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    Millions of litres spilled and not a single fine: 16 years in a little-known Canadian oilpatch

    Jun. 27, 2024 – The Narwhal – Manitoba’s environment minister says the ‘decimation’ of her department under the previous government led to oversight gaps in the province’s oil industry. Experts say that spells big risks.

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    Shell gives go-ahead to 2 carbon capture and storage projects in Alberta

    Jun. 26, 2024 – CBC News – Shell Canada has announced it will forge ahead with a pair of carbon capture projects in Alberta, after recent setbacks for other proposed projects in the sector have cast doubt on the technology.

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    Ontario company FuelPositive casts eye on Manitoba for ‘green ammonia’ production system toehold

    Monday, Jun. 17, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – Over the past few years, Curtis Hiebert has watched the price of his farm’s fertilizer skyrocket. Now he’s trying to produce the plant food on his own land.Hiebert is piloting a system Ontario-based company FuelPositive hopes will revolutionize Manitoba farm operations.

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    Feds release carbon pricing impact data as cost debate rages

    June 14, 2024 – Canadian Press – Canada’s greenhouse-gas emissions will be 12 per cent lower in 2030 with carbon pricing in place than they would be if it was scrapped, new federal data published Thursday suggest.

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    Major overhaul of Winnipeg Transit routes in 2025 a ‘huge’ but needed change: transit advocate

    June 11, 2024 – CBC News – Major changes to the city’s transit route system next year were up for discussion at city hall on Tuesday, and while some are in favour of the overhaul, not everyone is on board.

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    Are Canadians paying ‘wacko’ high gasoline taxes?

    June 7, 2024 – The National Post – Canada’s Opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, has repeatedly attacked our national carbon tax-with-rebate policy. This policy places a rising fee on many sources of climate pollution, including the emissions from burning gasoline. That’s the “tax” part. The “rebate” part is cheques sent to Canadians that more than cover the costs for about 80 per cent of families.

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    The Arctic is Warming Faster Than Anywhere Else on The Planet

    June 7, 2024 – High North News – As the effects of global warming are felt around the world, nowhere is experiencing such drastic changes as the Far North. Scientists estimate that the Arctic is warming two to three times quicker than any other place on Earth. In Under Thin Ice, a documentary from The Nature of Things, extreme diver and underwater explorer Jill Heinerth travels to Greenland and Canada’s Far North to document what’s happening both above and below the Arctic’s quickly disappearing ice.

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    Human-caused global warming at all-time high, new report concludes

    June 4, 2024 – Space.com – Global temperatures are still heading in the wrong direction and faster than ever before. Last year alone, human activities — such as burning coal for cheap power — led to our planet warming by 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.34 Fahrenheit), according to a new report. If we continue pumping heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at our current rate, scientists say we have about five years before we drive global warming beyond the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) set by the Paris Agreement.

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    Oil CEOs tell House of Commons committee they support carbon pricing

    June 6, 2024 – Oil CEOs testify before parliamentary committee.

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    Disaster survivors bring pleas for climate change action to Parliament Hill

    June 6, 2024 – The Canadian Press – Disaster survivors plead with MPs to act.

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    UN Chief Calls on Advertising and PR Agencies to Stop Fuelling Climate Disinformation

    June 6, 2024 – In a pivotal speech at the American Museum of Natural History in New York to mark World Environment Day, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on countries to ban fossil fuel advertising in the same way they restricted tobacco.

    “Many in the fossil fuel industry have shamelessly greenwashed, even as they have sought to delay climate action – with lobbying, legal threats, and massive ad campaigns. They have been aided and abetted by advertising and PR companies – Mad Men fuelling the madness,” the UN chief said.

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    Here’s how climate social scientists are finding their way in the era of climate crisis

    June 4, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – The acceleration of the climate crisis has been breathtaking and talking to experts in a time of crisis is a good thing. But these articles are problematic. They seek to motivate through fear while usualy offering only vague notions of absent “political will” to diagnosis the problem and little beyond “listen to the scientists” as a solution.

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    Rate of global warming caused by humans is at an all-time high, say scientists

    June 4, 2024 – Phys.org – University of Leeds – The second annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, which is led by the University of Leeds, reveals that human-induced warming has risen to 1.19 °C over the past decade (2014-2023)—an increase from the 1.14 °C seen in 2013-2022 (set out in last year’s report).

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