NRDC: Missing the Forest – How Carbon Loopholes for Logging Hinder Canada’s Climate Leadership (PDF) – Missing-the-Forest.pdf

Governments are failing to report the annual release of more than 80 megatonnes (Mt) per year of greenhouse gases from boreal forests, Environmental Defence Canada, Nature Canada, Nature Québec, and Natural Resources Defense Council conclude, in a report [pdf] released in the week leading up to the COP. That’s a significant increase over Environment and…

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NRDC: Missing the Forest – How Carbon Loopholes for Logging Hinder Canada’s Climate Leadership (PDF) – Missing-the-Forest.pdf

Governments are failing to report the annual release of more than 80 megatonnes (Mt) per year of greenhouse gases from boreal forests, Environmental Defence Canada, Nature Canada, Nature Québec, and Natural Resources Defense Council conclude, in a report [pdf] released in the week leading up to the COP. That’s a significant increase over Environment and…

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N.S. government extends Northern Pulp’s use of Boat Harbour wastewater treatment plant until April – Halifax | Globalnews.ca

Northern Pulp will continue to use its Boat Harbour wastewater treatment plant until the end of April as the company prepares the facility for its indefinite closure. On Wednesday, Northern Pulp announced it had received an order from Nova Scotia Minister of Environment Gordon Wilson that directs the continued use of its wastewater treatment plant…

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The Derailment of Climate Talks by Polluters

In The Big Stall, author Donald Gutstein shows how Big Oil owns the Paris Agreement.Quoting ecological economist Clive Spash, Gutstein points out that what came out of theParis talks at COP21 “is a fantasy which lacks any plan of how to achieve the targets foremissions reduction.”There are no mentions of greenhouse gas sources, not a…

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Don Wilson: a recent Supreme Court ruling says volumes about the Northern Pulp Mill’s future 18Dec2019 | Nova Scotia Forest Notes

Received today from Don Wilson, who has written many op-eds about NS forestry in Saltwire publications (some cited on NSFN): After the Pulp Mill The Supreme Court of Canada web site has published it’s Dec 6, 2019 decision that says pulp mills are responsible for clean up of pollutant(s), not governments, irregardless of indemnity contracts…

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