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Arctic's mineral riches could stoke international strifeMay 29, 2009 - Guardian The battle for the Arctic's hidden mineral riches is likely to intensify after a survey, published in Science, reveals that about 30% of the world's unexploited gas and 13% of oil lie under the seas around the north pole, where, until now, permanent ice has prevented drilling. |
Bad gas output climbsMay 29, 2009 - Winnipeg Sun WINNIPEG - New figures from Environment Canada show Manitoba emitted more greenhouse gases in 2007 than ever before. |
Our emissions-cutting rules tied to U.S.May 29, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press OTTAWA - Canadian rules limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions won't even be developed until next year and will not take legal effect for up to six years, to match a proposed U.S. timetable, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Thursday. |
Toronto approves bicycle lane for JarvisMay 26, 2009 - National Post TORONTO - What started out five years ago as a local plan to beautify Jarvis Street yesterday became the front line in Toronto's war on the car, with Mayor David Miller leading the charge. No longer available |
Pelosi says climate change could change U.S.-China gameMay 26, 2009 - Reuters BEIJING - Ties between the United States and China could be transformed by cooperation on climate change, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, linking environmental concerns to human rights and the rule of law. |
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) ideas shared at open houseMay 26, 2009 - Winnipeg Sun WINNIPEG - Winnipeggers got a closer look at the city's plans for BRT yesterday. City officials and the project design team were on hand at an open house about the BRT system with schematics and information about the project. |
Farmers the missing link in climate change talksMay 25, 2009 - The East African WASHINGTON - US-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a global farm policy think-tank, says that unless agriculture is included in upcoming global warming negotiations in Copenhagen, the war against greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely to be won. |
Gore: "Mother Nature does not do bailouts"May 24, 2009 - AFP COPENHAGEN - Former U.S. vice president turned climate campaigner Al Gore warned business and political leaders Sunday that the world was running out of time to reach a deal on how to fight global warming. No longer available |
China tells rich nations to cut emissions by 40 percentMay 21, 2009 - Reuters BEIJING - Rich nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels as part of a new global climate change pact, China said on Thursday, spelling out its stance ahead of negotiations. |
Obama to unveil most aggressive auto fuel standardsMay 19, 2009 - Reuters WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will propose the most aggressive increase in U.S. auto fuel efficiency ever in a policy initiative that would also directly regulate emissions for the first time and resolve a dispute with California over cleaner cars. |
Support for House climate bill broadensMay 18, 2009 - AP WASHINGTON - Several key Democrats from industrial and oil states threw their support behind a draft climate bill Monday as a House committee began work on massive legislation that would impose the first U.S. limits on greenhouse gases. |
Environmentalists attack house global warming dealMay 16, 2009 - Time WASHINGTON - Sponsors have enough votes to push a greenhouse gas reduction bill past its first legislative hurdle. But the patchwork of concessions leave it far short of the global warming gas reductions that scientists insist are necessary to stave off catastrophic climate change. |
Will B.C. Premier's win bring the carbon tax back to life?May 14, 2009 - Globe and Mail VANCOUVER - The idea that a carbon tax could be palatable to voters seemed to die with Stéphane Dion's federal campaign last fall, but another Liberal Leader has brought it back to life. No longer available |
Arctic explorers find more evidence of global thawMay 13, 2009 - Reuters VANCOUVER - A team of British adventurers measuring ice conditions in the Canadian Arctic said on Wednesday they did not find the thicker, older ice that scientists expected to be there. |
Canada scolded over greenhouse gas estimatesMay 12, 2009 - Reuters VANCOUVER - Canada has overstated how effective its efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions will be, the country's top environmental watchdog said on Tuesday. |
'Distributed power' to save EarthMay 11, 2009 - BBC News PRAGUE - Economist Jeremy Rifkin galvanised the Research Connections 2009 conference in Prague with a roadmap to simultaneously solve the economic and energy crises. |
Global warming critics appointed to science boardsMay 11, 2009 - Globe and Mail OTTAWA — Top Canadian scientists are accusing the Harper government of politicizing science funding and jeopardizing climate research by naming global warming critics to key boards that fund science. No longer available |
Quebec to play tough with carbon emissionsMay 11, 2009 - Montreal Gazette QUEBEC CITY - Quebec is poised to become the first jurisdiction in North America to enforce a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions with the tabling of a new bill Tuesday. No longer available |
Canadians barely support carbon tax, poll findsMay 11, 2009 - Canadian Press VICTORIA, B.C. - Canadians are willing to flirt with a nationwide carbon tax to fight climate change, but bets are off when it comes to paying the bill, a new poll has found. |
Sask. abandons emissions target to help save moneyMay 11, 2009 - Canadian Press REGINA - The Saskatchewan government has abandoned its promised greenhouse gas reductions target to help its own emissions-belching power utility save money. No longer available |
U.S. greens worry for B.C.'s carbon taxMay 9, 2009 - Burnaby News Leader SEATTLE - U.S. environmentalists will closely watch B.C.'s election results Tuesday to track the fate of the continent's first carbon tax. No longer available |
Bus, bike, walk, skate, paddle or carpool to workMay 8, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG - Winnipeg might land in the middle of the pack on some environmental issues, but the city leads the way in a challenge aimed at getting people from home to work in a more sustainable way. |
Manitoba farmers to invest in short-line railway companyMay 7, 2009 - Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG - A newly formed company, led by farmers, is getting into the railway business in southern Manitoba, a move it expects will save grain growers money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
UN 'stunned' by scale of bail-outMay 7, 2009 - BBC News LONDON - Over $11 trillion has been spent on bank bailouts in the UK and the US alone but the UN's head of environment warns we are passing the bill to the next generation, and stressed that if extra investment is not found to tackle climate change, the bail-outs would be "a terrible waste of money". |
Ford says electric Focus is comingMay 6, 2009 - Tree Hugger DETROIT - Ford has decided to transform its Michigan SUV plant into a "modern, flexible small car plant". It will begin production of the global Focus small car in 2010, and an electric version of the Focus in 2011. |
Pine beetle, snowpack, factors in early BC forest firesMay 5, 2009 - CTV News 70 MILE HOUSE, B.C. - The effects of the mountain pine beetle and a light winter snowpack are partly to blame for what's shaping up to be an early and devastating forest fire season in BC. |
Halving CO2 emissions by 2050 could stabilize global warmingMay 4, 2009 - ScienceDaily ScienceDaily - If carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are halved by 2050 compared to 1990, global warming can be stabilised below two degrees. This is shown by two studies by a co-operation of German, Swiss and British researchers in the journal Nature. |
Back to future for Liberals on carbon taxMay 2, 2009 - CanWest News VANCOUVER - Delegates to the Liberal national convention approved a resolution Saturday that endorses the possibility of a national carbon tax - a policy that backfired on former leader Stephane Dion during the last election. |
Wealthy nations must lead on climate change: EconomistMay 1, 2009 - Toronto Star TORONTO - The citizens and leaders of rich countries who aren't willing to ditch their SUVs and embrace other facets of a low-carbon lifestyle will sabotage attempts at reaching a global deal for tackling climate change, prominent British economist Lord Nicholas Stern is warning. |
Americans want to limit climate gases, even if it raises costsMay 1, 2009 - ENS WASHINGTON, DC - Comprehensive climate and energy legislation likely would reduce energy bills, not increase them, finds a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists. No longer available |
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