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Bill McKibben: Trudeau’s Pipeline Push Makes Him a Disaster for the Climate

Bill McKibben: Trudeau’s Pipeline Push Makes Him a Disaster for the Climate

Donald Trump is so spectacularly horrible that it’s hard to look away (especially now that he’s discovered bombs). But precisely because everyone’s staring gape-mouthed in his direction, other world leaders are able to get away with almost anything. Don’t believe me? Look one nation north, at Justin Trudeau. Look all you want, in fact—he sure […]

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    Oil Pipeline Spills 53,000 Gallons on First Nations Land

    Oil Pipeline Spills 53,000 Gallons on First Nations Land

    An oil pipeline has leaked about 200,000 liters, or 52,834 gallons, of crude onto an aboriginal community in the oil-rich province of Saskatchewan, Canada. This is the province’s largest pipeline breach since July’s disastrous 225,000 liter (59,438 gallon) Husky Energy Inc spill, in which some oil entered the North Saskatchewan River and cut off drinking […]

    New Tar Sands Pipelines Are Incompatible With Paris Climate Goals

    New Tar Sands Pipelines Are Incompatible With Paris Climate Goals

    New research released Thursday reveals disturbing new evidence on how locking-into new long-lived tar sands production undermines global efforts to address the global climate crisis far beyond Canada’s borders. “Trudeau’s pipeline decisions will lead directly to suffering, displacement and even death for vulnerable people around the world due to impacts of a warming world,” said […]

    7 Stunning Images Show the Northern Lights’ Winter Magic

    7 Stunning Images Show the Northern Lights’ Winter Magic

    With its Arctic climate and desolate, rocky landscape, icy Greenland isn’t a typical travel destination. That is precisely what drew award-winning explorer and photographer Paul Zizka to camp out on an ice cap and capture one of Greenland’s natural phenomena, the Aurora Borealis, aka Northern Lights. Ilulissat gave us the traditional green welcome tonight. It’s […]

    Kinder Morgan: Canada’s Dakota Access Pipeline

    Kinder Morgan: Canada’s Dakota Access Pipeline

    In the end, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, for all his suave talk of being a new progressive politician, who would era in a new type of politics, turned out disappointingly to be like all the rest. His suit is cut from the same old cloth. And like a classic politician he spoke in Orwellian […]

    Trump Touts Clean Coal as Canada Phases Out the Dirty Energy

    Trump Touts Clean Coal as Canada Phases Out the Dirty Energy

    In a brief video message outlining goals for the first 100 days of his presidency, Donald Trump stated he would cancel “job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy, including shale energy and clean coal.” “This plan would put America 100 days further behind where we need to be to address climate change and 100 […]

    Groundbreaking Study Shows Direct Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes

    Groundbreaking Study Shows Direct Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes

    Geoscientists have revealed a direct link between hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and earthquakes in Canada. The groundbreaking study found that earthquakes can even occur intermittently over several months after drilling operations end. Seismicity of northwestern Alberta, Canada for the period 1985−2016. The size of the dot correlates to the magnitude of the earthquake. Xuewei Bao […]

    Underwater Seismic Blasting Puts Arctic at Risk

    Underwater Seismic Blasting Puts Arctic at Risk

    The Arctic’s Baffin Bay and Davis Strait region is home to seals, bowhead whales, polar bears and up to 90 percent of the world’s narwhals. The area’s marine waters also provide habitat for 116 species of fish, such as Arctic char, an important dietary staple for Nunavut’s Inuit communities. Aboriginal groups in the Nunavut community […]