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A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world's most important trade routes.

The new cuts announced Wednesday by authorities in Panama are set to deal an even greater economic blow than previously expected.

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US climate scientist’s defamation case over online attacks finally comes to trial

20/01/24

Author:

Dharna Noor

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The Guardian

Jan. 17, 2024

Michael Mann alleges, in lawsuit first brought in 2012, that attacks on his work by climate denialists amount to defamation

A lawsuit first instituted over 10 years ago, brought by an esteemed climate scientist over alleged defamation by a rightwing blogger and an analyst, goes to trial this week.

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Climate misinformation is mutating on YouTube – and the platform is profiting

20/01/24

Author:

Louise Boyle Senior Climate Correspondent

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Independent

Climate misinformation is mutating on YouTube – and the platform is profiting

Jan. 16, 2024

Researchers analysed thousands of hours of YouTube content from the past six years and found that ‘old’ climate change denial is giving way to a new type of misleading content intended to muddy the waters

Climate misinformation is rapidly mutating across social media, allowing nefarious actors to skirt restrictions and continue to profit, according to a new report.

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This Canadian pipeline giant wants an exemption from climate rules

20/01/24

Author:

Carl Meyer

Link:

The Narwhal

Internal government documents show that pipeline company TC Energy pressured the federal government to ignore a growing form of fossil fuel activity in Canada in one of its key climate policies, at a time when the country is already struggling to meet its emissions reduction goals. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Jan. 17, 2024

Internal government memos show TC Energy lobbied for carveouts exempting methane and LNG plants from one of Canada’s key climate policies targeting the oil and gas industry

One of Canada’s largest pipeline operators lobbied the federal government to exclude two major sources of carbon pollution from its emissions cap for the oil and gas sector.

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The shady group determined to block our climate solutions

19/01/24

Author:

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Link:

National Observer

Jan. 15, 2024

A shadowy new organization attacking the climate efforts of Canadian cities is infiltrating Google searches and ads in the New York Times and other publications online.

The group — Voice for Energy — bills itself as a platform for Canadians to "speak up" against municipalities implementing measures to reduce or ban natural gas to "protect" people’s so-called "energy choice."

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Fortis B.C. faces fire over Delta gas leak and its 'apocalyptic' stench

19/01/24

Author:

The Canadian Press Chuck Chiang

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Vancouver Sun

File photo: Fortis BC LNG expansion site in Delta, BC Friday, February 3, 2017. PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE /PNG

Jan. 17, 2024

The gas provider is being criticized for a lack of transparency and timely explanation about the stench Delta Mayor George Harvie said led to emergency services being flooded with calls

Tara Jean Stevens said the “apocalyptic” stench that blanketed Delta on Tuesday night was so heavy that her car and garage still smelled of rotten eggs Wednesday morning.

“I had a headache all night,” said Stevens, a radio host on Wave 98.3. “I never get headaches … it felt thick in the air, even though you couldn’t see it.”

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Audio Reveals RCMP Officers Laughed about Beating a Land Defender

19/01/24

Author:

Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

In audio recordings captured after arrests on Nov. 19, 2021, and played for the court, several officers could be heard laughing about police violence, mocking arrestees and making derogatory comments about symbols worn to honour and remember murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. Photo for The Tyee by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Jan. 19, 2024

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Blinded, sexually assaulted, silenced: the war over lithium, Argentina’s ‘white gold’

19/01/24

Author:

Harriet Barber in Jujuy, Argentina

Link:

The Guardian

A man carries the Wiphala flag – which represents the native peoples of the Andes – at the protest camp in Purmamarca, Jujuy province. The demonstrators, many of them from the Indigenous community, are angry about changes made to the state constitution, and the growth of mining. Photograph: John Owens

Jan. 11, 2024

In the country’s ‘lithium triangle’ activists say Indigenous land protections have been removed and protests against mining violently repressed

The first time, they came at 2am and without a warrant. Rosa* was alone. She was gagged, her eyes covered, and her hands bound with a cable tie.

“I was paralysed. I felt someone choking me,” Rosa recalls. “They called me a socialist, a whore. I was in my underwear; they touched me. One put his fingers inside of me.”

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