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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.
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.
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
To get a sense why unconventional nuclear is a bad investment...
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This ‘diseconomy of scale’ was demonstrated by the now-terminated proposal to build six NuScale Power SMRs (77 megawatts each) in Idaho in the United States.
The final cost estimate of the project per megawatt was around 250 percent more than the initial per megawatt cost for the 2,200 megawatts Vogtle nuclear power plant being built in Georgia, US.
"What we are seeing is we have people being admitted for other things and then becoming infected with COVID in the hospital because of visitors or sharing a room," she said.
Climate, like a preexisting medical condition, has become uninsurable. It is now a risk of substantial loss that is growing – and increasingly certain, frequent, and correlated – and so insurance’s spreading and pooling qualities don’t work. If the annual known climate loss is $150bn and rising, yearly premiums cannot be much less without direct or cross-subsidies that no one is budgeting. It’s insurance, not magic.
That connection, however, was not lost on U.S. Senator Ed Markey, a veteran Democrat and one of the co-authors of the Green New Deal. He introduced legislation earlier this year proposing stringent environmental rules designed to check the escalating carbon, water and land impact of the data centres required to handle the vastly more intensive processing requirements of applications powered by generative AI and large language models
Alberta's respiratory virus dashboard shows 25.1 per cent of Albertans received their flu shot this season, the lowest vaccination rate in the last decade.
“As a result we see unfortunately a record loss of life in the province."
Normally, Evans said, his hunting spot is "teeming with wildlife," with three feet of water in some places. Now, it's dried up, with burns still obvious on the trees and ground.
The 27-year-old journalist was arrested on April 15 while covering a sit-in at the Scotiabank on McGill College Ave. Now, in what may be a first for the city, Montreal police are pursuing a charge of criminal mischief against her. It is the same charge facing 44 protesters who staged the sit-in to protest Scotiabank’s investment in Elbit — an Israeli defence contractor that is profiting from the war on Gaza.
"We know in the U.S. about 40 per cent of police families experience intimate partner violence, compared to about 10 per cent of the population," she said, noting a lack of Canadian statistics on the matter.
Wrote something for the local, "Let’s call it the ‘climate inaction’ tax"
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Canada’s premiers have been riling up Canadians lately about the wrong climate tax. Stirring up anger over a tax on carbon pollution, a tax whose revenue is largely rebated back to Canadians, while the cost of climate inaction rises dramatically is something else, particularly when those premiers offer nothing in terms of policy or legislation to rapidly decarbonize their own provinces, ...