Inept political maneuvering by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned what was a longstanding controversy in Canada over Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project into a complete and utter quagmire.
Read more...Fracking companies are drilling too many wells in close proximity to one another, and when they frack the newer wells — known as child wells — those “bash” or “hit” the older wells, cannibalizing production and sometimes damaging the older well. The industry knows not how to solve this problem.
Read more...The rising heat waves in the world’s middle income and poorer nations are threatening the health and prosperity of about 1.1 billion people, including 470 million in rural areas without access to safe food and medicines, and 630 million in hotter, poor urban slums, with little or no cooling to protect them.
Read more...Government of Puerto Rico presents report to Congress acknowledging 1427 Hurricane Maria details– more than twenty times the previous estimate it had given. Meanwhile, prospects for meaningful debt relief remain slight.
Read more...Attempts by the New York Times to blame humanity as a whole for climate change let the real culprits off the hook.
Read more...Climate change, aging cars, signals, and tunnels, plus looting by the political class and the bankers.
Read more...Why on current trajectories, China (and the US) are toast.
Read more...The Department of Energy (DOE) missed the mark in its newly published draft Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) study, ignoring economic costs associated with climate change and the growth of the renewable energy industry.
Read more...Engelhardt’s birthday post reflects on how failings are catching up with us, individually and collectively.
Read more...In the midst of a global heat wave, the media refuses to talk about climate change.
Read more...A measure to clean up maritime fuel oil could cause havoc for oil prices generally.
Read more...The Simultaneous Policy (SIMPOL) will consist of a series of multi-issue global problem-solving policy packages, each of which is to be implemented by all or sufficient nations simultaneously
Read more...The ability of the Great Barrier Reef to recover after continued episodes of cumulative stress is declining. Drastic remedies are necessary to save this unique ecosystem; some scientists suggest improving water quality could improve the health of the reef, but ultimately, survival requires tackling climate change.
Read more...Public seems to be getting the memo about climate change– despite the forces arrayed to fog this issue and Trump’s abysmal policies. Has this shift come too little, too late– and will necessary policy changes follow?
Read more...As Trump barrels into the UK, this timely post traces interesting linkages between climate change denialists on both sides of the Atlantic– and extends to Brexiteers.
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