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  • Technical Briefing for the Media on Arctic Ice

    Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012

    Time: 11:00 a.m.

    Location: Sierra Club Canada, Suite #412, 1 Nicholas St., Ottawa

    Ongoing weather events in the Arctic over the last few weeks and the resulting ice loss may have significant implications to the rate of climate change. Using satellite images, and the latest data being reported from established Arctic observers, Paul Beckwith of the University of Ottawa will provide a technical briefing on the present and the implications to future climate change. Space is limited please RSVP to: Executive.Director@sierraclub.ca or call 613.241.4611

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  • Peter Kent says "high end" emission targets for coal power necessary

    SASKATOON - Coal-fired power plants got more regulatory breathing room than expected to release greenhouse gases Wednesday, something federal Environment Minister Peter Kent says is necessary to protect Canada's power supply.
     
    The final regulations for coal-powered plants, released Wednesday, stipulate they can emit no more than 420 tonnes of greenhouse gases per gigawatt hour of electricity generated.
     
    This number is significantly higher than the 375 tonnes per gigawatt hour Kent proposed in earlier draft regulations released in August.
     
    While admitting the new rules are "at the high end" of the 360 to 425 tonne per gigawatt hour range he considered, Kent said the decision was made to avoid putting the "consuming public at risk of inadequate power supply."
     

  • Nexen hits the lobby hustings in anticipation of CNOOC bid review

    As cabinet ministers are reportedly readying themselves themselves to consider the implications of China-owned energy behemoth CNOOC's bid to take over Calgary-based Nexen, the latest communications filings reveal the company at the centre of the potentially contentious deal lost no time fanning out across official Ottawa after going public with the offer last month.

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  • Cheap Coal is Really, Really Dead

    From India Environment Post:

    Cheap Coal is Really, Really Dead

  • Hungry for Climate Leadership

    Climate Fast on Parliament Hill

    On Wednesday September 25, 2012, five members of Sierra Club Canada joined the group Hungry for Climate Leadership on Parliament Hill in solidarity with their 12-Day Fast for Climate Change (seven climate activists began their fast on September 21st and will continue to fast until October 2nd).

    Leader of the Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May, who is fasting for five days in solidarity with the group, also came to show her support and sign the pledge that aims to (1) end fossil fuel subsidies, (2) put a price on carbon, and (3) support the development of a renewable energy plan for Canada. Hungry for Climate Leadership urges the Canadian government to take immediate action to help mitigate the climate change crisis.

  • Sierra Club Ontario and New York Say No to Darlington Refurbishment and New Build

    December 3, 2012
    For Immediate Release

    (Courtice, Ontario and Cheektowaga, New York) - A proposal to refurbish Ontario’s Darlington Nuclear Generating Station (DNGS) may be in violation of Canada’s transboundary treaty obligations. The Sierra Club has told the Environmental Assessment Panel considering Ontario Power Generation’s proposed New Build and Refurbishment and Continued Operation of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station (DNGS) that the proposals may violate the 1991 Canada–U.S. Air Quality Agreement.  

  • Kids' concentration improved with exercise

    From The Atlantic Cities (online) article by Sarah Goodyear

  • Chevron in Ecuador: Oil giant should pay-up and clean-up

    OTTAWA - Canadian courts should order Chevron to hand over its Canadian assets to compensate Ecuadorian villagers for the toxic legacy they are forced to live with as a result of the cost cutting polluting practices of the company. This court action comes just the Canadian government is attempting to gut environmental laws.

    “We have launched #BlackOutSpeakOut because Environmental laws are essential to protect public health and the environment. Without them companies like Chevron will leave a toxic legacy for our children,” said John Bennett, Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada.

  • Sierra Club Canada - Submission to the Senate Committee on Energy (Re: C-38)

    Submission to the Senate Committee on Energy

    Re: Bill C-38

    John Bennett, Executive Director

    Sierra Club Canada

    Thursday, May 31 201

     

  • Droughts show global warming is 'scientific fact'

    The relentless, weather-gone-crazy type of heat that has blistered the United States, Canada and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare it can't be anything but man-made global warming, according to a new statistical analysis from a top American scientist.

    The research by a man often called the "godfather of global warming" says that, from the 1950s through the 1980s, the likelihood of such sweltering temperatures occurring was rarer than 1 in 300. Now, the odds are closer to 1 in 10, according to the study by James Hansen. The NASA scientist says that statistically, what's happening is not random or normal, but pure and simple climate change.

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