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Canada: Predicting future climate change may lie in the past
2013-03-22 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: The key to predicting future climate change may lie buried in some of Canada's oldest weather records, including the 1745 observations of a Montreal doctor and logbooks from William Parry's 1819 voyage to the Arctic. Now, a group of Canadian volunteers is racing to digitize those handwritten books before they fall apart. They're part of a worldwide volunteer movement to hunt down old weather data, so that they can be used to test the newest climate-change models. In September, the Intergovernmental...
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Richardson Oilseed to expand canola processing capacity in Canada
2013-03-22 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Canola oil processor Richardson Oilseed has announced plans to expand its canola processing facility in Lethbridge, Alberta, a move which will more than double the processing capacity at the facility.
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Native Groups in Canada and U.S. Vow to Fight Oil Sands Pipelines
2013-03-21 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: An alliance of First Nations leaders is preparing to fight proposed new pipelines in the courts and through unspecified direct action. Native leaders from Canada and the United States were on Parliament Hill on Wednesday to underline opposition to both the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines. The first would tie the Alberta oil sands to the West Coast, while the second would send bitumen to refineries on the American Gulf Coast. Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said the federal...
Canada: Wildrose attacks Redford over carbon controversy
2013-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: A federal tax on carbon emissions will kill Alberta jobs and transfer wealth from the province, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith said Tuesday as she accused Premier Alison Redford of cosying up to Eastern Canada at the provinces expense. Smith focused on notion of a Canada-wide carbon tax as Redford returned from a trip to Ottawa where she spoke of Albertas experience levying a $15 per tonne price on carbon emissions for a green technology fund. Redford described Albertas carbon levy as the...
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Furor over Keystone pipeline caught U.S. and Canada flat-footed on climate change
2013-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: As part of its effort to persuade the United States to accept the Keystone pipeline and the oil sands fuel it would carry from Canada, the province of Alberta is advertising itself as an environmental leader at the cutting edge of clean energy development. On Sunday, the province took out a half-page ad [3] in the New York Times asserting that it is "committed to raising the bar higher on its leading climate change policy." "Our past, present and future environmental management actionsincluding...
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