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Get Ready for Oil Deals: Shale Is Going on Sale
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 11th, 2015
Bloomberg: A decision by Whiting Petroleum Corp., the largest producer in North Dakota’s Bakken shale basin, to put itself up for sale looks to be the first tremor in a potential wave of consolidation as $50-a-barrel prices undercut companies with heavy debt and high costs.
For the first time since wildcatters such as Harold Hamm of Continental Resources Inc. began extracting significant amounts of oil from shale formations, acquisition prospects from Texas to the Great Plains are looking less expensive....
Scott Walker worst candidate for the environment
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 11th, 2015
Mother Jones: Scott Walker is killing it with Republicans. The Wisconsin governor is one of his party's rising stars--thanks to his ongoing and largely successful war against his state's labor unions, a fight that culminated Monday with the signing of a controversial "right-to-work" bill.
Now (for the moment, anyway), he's a leading contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. At the Conservative Political Action Conference a couple weeks ago, he polled a close second to three-time winner Sen....
Wisconsin Tribe Fights For Survival Following Florida Company’s Plan Build Massive Pit Mine
Posted by Mint Press: None Given on March 10th, 2015
Mint Press: A proposed mining project has brought a Wisconsin county to work together with local Native American communities, but it’s also left hundreds of residents without promised jobs and many to wonder what the game is really about.
Gogebic Taconite’s plans for a $1.5 billion iron mine were announced in November 2010. Following heavy lobbying from the mining company, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker passed a controversial bill in 2013 that cleared the way for iron ore mining in the state. Environmentalists...
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Comments Off on Wisconsin Tribe Fights For Survival Following Florida Company’s Plan Build Massive Pit MineDrought Weakens the Amazon’s Ability to Capture Carbon
Posted by Climate Central: Brian Kahn on March 9th, 2015
Climate Central: During drought, trees across the Amazon continue to stretch their limbs. But they shirk one of their more important, planet-saving tasks: inhaling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
In the drought of 2010, the ability of the Amazon's trees, shrubs, bushes and vines to absorb carbon was greatly diminished, according to new research that used on-the-ground measurements for the first time. That data reveals a slightly higher estimate than recent computer and satellite studies and paints a worrisome...
Can Climate Action Plans Combat Megadrought and Save Colorado River?
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on March 9th, 2015
EcoWatch: If a city’s water supply is threatened by climate change, should that city enact a strong climate action plan? I believe the answer is yes, but few cities throughout the Colorado River basin are moving forward aggressively to address climate change even though the threat is increasing every year. Two of the largest reservoirs in the U.S.—Lakes Mead and Powell along the Colorado River—continue to lose water and are now less than half full with no prediction that the trend will change direction. The...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Can Climate Action Plans Combat Megadrought and Save Colorado River?Officials ‘banned’ from using ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ in flood-prone Florida
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 9th, 2015
Independent: Florida state environmental officials claim that they are banned from using the terms “climate change” and “global warming”.
The employees have also been ordered not use the word “sustainability” in official documents and communications by their seniors at the Department of Environmental Protection, according to the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
The unwritten policy – in a state that experiences some of the worst effects of climate change in the US – has potentially affected around...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Officials ‘banned’ from using ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ in flood-prone FloridaYet Another Oil Train Derails, Catches Fire in Ontario
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on March 9th, 2015
Environment News Service: Another Canadian National oil train derailed and caught fire early Saturday in Ontario near the town of Gogama, about 600 kilometers (372 miles) north of Toronto. It was the second such incident in Ontario and the fourth in North America since February 14.
Oil trains in West Virginia and Illinois also ran off the rails, sending fireballs and thick clouds of black smoke high in the air. The Illinois wreck occurred just this week; that fire is still burning.
Four oil trains have derailed and...
Women’s role vital in fighting climate change, says minister
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 9th, 2015
Daily Times: Federal Minister for Climate Change Mushahid Ullah Khan on Sunday said that women, who constitute the majority of the world's poor, are among the most vulnerable to the detrimental impacts of climate change, particularly in developing countries, including Pakistan. Yet, their role is vital for solution to the impacts.
He expressed these views in his statement released on Sunday in context of the "International Women's Day 2015'. The women's day is celebrated on March 8 every year. This year the...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Women’s role vital in fighting climate change, says ministerThe winter of 2014-15 was the season that divided America
Posted by Mashable: None Given on March 9th, 2015
Mashable: The winter of 2014-15 was among the more unusually divisive such seasons on record, according to new data released on Friday. While the West saw record warmth and dryness, the Midwest and East shivered through brutal cold not seen since the 1930s in some places, along with large amounts of snow.
In the end, though, the lower 48 states as a whole averaged out to 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average this winter, ranking as the 19th-warmest winter on record. February, however, was...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on The winter of 2014-15 was the season that divided AmericaPakistan: Of forests and highways
Posted by Nation: None Given on March 9th, 2015
Nation: Environmental degradation costs Pakistan over Rs 356 billion annually and it must be kept in mind that is money that can be saved. If only environmental policy was a part of the national debate. Referring to the "Environmental Protection' pledge made in his party's election manifesto in 2013, the minister for Climate Change Mushahid Ullah Khan said that PML--N strongly believed in ecologically sound socio-economic development policies to preserve and develop the country's natural and forest resources....