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Memory Lane: When cutting sulphur dioxide pollution was all the rage | Starr’s Point
This news emerged as a byproduct of the main story about approval by the Utility and Review Board of a modest jump in electricity rates to cover increased fuel costs. Turns out the proposed increase – about 1.1 per cent a year over three years – would be greater but for the willingness of the Liberal government to degrade air quality with more SO2 from dirtier coal.
At present, NSP’s sulphur dioxide emissions are capped at 72,000 tonnes a year. NSP revealed to the utility board that the province intends to amend its Air Quality Regulations to allow 90,000 tonnes of emissions for 2021 and 2022.
“The revised SO2 emissions limit for 2020-2022 will result in significant savings in solid fuel costs for customers,” notes NSP.Translation: high sulphur coal is cheaper – and it appears NSP plans to burn a fair amount of it over the next two years.
Richer nations accused of stalling progress on climate crisis
There was a widespread view among delegates that Brazil was refusing to compromise on article 6 as a means of holding up implementation of the Paris accord. Brazil’s rightwing president, Jair Bolsonaro, is hostile to the Paris agreement, and is accused of paving the way for devastating fires set by ranchers in the Amazon, but the government is still officially a party to the UN talks.
Article 6 focuses on the role of carbon markets and carbon trading in helping countries to fulfil their pledges under the Paris agreement. Carbon markets allow for countries to claim carbon credits for carbon sinks, such as standing forests, and for emissions-cutting efforts, such as wind farms or renewable energy projects.
Grizzly bears move north in High Arctic as climate change expands range
Inuvialuit hunters and trappers say grizzly bears are showing up in
increasing numbers on islands of the Beaufort Sea and experts say
climate change is likely a driving factor.
increasing numbers on islands of the Beaufort Sea and experts say
climate change is likely a driving factor.
“The grizzly bears are moving into new areas,” said Vernon Amos,
chairman of the Inuvialuit game council, in an interview from Inuvik,
N.W.T.
UN climate talks in limbo as rifts among countries remain
Observers and environmental groups expressed outrage at the current proposals, saying they risked undoing or stalling on commitments made in the 2015 Paris climate accord.
“I’ve been attending these climate negotiations since they first started in 1991, but never have I seen the almost total disconnection we’ve seen here (…) in Madrid between what the science requires and the people of the world demand, and what the climate negotiators are delivering,” said Alden Meyer, a climate policy special at the Union of Concerned Scientists.