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Runaway global warming becomes concern permafrost melts
Posted by ClimateWire: Gayathri Vaidyanathan on November 20th, 2015
ClimateWire: In a fragile landscape where footsteps leave an imprint for years, Jennifer Baltzer stood and surveyed the surrounding bog of green sphagnum moss. Black spruce trees tilted here and there like drunkards.
Using a metal rod, Baltzer, an ecologist with Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, pierced the ground near a spruce.
"You are jamming into ice there," she said. Without that freeze, the unstable spruce trees would entirely lose their footing and drown.
Goose Lake is at the knife's...
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Canadian regulator halts TransCanada pipeline construction following spills
Posted by Reuters: Mike De Souza on November 20th, 2015
Reuters: Canada's national energy regulator has halted construction on a new TransCanada Corp natural gas pipeline after reviewing evidence that it may have spilled a toxic drilling fluid into a major Western Canadian river, a spokesman said on Friday.
The National Energy Board (NEB) said it issued a safety order on Thursday after reviewing records submitted by TransCanada related to four separate spills of drilling fluid into the Athabasca River, a waterway in northern Alberta. In a separate move earlier...