Here, on what we should learn from the recent spate of Alberta oil spills. For further reading…– Stephen Hume finds that Alberta’s pipelines have spilled roughly 28 million litres of oil in thousands of leaks and ruptures just since 2006, and puts the results in perspective: (C)onsider the campaign by
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Northern Insight: Finding fibre for China
Timber panel eyes logging protected areas, Wendy Stueck, The Globe and Mail, Jun 12, 2012 “A committee looking for ways to boost B.C.’s dwindling store of timber is looking at logging protected areas such as old-growth forests as one way out of a supply crunch…”
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #6
This is Update #6 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada continues to blog its cleanup efforts surrounding the Rangeland Pipeline System failure near Sundre, Alberta. [ Web Updates ] Plains Midstream Canada says water quality samples have almost all been normal. [ Article ] Plains Midstream Canada says
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading / marxism 2012 program notes: "too many people?" population, immigration, and the environment
I’ve just finished reading Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler. Co-author Angus spoke at the 2012 Marxism conference; I wasn’t able to attend his talk, but Allan did, and afterwards bought the book for me. The clarity of the authors’ arguments,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Environment – CTD
The amount written about the environment and what needs to be done is staggering. We’ll file this report under the heading “Oh Sh*t were screwed” column for the sake of convenience. The only limits humanity respects are those of a distinctly Malthusian nature. I’d add to his general work
Continue readingbastard.logic: These Are Not Your Father’s Tories. Seriously.
“I worked for (Mulroney-era environment minister) Tom McMillan, who was a very red Tory. I wrote speeches for him. We never checked his speeches with the PMO. He’d get up to answer in Question Period. He didn’t have a script for how to answer. Brian Mulroney was not telling his
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Message to the Harper government
IMF chief Christine Lagarde warns world risks triple crisis, The Guardian, June 12, 2012 “Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has warned that the world risks a triple crisis of declining incomes, environmental damage and social unrest unless countries adopt a more sustainable approach to economic growth.
Continue reading350 or bust: Canadian Democracy in Disarray
* There is mounting alarm and opposition across Canada, even among many conservatives, about the Harper government’s omnibus budget bill, Bill C-38. Yesterday Parlliamentary Speaker Andrew Scheer (a Conservative MP from Saskatchewan) denied Elizabeth May’s well argued Point of Order re: allowing Omnibus Budget Bill C-38 as a legitimate omnibus
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Plenty of commentators are rightly speaking out against the Cons’ anti-democratic omnibus bill, including Tim Harper and the Star-Phoenix and Vancouver Sun editorial boards. And even John Ivison can’t muster much more than “but the Libs did it too!” in defence of
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: A Green Industrial Revolution
Today the CCPA released a new big picture report by myself and student researcher Amanda Card calling for a Green Industrial Revolution. The report builds on work done for the BC-focused Climate Justice Project, bringing to bear a national analysis of green and not-so-green jobs. We take a close look
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #5
This is Update #5 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada still continues to blog its cleanup efforts surrounding the Rangeland Pipeline System failure near Sundre, Alberta. [ Web Updates ] Plains Midstream Canada says most of the Red Deer River oil spill has been been contained. [ Article
Continue readingNorthern Insight: For climate change skeptics
A comment by Tom Rand, the resident clean tech advisor at MaRS discovery district in Toronto. He has North America ‘s “Greenest” hostel. His life’s work is pushing the needle on carbon and he presents some very practical ways we can make changes now to wean ourselves of carbon AT
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Bill C-38: Joyce has a choice! Let her hear your voice!
June 9, 2012: Citizens opposed to Bill C-38 pause for a moment outside of Conservative MP Joyce Bateman’s Winnipeg South Centre office before continuing to distribute literature in the constituency. Photo: Paul S. Graham Stephen Harper’s Bill C-38 continues to generate controversy and opposition across Canada. In Winnipeg, a group
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: “My place is destroyed” – Albertan
Plains Midstream Canada, wow, what an ironic name given their midstream oil leak on the plains of Alberta. I hope Plains Midschool Canada, or Plains Midlake Canada don’t operate in Regina. Gord Johnston grew up on the banks of the Red Deer River, at a place his family first settled
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #4
This is Update #4 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Gord and Bonnie Johnston have abandoned their 23-hectare rural property after it was soaked with oil last week, following the Rangeland Pipeline System failure. [ Article ] Bruce Beattie, the Reeve of Mountain View County, one of the affected communities,
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #3
This is Update #3 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… With support from the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group and Red Deer County, Plains Midstream Canada continues to communicate with local landowners. [ Article ] An information centre has been established at the James River Community Hall. Plains Midstream Canada, Sundre
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #2
This is Update #2 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada has shut down 10 kilometres of the Rangeland Pipeline System. [ Article ] Plains Midstream Canada says, “The release is contained within the two booms on the Gleniffer Reservoir.” [ PDF ] Plains Midstream Canada is now blogging
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Endangered Species Legislation Wrong Approach
Trying to protect endangered species is simply the wrong approach to protecting wildlife. What we do is allow open season on development/destruction of wildlife habitat unless it contains endangered species. Then we make a half-hearted token attempt to protect those species, often while still allowing the development/destruction of the habitat
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #1
This is Update #1 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Tracey McCrimmon, executive director of the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group, a community group that works with the industry, said people phoned in reports Thursday night of smelling rotten eggs. Plains Midstream Canada estimates 1,000 to 3,000 barrels of oil
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Erika Shaker points out how Quebec’s student protests are a natural and justified reaction to the policy choice to saddle young workers with debt: (T)he effects of student debt are not exactly “character building”. Postponement of owning a home or starting a family.
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