Over 50 Million People ‘Doubly Hit’ by Pandemic, Climate Disasters: WMO – The Energy Mix
“Last year was ranked as the hottest on record, in a tie with 2016
and 2019, despite the cooling effect of the cyclical natural climate
phenomenon, La Niña,” The Guardian reports. “Without this, 2020 would most likely have been the hottest year yet. The decade 2011-20 was the hottest on record.”
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“The bar is being raised further and further,” Eaqub told me in an interview a few years ago. “At these prices (the housing market) is only open to people who have generational wealth.”
The problem is spreading to small-town and rural Canada. House prices have jumped by 30 to 50 per cent in numerous small cities and towns across Ontario over the past year, as well as in many communities in British Columbia and Atlantic Canada. In Nova Scotia’s South Shore region, the benchmark price is up 60.8 per cent in a year, according to CREA data.
Source: Daniel Tencer: Want to avoid U.S.-style populism? Put a lid on house prices – The Line
Derek Chauvin found guilty on all charges in George Floyd’s death – 680 NEWS
Derek Chauvin was charged with second-degree murder, third-degree
murder and second-degree manslaughter — all of which required the jury
to conclude that his actions were a “substantial causal factor” in
Floyd’s death and that his use of force was unreasonable.
Floyd died last May after Chauvin, a 45-year-old now-fired white
officer, pinned his knee on the 46-year-old Black man’s neck for about 9
½ minutes.
Billionaires leading push for nuclear reactors in Canadian mining
With Gates and his billionaires’ nuclear club backing KoBold, it’s likely that their off-grid mining projects would welcome government financing for small modular reactors.
When asked about the situation, Mining Watch Canada’s Jamie Kneen told me by email:
"On the one hand, the mining industry faces so much risk in the markets that it’s unlikely to add to that risk by jumping on an unproven technology [like SMRs]. On the other hand, the mining industry is used to leaving masses of toxic waste behind for others to deal with – and getting away with it – so it’d be a perfect fit.“
The Premier also said recently that he supports building the Goldboro LNG project, even if that means the federal government forking out $1-billion in subsidies.
When questioned about that, he readily agreed that the project would
increase greenhouse gas emissions here in Nova Scotia, “but
internationally, it makes sense environmentally.” The theory being that
LNG “helps Germany get off coal.” As we know, the Premier continues,
“the reality is coal is the most carbon intensive fuel to be burned.”
That is a grotesquely misleading platitude perpetuated by the fossil
fuel industry, and repeated by our leaders- presumably because they find
it convenient.