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Canada: Ontario, Quebec sing different oilsands tune when cash beckons
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 23rd, 2010
Calgary Herald: After months of publicly denouncing the oilsands for its environmental footprint, the Quebec and Ontario governments are in Alberta this week with entrepreneurs looking to land supplier contracts with companies developing the resource. The Quebec government asked businesses from that province to participate in the economic mission to Edmonton this week for the National Buyer/Seller Forum -- a conference dedicated to oilsands investment -- saying the projects in northern Alberta ...
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Ethiopia: Construction of Dam Will Devastate Local Communities
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 23rd, 2010
Inter Press Service: Gideon Lepalo describes growing up in Loiyangalani, 20 kilometres from Lake Turkana, as magical. However, he fears the building of Gilgel Gibe III dam in Ethiopia, upstream of the Omo River, will soon mean that his childhood memories of the lake will be exactly that - memories. According to an independent environmental impact assessment (EIA) done by the Africa Resources Working Group (ARWG), a cluster of eight scholars and consultants from the United States, Europe and Eastern ...
Global warming threatens plant diversity
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 23rd, 2010
ScienceDaily: In the coming decades, climate change is set to produce worldwide changes in the living conditions for plants, whereby major regional differences may be expected to occur. Thus today´s cool, moist regions could in future provide habitats for additional species, and in arid and hot regions the climatic prerequisites for a high degree of plant diversity will deteriorate. This is the conclusion reached in a new study by scientists at the Universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Yale, and ...
Watchdog urges World Bank to address water stress
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 23rd, 2010
Business Green: The World Bank is failing to adequately target funding at developing countries suffering water shortages despite the fact droughts are likely to be exacerbated by climate change, according to a report from the body's internal watchdog. The report, released yesterday by the bank's Independent Evaluation Group to coincide with World Water Day, concluded that there was "no clear relationship between Bank water lending and water stress". The report found that the effects of water ...
Caracas peak blazes for third day in drought
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 23rd, 2010
Reuters: A blaze raged on the Avila mountain over Caracas for a third day on Tuesday, threatening wildlife in its national park and sending smoke billowing over the upper reaches of the Venezuelan capital. Since the weekend, the fire has lit up the night sky and consumed nearly 120 hectares (300 acres) of the Avila's thickly wooded slopes, which are home to more than 120 mammal species and 500 types of bird. The authorities said some 200 firemen, police and volunteers had been battling ...