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Federal Pipeline Regulators Push Back on Enbridge’s Line 9
Posted by Star: Jessica McDiarmid on March 9th, 2015
Star: Federal pipeline regulators are pushing back after Enbridge asked some municipalities along its Line 9 route, which cuts across the GTA, to sign non-disclosure agreements prior to receiving complete copies of emergency plans.
In a February 2015 letter to the pipeline company, National Energy Board chair and CEO Peter Watson wrote that officials representing Quebec municipalities had informed him of the company’s request for confidentiality agreements.
“Both officials expressed concerns about...
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Cambridge, Mass Wants to Cut Ties with TransCanada over KeystoneXL
Posted by Boston Globe: Steve Annear on March 9th, 2015
Boston Globe: Cambridge officials want to cut ties with the company that supplies electricity to its municipal buildings, citing the contractor's controversial KeystoneXL proposal for a crude oil pipeline from Canada through the United States.
TransCanada, which has offices in Boston, keeps the lights on at many Cambridge facilities, but lawmakers last week passed a policy order requesting that City Manager Richard Rossi refrain from entering into contracts with the company after the current deal expires this...
Journal Dedicates Issue Climate Change & Food Safety
Posted by Food Safety News: None Given on March 9th, 2015
Food Safety News: Food Research International has published a special issue dedicated to the impacts of climate change on food safety.
The collection of research examined issues such as pesticide use, parasite transmission, mycotoxin production on tomatoes, paralytic shellfish poisoning, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and the relationship between flooding and leafy greens contamination.
The issue was edited by researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and Ghent University in Belgium and includes several...
On the other side of Australia, a marine wonder to rival the Great Barrier Reef
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 9th, 2015
Guardian: Soon after taking off in our small aircraft, the Kimberley Aviation pilot, Ralph Bancroft, was confronted by a wall of wet season storm clouds. As we got closer, the clouds looked more like a mountain range than severe weather. Bancroft was taking us north from Broome airport over the Dampier Peninsula and, he said over the plane’s intercom, there would be no going directly through a cloud like the one right in our path. Instead he banked the aircraft and aimed for a canyon of clear sky between...