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US, Canada Underestimating Climate Risk From Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells [1]

"Methane leaking out of the more than 4 million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States and Canada is a far greater contributor to climate change than government estimates suggest, researchers from McGill University said on Wednesday."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Pollution [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Canada [7]
Source: Reuters [8], 01/21/2021
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"Keystone Rejection Tests Trudeau’s Balancing Act on Climate and Energy" [9]

"While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shares the incoming president’s climate change agenda, the Canadian leader is also a pipeline proponent."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [10]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Canada [7]
Source: NYTimes [11], 01/21/2021
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"A Thin Green Line with Global Impact" [12]

"During a decade when Cascadia’s governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists fighting fossil fuel exports exceeded their wildest expectations."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [5]
Northwest (OR WA) [14]
Canada [7]
Source: Investigate West [15], 01/19/2021
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"Great Lakes: Enbridge To Defy Mich. Order To Halt Pipeline Flow" [16]

"The company behind the controversial Line 5 pipeline under part of the Great Lakes this morning said it would defy a Michigan order to halt operations by May."

Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [4]
Transportation [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Canada [7]
Source: E&E News [21], 01/13/2021
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"A Lost Decade: How Climate Action Fizzled in Cascadia" [22]

"Washington, Oregon and British Columbia pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions. In a decade full of big talk and some epic battles, they all failed."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [10]
Government [23]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Public [5]
Northwest (OR WA) [14]
Canada [7]
Source: InvestigateWest [24], 01/12/2021
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Want To Save B.C. Salmon? Bring Back Indigenous Fishing Systems: Study [25]

"Traditional technologies, harvesting practices and management systems could bring endangered populations back from the brink, but government buy-in is needed".

Fish & Fisheries [26]
Transportation [18]
Public [5]
Canada [7]
Source: The Narwhal [27], 01/08/2021
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How BC’s Salmon Farmers Fell Behind The Curve Of Sustainable Aquaculture [28]

"Public and political pressure to remove open net pens from the province’s coastal waters has grown steadily in recent years with farms now being forced out of wild salmon migratory routes. So, as terrestrial fish farming takes off globally, why hasn’t the industry been more receptive to rearing salmon on land?"

Fish & Fisheries [26]
Public [5]
Canada [7]
Source: The Narwhal [29], 12/29/2020
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It’s Official: Alberta’s Oilsands Tailings Ponds Are Leaking. Now What? [30]

"A years-long international investigation has found ‘scientifically valid evidence’ the massive pits that store toxic waste in the oilsands are leaking, leaving Albertans wondering who’s going to clean them up".

"There are more than a trillion litres of toxic oilsands waste stored in tailings ponds near Alberta’s Athabasca River — and they’re leaking.

Yes, we now have “scientifically valid evidence” that the ponds meant to contain toxic fluids are leaking, according to a years-long probe backed by the governments of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Energy & Fuel [3]
Natural Resources [17]
Pollution [4]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [5]
Canada [7]
Source: The Narwhal [31], 12/15/2020
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Yukon Wetlands Pushed To Tipping Point By Placer Mining: First Nation [32]

"The Yukon Water Board is asking the public to weigh in as the territory considers legislation to protect remaining undisturbed wetlands from small-scale gold mining in streams and riverbeds".

"The Indian River watershed, which used to provide “sweeping” wetland habitat south of Dawson City, Yukon, has been all but destroyed by placer mining, Darren Taylor, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation’s director of natural resources, told the territory’s water board during a recent virtual hearing.

Environmental Justice [33]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [5]
Canada [7]
Source: The Narwhal [34], 12/15/2020
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"Raising Salmon" [35]

"In British Columbia, First Nations’ diverse approaches to fish farming highlight the tension between economic opportunity and preserving cultural and ecological values."

Environmental Justice [33]
Fish & Fisheries [26]
Public [5]
Canada [7]
Source: Earth Island Journal [36], 12/08/2020
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-canada-underestimating-climate-risk-abandoned-oil-and-gas-wells [2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada [8] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-study/u-s-and-canada-underestimating-climate-risk-from-abandoned-oil-and-gas-wells-study-idUSKBN29P2OZ [9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/keystone-rejection-tests-trudeau-s-balancing-act-climate-and-energy [10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [11] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/world/canada/keystone-trudeau-biden.html [12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/thin-green-line-global-impact [13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [14] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northwest [15] https://www.invw.org/2021/01/18/a-thin-green-line-with-global-impact/ [16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/great-lakes-enbridge-defy-mich-order-halt-pipeline-flow [17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land [18] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/transportation [19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [20] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-lakes [21] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063722337 [22] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lost-decade-how-climate-action-fizzled-cascadia [23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [24] https://www.invw.org/2021/01/11/how-climate-action-fizzled-in-cascadia/ [25] https://www.sej.org/headlines/want-save-bc-salmon-bring-back-indigenous-fishing-systems-study [26] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries [27] https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-salmon-fishing-indigenous-systems-report/ [28] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-bc-s-salmon-farmers-fell-behind-curve-sustainable-aquaculture [29] https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-salmon-farming-transition/ [30] https://www.sej.org/headlines/it-s-official-alberta-s-oilsands-tailings-ponds-are-leaking-now-what [31] https://thenarwhal.ca/tailings-ponds-leaking-alberta-oilsands/ [32] https://www.sej.org/headlines/yukon-wetlands-pushed-tipping-point-placer-mining-first-nation [33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice [34] https://thenarwhal.ca/yukon-wetlands-placer-mining/ [35] https://www.sej.org/headlines/raising-salmon [36] https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/raising-salmon-british-columbia-first-nations-fish-farming [37] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=37 [38] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=34 [39] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=35 [40] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=36 [41] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=39 [42] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=40 [43] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=41 [44] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=42 [45] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/canada?page=131