Category: Canada
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Game-Changing Fracking Wastewater Report Leaves Little Wiggle Room For Industry Deceptions
Alberta-based environmental consultant Jessica Ernst just released the first comprehensive catalog and summary compendium of facts related to the contamination of North America’s ground water sources resulting from the oil and gas industry’s controversial practice of fracking …
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Climate Change Fails to Make G8 Agenda, Report Finds 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels Need to Stay in the Ground
As world leaders gather at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, tackling climate change is not even on the agenda. In fact the opposite will happen: Canada will use the meeting to push for the expansion of the tar sands. Last week, Canada’s Prime Minister …
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Gezi Park: A Battle to Preserve Nature and Democracy
The protest, which began to save the park, became a rally for genuine democracy in Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government responded with police violence—beatings, pepper spray, water cannons and tear gas—but could not stop the protests from spreading, exposing Erdogan’s persecution of opposition …
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GE French Fries, Coming to a Fast Food Restaurant Near You
These potatoes will be used as frozen fries, potato chips and shoestrings, which make up approximately 50 percent of the potato market in the U.S. …
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Canadian Solar Signs $300 Million EPC Agreement for 130-MW Solar Field
Canadian Solar Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Canadian Solar Solutions Inc., has entered into an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) agreement with Grand Renewable Solar LP, a solar energy project developed by Samsung Renewable Energy Inc. for the construction of […] — Solar Builder magazine