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Calgary floods spotlight cities' costly failure to plan for climate change

2013-06-28 11:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CBC: But a community's ability to react during a disaster is one thing. Minimizing the impact of a flood is another. Now, the province faces a potentially decade-long cleanup effort that could cost $5 billion by BMO Nesbitt Burns estimates. Disaster risk management experts say the Alberta situation should serve as a wake-up call to municipalities across the country of the need to spend money and time mitigating the risks before disaster strikes, especially as climate change is predicted to bring bigger...

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