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Canada: British Columbia. plans to promote carbon taxes
2013-06-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Globe and Mail: British Columbia will ratchet up pressure on provinces and other jurisdictions in North America to adopt a B.C.-style carbon tax, the Christy Clark government says. Mary Polak, the new Environment Minister, has been empowered by the Premier to go out and sell the idea in hopes they will take up such measures. "We're just trying to make sure, as we would in any other kind of trading field, that we're not put at a competitive disadvantage with respect to others," she said in an interview. The...
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CF Industries shuts nitrogen plant in Canada due to floods
2013-06-24 01:24:21| Chemicals - Topix.net
CF Industries Holdings Inc said on Sunday it had shutdown Canada's largest nitrogen fertilizer complex in Alberta as a precautionary measure on Friday before floods hit the region.
Canada: Mackenzie River, 'Amazon of North,' under threat
2013-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Alexander Mackenzie kept a careful record of his troubles 224 summers ago, scribbling about torments like cold, driving rain and clouds of ravenous mosquitoes as he paddled a bark canoe north to the Arctic. For days on end in early June 1789, he journeyed along the shores of Great Slave Lake, blocked at each turn by ice, searching with native guides for a route to the river that would eventually take his name. Some 600 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, lake ice was a constantly shifting barricade,...
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Canada railways split on crude as Keystone ruling looms
2013-06-23 14:06:51| Railroads - Topix.net
Canadian National Railway sees "tremendous" growth in shipping oil by train. Hunter Harrison, who runs its biggest rival, says he isn't so sure as he looks at potential pipeline competition.
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Canada: Calgary evacuated ahead of flood
2013-06-23 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Around 75,000 people have been evacuated from the centre of the city of Calgary as floodwaters devastated much of Canada's southern province of Alberta, killing three people. Some 1,300 troops have been deployed in the flood zone. Alberta's premier, Alison Redford, warned that communities downstream of Calgary had not yet felt the full force of the floods, as rivers washed out roads and bridges, soaked homes and turned streets into dirt-brown waterways. On Friday, the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper,...
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