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Friends of the Earth U.S. released a new report today calling the use of international carbon offsets a dangerous distraction” that could lead to climate disaster if relied upon too heavily as the U.S. Senate returns to debate energy and climat...

topics: economy, emissions, global-warming, greenhouse-gas, investment

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Exxon.jpg We Really, Really Hope SoIt was hard, at first, to know whether the Forbes headline was tongue-in-cheek: ExxonMobil: Green Company of the Year.But the story seemed sincere. Exxon is finally...

topics: emissions, investment, oil-and-gas

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

CBC, Globe % Mail and the Wilderness Committee press releaseWhatever credibility this government thought it had as a result of its carbon tax and its program to expand run of the river power projects has now been completely lost. The impact on Tran...

topics: carbon-tax, economy, emissions, environment, greenhouse-gas

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DDT.jpg Review: Slow Death by Rubber DuckIn the face of every toxic threat that humans have yet created, here is a realization that is equally optimistic and discouraging: humans needn't fear science...

topics: climate-change, emissions, global-warming, taxes

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In the wake of the forged letters scandal involving lobbyists for the coal industry, D.C. astroturf firm Bonner & Associates claimed to have reached out to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and several Virginia charities whose names appeared on the fraudulen...

topics: emissions, global-warming, investigation

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The very-active Avaaz Action Factory was in rare form recently when they showed up for a naked protest in front of the offices of DC's Astroturf King, Bonner and Associates. The point of their action was to not only get a nice shower but to drive hom...

topics: busted, emissions

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Sorry for the lack of posts yesterday. Sam and I went to the Island to catch the Throne Speech, look in on Dockside Green, and see what was happening in Victoria.Dockside Green is coming along beautifully. Five of the buildings are now up, and it's a...

topics: abbotsford, architecture, councillor, emissions, environment

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What appears to be an article in the Times Colonist is uncreditted, and reads like a letter to the editor from an all ill informed reader. A journalist writing such a story would at the very least pick up a phone and call Translink s press office. T...

topics: downtown, emissions, greenhouse-gas, transit, translink

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money.jpg Health care reform seems a long way from climate change but they share something very important in common: well funded interest groups that want to keep things just the way they are. For in...

topics: business, climate-change, elected, emissions, global-warming

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salter_albedo.jpg Bjorn Lomborg has found a new vocation. For years, the Danish doubter has been hectoring the scientific community about their shoddy understanding of climate science - a discipline ...

topics: climate-change, ecological, emissions, environment, global-warming