Although many countries are setting ambitious carbon reduction targets, a few are still struggling to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Among G8 economies, Canada has the worst GHG record, and Environment Canada attributes Canada’s poor showing to large increases in oil and gas production. Environment Canada says that carbon dioxide emissions rose [...]
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Just six days into office, Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson has signed an agreement that will let Sunflower Electric Power Corp build one 895-MW coal-fired power plant near Holcomb. The company had originally wanted to build two 700-MW coal plants, but this compromise will overcome a two-year stalemate that saw former governor Kathleen Sibelius veto the [...]
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OK, here’s the basic story. Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice says that his government will not allow any new coal plants to be built in Canada without carbon capture and sequestration technology, a sure sign that the US position on GHG emissions is even affecting policies north of the border. Prentice’s new position has already [...]
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Humanity has burned half the fossil fuels required to force a 2°C rise in average global temperatures, and at the current rate, we’ll have 40 years to become a 100 percent renewable-energy society. That’s the message in a new study published in Nature last week which tries to simplify the climate debate by suggesting that [...]
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Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman writing in The New York Times about why a cap-and–trade policy is exactly what we need in the recession. An Affordable Salvation By Paul Krugman The 2008 election ended the reign of junk science in our nation’s capital, and the chances of meaningful action on climate change, probably through a [...]
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Posted in Activism, Old King Coal, Politics, USA on May 1st, 2009
The Lung Association brought forward astonishing statistics this week — that in the world’s richest country, more than 186 million people live and work in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution. In fact. the air quality results in 2008* were much worse than 2007, according to the advocacy group’s State of the Air report. [...]
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Posted in Housekeeping, USA on May 1st, 2009
A friend of mine, author Erica Kirov, is launching The Magickeepers — The Eternal Hourglass today, so we’re taking a brief moment out of saving the planet to tell people about it. Of course, Canadian readers can also get it at Chapters or their favorite independent. The plot: What would you do for an hourglass [...]
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