‘Nothing to See Here, Folks’, as Canada Sends Updated Carbon Target to UN – The Energy Mix: “Nothing to see here, folks!” wrote Karri Munn-Venn, senior policy
analyst at Citizens for Public Justice. “In a highly anticipated
announcement about Canada’s new emissions reduction target, Environment
and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said, well, nothing.”

“The Canadian government has decided to not do its fair share of the action needed to avoid catastrophic climate change,” added
Dale Marshall, national climate program manager at Environmental
Defence Canada, in a release. “Instead, the government once again failed
to rein in oil and gas emissions by continuing to ignore the most
important measure: the phaseout of oil and gas production in Canada.”

‘Nothing to See Here, Folks’, as Canada Sends Updated Carbon Target to UN – The Energy Mix: “Nothing to see here, folks!” wrote Karri Munn-Venn, senior policy
analyst at Citizens for Public Justice. “In a highly anticipated
announcement about Canada’s new emissions reduction target, Environment
and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said, well, nothing.”“The Canadian government has decided to not do its fair share of the action needed to avoid catastrophic climate change,” added
Dale Marshall, national climate program manager at Environmental
Defence Canada, in a release. “Instead, the government once again failed
to rein in oil and gas emissions by continuing to ignore the most
important measure: the phaseout of oil and gas production in Canada.”Read More

Jody Wilson-Raybould won’t run in next election:
In a statement posted online Thursday
morning, Wilson-Raybould said that while it was not a quick or easy
decision to make, she is exiting federal politics to continue pushing
for the issues she cares most about—Indigenous reconciliation, climate
change, and social and racial justice— “in different venues.”

She said that deep change is needed to address the “regression” and
“marginalization” in Parliament, which she said has become fixated on
partisan gains over real action. She now feels that she can better
address these issues from outside of the House of Commons.

Jody Wilson-Raybould won’t run in next election:
In a statement posted online Thursday
morning, Wilson-Raybould said that while it was not a quick or easy
decision to make, she is exiting federal politics to continue pushing
for the issues she cares most about—Indigenous reconciliation, climate
change, and social and racial justice— “in different venues.”
She said that deep change is needed to address the “regression” and
“marginalization” in Parliament, which she said has become fixated on
partisan gains over real action. She now feels that she can better
address these issues from outside of the House of Commons.Read More

Larry Barzelai and Warren Bell: We need to stop B.C. from burning: These days we watch helplessly as our patients suffer increasingly
from heat stroke, dehydration, dislocation, and death. The worst thing
is that we can’t offer them hope that their future will be brighter.

B.C.’s
chief coroner, Lisa Lapointe, has reported that more than 300 excess
deaths have occurred during the last five days of June that were
attributable to the ravages of extreme heat. Many of the people who died
lived alone, were elderly, and lived in residences that were overheated
and poorly ventilated.

As residents of B.C .and citizens of
Canada, we need to be more than passive observers as temperature records
are smashed and towns are burning.

The province of B.C. and the
country of Canada are major contributors to the problem of global
overheating. The provincial government is exacerbating the climate
crisis by supporting fossil fuel development. It is established that
fossil fuels are the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas production
and hence to a warming planet.

Larry Barzelai and Warren Bell: We need to stop B.C. from burning: These days we watch helplessly as our patients suffer increasingly
from heat stroke, dehydration, dislocation, and death. The worst thing
is that we can’t offer them hope that their future will be brighter.B.C.’s
chief coroner, Lisa Lapointe, has reported that more than 300 excess
deaths have occurred during the last five days of June that were
attributable to the ravages of extreme heat. Many of the people who died
lived alone, were elderly, and lived in residences that were overheated
and poorly ventilated.As residents of B.C .and citizens of
Canada, we need to be more than passive observers as temperature records
are smashed and towns are burning.The province of B.C. and the
country of Canada are major contributors to the problem of global
overheating. The provincial government is exacerbating the climate
crisis by supporting fossil fuel development. It is established that
fossil fuels are the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas production
and hence to a warming planet.Read More

Glyphosate Is a ‘Probable Human Carcinogen.’ Why Is It Still Being Used? | The Tyee: Over the past two years, three U.S. juries have awarded multimillion-dollar verdicts to plaintiffs who asserted that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, gave them non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. Bayer, a German chemical company, bought
Roundup’s inventor, Monsanto, in 2018 and inherited some 125,000
pending lawsuits, of which it has settled all but about 30,000. The
company is now considering ending U.S. retail sales of Roundup to reduce
the risk of further lawsuits from residential users, who have been the main source of legal claims.

As scholars who study global trade, food systems and their effects on the environment, we see a bigger story: generic glyphosate is ubiquitous around the globe. Farmers use it on a majority of the world’s agricultural fields. Humans spray enough glyphosate to coat every acre of farmland in the world with half a pound of it every year.

Glyphosate is now showing up in humans, but scientists are still debating its health effects. One thing is clear, though: Because it’s an effective and very cheap weedkiller, it has become pervasive.  

Glyphosate Is a ‘Probable Human Carcinogen.’ Why Is It Still Being Used? | The Tyee: Over the past two years, three U.S. juries have awarded multimillion-dollar verdicts to plaintiffs who asserted that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, gave them non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. Bayer, a German chemical company, bought
Roundup’s inventor, Monsanto, in 2018 and inherited some 125,000
pending lawsuits, of which it has settled all but about 30,000. The
company is now considering ending U.S. retail sales of Roundup to reduce
the risk of further lawsuits from residential users, who have been the main source of legal claims.As scholars who study global trade, food systems and their effects on the environment, we see a bigger story: generic glyphosate is ubiquitous around the globe. Farmers use it on a majority of the world’s agricultural fields. Humans spray enough glyphosate to coat every acre of farmland in the world with half a pound of it every year.Glyphosate is now showing up in humans, but scientists are still debating its health effects. One thing is clear, though: Because it’s an effective and very cheap weedkiller, it has become pervasive.  Read More

Oilsands carbon cuts come with $60 billion bill, loose ends: … good deal of the costs
borne by taxpayers and many loose ends yet to be tied up, according to
two of the Canadian industry’s top CEOs.

To achieve the goal announced last month, about half of the emission
cuts would need to come from capturing carbon at oilsands sites and
sequestering it deep underground, which may require as much as
two-thirds government capital like in Norway, Mark Little, chief
executive office of Suncor Energy Inc., said in an interview.

It’s still unclear how and when most of the projects will be
implemented, or which agreements will be needed, but it’s clear the
industry doesn’t want to do it alone.

Oilsands carbon cuts come with $60 billion bill, loose ends: … good deal of the costs
borne by taxpayers and many loose ends yet to be tied up, according to
two of the Canadian industry’s top CEOs.To achieve the goal announced last month, about half of the emission
cuts would need to come from capturing carbon at oilsands sites and
sequestering it deep underground, which may require as much as
two-thirds government capital like in Norway, Mark Little, chief
executive office of Suncor Energy Inc., said in an interview.It’s still unclear how and when most of the projects will be
implemented, or which agreements will be needed, but it’s clear the
industry doesn’t want to do it alone.Read More