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New Brunswick Mayor Adds to Chorus of Dissent Against TransCanada Energy East Pipeline
Posted by Globe and Mail: Jane Taber AND Shawn McCARTHY on September 13th, 2013
Globe and Mail: The mayor of a small city in northern New Brunswick is using his civic blog to chronicle his and his residents' opposition to the proposed TransCanada pipeline that could, if approved, see Alberta crude oil flowing through his community.
Under the title, "Not in my backyard," Edmundston Mayor Cyrille Simard wrote: "For the past several months, the TransCanada pipeline "¦ has been making headlines. It has also been creating headaches for many residents of Edmundston, myself included." Mr. Simard...
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Switch from Coal to Gas Poses Some Risks for Utilities, Says Study
Posted by ClimateWire: Daniel Cusick on September 13th, 2013
ClimateWire: The unprecedented boom in natural gas production from places like Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio should make those densely populated regions self-sufficient in gas production by 2020, which in turn could encourage more electric utility fuel switching, according to two top energy sector analysts with Navigant Research.
But utilities will still face a difficult set of questions when charting the future of power generation, including whether to invest billions of dollars in environmental controls...
Warm Water Under Antarctic Glacier Spurs Speedy Melting Rate
Posted by LiveScience: Denise Chow on September 13th, 2013
LiveScience: A two-month-long expedition to one of the most remote sites on the planet — the sprawling Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica — has revealed that currents of warm water beneath the glacier are melting the ice at a staggering rate of about 2.4 inches (6 centimeters) per day. An international team of researchers journeyed to the southernmost continent to study the Pine Island Glacier, which is the longest and fastest-changing glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This region, in the far reaches of...
Three dead, thousands evacuated in Colorado flooding
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2013
Reuters: Flooding that killed at least three people in Colorado, toppling buildings and stranding drivers, worsened overnight as record rains pounded the state, forcing thousands more residents to flee to higher ground, officials said.
The unusual late-summer downpours drenched Colorado's biggest urban centers, stretching 130 miles along the eastern slopes of the Rockies from Fort Collins near the Wyoming border south through Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs.
In Boulder, the rainfall record for...
One-Third of World’s Food Goes to Waste
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 13th, 2013
Environment News Service: One-third of all the world's food is wasted every year at enormous economic and environmental cost, finds a United Nations report released Wednesday.
The report, "Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources," is the first study to analyze the impacts of global food wastage from an environmental perspective, looking at its consequences for the climate, water and land use, and biodiversity.
The waste of 1.3 billion tons of food each year is damaging to the environment and causes economic...
USDA, Coca-Cola to sign 5-year partnership to help restore watersheds on national forest land
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2013
Associated Press: The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Coca-Cola on Friday will sign a five-year agreement to restore watersheds that have been damaged or altered by development, wildfires and agriculture as part of an initiative to slow runoff and replenish groundwater on federal lands. Such efforts are increasingly important to corporations and farmers who rely on water and to tens of millions of people whose drinking water originates in the national forest system, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. But...