022

Vancouverites were taken aback last week at the news that city council, in a divided vote, passed a motion by Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr to allocate up to $700,000 towards a class action lawsuit against fossil fuel companies.

This measure was instantly slammed as a performative stunt and window dressing for the enviro vote as we head into election season.

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For a Red Zoopolis

22/07/22

Author:

Richard Seymour

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Midnight Sun

A hard-nosed look at our choice of futures. Lots of fact and lots of feeling! Great new (relatively) publication based in Winnipeg!

-- Gene McGuckin

Jun 29, 2022

What could plenty mean, in a finite planet?

Traditionally, socialist utopias envisioned a society based on a superabundance of essential goods which could be treated as though they were free. Thus, markets would be eroded, and the compulsion of work would be reduced.

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Ecology/Environment

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