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Deleterious Substances in the Athabasca River is a Toxic Brew

Buffalo Project calls on western MPs, senators to block feds’ ‘green recovery’
https://calgaryherald.com/news/buffalo-project-calls-on-western-mps-senators-to-block-feds-green-recovery

Meanwhile this is what we have to put up with

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation released a report that “asserted that the Government of Canada was failing to effectively enforce the pollution prevention provisions of the federal Fisheries Act with respect to the alleged leaking of deleterious substances from oil sands tailings ponds in northeastern Alberta, Canada.

September 12, 2020

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Why we still can’t stop oil spills from damaging the environment

It has been more than half a century since the world looked on in horror as the Torrey Canyon spilled some 100,000 tons of crude oil onto the coast of Britain. But when just 1,000 tons of fuel oil leaked from the bulk carrier Wakashio last month off Mauritius, it still caused the worst ecological disaster in the island nation’s history.

“About 75 per cent of the plants and animals are endemic to the island or to the Mascarenes,” said Vikash Tatayah, a conservation director at the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation. “Lost genetic diversity will never come back.”

So why are we still struggling to find a fast and effective way to tackle one of the most damaging of industrial accidents? Here are the options.

September 11, 2020

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Anti-nuclear flyers sent to 50,000 homes are ‘fear mongering,’ says top scientist | CBC News

Paul Gierszewski, the director of safety and technical research with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), the federal agency tasked with finding a permanent place to store Canada’s stockpile of nuclear waste, said the flyers are an attempt to deliberately deceive the public.

“From my perspective it’s being deliberately vague and its encouraging people to misinterpret the project,” he said. “It’s fear mongering in a way. Our approach is to isolate and contain the waste.”

The NWMO has been tasked with finding a permanent home for the most toxic waste Canada has ever produced, a stockpile of three million spent nuclear fuel bundles, which could end up at one of two potential sites: Ignace, a community northwest of Thunder Bay and the town of South Bruce on the shore of Lake Huron.

September 11, 2020

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Western lawmakers must fight feds’ “green recovery:” Buffalo Project

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Ottawa’s proposed post-pandemic “green recovery” would strike a death knell for Western Canada’s economy and must be blocked by Prairie MPs and senators, the Buffalo Project lobby group said Tuesday.

In a pair of open letters addressed to lawmakers, the group pushing for what it calls a better economic deal for the region says the Sept. 23 federal throne speech that’s to include a focus on environmental sustainability is a threat to western prosperity.

“The ‘Green Recovery’ plan promised by the West’s representative in cabinet, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, may be the undoing of our industries as we know it,” they state.

In recent months, oil and gas investors and industry underwriters have pulled back from Alberta’s oilsands, some of them citing what they call a lack of confidence in the province’s commitment to environmental sustainability and in projects’ economic viability in an era of low oil prices. The Buffalo Group’s Robinson insists the main reason for the energy industry’s woes are hostile federal policies.

Source: Western lawmakers must fight feds’ “green recovery:” Buffalo Project | Calgary Herald

This entry was posted in General and tagged alberta, federal, fossil fuels, recovery on September 10, 2020 by Steve.

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On election eve, New Brunswickers want more protected land

“Protecting
more forests from industrial activity will help mitigate against the
effects of climate change,” said ASF President Bill Taylor. “Having more
mature, mixed tree cover throughout our treasured watersheds will help
keep rivers and lakes cool, giving fish and wildlife the space needed to
thrive and adapt.”

September 9, 2020

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