Dec 31, 2015 – CBC News
About 42 kilometres from Los Angeles a plume of methane is shooting into the sky. The cloud is invisible but it stretches for kilometres. Sealing the leak could take up to four months.
+Dec 30, 2015 – Washington Post
A powerful winter cyclone — the same storm that lead to two tornado outbreaks in the United States and disastrous river flooding — has driven the North Pole to the freezing point this week, 50 degrees above average for this time of year.
+Dec 28, 2015 – BBC News
A “complete rethink” of the UK’s flood defences is required following widespread flooding across northern England, the Environment Agency says.
+Dec 28, 2015 – The Guardian
Extreme weather in the southern and eastern US, which included deadly tornadoes in Texas, flash floods in Oklahoma and blizzards in New Mexico, was blamed on el Niño, with national weather agencies saying the weather system could continue to wreak havoc into midweek.
+Dec 26, 2015 – The Guardian
From Greater Manchester in the north-west to parts of North Yorkshire some 50 miles to the east, Boxing Day 2015 will be remembered as the day the rains came.
+Dec 24, 2015 – Mashable
The world’s hottest year is ending in the most fitting manner possible: with one of the most significant North American heat waves on record for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
+Dec 14, 2015 – Reuters
A landmark deal to curb global warming dented shares of fossil fuel companies and lifted renewable energy stocks on Monday, although some price swings were muted by the non-binding nature of the pact.
+Dec 13, 2015 – The Guardian
White House officials at COP 21 helped craft a deal congressional Republicans would not be able to stop – and the effort required major political capital
+Dec 12, 2015 – CBC News
Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that don’t.
+Dec 4, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
EDITORIAL – Getting to much lower emissions is all about hard work. There is nothing yet in the premier’s plan compelling Manitobans to change their daily lives. That will produce predictable results.
+Dec 3, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba plans to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by a third by 2030 on its way to becoming a carbon-neutral province in 2080, Premier Greg Selinger announced Thursday.
+Dec 1, 2015 – Vanity Fair
Racing Extinction debuts Wednesday on the The Discovery Channel. Discovery’s executive vice president for documentaries and specials, estimates a potential audience of 2.4 billion—and at least 500 million expected to watch.
+Nov 30, 2015 – The Guardian
Billionaires Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson and other high-profile entrepreneurs have pledged to spark a “new economic revolution” based around clean energy after launching a new investment drive for renewables.
+Nov 29, 2015 – Winnipeg Sun
Environmentalists are calling for economy-wide carbon taxes as a way to force emissions to finally be reduced. But Premier Greg Selinger says that levy won’t be part of his new climate change strategy due out this Thursday.
+Nov 29, 2015 – CBC News
Hundreds of people marched in Winnipeg Sunday afternoon to raise awareness about climate change and to call on governments to do more to invest in clean energy.
+Nov 23, 2015 – CBC News
Justin Trudeau says he’s heading into the much-anticipated climate change talks in Paris next week with a “Canadian approach” to climate change, one that recognizes the work the provinces have already done.
+Nov 22, 2015 – CBC news
Alberta’s climate change strategy includes a tax on carbon, a cap on oilsands emissions, a phasing out of coal-fired electricity and an emphasis on wind power.
+Nov 15, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
The province is expanding geothermal heating to two more First Nations. That brings the number of First Nations in Manitoba converting to the earth-based heating and cooling system to six.
+Nov 13, 2015 – National Observer
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a set of directives to his cabinet ministers Friday that included instructions to end oil tankers transits on B.C.’s northern coast — a move that observers say could finally kill the long embattled Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal.
+Nov 6, 2015 – CBC News
The Obama administration rejected TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, capping a seven-year saga that became an environmental flashpoint in both Canada and the U.S.
+Nov 2, 2015 – New York Times
The company that hopes to build the Keystone XL pipeline to carry crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast asked the Obama administration Monday to delay its review of the proposal — a striking turn that adds further uncertainty to a project that has generated bitter debate since it was proposed seven years ago.
+Oct 26, 2015 – The Guardian
The Gulf in the Middle East, the heartland of the global oil industry, will suffer heatwaves beyond the limit of human survival if climate change is unchecked, according to a new scientific study.
+Oct 19, 2015 – Reuters
Cars will be banned from central Oslo by 2019 to help reduce pollution, local politicians said on Monday, in what they said would be the first comprehensive and permanent ban for a European capital.
+Oct 16, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
With noted Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki at his side Friday, Premier Greg Selinger says his government will introduce legislation that would “enshrine environmental rights” in all provincial decisions.
+Oct 16, 2015 – CBC News
A made-in-Manitoba ultralight airship, believed to be the first in western Canada, will soon take flight as part of an experiment that its creators hope will eventually lead to more cargo transportation options in remote communities.
+Oct 14, 2015 – Bloomberg News
The battle to build natural gas pipelines in the post-Keystone XL world has moved from the hearing room into the streets.
+Sep 30, 2015 – CBC News
More than half of Albertans want the province to adopt stronger climate change policies, even if that means oilsands producers are faced with higher costs, a new poll suggests.
+Sep 29, 2015 – The Guardian
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, has warned that climate change will lead to financial crises and falling living standards unless the world’s leading countries do more to ensure that their companies come clean about their current and future carbon emissions.
+Sep 28, 2015 – Wired
President Xi Jinping announced his country’s commitment to cutting emissions from the White House on September 24, the same day Pope Francis lectured Congress on how climate change is affecting the world’s poor. None of this is accidental.
+Sep 23, 2015 – Mashable
In his first public remarks since arriving in the U.S. for an historic visit, Pope Francis jumped immediately into the hot-button issue of climate change policy by praising President Obama’s plan to curb emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases.
+Sep 14, 2015 – NBC News
Hundreds of buildings have been lost to a fast-moving Northern California wildfire that had forced thousands to flee Sunday and hospitalized four firefighters with second-degree burns.
+Sep 10, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
Mayor Brian Bowman said Winnipeg needs a climate change co-ordinator and committed to making reports about the city’s greenhouse gas emissions public.
+Sep 7, 2015 – CBC News
TransCanada says it’s looking into what may have caused a natural gas pipeline fire that sent a large fireball into the sky south of the Canada-U.S. border in Minnesota over the weekend.
+Sep 5, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
As U.S. President Barack Obama implores world leaders to do more to combat climate change, the City of Winnipeg is doing less. The city parted ways this week with climate change co-ordinator Sean Madden, whose two-year contract ended Thursday. There are no immediate plans to replace him.
+Sep 1, 2015 – Canadian Press
An international summit on Arctic issues that seems designed to burnish the green legacy of U.S. President Barack Obama is highlighting the absence of climate debate so far in Canada’s federal election.
+Aug 24, 2015 – CBC News
Manitoba can expect more storms similar to what we had this weekend, but it’s ill-prepared for that, according to one expert.
+Aug 18, 2015 – Washington Post
For planet Earth, no other month was likely as hot as this past July in records that date back to the late 1800s. And the global is well on its way to having its hottest year on record.
+Aug 18, 2015 – Canadian Press
EDMONTON – Researchers have found that by mid-century — well within the expected lifespan of most oilsands developments — low water levels leading to withdrawal disruptions will increase by up to 40 per cent.
+Aug 15, 2015 – Global News
TORONTO – Climate scientists are keeping a close eye on what this year’s El Nino could mean for Canada’s upcoming winter. The phenomenon could bring another warm, dry winter for the Prairies. Quebec and Ontario may see some relief after last year’s frigid temperatures.
+Aug 13, 2015 – The Star
A 96-page report from the Ontario Energy Board raises a host of concerns about TransCanada’s proposal to convert its natural gas pipeline to carry crude oil from Alberta, through Ontario to the East Coast.
+Aug 13, 2015 – Globe & Mail
Enter the Harley LiveWire – a prototype electric motorcycle, but unquestionably one that is headed to market (widely rumoured by 2020). It is the bike that could change everything you think about the largest mass-produced U.S. bike manufacturer.
+Aug 12, 2015 – The Guardian
Canada’s Conservative government spent several million dollars on a tar sands advocacy fund as its push to export the oil faltered, documents reveal. The documents were revealed through a freedom of information (FOI) request.
+Aug 4, 2015 – Sydney Morning Herald
A team of Victorian and international scientists has found that a new additive included in a dairy cow’s diet can cut the cow’s methane emissions when it belches by almost one third.
+Aug 4, 2015 – CNN
Firefighters in steep terrain and rugged conditions in California are fighting nearly two dozen wildfires that have torched more than 134,000 acres. That’s nearly three times the state’s 5-year wildfire average for this time of year,
+Aug 4, 2015 – CBC News
Receding glaciers and lack of rain are already having an impact on local waterways, but there’s more bad news to come.
+Aug 3, 2015 – Associated Press
U.S. President Barack Obama has announced even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from power plants than previously expected, a challenge to the rest of the world to take serious action as a global summit to finalize a landmark climate change treaty approaches at the end of this year.
+Tue Jul 28, 2015 – Global News
WINNIPEG — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has released its report into a large pipeline explosion near Otterburne, Manitoba, in January 2014.
+Jul 23, 2015 – Hamilton Spectator
WEST KELOWNA, B.C. — Relentless forest fires burning across British Columbia may be the new normal, Premier Christy Clark warned as she stood not far from a raging fire that threatened homes in her own riding.
+Jul 17, 2015 – National Observer
Oil sands giant Nexen has apologized for one of the largest petroleum spill disasters in Canadian history at its facility just south of Fort McMurray.
+Jul 16, 2015 – Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON – Seven more Alberta counties are considering declaring states of agricultural disaster as persistent dry weather threatens the livelihoods of farmers across the province.
+Jul 16, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
Vehicles were stalled on Highway 59 in St. Pierre-Jolys on Wednesday night, and even floating, after about 75 millimetres of rain fell in less than an hour.
+Jul 13, 2015 – Globe & Mail
The Canadian Energy Strategy will be finalized and unveiled at a premiers’ conference in St. John’s beginning Wednesday. But The Globe and Mail has obtained a draft of the plan that reveals the key points and stumbling blocks.
+Jul 10, 2015 – The Star
On the climate change front, there is rarely any good news. But former U.S. vice-president Al Gore — who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to build awareness of climate change — is optimistic about the future.
+Jul 8, 2015 – Canadian Press
Hundreds of invitation-only delegates are attending a two-day Climate Summit of the Americas in Toronto. The conference is hosted by Ontario and aims to bolster the fight against global warming.
+Jul 6, 2015 – Global News
It’s been a harried 24 hours for several communities in the Kootenays. Last night several fires expanded in the region, causing an evacuation order south of Cranbrook and an evacuation alert just next to Nelson.
+July 5, 2015 – Global News
TORONTO — Screen icon Jane Fonda made an appearance Sunday at the kick-off for the Jobs, Justice and the Climate March.
+Jul 2, 2015 – Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The U.S. Geological Survey says updated scientific models don’t bode well for polar bear populations across the world, especially in Alaska, the only U.S. state with the white bears.
+Jul 1, 2015 – UPI
LONDON – Britain just endured its hottest July day on record. The official temperature of 36.7 C broke a record set in 2006, and prompted a Level 3 “heatwave action” to be declared by the Meteorological Office.
+Jun 26, 2015 – The Guardian:
Two years after Barack Obama’s sweeping promise to fight climate change on 25 June 2013, the president has used his executive powers to spit out new climate events or announcements at a dizzying rate of one every 4.5 days this year.
+Wed Jun 24 – Mashable
In a landmark victory for climate activists, a court in the Netherlands ruled Wednesday that the government must take action to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.
+Jun 24, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
WINNIPEG – Canada’s environment ministers wrapped up a two-day meeting in Winnipeg on Tuesday devoted mainly to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction — the first time in about a decade the issue has taken centre stage at one of their annual gatherings.
+Jun 18, 2015 – CBC News
Pope Francis demanded swift action on Thursday to save the planet from environmental ruin, urging world leaders to hear “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” and plunging the Catholic Church into political controversy over climate change.
+Jun 13, 2015 – Reveal News
Across the Bakken, deeply entrenched corporate practices and weak federal oversight inoculate energy producers against responsibility when workers are killed or injured, while shifting the blame to others.
+Jun 12, 2015 – New York Times
An apartment tower in New York will be the tallest passive-house high-rise in the world – and it will be affordable for university students.
+Jun 1, 2015 – Climate Central
In a stunning reversal of years of obstructionism to creating a global framework to deal with climate change, CEOs from global oil and gas behemoths Shell, BP, Total, Statoil, Eni and the BG Group have signaled that they’re ready for a price on carbon.
+May 29, 2015 – The Guardian
Some 39 projects containing 13bn barrels of oil are currently delayed or on hold, according to analysis published on Friday. The projects – a combination of open-cast mines and drilling – would pump 7.8bn tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere if they went ahead.
+May 27, 2015 – Reuters
A heat wave in India has killed more than 1,100 people this week as temperatures soar above 47 Celsius (116.6 Fahrenheit), and doctors’ leave has been canceled to help cope with the sick.
+May 27, 2015 – Climate Central
Record-breaking rain across Texas and Oklahoma this week caused widespread flooding, the likes of which the region has rarely, if ever, seen. For seven locations there, May 2015 has seen the most rain of any month ever recorded. The unprecedented amounts suggest a possible climate change signal.
+May 25, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
Transforming downtown into a walkable city centre that focuses on the pedestrian and cyclist experience first is the most important investment Winnipeg can make to promote an urban lifestyle different from the suburbs.
+May 25, 2015 – National Observer
As oil tars up the marine life and beaches of California and makes its way up the B.C. coast, the company responsible for the spill — Plains All American L.P.— is quietly expanding oil pipeline operations in Canada.
+Winnipeg Free Press – May 20, 2015
Whether or not climate change was to blame for the 2.5 cm of snow that fell in Winnipeg Sunday night, a new Forum Research poll suggests almost three in four Manitobans believe climate change is very real.
+May 15, 2015 – CBC News
Canada announced Friday it plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 amid international efforts to create a new framework for addressing climate change.
+CBC News – May 12, 2015
Sea levels over the past two decades have risen faster than previously thought, suggests a new study that reassesses the accuracy of satellite data.
+Winnipeg Free Press – May 11, 2015
THE Free Press is asking cyclists to submit their own photos of troublesome spots they encounter in their travels.
+May 4, 2015
The Obama Administration’s hotly debated plan to reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the nation’s power plants will save about 3,500 lives a year by cutting back on other types of pollution as well, a new independent study concludes.
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May 1, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
The City of Winnipeg plans to invest 330 million dollars in active transportation over 20-years to encourage walking and cycling in Winnipeg.
+April 30, 2015 – CBC News
Stephen Harper surprised a lot of people when he said Canada’s soon-to-be-announced target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020 will not be the same as the U.S.
+Apr 30, 2015 – Portage OnLine
Dakota Tipi First Nation near Portage la Prairie installed a hi-tech solar panel system on their administration building in early 2015. There are now plans to install a similar system on the school in 2016.
+Apr 28, 2015 – Time
An Audi research facility in Dresden, Germany, has managed to create the first batches of diesel fuel with a net-zero carbon footprint — made from carbon dioxide (CO2), water and renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power.
+Apr 27, 2015 – The Guardian
Extreme heatwaves and heavy rain storms are already happening with increasing regularity worldwide because of manmade climate change, according to new research.
+Apr 23, 2015 – CBC News
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it is unlikely that Canada will join the United States in a pledge to meet tough new targets for greenhouse-gas emissions over the coming decade.
+Apr 15, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
OTTAWA — Manitoba should have new emissions targets ready to announce in time for a worldwide conference on climate change scheduled for this fall, Premier Greg Selinger said Tuesday.
+Apr 14, 2015 – Canadian Press
QUEBEC – Provincial leaders from across Canada reaffirmed their commitment to fight climate change on Tuesday even as a meeting revealed major differences among them on how to achieve the objective.
+Apr 12, 2015 – CBC News
A Canadian social action organization opposing the Energy East pipeline says the project puts Winnipeg’s drinking water supply at risk.
+Apr 9, 2015 – CBC News
As a toxic bunker fuel spill spread across Vancouver’s English Bay and washed ashore on the city’s many beaches, people took to social media to share worrying photos, along with fears for the province’s environmental future.
+Apr 8, 2015 – Country Guide
It’s time to stop unscientific denials, and to get on with the job of preparing our farms for the real changes that are coming.
+Apr 8, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
Premier Selinger will be in Quebec City next week to discuss climate change with the other premiers. He’ll face an important decision: Will he act on climate? Or will he support the Energy East pipeline? The pipeline’s cheerleaders would like him to believe he can do both. The facts suggest otherwise.
+Apr 8, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
Despite assurances of equal time for panellists and respectful conversation, no one from the industry or from government seems to want to talk to the public about pipelines or fracking.
+Apr 8, 2015 – CBC News
A provincial report says the Energy East oil pipeline comes with significant environmental risk and small economic reward for northern Ontario. The report comes out of a year-long review of the project by the Ontario Energy Board.
+Apr 2, 2015 – CBC News
Russia and Canada led the world in the loss of tree cover in 2013, according to analysis of new satellite images by researchers and Global Forest Watch.
+Apr 1, 2015 – Montreal Gazette
The Parti Québécois opposition welcomed news that TransCanada Corp. will not build an oil port in Quebec as part of its cross-country Energy East pipeline project.
+Mar 30, 2015 – CBC News
The UN set the end of March as an unofficial deadline for developed nations to submit their reduction targets. The European Union, Switzerland and Norway have all produced their plans. The United States is expected to submit its targets soon. Canada, however, says it won’t announce any targets until later this year.
+Mar 28, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg businessman Art DeFehr says relocating the rail lines outside the Perimeter Highway would cost roughly $700 million but free up hundreds of acres of prime land for high-density housing and rapid transit and shrink the chances of a Lac-Mégantic-type disaster.
+Mar 27, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
An oil spill on a three-well pad near Cromer leached out to the point where it affected adjacent farmland. The spill dropped 30,000 litres of crude on the ground Monday after an O-ring on a check valve near the separator malfunctioned, causing oil to leak out.
+Mar 25, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
Red River College is putting a charge in the local electric car market today. The college is unveiling a Level 3 (30KW DC) electric-vehicle quick charging station at 10 a.m. at the Notre Dame campus this morning.
+Apr 2015 issue – National Geographic
The Mountain Pine beetle has killed whole mountainsides of lodgepole pine across ten states and two Canadian provinces. Now it is in the jack pine of the Boreal Forest and is spreading easterly. The beetle has us to thank for warming the whole planet with our carbon dioxide emissions.
+Mar 20, 2015 – CBC News
Twenty-five years ago, Norway chose to bank the returns from its oil resources, and it has paid off handsomely – to the tune of $1 trillion. Alberta can only look on with envy.
+Mar 18, 2015 – CBC News
Winnipeg-based Tundra Oil and Gas is cleaning up a spill that contaminated farmland near the town of Waskada early last month.
+Mar 18, 2015 – CBC News
Dozens of Canada’s top scholars are urging a sweeping remake of how the country produces and uses its energy in a necessary effort to wean itself off fossil fuels. But don’t worry, they say. This will hardly hurt at all.
+Mar 13, 2015 – Wired.com
Global emissions of carbon dioxide from the energy sector stalled in 2014, marking the first time in 40 years in which there was a halt or reduction in emissions of the greenhouse gas that was not tied to an economic downturn.
+Mar 10, 2015 – Vancouver Observer
The prospect of a giant pipeline pumping 1.1 million barrels of oil less than one kilometre past her southern Manitoba farm is alarming, says organic farmer Louise May. The pipeline also runs beside Winnipeg’s methane-rich landfill, within eyeshot of her home.
+Mar 4, 2015 – ScienceDaily
When its environmental and human health toll is factored in, a litre of gasoline costs us about $1.00 more than the pump price, a new Duke University study finds.
+Mar 4, 2015 – CBC News
Republicans have failed to muster enough votes to overrule U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent veto of a bill that would have approved the Keystone XL pipeline.
+Mar 3, 2015 – Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Canada’s contribution to a major United Nations climate change conference later this year will be heavily dependent on actions by provincial and territorial governments.
+Mar 2, 2015 – reNewEconomy.com
One of the biggest banks in the Middle East and the oil-rich Gulf countries says that fossil fuels can no longer compete with solar technologies on price, and says the vast bulk of the $US48 trillion needed to meet global power demand over the next two decades will come from renewables.
+Feb 24, 2015 – Canadian Press
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama made good Tuesday on a threat to veto a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, bringing the two sides in the long-running controversy to a rare point of agreement: their battle is far from over. The top Republican in the House of Representatives, John Boehner says: ”We are not going to give up in our efforts to get this pipeline built — not even close.”
+Feb 24, 2015 – CBC Radio
Willie Soon is one of the few bona fide scientists whose research has famously been used by climate change deniers in Washington to support their claims. But according to documents obtained by Greenpeace through a freedom of information request, nearly all of Soon’s climate research over the last 14 years was funded by the energy industry.
+Feb 20, 2015 – Vancouver Sun
After a terrible year for safety in 2012, a zero-incident campaign was promised in Canada. Today, the number of incidents — spills, fires and the like — is down sharply, but parts of the picture are more murky.
+Feb 19, 2015 – Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. – The Canadian company behind the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline will seek U.S. government approval for another pipeline – this one going north.
+Feb 17, 2015 – Globe and Mail
OTTAWA – The RCMP has labelled the “anti-petroleum” movement as a growing and violent threat to Canada’s security, raising fears among environmentalists that they face increased surveillance, and possibly worse, under the Harper government’s new terrorism legislation.
+Feb 12, 2015 – Washington Post
Tesla is working on a battery that can power your home and even help large-scale utilities store energy more efficiently, according to company chief executive Elon Musk.
+Feb 11, 2015 – Reuters
Apple Inc’s deal to buy nearly $1 billion of power from a massive First Solar Inc plant could be the first of a stampede of contracts driven by the looming change in a solar tax incentive that makes such projects particularly attractive.
+Feb 10, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
The announcement of the largest municipal infrastructure project in Winnipeg’s history – it’s also the first public-private partnership of its kind for transit in Canada – was made by representatives of all three levels of government at the downtown bus depot Monday afternoon.
+Feb 8, 2015 – Globe and Mail
Warm weather and rain linked to the Pineapple Express weather system is forcing Mount Washington Alpine Resort on Vancouver Island to shut down its winter operations as of Monday, a rare situation that comes as industry operators fear the impact of climate change.
+Feb 4, 2015 – Associated Press
STOCKHOLM – Norway says it will cut its emissions of global warming gases by 40 per cent by 2030, aligning itself with the target set by the European Union.
+Feb 3, 2015 – Bloomberg News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said developing Canadian oil sands would significantly increase greenhouse gases, a conclusion environmental groups said gives President Barack Obama reason to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
+Jan 29, 2015 – Vancouver Observer
An Ottawa public meeting about the Energy East project got heated last week when 350 citizens showed up with pointed questions about how the giant oil-sands pipeline might impact their waterways. Many were flummoxed they were not getting straight answers.
+Jan 29, 2015 – CBC News
Large storms like the blizzard that battered New England this week may become more severe but less frequent as the Earth’s climate changes, scientists said on Thursday.
+Jan 26, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
A group of local developers is about to launch two new infill condominium projects in the city, one in the Wolseley area and the other in the Maples. They hope to complete the Wolseley complex by October or November of this year and the Maples project by the spring of 2016.
+Jan 22, 2014 – LA Times
The U.S. Senate has made it official: Climate change is not a hoax. On Wednesday, the US Senate voted 98 to 1 in favour of the resolution: “It is the sense of the Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax.”
+Jan 13, 2015 – LA Times
For years automakers have failed to make an electric car with the two qualities most drivers demand: a long driving range and a low sticker price. Now General Motors, in a dramatic model debut in Detroit, says it has unlocked the magic formula.
+Jan 13, 2015 – CBC News
KENORA – A meeting Tuesday night in Kenora signals the start of a new round of public consultations on the Energy East pipeline. Both supporters and opponents of the plan in northwestern Ontario have concerns.
+Jan 12, 2015 – CBC News
Canada is trying to stop NAFTA’s environmental watchdog from taking a closer look at the environmental effects of the huge tailings ponds produced by Alberta’s oilsands, and it appears Mexico and the U.S. will go along with efforts to stop a formal investigation.
+Jan 8, 2015 – CBC News
The sooner Alberta decreases its economic dependence on the oilsands, the better off the province will be, says Jeff Rubin former chief economist at CIBC World Markets. Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says the plummeting price of oil means the province is facing a $500-million deficit this year instead of a budget surplus.
+Jan 7, 2015 – The Guardian
New research is first to identify which reserves must not be burned to keep global temperature rise under 2C, including over 90% of US and Australian coal and almost all Canadian tar sands.
+Jan 7, 2014 – Vancouver Observer
B.C. will ban the future conversion of proposed Liquified Natural Gas pipelines for the transport of oil or bitumen, the provincial government said Tuesday. The move is being seen as an effort to quell suspicions that LNG pipelines are being proposed as a backdoor way to build oil sands pipelines in the future.
+Jan 7, 2015 – CBC News
According to a new study published in the scientific journal Nature, Canada’s oil patch would have to be left mostly unexploited if the world is to avoid a rise in average temperature of two degrees or more, as almost every country in the world has committed to do.
+Jan 6, 2015 – Washington Post
President Obama would veto a bill that would allow for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, the White House said Tuesday. “If this bill passes this Congress, the president wouldn’t sign it,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
+Jan 2, 2015 – Winnipeg Free Press
WINNIPEG – You may want to think twice before warming up your car for extended periods of time during this winter’s deep-freeze. “It adds to wear and tear on the vehicle, and it also can just be a waste of money,” said John Correia, mechanic at Super Lube on Regent Avenue.
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