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Verizon has Canada bracing for a wireless Wind storm
2013-06-27 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
US operator said to have made a bid for Wind Mobile worth around C$700 million.
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Canada insists on C$1 billion clean-up fund for major oil lines
2013-06-26 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Companies operating major crude oil pipelines in Canada will be required to have C$1 billion ($954.97 million) available to fund clean ups from any spills, the Canadian government said on Wednesday. Joe Oliver, Canada's minister of natural resources, also announced new fines that will soon come into force for companies and individuals that violate environmental laws. The fines will range from C$25,000 to a maximum of C$100,000. Oliver was speaking in British Columbia, where the provincial government...
Canada: Jet stream eyed as one culprit in Alberta floods
2013-06-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: It`s a long way from the Arctic Ocean to southern Alberta, but scientists are increasingly intrigued by theories that link disappearing sea ice to off-the-hook weather such as last week`s flooding. Many are coming to believe there`s a common thread between not enough ice on the ocean and too much water in the rivers -- a high-altitude, high-speed torrent of air called the jet stream. "There`s been a lot interest in the jet stream in the last two or three years," said Dave Phillips, an Environment...
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Canada Confident Keystone XL will be approved
2013-06-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Canada's natural resources minister said Tuesday he's confident the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project from Canada to Texas will be approved because it meets President Barack Obama's requirement that it not lead to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Joe Oliver responded to Obama's comments earlier Tuesday that the pipeline should be approved only if it does "not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution." Oliver pointed to "Obama's very own State Department"...
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Obama: no Keystone XL if significant exacerbation of GHG; Canada: no problem
2013-06-26 10:30:17| Green Car Congress
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