AndrewHenry

AndrewHenry, 2 months ago to climate

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At the end of the month, 71% of Canada was classified as Abnormally Dry (D0) or in Moderate to Exceptional Drought (D1 to D4), including 85% of the country's agricultural landscape.

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#drought #climatecrisis

https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/weather/canadian-drought-monitor/current-drought-conditions

stdevel, 2 months ago to linux

I was today years old when I learned that #sudo actually changed their logo (https://www.sudo.ws/about/logo/) because of #XKCD 149 (https://xkcd.com/149/).
Love it.

#Linux

XKCD Comic Strip number 149. A person is sitting on the couch and talks to another person. Dialog: Make me sandwich. What? Make it yourself. sudo make me a sandwich. Okay.

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, 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, 3 months ago to random

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There’s no better proof here than its handling of the proposed federal cap on oil and gas emissions that essentially calls the industry’s bluff on targets and technologies it has been talking up for years. Rather than registering factual disagreements about the policy, Smith and her senior ministers choose to portray it as a conspiracy by eastern elites to frustrate Alberta’s oil and gas industry. That’s an industry that has benefited enormously from federal largesse
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/23/opinion/truth-lies-and-emissions-caps

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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The Manitoba government has dismissed the CEO of provincial utility Manitoba Hydro, Jay Grewal, two weeks after she warned the province could need new sources of electricity by 2029 or 2030 and indicated she planned to obtain the capacity from private wind developers.

The parting of the ways, as board chair Ben Graham described it, would appear to be about how the new capacity will be built, not the electricity sources the province will rely on.

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https://www.theenergymix.com/manitoba-fires-hydro-ceo-turns-to-public-power-to-meet-looming-shortfall/

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, 3 months ago to random

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The Hungarian president has announced her resignation over her decision to pardon a man convicted of helping cover up a sex abuse case at a children’s home

The controversy posed a political headache for Orbán, who has campaigned on family-friendly policies and presented himself as an advocate for children’s protection.

Novák, who became president in 2022, also branded herself as a family-focused Christian conservative politician.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/10/hungarys-president-resigns-in-unusual-setback-for-ruling-party

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

From @TransitionShow transcripts:

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So I think at the IEA, we're very focused on thinking through what an orderly, rapid process looks like. And I think this has to be a collaborative one. And that was really the essence of that analysis that we released the other day on oil and gas industry and net zero transitions is an invitation to oil and gas companies, because the conclusion that we reached was that clean energy transitions are happening

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https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/02/05/Trans-Mountain-Too-Busy-Held-Accountable/
https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-215-iea-new-oil-and-gas-outlook/

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

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There’s a simple explanation. expressed by a former analyst at the US DHS. “You don’t have a bunch of companies coming forward saying: ‘I wish you’d do something about these rightwing extremists’ The disproportionate policing of environmental protest, the new offences and extreme sentences, the campaigns of extrajudicial persecution by governments around the world are not, as politicians assure us, designed to protect society. They’re a response to corporate lobbying

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AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

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Proposed Ontario land use changes could prioritize speed over environmental oversight

The province is only supposed to expropriate land — taking property from a private landowner — when it is needed for public projects. Often, the government will determine that need through an environmental assessment, which can help ensure it doesn’t take too much. But the question of whether an environmental review is an actual legal requirement before expropriation is...

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https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-expropriation-land-bill/

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, 3 months ago to random

Consequences.

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More ranchers are likely to have to sell off their cattle because their grass isn't growing and water isn't available, she added. Municipalities may also have such low flows that they may not be able to pump water into their treatment plants.

"We might only be at the beginning of this drought, we don't really know," Frank said. "Everyone's just kind of waiting to see what the snowpack does, what the spring rain does."

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#drought

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-water-sharing-negotiations-rebecca-schulz-old-man-river-1.7100450

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

This reporting by CBC B.C. on the agricultural impacts stemming from the disturbance to the water cycle highlights the challenge producers have recovering from frequent deluges.

In this case a blueberry producer replanted as the 2021 flooding caused root rot to kill the bushes. Those replanted fields are now flooded.

What happens next, abandon that crop for something more resilient but less profitable?

Fraser Valley farmers brace for crop damage from atmospheric river
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2304720451937

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

Colonialism; destroyer of salmon habitat.

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"Safe-guarding the salmon is not solely an act of environmental conservation," Ta'an Kwäch'än Council deputy chief Kristina Kane told meeting attendees.

"It's a feat of cultural preservation, ensuring the survival of our customs and nurturing our spiritual bond with the earth and all of its offerings. To lose the salmon is to forfeit a part of ourselves. It is to sever a tie that has bound generations to generations."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-river-panel-2023-post-season-1.7096875

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

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“Liberty City is ground zero for climate gentrification,” said Adrian Madriz, a housing advocate who lives in Overtown, another rapidly changing neighborhood in Miami. “Even if it rains, the neighborhood never floods.”

The relentless displacement of low-income communities of color is a familiar saga in cities across the United States. But the climate crisis has accelerated the process in pancake-flat Miami

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/29/miami-climate-gentrification-pbs-documentary-liberty-city

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, 4 months ago to random

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What happened to that extra 56 pounds of nitrogen that you bought? Well, some might’ve ended up sequestered in the soil but a lot of it ran off into streams or leached into the aquifer (do you reckon that’s why the neighbor’s well is contaminated?), and some off-gassed to the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a substance that has 300 times more warming potential than carbon dioxide. Agriculture is the source of 75% of all nitrous oxide emissions in the U.S.

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@chrisnelder
https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/nxs