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Canada's tar sands aren't just oil fields. They're sacred lands for my people
2015-06-23 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For years, concerned members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) in Canada, like myself, have voiced concerns about the impacts caused by oil sand exploitation. The vast majority of our community resides downstream from large scale oil sands surface mining and has seen first hand the complex impacts this industry has. Now, over 100 renowned scientists and academics have echoed our concerns about oil sands in a call for a moratorium on expansion, which is being taken seriously by the...
Canadas Beaufort Sea is becoming acidic more quickly than any other ocean in the world
2015-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Post: Research suggests Canada`s Beaufort Sea is becoming acidic more quickly than any other ocean in the world, offering a window into what a major side effect of climate change will do to waters around the globe. "As goes the Arctic, so go the rest of the oceans," said Jeremy Mathis of the U.S.-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, lead author of the new paper published in the journal Oceanography. In about 10 years, he predicts the Arctic waters off the Northwest Territories will...
Canadas National Steel Car to build 700 railcars for Canpotex
2015-06-22 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Canadian freight car manufacturer National Steel Car has secured a $70m contract from Canpotex to build 700 new railcars specially designed to transport Saskatchewan potash to coastal ports.
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E-waste and organics top Canadas latest diversion stats
2015-06-19 18:39:40| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines
New biennial waste data released in June 2015 by Statistics Canada reveals that overall waste diversion in Canada rose by 4.5 per cent between 2010 and 2012 The post E-waste and organics top Canada’s latest diversion stats appeared first on Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine.
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Metrolinx selects Crosslinx as preferred proponent for Canada's Eglinton Crosstown LRT
2015-06-11 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Crosslinx Transit Solutions has been named as preferred proponent by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx to design, build, finance and maintain the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit (LRT) in Toronto, Canada.
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