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AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

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The Colorado-based property owners allege that HRM Resources, a company backed by private equity group Kayne Anderson, bought uneconomic wells from Chevron and other producers and used a corporate restructuring and bankruptcy scheme to dodge its liability to properly close them down. ClientEarth, the non-profit legal group that filed the suit on Wednesday, said it was aimed at industry practices broadly.

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https://www.ft.com/content/00af1e5f-4120-4630-9053-d09296ad8d22

AndrewHenry, 4 months ago to random

Wrote about the World Meteorological Organizations "State of Global Water Resources Report" that came out last Fall and from a Canadian context highlighted the extensive amount of abnormally dry or in drought land in Canada at the end of December, and the deluges that were seen in New England, Quebec and the Maritimes last summer.

AndrewHenry, 9 months ago to random

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"It comes back to the government not treating [those in] the teaching profession as professionals," said Steven Le Sueur, president of the Quebec Professional Association of Teachers, a union with more than 8,000 members.

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#enshittification

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-teachers-staffing-shortage-1.6945060

AndrewHenry, 10 months ago to Ottawa

Went in to a sports store today and they have already started their seasonal change over. Downhill skis were on display. Realistically it's five months until there is enough snow on area ski hills to contemplate downhill skiing.

#Ottawa #Gatineau

AndrewHenry, 6 months ago to Ottawa

Via @jeffgilchrist

Wastewater levels in #Ottawa remain higher than the peak of the first Omicron BA.1 wave and hospitalization for COVID-19 continues to increase

https://gilchrist.great-site.net/jeff/COVID-19/Ottawa.html?i=1#NewCasesHospitalizedDeaths

AndrewHenry, 9 months ago to climate

This minister would be the last person to be called an environmentalist. Maybe a realization of how bad things are has set in.

#ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition

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"It's a matter of being consistent and if we want to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, consumer habits need to change significantly," he said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/pierre-fitzgibbon-cars-quebec-1.6938500

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

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Hydro initially expected net income of $450 million for this fiscal year. That changed when widespread drought led to low water on Lake Winnipeg, which drains into the Nelson River, where Hydro's largest generating stations are situated.

Hydro says this low water "significantly reduced net export revenues" and is expected to drive down power production this fiscal year by nearly a quarter of what was predicted.

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#drought
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/hydro-loss-committee-1.7122378

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

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Yet the Alberta government has not declared an emergency. It says it is planning for extreme drought but hoping for snow and rain.

Meanwhile Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government has appointed an advisory body with no known water experts. But it does include Ian Anderson, a promoter of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that will transport bitumen from the oilsands to the Port of Vancouver, criss-crossing many dwindling rivers, creeks and streams

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https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/02/19/Alberta-Brutal-Water-Reckoning/

AndrewHenry, 9 months ago to random

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the extreme heat has created an unusual gap between the end of the berry-picking season and the start of the apple season, meaning some employees may wait weeks without pay before they can resume work.

“Usually they’ll go from cherries and berries and they’ll wait a week and they go into apples,” said Velasquez, “But if you add climate change, they might wait 19 days to be transferred.”

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#environmentaljustice
#drought

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/29/Extreme-Weather-Migrant-Farmworkers/

AndrewHenry, 8 months ago to random

Goodness, what could be making these very fit tennis players sick, maybe…

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It’s not just players. The ESPN commentator John McEnroe said on Tuesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus after feeling unwell.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/sports/tennis/us-open-players-sick.html

AndrewHenry, 7 months ago to random

I wrote a column for the local paper that was published last week.

With the climate crisis in full swing I was trying to point out the need for managed retreat from not only physical infrastructure but since everything requires the use of fossil fuels still we need managed retreat from the non-essential.

Note: The title was the editor's decision.

https://www.lowdownonline.com/post/we-can-t-afford-to-delay-managed-retreat

AndrewHenry, 6 months ago to random

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"We're in really dire circumstances. It's perhaps not an overstatement to say that, you know, these salmon are literally facing the verge of extinction if something doesn't turn around pretty quick here."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-river-chinook-fall-chum-2023-season-1.7018446

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

Destroyer of a once great education system, from kidergarten to undergrad.

He'll let the universities go bankrupt. It has already happened with Laurentian.

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Ford not willing to raise post-secondary tuition in Ontario despite schools reporting financial struggles

Government-commissioned panel has recommended province unfreeze tuition, raise student aid

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ford-post-secondary-tuition-1.7100406

https://www.tvo.org/article/the-details-of-the-laurentian-university-bankruptcy-story-are-damning-will-they-lead-to-change

AndrewHenry, 5 months ago to random

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The report from the University of Oxford finds that net-zero pathways that are heavily dependent on carbon capture and storage will cost at least $1 trillion more per year than scenarios involving renewables. It explains that oil and gas-producing countries pushing for carbon capture technology as a substitute for immediate emissions cuts are grossly underestimating the costs of carbon capture and storage.

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https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4374061-the-environment-and-economy-cant-afford-trillion-dollar-carbon-capture/

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

And so it begins...

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A large part of Île-Bizard and Île-Mercier are included in those areas, which were heavily flooded in both 2017 and 2019.

Desjardins said the risk is too high to continue offering mortgages to homes that have a five per cent chance or more of flooding each year, with some exceptions.

"The impacts of climate change, including water damage, are growing in importance and causing substantial damage," Desjardins said in a statement.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/desjardins-cuts-off-mortgages-1.7125435

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to Ottawa

This park along the Rideau River in #Ottawa is usually flooded at Easter. In some years the floodwaters can be three to four feet deep in the park. This Spring after a short, warm winter with little snow the river is four feet below the river bank.

Sets the region up for #drought

AndrewHenry, 5 months ago to TeslaMotors

Something that can't happen with an EV.

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Quarrie said a 25-year-old man was transported to hospital and later pronounced dead. The six others were determined to be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and taken to a local hospital for treatment.

The individuals were residents of the same household and officers determined the cause to be a vehicle that was left running in the garage, Quarrie said.

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#EV https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/car-left-running-in-kitchener-home-one-dead-six-others-hospital-1.7064212

AndrewHenry, 20 days ago to random

I despair that Canadian first nations might put equity into unconventional nuclear. They are being poorly advised.

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“It’s not going to happen twice. So, we demand to be a part of the small modular reactors opportunity. We see tremendous opportunity and growth with this new technology.”

— Jim Ward, general manager, North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council

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#energytransition
@chrisnelder
https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/small-modular-reactors-game-changing-technology-says-north-shore-mikmaq-gm

AndrewHenry, 7 months ago to random

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Documents filed by Imperial Oil Ltd. show the company and Alberta's energy regulator knew the Kearl oilsands mine was seeping tailings into groundwater years before a pool of contaminated fluid was reported on the surface, alarming area First Nations and triggering three investigations.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/kearl-oilsands-releases-tailings-seepage-leak-alberta-1.6984307

AndrewHenry, 19 days ago to random

Fort McMurray: be ready to evacuate

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-evacuation-alert-1.7201442

AndrewHenry, 16 days ago to random

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Thousands of residents in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo have been ordered to leave their homes as a wildfire burning southwest of Fort McMurray continues to draw closer to the community.

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#wildfire
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfire-grande-prairie-fort-mcmurray-1.7203695

AndrewHenry, 9 days ago to random

Impressive!

Canada beat the Black Ferns in Christchurch.

That is a BFD.

https://youtu.be/cj-KqAeehWc?si=WbSlJ2no6Ql98yGE

AndrewHenry, 11 days ago to random

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And yet Canada is the world’s largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia, the US and Russia.

If you believe geography (rather than the popular will) is destiny, it shouldn’t surprise you that North America’s two liberal democracies are now making common cause with authoritarian petrostates.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-19/climate-america-joins-its-frenemies-in-the-fossil-fuel-club?srnd=opinion

AndrewHenry, 9 days ago to Ottawa

#ottawa #gatineau

Overnight camp for kids and adults with developmental disabilities needs staff urgently

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Currently we do not have enough staff to run our camp at full capacity. In order to avoid reducing camp registrations we are reaching out to you for help in reaching a broader staff network

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