Cold Lake Spill: โThere is No Control on this Incident,โ says Energy Regulator
Canadian Natural Resource Limited (CNRL), the company responsible for a massive ongoing spill on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range southeast of Fort McMurray released a public notice last week claiming the release was โsecuredโ and that โclean-up, recovery and reclamation activities are well underย way.โ Cara Tobin, Office of Public Affairs spokesperson for the Alberta […]
Top Physicist Withdraws Support For Climate Sceptic Professor Sacked By Australian University
A PROMINENT and influential French physicist who had voiced support for a climate change sceptic fired from his Australian university has withdrawn a threat to report the case to a prestigious international scienceย council. Dr Marie-Lise Chanin had previously told The Australian newspaper that she was โscandalisedโ by the sacking of former Macquarie University professor Dr […]
Kalamazoo Spill Anniversary Raises Concerns About Line 9 Pipeline Integrity
Last week marked the third anniversary of the largest inland oil spill in US history. On July 25th, 2010 a 41-year old Enbridge pipeline in Michigan tore open spewing over three million litres of diluted tar sands bitumen or dilbit from Alberta into the Kalamazoo River and the surrounding area. Three years later the spill […]
LA Times: EPA Censored Key Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Study
A must-readย Los Angeles Timesย story by Neela Banerjee demonstrates that – once again – the Obama administrationย put the kibosh on a key Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study on hydraulic fracturing (โfrackingโ) groundwater contamination, this time in Dimock,ย Pennsylvania. Though EPA said Dimock’s water wasn’t contaminated by fracking in a 2012 election year desk statement, internal documents obtained […]
Alberta Tar Sands Blowout Threatens Boreal Forest, Wasn't Disclosed Until Months Later
Tar sands oil has been spilling in Albertaโs boreal forests for months, and according to a government scientist, neither industry nor government knows how to stop it. Four โoil blowoutsโ ย left 34 tons of vegetation covered in oil, dozens of animals dead, and two-foot-high coats of oil on tree trunks. So far, cleanup efforts have […]
GOP Elder Statesman George Shultz Urges Strong Action on Climate Change – In Stark Contrast To Current GOP Leadership
George Shultz, who served as Ronald Reaganโs Secretary of State from 1980 through 1984, is urging strong action on climate change and urging the US to move away from oil. ย ย ย In an interview in the July 24 issue of Scientific American magazine, Mr. Shultz said that dependence on oil weakens US national security; using […]
Industry Pressure Shuts Down EPA Fracking Investigations, Watch our Ring of Fire interview
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent countless taxpayer dollars and man-hours over the last few years investigating the environmental threats posed by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in many regions across the United States.ย And when their draft reports showed that the practice was poisoning water supplies, the gas industry stepped in and immediately put […]
New Nature Study Calls Melting Underwater Arctic Permafrost An "Economic Time Bomb"
Three academics walk into aย bar. After what must have been the worst happy hour ever, they emerge having discovered that melting oceanic permafrost could come with a hefty $60 trillion dollar price tag, slightly less than the entire worldย economy. We calculate that the costs of a melting Arctic will be huge, because the region is […]
Louisiana Sues Oil Companies For Wetlands Damage in Gulf Showdown
After decades of operating with complete disregard for the environment, the dirty energy industry finally has to face the music for destroying the wetlands that form a natural barrier against storm damage in the state ofย Louisiana. The suit, filed by the board of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, claims that the oil and gas […]
Countertrend: Google, Economist Flee from Climate Reality
The once-authoritative Economist news magazine has set fire to its credibility, again, by reporting that global warming has slowed to the point where one columnist argues that we should wait โa decade or twoโ before instituting any policy measures to ameliorate the threat. At the same time, Google, a company that advertises its corporate philosophy […]