Article by Suzanne Goldenberg in The Guardian. “California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has come out fighting for his green legacy, going on the attack against the oil companies and rightwing groups bankrolling a campaign to suspend AB32, a landmark environmental law.” Read article
Article by BBC News. “In a message posted on his video blog on Thursday, Mr Medvedev said he had ordered the suspension because ‘our people, from the governing United Russia party to united opposition groups to circles of experts, are saying this demands more analysis’.” Read article
Article by David Roberts in The Guardian. “There’s been a lot of talk lately about what went wrong on the climate bill, but it’s always struck me that the original wrong turn was the introduction of climate change to American politics as an ‘environmental issue.’ It is the mother of all framing errors — the one from which all others flow.” Read article
Op-ed piece by Marc Jaccard and Brad Griffin in the Vancouver Sun. “The government approved the EnCana shale-gas processing plant in northeastern B.C. without requiring the plant to install carbon capture and storage.”
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Story by Claire Ogilvie in The Province.
“West Coast oyster farmers are fielding calls from farmers on the Gulf of Mexico as the work begins to replace the shellfish breeding beds damaged by the massive oil spill.
“But while shellfish farmers in the Pacific Northwest are anxious to help, they say they have little to offer.
“Climate change has wreaked havoc on seed oyster hatcheries on the west coast, leaving no extra capacity to send to the Gulf shellfish farmers who are looking at totally rebuilding their stock following the explosion April 20 of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig.”
It may be a little passé already to mention the Copenhagen Climate Conference, however, I hope you”ll indulge me anyway. Little seems to have been said about it from the federal level since the proroguing of parliament this year, even though an international embarrassment was caused for this country.
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