The Big Melt | The Tyee:

By century’s end B.C. will lose 70 per cent of its glacial ice. The
effects will imperil life on the coast for everything from salmon to
grizzly bears, plankton to people.

The Big Melt | The Tyee: By century’s end B.C. will lose 70 per cent of its glacial ice. The
effects will imperil life on the coast for everything from salmon to
grizzly bears, plankton to people.Read More

Economic Hit from Prairie Drought Could Be ‘Like Losing Ontario Auto Sector’ – The Energy Mix: While droughts are a normal part of the agricultural cycle, this one
extends “from Vancouver Island to southern Quebec, down into the United
States, into California, right into Mexico,” Pomeroy told CBC. “It’s
enormous.”

The impacts will show up quickly in a part of the country that
depends on water for irrigation, hydropower, potash mining, and fossil
production, CBC says.

“Back about 20 years ago, there were four years where there was a
C$10-billion hit to the western Canadian economy from drought and 41,000
jobs lost in Saskatchewan alone. So there’s an impact,” Pomeroy told
the national broadcaster. “It’s like losing the automotive industry out
of southern Ontario.”

That dire future may not be far away, said Starbuck, MB canola grower Chuck Fossay.

“If we don’t get a rain, a nice, gentle, soaking rain in probably the
next two weeks, we’re probably talking a crop failure out here in
Manitoba,” Fossay said. “Dry is dry and nothing grows without water.
That’s just a fact of life. You need water to live. And if you don’t
have enough water, nothing grows.”

Economic Hit from Prairie Drought Could Be ‘Like Losing Ontario Auto Sector’ – The Energy Mix: While droughts are a normal part of the agricultural cycle, this one
extends “from Vancouver Island to southern Quebec, down into the United
States, into California, right into Mexico,” Pomeroy told CBC. “It’s
enormous.”The impacts will show up quickly in a part of the country that
depends on water for irrigation, hydropower, potash mining, and fossil
production, CBC says.“Back about 20 years ago, there were four years where there was a
C$10-billion hit to the western Canadian economy from drought and 41,000
jobs lost in Saskatchewan alone. So there’s an impact,” Pomeroy told
the national broadcaster. “It’s like losing the automotive industry out
of southern Ontario.”That dire future may not be far away, said Starbuck, MB canola grower Chuck Fossay.“If we don’t get a rain, a nice, gentle, soaking rain in probably the
next two weeks, we’re probably talking a crop failure out here in
Manitoba,” Fossay said. “Dry is dry and nothing grows without water.
That’s just a fact of life. You need water to live. And if you don’t
have enough water, nothing grows.”Read More

Greyhound Canada closure will be a ‘disaster’ for rural communities, experts say: According to Matti Siemiatycki, Interim Director of the School of
Cities at the University of Toronto, some of Canada’s most remote and
impoverished communities are likely to be among those feeling the
compounded effects wrought over the lack of accessible and affordable
transportation.

“People who are low income, often students, are
most dependent on intercity bus, as well as seniors who may be using it
to go visit family or to get to appointments in cities as well as
Indigenous people travelling in the north or remote communities,” said
Siemiatycki.

“So this will have a knock-on effect on those
travellers who are already the most disadvantaged and it actually even
extends the struggles for connecting smaller communities.”

Greyhound Canada closure will be a ‘disaster’ for rural communities, experts say: According to Matti Siemiatycki, Interim Director of the School of
Cities at the University of Toronto, some of Canada’s most remote and
impoverished communities are likely to be among those feeling the
compounded effects wrought over the lack of accessible and affordable
transportation.“People who are low income, often students, are
most dependent on intercity bus, as well as seniors who may be using it
to go visit family or to get to appointments in cities as well as
Indigenous people travelling in the north or remote communities,” said
Siemiatycki.“So this will have a knock-on effect on those
travellers who are already the most disadvantaged and it actually even
extends the struggles for connecting smaller communities.”Read More

Campaigners Plan ‘Eviction’ Events, Ottawa Backs Enbridge as Line 5 Closure Deadline Arrives – The Energy Mix: “We will not stop operating the pipeline unless we’re ordered by a
court or our regulator, which we think is highly unlikely,” he said.

That has Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel considering the
“punitive measures” her office can pursue, once courts have resolved the
parties’ dispute on whether the issue should be decided at the state or
federal level.

“As the deadline looms, parties on all sides of the debate are
bracing for drama in the Straits as activists protest Enbridge’s
defiance, while acknowledging that at least for now, it appears likely
that Line 5’s fate will be decided over months or even years, in distant
courtrooms or administrative proceedings,” Michigan Radio writes.

Campaigners Plan ‘Eviction’ Events, Ottawa Backs Enbridge as Line 5 Closure Deadline Arrives – The Energy Mix: “We will not stop operating the pipeline unless we’re ordered by a
court or our regulator, which we think is highly unlikely,” he said.That has Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel considering the
“punitive measures” her office can pursue, once courts have resolved the
parties’ dispute on whether the issue should be decided at the state or
federal level.“As the deadline looms, parties on all sides of the debate are
bracing for drama in the Straits as activists protest Enbridge’s
defiance, while acknowledging that at least for now, it appears likely
that Line 5’s fate will be decided over months or even years, in distant
courtrooms or administrative proceedings,” Michigan Radio writes.Read More

The end of an era: how the global steel industry is cutting out coal | The Narwhal: SSAB, which produces approximately 8.8 million tonnes
of steel every year at its production plants in Sweden, Finland and the
United States, has invested in technology that uses clean hydrogen in
place of metallurgical coal.

Metallurgical
coal has long been used to manufacture steel, one of the most
ubiquitous materials on the planet. Coal is conventionally used for
heating and in chemical reactions to create iron, the essential
ingredient needed to make steel. But as the world grapples with the
climate crisis, the steel industry’s centuries-old reliance on coal —
and its enormous carbon footprint — is being called into question.

The end of an era: how the global steel industry is cutting out coal | The Narwhal: SSAB, which produces approximately 8.8 million tonnes
of steel every year at its production plants in Sweden, Finland and the
United States, has invested in technology that uses clean hydrogen in
place of metallurgical coal.Metallurgical
coal has long been used to manufacture steel, one of the most
ubiquitous materials on the planet. Coal is conventionally used for
heating and in chemical reactions to create iron, the essential
ingredient needed to make steel. But as the world grapples with the
climate crisis, the steel industry’s centuries-old reliance on coal —
and its enormous carbon footprint — is being called into question.Read More