What is it going to take for the world to get off oil?
Climate Action Network Canada is pleased to introduce Kosi Nnebe, as our Social Media and Outreach Intern. Kosi will be with us until the end of the summer when she will be entering grade 12. Her position was made possible by the Youth Eco Internship Program.
By Kosi Nnebe
With the Environmental Protection Agency urging the Obama administration to "put brakes" on the Keystone XL project, concerns are rising in the U.S. over the tar sands. In light of recent oil disasters, the risks related to such projects are much clearer.
As a cluster of thunderstorms move into the Gulf this weekend, plans for BP’s relief well are put on hold. Without proper monitoring, the cap may simply be reopened, allowing oil to spill into the water once again.
Meanwhile, across the seas, in China, hundreds of officials, oil company workers and volunteers are using improvised tools like shovels in an attempt to clean blackened beaches. The explosion of two pipelines resulted in the spilling of oil into the sea, the amount doubling over time to an estimated 1,500 tons.
What more will it take for our leaders to understand the importance of switching from dirty oil to a clean energy economy? Haven’t we seen enough?
Credit: kk+
What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know
Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
Just two weeks ago the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development abruptly cancelled a big report on the tar sands and the project's extreme water impacts. The parliamentarians even destroyed draft copies of their final report.
After listening to testimony from scores of scientists, bureaucrats, lobbyists, aboriginal chiefs and environmental groups, the committee dropped the whole affair like a bucket of tar. (For the record, the Alberta government, a petro-state with Saudi visions of grandeur, refused to show up and testify.)
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This Week in Canada's Climate Change Calendar
July 22nd marks the Climate Change Impacts Day for Uruguay.
It takes only 203 days for the average Canadian to produce as much greenhouse gases as the average Uruguayan will produce over the course of the entire year.
Canada's Climate Change Calendar shows by when during 2010 the average Canadian citizen will have produced as much greenhouse gases as a citizen from another country will produce during the whole year. The website describes the impacts of climate change on more than 170 countries found on the Calendar.
Click for more information on the impacts of climate change in Uruguay.
Re-Brand BP with Greenpeace International
"BP's slick green logo doesn't suit a company that wants to invest in tar sands and deepwater oil.
We asked you to help us rebrand BP by designing a logo that better suits their dirty business. Now it's time for you to choose a winner."
-Greenpeace International
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