Ecology/Environment

Updates from Camp and Direct Support for Lytton Fire Survivors

This summer has been rough. As communities across so called Canada and the world grapple with the direct evidence of genocide being shown in the media every day communities are also being subjected to climate disasters like the recent heatwave and the fire that tragically burned down the town of Lytton.

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British Columbia

Ecology/Environment

Indigenous Peoples

Social

Thawing Permafrost has Damaged the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and Poses an Ongoing Threat

17/07/21

Author:

David Hasemyer

Link:

Inside Climate News

Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Alyeska pipleline) running through landscape with Mountain range in the distance in Alaska. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

July 11, 2021

The pipeline operator is repairing damage to its supports caused by a sliding slope of permafrost, and installing chillers to keep the ground around it frozen.

Thawing permafrost threatens to undermine the supports holding up an elevated section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, jeopardizing the structural integrity of one of the world’s largest oil pipelines and raising the potential of an oil spill in a delicate and remote landscape where it would be extremely difficult to clean up.

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At least 58 dead in Germany as heavy rains bring catastrophic flooding

16/07/21

Author:

Philip Oltermann

Link:

The Guardian

'Catastrophic’ flooding hits western Germany leaving dozens dead – video report

[See video at link]

July 15, 2021

Parts of Belgium, France and Netherlands also badly affected as unprecedented rainfall wreaks havoc

At least 58 people have died and dozens more are missing in Germany after much of western Europe was inundated by record rainfall that brought devastating floods.

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Climate Change

Ecology/Environment

Social

Study: Financial Markets Ignore Environmental Damage

16/07/21

Author:

Lilah Burke

Link:

The Revelator

New York Stock Exchange - Photo: Wagner T. Cassimiro (CC BY 2.0

July 12, 2021

Credit-rating agencies say they can discipline companies that behave badly, and they have in some cases, but research reveals negligible progress.

Can the financial industry help rein in environmentally destructive corporations? That’s what the industry’s statements might have you believe.

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Deceptive fossil fuel companies must be held accountable for their climate crimes

12/07/21

Author:

Jesse Firempong

Link:

National Observer

The recent heat waves and fires sweeping Canada illustrate that the skeletons in the closets of Exxon and all fossil fuel companies have proven more than metaphorical. Photo by Jerry and Pat Donaho / Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

On the same day sparks ignited the fire that would devour Lytton, B.C., another story was setting #ClimateTwitter aflame. Lobbyists for the American oil giant ExxonMobil made an unintended confession, one that gets to the heart of the climate crisis and how we survive it.

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Ecology/Environment

July 19, 2021

The ‘heat dome’ signalled our new reality. Here are key issues we must address now — or pay a big price later.

Problem 1: The destruction of the rural economy

The pipeline operator is repairing damage to its supports caused by a sliding slope of permafrost, and installing chillers to keep the ground around it frozen.

Parts of Belgium, France and Netherlands also badly affected as unprecedented rainfall wreaks havoc

Credit-rating agencies say they can discipline companies that behave badly, and they have in some cases, but research reveals negligible progress.

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