Tag: Canada - Page 2
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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.
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Does Obama even see Keystone XL as climate issue?
A report in TIME says White House doesn't see KXL as "a climate cure." Do they even recognize it as an climate issue, at all?
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Canada's glaciers are "headed for an irreversible melt"
A new study published in the Geophysical Research Letters reaches the scary conclusion that about 20% of all the ice contained in Canada's glaciers could melt by the end of this century.
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29 Vermont towns vote to oppose tar sands exports
The Keystone XL pipeline isn't the only tar sands project facing opposition from the public. Vermont residents voted to oppose the use of an existing pipeline for the transportation of Canadian tar sands oil.
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State Dept.'s Keystone XL report written by TransCanada
Brad Johnson at Grist has an intriguing report on the insider access Trans Canada has in writing the environmental impact statement of their own Keystone XL pipeline.
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Ontario might get a 400MW pumped storage station five times the height of Niagara Falls
While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).
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What do Canadians think of Keystone XL and tar sands?
The climate movement is growing in the US, but what do Canadians think of their role in exacerbating climate change?
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New Society Publishers Lives Another Day
It's tough out there in the book biz, but one of our favourite green publishers gets saved by its founders.
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Canada is Unprepared for Offshore Oil Spills
A new report by Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development shows that the country is unprepared for offshore oil spills. Meanwhile, offshore oil & gas exploitation is booming on the East coast...
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The Canadian Penny Died Today
No more penny for your thoughts north of the border.
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Wood Construction In North America Scales Up, Gets Gorgeous
It has taken a while on this side of the Atlantic, but wood construction is reaching for new heights.
