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Canada leads world in forest decline, report says
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: The worlds virgin forests are being lost at an increasing rate and the largest portion of the degradation is in Canada, according to a new report. No longer is Brazil the main villain in the struggle to stop forest destruction. Canada is the number one in the world for the total area of the loss of intact forest landscapes since 2000, Peter Lee, of Forest Watch Canada, said in an interview. He said the main drivers are fires, logging and energy and industrial development. There is...
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Canada: The case for a moratorium on tar sands development
2014-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In a widely publicized commentary in Nature this summer, aquatic ecologist Wendy Palen and seven colleagues were sharply critical of the way that Canada and the United States have gone about developing Albertas vast tar sands deposits and the extensive infrastructure of pipelines and rail networks needed to transport those fossil fuels to market. Rather than looking at the cumulative effect of this massive energy Simon Fraser University Wendy Palen development on the climate and the environment,...
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Ford goes Landfill-Free in Canada
2014-09-05 14:30:30| Green Car Congress
DTM Flexo Services to represent Gidue in Canada
2014-09-05 07:00:00| Label and Narrow Web Breaking News
We made this agreement to represent Gidue because they are always at the forefront of new developments," says David McBeth, DTM's president and CEO adds.
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Dangerous Crude Could Still Travel in Misclassified Tank Cars, Canada TSB Says
2014-09-05 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Canada's transportation safety agency is raising concerns that dangerous crude oil could still be travelling by rail inside misclassified tank cars, despite assurances from the federal government that the problem has been fixed. In a recent letter to Transport Canada, the Transportation Safety Board said new requirements to test oil don't explicitly address its "variability," including the fact that different products are sometimes blended together before they are shipped. The letter was sent...
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