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Ash and debris delays return for 2,000 Fort McMurray evacuees
2016-05-30 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some 2,000 residents of wildfire-ravaged Fort McMurray, Alberta, will not be able to return home this week as planned because of the risks posed by debris and contaminants including "caustic" ash, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said on Monday. The city of 90,000 people was evacuated in early May as an uncontrolled wildfire ripped through some neighborhoods, destroying about 10 percent of the city's homes. It also forced around a dozen oil sands projects in the region to halt more than a million...
Naomi Klein Blames Climate For Fort McMurray Wildfires
2016-05-30 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington: Albertans are out of step with with the international scientific community due to their reluctance to link the Fort McMurray wildfires to climate change, Naomi Klein told a Calgary audience Sunday. "It is still something of a controversial statement to say in Alberta. People think it is somehow not compassionate, not polite, to make the connection with climate change, and I just want to say though it is difficult we have to do it," Klein told the audience at Congress 2016, an annual academic conference...
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Fossil Fuel, Wildfire, and Fort McMurray
2016-05-30 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Blogs: Four weeks after a wildfire began in the Canadian province of Alberta, thousands of structures in Fort McMurray have been destroyed, over 100,000 people have been evacuated, and 2200 square miles have gone up in smoke. The fire has also shut down commercial extraction of tar sands, a source of fossil fuel and the reason for Fort McMurrays prosperity. Greg Laden points out the perverse cause and effect of it all: tar sands contribute to global warming, global warming contributes to weather variation...
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Activist Naomi Klein links Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change at University of Calgary speech
2016-05-30 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Calgary Sun: Activist Naomi Klein ruffled some feathers in the heart of Alberta's oilpatch Sunday, linking the devastating Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change and calling for an end to fossil fuels. Speaking at Congress 2016, which is being held at the University of Calgary, Klein said last year's Paris climate change agreement didn't go far enough. "It is a breakthrough and, if it's all we do, it will be an ecological disaster,' she told the crowd of almost 500 people. "If we are serious about...
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8,000 oil workers evacuated from Fort McMurray fire. Again
2016-05-17 21:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Two weeks after it began, the Fort McMurray wildfire is continuing to burn out of control. On Monday, winds shifted and sent the fire in the direction of oil sands facilities. As many as 8,000 of the oil workers who`d been working to restart oil production were evacuated after the wildfire - which the media has nicknamed "the Beast" - jumped a critical firebreak late on Monday, moving at a rate of more than 100 feet per minute. The evacuations will prolong a shutdown of oil sands operations, which...