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United Kingdom: Defra wants public to help shape water strategy
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 9th, 2010
Business Green: In a move apparently taken straight from David Cameron's vision for more open government, Defra has today launched an online survey calling on the public to help shape its up-coming overhaul of the UK's water policy. The department, which is currently working on a major Water White Paper designed to address rising climate change risks and fears over water supplies and affordability, will ask for ideas from the public on how to improve the UK's water industry. "There's a growing ...
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Pacific sockeye salmon return in record numbers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 9th, 2010
AFP: After years of scarcity, the rivers of the US and Canadian Pacific Northwest are running red, literally, with a vast swarm of a salmon species considered to be in crisis. Sockeye salmon, whose stocks ran perilously low last year, are gushing in record numbers from the Pacific Ocean toward their spawning grounds far inland. Since mid-August, in a torrent expected to last through early October, sockeye have plunged and leapt up Alaskan streams, massed through the mouth of the ...
Scarce Water Diverted by Greased Palms
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 9th, 2010
Inter Press Service: The battle to resolve the global water crisis is being grossly undermined by bad governance: bribery, extortion, embezzlement and high-level corruption. "Corruption in the water sector is a root cause and catalyst for the global water crisis that threatens billions of lives and exacerbates environmental degradation," complains the Berlin-based Water Integrity Network (WIN) founded in 2006. The water crisis, it argues, is a governance crisis with corruption at its ...
Canada helps create an oil sands world
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 9th, 2010
Tyee: Efforts to develop oil sands in Alberta are serving as a model for many other nations eager to exploit similar reserves within their borders. Huge unconventional fuel reserves -- extra heavy crude, oil sands and oil shale -- lie untapped across the globe. These resources emit much more carbon than regular oil, causing green groups to call them climate killers. So far, only a small fraction of the planet's unconventional oil has been tapped. Most countries lack the necessary capital, ...
Shun oilsands, save ‘billions’: Greenpeace
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 9th, 2010
Edmonton Journal: Canadians could save billions of dollars while reducing greenhousegas emissions and creating thousands of jobs if the country plots a new energy strategy that turns away from the oilsands industry, says a new report to be released today. The study, produced by the European Renewable Energy Council and Greenpeace International, is being released in advance of a world energy conference in Montreal and suggests the oilsands sector could become obsolete by 2050 through domestic and ...
Study: Pine beetle threat rising in warmer West
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 9th, 2010
KTVZ: The potential for outbreaks of spruce and mountain pine beetles in western North America's forests is likely to increase significantly in the coming decades, according to a study conducted by U.S. Forest Service researchers and their colleagues. Their findings, published in the September issue of the journal BioScience, represent the first comprehensive synthesis of the effects of climate change on bark beetles. "Native bark beetles are responsible for the death of billions of ...