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Calgary floods spotlight cities' costly failure to plan for climate change
2013-06-28 11:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: But a community's ability to react during a disaster is one thing. Minimizing the impact of a flood is another. Now, the province faces a potentially decade-long cleanup effort that could cost $5 billion by BMO Nesbitt Burns estimates. Disaster risk management experts say the Alberta situation should serve as a wake-up call to municipalities across the country of the need to spend money and time mitigating the risks before disaster strikes, especially as climate change is predicted to bring bigger...
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Train jumps track as Calgary rail bridge fails
2013-06-27 20:39:25| Railroads - Topix.net
A inspector examines a Canadian Pacific freight train as it sits derailed on a failing bridge over the Bow River in Calgary on Thursday.
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Calgary floods trigger an oil spill and a mass evacuation
2013-06-25 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Epic floods forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes last week in Calgary, Alberta, the tar-sands mining capital of Canada. More than seven inches of rain fell on the city over the course of 60 hours. Now the floodwaters are subsiding throughout the province, leaving in their wake an oil spill, power outages, and questions about how climate change might affect flooding. Alberta Premier Alison Redford said the crisis was like nothing that weve ever seen before, the Calgary Herald...
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Canada's oil capital Calgary starts slow clean-up from floods
2013-06-25 22:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Canada's oil capital, Calgary, started the slow process of cleaning up its downtown on Tuesday in the aftermath of record-breaking floods, with many business owners returning for the first time to properties they were forced to leave last week. Parts of the city's center were still without power, and most shops, hotels and businesses were closed for a fifth consecutive day. "It's kind of spooky, it's so quiet," said Calgary resident Don Usselman, a remediation technologist, as he carried hoses...
Corporate Calgary facing productivity losses after office towers evacuated
2013-06-25 09:26:33| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Some of the energy companies headquartered in downtown Calgary could see productivity losses after being forced out of their offices by severe flooding, but the good news is that oil and gas production are largely unaffected, analysts said Friday.
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