The press conference was was called to launch of the vanishing call of the right whale, a
powerful short documentary on the effect of seismic testing on whales
who spend time in the Gulf. The documentary, by Eliza Knockwood, is
narrated by actor and director Ethan Hawke, who summers on the shores of
the Gulf.
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Liberals to force Conservatives to vote on support for meeting Paris targets
Forcing a vote that will have MPs stand up and be counted on whether or
not they support Canada meeting the Paris targets appears drafted with
Scheer in mind.
not they support Canada meeting the Paris targets appears drafted with
Scheer in mind.
“Unfortunately Conservative politicians, from Jason Kenney to Doug
Ford, to Andrew Scheer do not think that climate change is an increasing
emergency. They do not see the economic opportunity of a cleaner
future, and as a result they’re trying to take us back in time,” McKenna
told reporters on her way into a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill
Tuesday morning.
The last time levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide
were this high came during the Pliocene Epoch, which extended from
about 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago. During that period, average
sea levels were about 50 feet higher than they are today and forests
grew as far north as the Arctic, said Rob Jackson, a professor of earth
system science at Stanford University. “Earth was a very different
place,” he said. “You would hardly recognize the land surface, and my
gosh, we don’t want to go there.”
Monsanto must pay US$2B to couple that said Roundup caused their cancers
SAN FRANCISCO – A jury on Monday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto
Co. to pay a combined US$2.055 billion to a couple claiming that the
company’s popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers.
Co. to pay a combined US$2.055 billion to a couple claiming that the
company’s popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers.
The jury’s verdict is the third such courtroom loss for Monsanto in
California since August, but a San Francisco law professor said it’s
likely a trial judge or appellate court will significantly reduce the
punitive damage award.
The state court jury in Oakland concluded that Monsanto’s weed killer
caused the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Alva Pilliod and Alberta Pilliod each
contracted. Jurors awarded them each $1 billion in punitive damages in
addition to a combined $55 million in compensatory damages.
Why is the RCMP watching community opposition to a quarry in New Brunswick?
“A very opaque police bureaucracy has expanded over the past few decades and the ‘extremists’ or targets of national security are those opposing resource extraction such as those participating in protests against pipelines, mines, fracking and hydro projects. These protests are being interpreted as threats to national security and infrastructure,” says Monaghan.
Blenis said the Project Mountain Upham group has: “drawn attention to how the project’s environmental assessment stated there are no regulated wetlands in the project site; indeed there is, and a full assessment of surrounding wetlands has not been completed.” She asks: “We are not happy with this, but does that warrant RCMP monitoring?”