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Canadian Dimension: Canadian Federal Scientists, Professionals Union Launches Anti-Harper Campaign
National Institute for Nanotechnology on the north campus of the University of Alberta • Photo by WinterforceMedia OTTAWA – The union representing scientists and other professionals in the federal public service is abandoning its tradition of neutrality in elections to actively campaign against Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The Professional Institute
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: First Nation tells DFO it’s closing commercial herring fishery
Central Coast herring (Photo: Pacific Wild) Read this March 20 story from the Canadian Press on the Heiltsuk First Nation’s move to close DFO’s planned commercial herring fishery on the central coat this year. BELLA BELLA – The latest British Columbia First Nation to condemn herring roe harvesting in its
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Apache bails on Kitimat LNG as investors get cold feet
Artist’s rendering of proposed Kitimat LNG project By The Canadian Press U.S. energy firm Apache Corp. says it’s exiting the Kitimat, B.C., LNG project, which it had been developing with Chevron Corp. Houston-based Apache also plans to get rid of its interest in another major liquefied natural gas project in
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: First Nation slams coverup of mercury poisoning report
Grassy Narrows First Nation member protests suspected mercury poisoning in 2013 (Kevin Konnyu / Flickr) By The Canadian Press TORONTO – A northern Ontario First Nation says it has obtained an unreleased report that shows the federal and provincial governments failed to properly address widespread mercury poisoning among its members.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Inuit, Greenpeace team up to battle Arctic seismic testing
Greenpeace’s Les Stroud Les working with Inuit in Pond Inlet (Photo: Laura Bombier / Greenpeace) By Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press OTTAWA – Greenpeace and the Inuit have joined forces to protest Arctic seismic testing, warning that plans to gauge oil and gas reserves with high-intensity sound waves in Baffin
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Healthy Newfoundland bees may help solve mystery of global collapse
Honeybees are in free fall just about everywhere – except Newfoundland By Sue Bailey, The Canadian Press PARADISE, N.L. – Newfoundland’s healthy honeybees are an increasing draw for researchers in the race to understand why colonies across much of the globe are struggling or dying off. “There is definitely interest in
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Two legal challenges filed against Northern Gateway
By The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – Two legal challenges were filed Friday against the federal cabinet’s approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline. The Gitxaala (git-HAT’-lah) First Nations, who hail from the North Coast of British Columbia, filed an application for judicial review with the Federal Court of Appeal. Ecojustice filed
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC govt, City of Vancouver: Kinder Morgan dodging pipeline questions
Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vancouver Council have some tough questions for Kinder Morgan (facebook) By Dene Moore, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – Kinder Morgan has failed to answer many of the questions put to the company about its proposed Trans Mountain pipeline through the regulatory review process, charge a chorus
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rail expert: One year after Lac-Megantic, not much has changed
Emergency responders were unequipped to deal with Lac-Mégantic disaster, says a Quebec rail expert By Peter Rakobowchuk, The Canadian Press MONTREAL – An expert who examined the devastating train derailment in Lac-Megantic says no plans and equipment are in place to deal with a similar situation as the one-year anniversary
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Orcas face triple threat: Vessel noise, pollution, lack of food
Photo: NOAA By Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press VICTORIA – Triple threats of pollution, vessel noise and the availability of food are making it hard for a group of orcas that live along the continent’s West Coast to increase beyond an estimated population of 80, says a decade-long U.S. study. Southern
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fracked wells emit 6 times more methane leaks: New Cornell study
By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press WASHINGTON – In Pennsylvania’s gas drilling boom, newer and unconventional wells leak far more often than older and traditional ones, according to a study of state inspection reports for 41,000 wells. The results suggest that leaks of methane could be a problem for drilling
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fracking and earthquakes: US states mull new regulations
3.0-plus magnitude earthquakes in the midcontinental US. USGS By Emily Schmall And Kristi Eaton, The Associated Press AZLE, Texas – Earthquakes used to be almost unheard of on the vast stretches of prairie that unfold across the U.S. Midwestern states of Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. But in recent years, they
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Michael Bloomberg, Hank Paulson tally cost of climate change
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (left) and former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson By Jonathan Fahey, The Associated Press NEW YORK – Climate change is likely to exact enormous costs on U.S. regional economies in the form of lost property, reduced industrial output and more deaths, according to a report backed
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Gitga’at women erect symbolic blockade of Enbridge tanker route
Photo: Andrew Frank/Flickr By The Canadian Press HARTLEY BAY, B.C. – The women of the Gitga’at Nation of British Columbia planned to erect a symbolic blockade made of yarn across the Douglas Channel on Friday to protest the federal government’s approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline. The crochet chain was
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: CIBC: First Nations, lawsuits will block Enbridge for years
A Vancouver rally against proposed pipelines earlier this year (Damien Gillis) By Dene Moore, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – One of the biggest hurdles for the Northern Gateway project is one the company has never had the means to address. Now that the project has received federal approval, the next
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Elon Musk buys solar company to build large-scale panel factories
SolarCity Chairman founder Elon Musk By Jonathan Fahey, The Associated Press NEW YORK – The energy world is not keeping up with Elon Musk, so he’s trying to take matters into his own hands. Musk, chairman of the solar installer SolarCity, announced Tuesday that the company would acquire a solar panel
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Enbridge battle far from over, even if Harper approves pipeline
By Dene Moore, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – Some time in the next 10 days, the federal government is supposed to announce its final decision on the Northern Gateway pipeline — the multibillion-dollar political minefield dividing the West. Even detractors expect the federal government to give the $7-billion project the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Obama gets tough on coal plant emissions with 30% reduction goal
President Obama visits Copper Mountain solar plant (Photo: Sempra U.S. Gas & Power) By Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday rolled out a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 per cent by 2030, setting the first national limits on
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Quebec won’t see job benefits from Line 9, Energy East: report
TransCanada CEO Russ Girling promoting Energy East (Canadian Press) MONTREAL – A new report says proposals to pipe oilsands crude to Quebec refineries would only deliver negligible economic benefits to the province. An economist who co-authored the study says job creation and spinoffs from several active pipeline-and-processing proposals would be
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