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Keystone climate impact could be four times US State Dept. estimate, study says
Posted by CTV: None Given on August 11th, 2014
CTV: An economic analysis of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline's possible climate impacts has concluded they could be up to four times higher than previously estimated.
In the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute write that widely quoted U.S. State Department findings that the oilsands pipeline wouldn't make a significant difference missed a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
"It didn't appear that they looked at the market...
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Comments Off on Keystone climate impact could be four times US State Dept. estimate, study saysCanada National Energy Board Delays Trans Mountain Pipeline Review Deadline
Posted by CTV: None Given on July 16th, 2014
CTV: The City of Burnaby's refusal to co-operate with Kinder Morgan has forced a seven-month delay in a National Energy Board review of the company's proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline through British Columbia.
The NEB announced Tuesday it has deferred the deadline for the final report to cabinet until Jan. 25, 2016, while Kinder Morgan completes necessary studies.
The agency wants more information about a preferred new route through Burnaby Mountain but, so far, the Metro Vancouver...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Canada National Energy Board Delays Trans Mountain Pipeline Review DeadlineGreat Lakes mayors join forces to adapt to climate change
Posted by CTV: None Given on January 18th, 2014
CTV: The provincial government is supporting a new program launched by members of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative in an effort to adapt their municipalities to climate change.
The one time, $145,000 grant will help develop the Municipal Adaptation and Resilience Service or MARS program.
The goal of MARS is to give member municipalities a portal where they can share information to help them adapt and prepare for major environmental events such as storms and flooding.
Recent...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Great Lakes mayors join forces to adapt to climate changeCanada: Alberta Wildrose leader now says she believes in climate change
Posted by CTV: None Given on October 25th, 2013
CTV: Alberta Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith, under fire by critics as a weak leader and climate change denier, announced Friday she now believes climate change exists and that mankind is at least partially to blame.
"I accept that climate change is a reality, as do our members. I accept that there's a human influence on it," Smith told reporters as her party delegates opened a weekend policy convention.
"I leave the debate about the details to the science about (to) what extent it is and how fast...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Canada: Alberta Wildrose leader now says she believes in climate changeCanada: Is climate change putting Toronto’s infrastructure at risk?
Posted by CTV: None Given on January 30th, 2013
CTV: City hall’s parks and environment committee is debating a report Tuesday that paints a gloomy picture for Toronto’s existing and aging infrastructure.
The study examined the effect climate change will have on the city’s infrastructure in the decades to come.
In response to the study, some environmentalists are calling on the city to invest in a major overhaul of infrastructure, including roads, bridges, drainage and sewer systems, to prepare for and adapt to climate change projections and potentially...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Canada: Is climate change putting Toronto’s infrastructure at risk?Oilsands pipeline ‘huge attack’ on climate
Posted by CTV: None Given on November 6th, 2011
CTV: Warning that the $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline constitutes "a huge attack on our climate," American actor Mark Ruffalo joined a Washington protest Sunday that planned to encircle the White House.
"If we're honest about climate change, we need to face this head-on," the Academy Award-winning actor said in an appearance on CTV's Question Period. "And exploiting the tarsands is not the way to do it."
Ruffalo, who has joined actors Darryl Hannah and Robert Redford in a stand against the pipeline,...
Climate change to spur crop shortages by 2020: study
Posted by CTV: None Given on January 18th, 2011
CTV: The world may be 2.4 degrees warmer by the end of this decade, and that could have deadly consequences for global food production, according to a new study overseen by Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist Osvaldo Canziani.
"The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective," was published Tuesday afternoon by an Argentina-based non-profit group called the Universal Ecological Fund released (UEF).
According to the report, by 2020 there will be a shortfall of 14 per cent for...