Smoke blankets Siberia. (A European Space Agency image.) According to the World Weather Attribution Centre, the heatwave there this year was “almost impossible” without climate change! In the first six months, Siberia recorded a record-breaking 38 DEGREES C! It led to wildfires, loss of permafrost and an invasion of pests.
Sunday, 21 December 2014
A Pipeline Operated by the Enbridge Tarsands Company Spills in Regina, Canada.
The Council of Canadians
The Enbridge Line 4 pipeline, a 796,000 barrels per day pipeline from Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, has spilled 1,350 barrels of oil at a pumping station in Regina. Story here.
Tarsands Leak Fouls Aquifer In Alberta, Canada. Is it an Isolated Incident?
Winnipeg Free Press
A Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. tarsands operation that has contaminated a groundwater aquifer is renewing questions about a technology that has already been linked to another serious leak in northern Alberta. Story here.
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