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At the same time, Environment Minister Jason Nixon proposed to amend the Oldman River Basin Water Allocation Order to take water set aside for irrigators and conservation and give it to Aussie coal miners such as billionaire Gina Rinehart, who owns the proposed Grassy Mountain project.
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Some say it needs to be higher, like 60 per cent.
Among those who believe the floor needs to be 50 per cent is Mary
Robinson, chair of the international human rights group The Elders, and
former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The former Ireland president believes there’s a perception Canada has
accomplished more on fighting climate change than it actually has.
“Canada’s the only G7 country where emissions have increased since the signing of the Paris Agreement.”
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“Last year was ranked as the hottest on record, in a tie with 2016
and 2019, despite the cooling effect of the cyclical natural climate
phenomenon, La Niña,” The Guardian reports. “Without this, 2020 would most likely have been the hottest year yet. The decade 2011-20 was the hottest on record.”
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With Gates and his billionaires’ nuclear club backing KoBold, it’s likely that their off-grid mining projects would welcome government financing for small modular reactors.
When asked about the situation, Mining Watch Canada’s Jamie Kneen told me by email:
"On the one hand, the mining industry faces so much risk in the markets that it’s unlikely to add to that risk by jumping on an unproven technology [like SMRs]. On the other hand, the mining industry is used to leaving masses of toxic waste behind for others to deal with – and getting away with it – so it’d be a perfect fit.“
The Premier also said recently that he supports building the Goldboro LNG project, even if that means the federal government forking out $1-billion in subsidies.
When questioned about that, he readily agreed that the project would
increase greenhouse gas emissions here in Nova Scotia, “but
internationally, it makes sense environmentally.” The theory being that
LNG “helps Germany get off coal.” As we know, the Premier continues,
“the reality is coal is the most carbon intensive fuel to be burned.”
That is a grotesquely misleading platitude perpetuated by the fossil
fuel industry, and repeated by our leaders- presumably because they find
it convenient.