From nationalobserver.com
Most extreme wildfires rising due to climate change
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The climate crisis is driving an exponential rise in the most extreme wildfires in key regions around the world, research has revealed.
#climate #ecology #pollution #wildfires #Environment #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalheating #massextinction #extremewildfires
4h ago
From nationalobserver.com
Would our next prime minister look after the environment?
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s anti-environment record includes voting “yea” for legislation designed to weaken environmental safeguards.
#Canada #cdnpoli #climate #ecology #pollution #Environment #climatecrisis #massextinction #pierrepoilievre
5h ago
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Feds have some 'splaining to do on TMX, MPs say
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Federal ministers will have to answer this fall for billions of taxpayer dollars poured into and propping up the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
4h ago
From nationalobserver.com
B.C. government blasted for 'ultimate hypocrisy' over PFAS and sewage sludge
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The B.C. government’s lawsuit over the health impact of so-called “forever chemicals” is now shining a questionable light on the province’s effort to also overturn one of Canada’s only bans on toxic sewage sludge applied to fields and forests.
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Plan to wean B.C. off fossil fuels avoids vital question: How?
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A new provincial plan charting how B.C. can replace fossil fuels with electricity and low-carbon power offers too few details, observers say.
#wind #solar #water #bcpoli #oilandgas #electricity #fossilfuels #cleanrenewables
on Wed, 10AM
From nationalobserver.com
Northvolt EV battery plant project near Montreal to continue ‘as planned’
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Northvolt says it will continue construction of a $7-billion factory on Montreal's South Shore "as planned" — hours after its CEO said the Swedish battery manufacturer would hit the brakes on its international development plan to refocus on its plant back home.
21h ago
From nationalobserver.com
'There will be war' — text message from Coutts blockade revealed in court
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One of two men accused of conspiring to kill Mounties at the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., characterized the protest as a last stand and told his mother there “will be a war” if police moved in.
21h ago
From nationalobserver.com
There's a fossil fuel fox in the henhouse as Ottawa develops a clean hydrogen economy
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Canada is going big on hydrogen with billions of dollars of public money on the line. But according to documents obtained by Canada's National Observer, the fossil fuel industry is deeply entrenched in the country's hydrogen strategy.
#fuel #cdnpoli #hydrogen #subsidies #climatecrisis #cleanrenewables
on Wed, 11AM