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World Oil Production Has Peaked and Will Steadily Drop
An analysis posted on The Oil Drum refutes the assumptions of both the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) that oil production will not decline, but will increase as the economy improves. Both ...
Harper\'s Gov\'t Moves to Privatize CANDU Reactor
The Harper government’s secretive moves to privatize the CANDU reactor maker that you own. First of two. A leaky nuclear reactor dragged a neglected Crown corporation into the public spotlight this spring. Press releases churned, news media swa...
East Antarctic Ice Began to Melt Faster in 2006
East Antarctica’s ice started to melt faster from 2006, which could cause sea levels to rise sooner than anticipated, according to a study by scientists at the University of Texas. In the study published in Nature’s Geoscience journal, s...
Quebec Sets 2020 Greenhouse Gas Emission Targets
The Canadian province of Quebec said on Monday it aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, the same target as that set by the European Union. “It is a very ambitious target for the government, given tha...
Saskatchewan Premier Takes Green Scheme South
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is finding more doors open than closed on Washington’s Capitol Hill and at the White House as he pitches the province’s carbon capture and shoratage projects as a solution to one of the U.S.’s biggest ...
Once ‘Extinct’ Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival
Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively exti...
