Wilkinson Sets End-of-July Deadline to Decide on Vista Coal Mine Review – The Energy Mix
That word comes after Ecojustice published an open letter and launched a high-profile campaign calling on Wilkinson to revisit his original decision.
Wilkinson Sets End-of-July Deadline to Decide on Vista Coal Mine Review – The Energy Mix
That word comes after Ecojustice published an open letter and launched a high-profile campaign calling on Wilkinson to revisit his original decision.
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is reconsidering a decision in December to keep the federal government out of the approvals process for a major coal-mine expansion in Alberta.
The existing Vista mine, which is owned by the U.S. coal giant Cline Group, began shipping coal for export in May 2019 and the company is now looking to double, or possibly even triple, its output.
Wilkinson declined in December to order a federal impact assessment of the project near Hinton, Alta., between Edmonton and Jasper, saying the potential risks to the environment and Indigenous rights would be dealt with by a provincial approval process.
That was the ultimate in “climate hypocrisy,” Thomson said Wednesday.
Source: Environment minister reconsidering decision to stay out of Alberta coal-mine review | CBC News
The new tracker reveals that G20 countries, who account for 80% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, have committed at least $150.81 billion to support fossil fuel energy while only $88.63 to support clean energy. The tracker was launched ahead of G20 meetings of finance ministers and central bank governors and deputies this weekend.
“At this point in history it’s clear that investing in fossil fuels is as lethal to global economies as it is to life on Earth,” said Catherine Abreu, executive director of Climate Action Network (CAN) Canada. “Yet G20 leaders keep lying to themselves and their citizens as they prop up coal, oil, and gas with public money in the name of private financial return.”
“Canada’s claims to international leadership are hollow as long as its national and subnational governments funnel money to polluting projects like Vista and the Trans Mountain and Coastal Gaslink pipelines,” Abreu added. “Covid-19 has revealed two truths that Canada and G20 leaders must heed: one, if we don’t kill pollution, it will kill us; and two, a healthier world is possible—we need to only choose to build it.”
The world’s pollution will finally be tracked in real time
It could also make it easier for the hundreds of companies, cities, counties, and states that have made ambitious climate commitments to reliably track their process. “Trying to build up such an infrastructure the old, bottom-up way won’t get us where we need to be in time,” says Fransen, “so I’m thrilled that a big, smart, and well-resourced coalition is taking this on with an ambitious vision and a novel approach.”
Siberia heat ‘almost impossible’ without climate change
One town, Verkhoyansk, recorded a temperature of 38C (100.4 Fahrenheit) – smashing previous records.
Andrew Ciavarella, senior detection and attribution scientist at Britain’s Met Office, described the findings released Wednesday as “staggering”.
“This is further evidence of the extreme temperatures we can expect to see more frequently around the world in a warming climate,” he said.