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There's lots of cheap energy under our feetFeb 2, 2012 - Winnipeg Free Press OPINION -
Both Manitoba Hydro and the PUB are missing an obvious alternative. Why not consider using less electricity in the first place?
We can reduce our power consumption in Manitoba by replacing electric furnaces with ground-source heat pumps at a cost of about $2.9 billion, or we can let Manitoba Hydro build more dams and power lines to generate the same amount of power at a cost of $10.75 billion. |
Peat mines OK'd despite expert objectionsFeb 2, 2012 - CBC News WINNIPEG -
Three peat mining companies were given initial authorization to level thousands of hectares of Manitoba's boreal forest, just days after a provincial ban on peat mining leases took effect last summer, and despite objections from the government's own experts. |
Climate change shrinks forests in 3 Prairie provincesJan 31, 2012 - Canadian Press WINNIPEG -
Research shows northern forests in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are drying up and shrinking from drought caused by climate change, while the eastern boreal forest is holding its own. |
Mining peat in lake's watershed opposedJan 30, 2012 - Canadian Press WINNIPEG - COTTAGERS and environmentalists are demanding the province reject applications for licences to mine peat in the Lake Winnipeg watershed. "Let's make sure we're not doing things to make the problems in Lake Winnipeg worse," said Vicki Burns, co-ordinator of the Lake Winnipeg Project, which is privately funded by a few foundations. |
5 reasons shipping oil to Asia is not in the national interestJan 30, 2012 - Troy Media VANCOUVER – One of the most startling assertions contained in Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s controversial open letter, which was released on the eve of public hearings into Enbridge’s tanker and pipeline proposal to B.C.’s West Coast, concerns how he equates shipping oil to Asia as unquestionably being in the “national interest.” There are at least five key reasons why he’s wrong. |
'Nothing ethical about oil'Jan 26, 2012 - Winnipeg Free Press OPINION -
Would the Free Press run a column from a spokesman for "Ethical Climate Change" or "Ethical Smog"? How about a piece arguing that if you want to get lung cancer or heart disease the ethical way, start smoking Canadian cigarettes, because our country is run by decent folk? That's essentially the sort of argument contained in Kathryn Marshall's Jan. 24 column, Obama breaks a promise, which represents the worst type of spin-doctored nonsense. |
Obama breaks a promiseJan 24, 2012 - Motreal Gazette OPINION -
When Barack Obama was running for president of the United States, he made a bold promise: "If I'm president, I'm immediately going to direct the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector to a single overarching goal," he said. "In 10 years' time, we are going to eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela." |
Last week
Feds list First Nations, green groups as oilsands 'adversaries'
Jan 26, 2012 - Postmedia News OTTAWA — The federal government is distancing itself from its own lobbying and public relations campaign to polish the image of Alberta's oilsands, following revelations that an internal strategy document labelled First Nations and environmentalists as "adversaries," while describing the National Energy Board, an independent industry regulator, as an "ally." |
U.S. government issues new planting-zone map that reflects global warmingJan 25, 2012 - Associated Press WASHINGTON - Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The colour-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the U.S. government, illustrating a hotter 21st century. |
'A total lack of winter everywhere'Jan 24, 2012 - Motreal Gazette MONTREAL - It's easy to understand why climatologist David Phillips has dubbed the first half of the winter of 2011-12 a "non-winter." |
Feds get millions from rich U.S. groupsJan 23, 2012 - Canadian Press OTTAWA - Rich American foundations are not only footing the bill for opposition to Canada's oilsands. Tax returns show the Canadian government has also been the beneficiary of millions of dollars in largesse from some of the wealthiest private organizations in the United States. |
Polar bear centre turns up heat on climate changeJan 23, 2012 - CBC News WINNIPEG - A new polar bear conservation centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg puts the heat on Manitoba to do more about climate change, according to a polar bear biologist of 14 years. |
EIA: U.S. using less foreign oil, carbon emissions flatliningJan 23, 2012 - Washington Post WASHINGTON - The U.S. Energy Information Administration just released its Annual Energy Outlook 2012 report, and three things stick out: The United States is dramatically curbing its oil imports, carbon emissions are flatlining and we have less shale gas than once thought. |
Weaker sun will not delay global warmingJan 23, 2012- Reuters LONDON - A weaker sun over the next 90 years is not likely to significantly delay a rise in global temperature caused by greenhouse gases, a report said Monday. |
Increased use of natural gas will make climate change worseJan 23, 2012 - TreeHugger ITHICA, NY - Natural gas has been hyped as a cleaner replacement for coal and oil, a "bridge" between these fossil fuels and renewable energy. But a new has found that extracting natural gas from shale is such a large contributor of greenhouse gas emissions that it does not provide this cleaner alternative. |
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