Tag: Canada
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Tobacco Plants Pulled From Window Boxes, Under Threat of Fines
Governmental overreach or sensible enforcement of the rules? A business owner is accused of "promoting tobacco and smoking to children".
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Why Keystone XL pipeline must be stopped
The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert explains why the Keystone XL pipeline must be a line in the sand for a livable future.
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's David Bowie cover is an important moment for science
As you can see from the press response collected below, Commander Hadfield is universally admired, so it has been inspiring to see the overwhelming response to this music video.
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Dear Subaru: It's a bad idea to call your target audience a bunch of smelly loud bums
The car company has been stereotyped for years, but that hasn't stopped them from peddling every tired cliche about transit.
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Beautiful timelapse video aims to save ancient forest
Four filmmakers, two canoes, six cameras and a passion for the environment came together to create this inspiring timelapse video aimed at preserving what remains of the ancient Red Pine forest in Ontario, Canada.
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Vice President Biden opposes Keystone XL. What can this tell us about Obama's plans?
"Vice President Joe Biden told a South Carolina environmental activist Friday that he opposes a controversial oil pipeline from Canada, but said he is "in the minority" inside the Obama administration."
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Jargon watch: "Unburnable carbon" is important buzz word in energy debate
Leaving some fossil fuels in the ground is the oft-overlooked option in debates over energy policy. "Unburned carbon" is new buzz word and important choice in energy debate.
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Back from the dead: Groundbreaking Canadian freshwater research center finds savior
Last Summer, we wrote about the tragic decision by Canada's federal government to shut down the ground-breaking Experimental Lake Area (ELA) freshwater research project. At the time, the decision seemed purely based on politics and ideology.
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If Keystone XL is rejected, will rail shipments fill the gap?
While rail may be considered safer than a pipeline, I don't find that argument compelling when considered in the context of the math of climate change. The debate over rail versus pipelines is the wrong argument to be having.
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The latest on Keystone XL: EPA criticizes State, while activists rally opposition
David Gordon, the director of policy planning under former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, says the chances are about four-to-one” that President Obama will approve the Keystone XL pipeline from the Canadian tar sands to oil refineries in Texas.
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Canadian government learns from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about how to stifle dissent
Approving a pipeline across Toronto is a lot like building a bypass through Arthur Dent's house.
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James Hansen makes the case against Keystone XL and tar sands extraction
Climate scientist, James Hansen is retiring from NASA to to focus his time and energy to slowing the release of greenhouse gases.
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Second Shot recycles skateboards into snazzy eyewear & watches
A Canadian company is making some smart-looking embellishments out of recycled skateboard decks.
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After 10 years of hard work, Ontario is getting ready to close its last coal power plants
It wasn't always easy and not everybody agreed with how it was done, but over the past 10 years, the Canadian province of Ontario has shown that it's possible to wean a large economy off coal.
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Exxon pipeline breaks spilling 84,000 gallons of Canadian crude oil near Arkansas lake [UPDATED]
The ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline, which carries Canadian crude oil from Illinois to Texas, ruptured Friday, leaking at least 80,000 gallons of oil into Central Arkansas.
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Transport Canada scraps study that would have tested the efficacy of side guards on trucks
Everybody thinks mandatory side guards are a great idea, except the trucking industry. So why was this study spiked?
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A train derailing, spilling 30,000 gallons of oil is still not a reason to build Keystone XL pipeline.
A train hauling crude oil from Canada has derailed in Minnesota spilling 30,000 gallons of oil. Despite what proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline may argue, this is not a good reason to build that pipeline.
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State Department hid ties between Keystone XL report and TransCanada
Mother Jones has found more information on how the State Department used Trans Canada conctractors to write its environmental report of the Trans Canada Keystone XL pipeline.
