Pensons à
Haïti : à chacune des catastrophes, l’aide internationale met des
pansements sur un bobo qui grossit toujours. L’île est constamment dans la mire
des ouragans, et ses fondations tremblent sur la faille d’Enriquillo. Comment
sortir de pareil bourbier? Où fuir? Il n’y a pas de refuges. C'est infiniment
triste et l'on se sent impuissant devant l'ampleur de la tâche, même avec la
quantité de bonnes âmes qui ne lâchent pas.
«Si nous
voulons que nos enfants et petits-enfants vivent et héritent d’une vie meilleure,
cela ne sera possible que si chacun de nous change sa façon de penser et de se
comporter envers la terre.» ~
Lee Durrell
Incendies du
côté de l’océan Pacifique : Californie, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho,
Utah. La Colombie Britannique a eu son lot.
En carte :
En carte :
Tornades et
inondations du côté de l’océan Atlantique. La circonférence d’Irma est si
énorme qu’elle pourrait affecter simultanément la côte est et ouest de la
Floride. Comme si Harvey et Irma ne suffisaient pas, José et Katia tourbillonnent.
À donner le vertige!
En carte http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ :
Catégories et dommages selon l'intensité des ouragans. À faire circuler.
Le lanceur d’alertes Victor Hugo disait :
«Chaque
système doit disparaître avec ses démolitions. Le grand péril et le grand
problème de la situation actuelle, c’est la vieillesse des choses aux prises
avec la nouveauté des idées.» (1885; Fragments
sans date; HUGO Choses vues)
Rien n’arrête les pitbulls industriels : ni les incendies ni les inondations
ni les fuites de pétrole polluant les ressources d’eau potable. Ils continuent à
creuser la tombe de l’humanité avec détermination.
#$@&%*!
Trump se réjouissait que le gouvernement soit enfin débarrassé des réglementations «tueuses de jobs», aux applaudissements des employés d’une raffinerie de pétrole : “Dakota Access Pipeline is finally open for business.”
Trump se réjouissait que le gouvernement soit enfin débarrassé des réglementations «tueuses de jobs», aux applaudissements des employés d’une raffinerie de pétrole : “Dakota Access Pipeline is finally open for business.”
#$@&%*!
J’ai cru à un canular en lisant ce qui suit, mais c’est vrai. L’appât doit être gros :
J’ai cru à un canular en lisant ce qui suit, mais c’est vrai. L’appât doit être gros :
Des groupes
autochtones appuient un projet de mine à Fort McMurray
Cinq groupes autochtones dans la région de Fort
McMurray, en Alberta, appuient la construction d'une mine d'extraction de
sables bitumineux, un mégaprojet de 20,6 milliards de dollars qui pourrait voir
le jour au nord de la ville.
Le
président de McMurray Métis, Gail Gallupe, a défendu Teck Resources, affirmant
que la compagnie a consulté pendant un an les chasseurs métis, les trappeurs et
les cueilleurs de baies.
«Notre
plus grand souci, en raison de notre adhésion, est de nous assurer que notre
air ne va pas donner le cancer, que notre eau ne va pas mutiler nos poissons»,
a déclaré M. Gallupe. «[Teck Resources] a réalisé un sondage sur l'utilisation
des sols qui était très efficace».
Source : Radio-Canada avec CBC, Affaires
autochtones 06/09/2017
#$@&%*!
À faire dresser leschevaux (oui, le sort des chevaux me préoccupe...) cheveux sur la tête, en effet. On comprend
pourquoi les pétrolières élargissent leur champ d'exploration en Alberta.
À faire dresser les
Five things that will blow your mind
about Alberta’s oil and gas wells
Article intégral : https://theleap.org/
Article intégral : https://theleap.org/
1. There’s one well for every 10
people living in Alberta.
Alberta is absolutely covered with oil and
gas wells. More than 450,000 wells have been drilled in the province, reaching
from rural and Indigenous communities right into the heart of its biggest
cities.
Once oil and gas companies are finished
actively producing from a well, they are
legally required to clean, cap, and “reclaim” them. The problem is, they’re not
doing that. As these wells degrade,
they leak toxins into the land, air and water.
2. The cleanup bill for these wells
is greater than the value of the entire oil and gas industry.
How is that possible? Let’s break it down. Over
330,000 wells in Alberta either need to be cleaned up right now or in the
coming years. “Full cycle” reclamation cost can range from $100,000, up to
millions of dollars for a really difficult well. When you do the math, cleaning up Alberta’s oil and gas wells could
cost up to a hundred billion dollars.
Those numbers don’t even include the cleanup
costs of all the wells’ related infrastructure, including 23,000 oil and gas
facilities, and over 430,000 kilometres of pipelines. Once you add those in, we’re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars
of industry cleanup costs. You read that right: hundreds of billions.
And here’s where things get really scary. When
you put the full cost cleanup liabilities onto the books, the vast majority of
Alberta’s oil and gas companies are already insolvent — and have been for some
time.
In other words: if Alberta’s oil and gas
industry had to account for its cleanup costs, it would already be out of
business.
And
if oil and gas companies aren’t setting aside the money to clean up their own
mess, just who is going to pay for it?
You guessed it: the rest of us.
[...]
Cinq étoiles à ces courageux Albertains!
Brent
Nimeck and Regan Boychuk are Albertans who have been working in and researching
the province’s oil and gas industries for decades. They’ve come up with an
innovative way to fix the problem of reclaiming these old wells before the
industry walks away from them. The plan is called RAFT: Reclaiming Alberta’s
Future Today.
The
idea is simple: hold the oil companies to their legal obligation, and make them
pay to clean up their mess. In Alberta, there are tens of thousands of
unemployed oilfield workers and vast arrays of equipment ready to be put to
work to clean up those wells.
Implementing
RAFT would shift Alberta away from its reliance on fossil fuel production and
launch a new reclamation boom in Alberta – a model that could be exported to
energy jurisdictions around the world.
Healing the land through reclamation can
also begin to rebalance the scales of justice with Indigenous communities in
the province. One hundred years of oil and gas exploration in Alberta have
poisoned the land, water and air, undermined the treaties, and now threaten to
leave all of us with this toxic mess and the cleanup costs.
But getting oil and gas companies to clean
up their mess could be the start of a green jobs boom, and a new future for
Alberta.
So
let’s get to work. Share this post to
get the word out.
#$@&%*!
Si vous le voyez explorer en catimini dans votre patelin, fuyez...!
Si vous le voyez explorer en catimini dans votre patelin, fuyez...!
First Nations will protest, but
Trans Mountain pipeline a done deal, Liberals say
'Nothing that's happened has changed
our mind that this is a good decision,' resources minister says
While some Indigenous activists gear up to fight expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline on the streets and in court, federal Liberal cabinet ministers say there's no going back on their decision to approve the $7.4-billion project.
Inspired by some of the tactics used by
protesters at Standing Rock in North Dakota, the Secwepemc Nation, situated
along the Trans Mountain route, said Wednesday it was preparing to build
"10 tiny houses" in the path of the project's construction as a protest
and with the hope of forcing a delay.
Speaking
to reporters at the national Liberal caucus meeting in Kelowna, B.C.,
Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott said such groups are free to stand
in opposition, but the decision to approve is final.
"We know there are a variety of
different views on this," Philpott said. "But this is something we've
already done a tremendous [amount] of work on, recognizing the principles of
consent, recognizing the rights of First Nations."
Trans Mountain announced Wednesday it has
finalized agreements with six contractors to build portions of the
1,150-kilometre expansion project that will carry crude oil from a terminal
near Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., something the company calls a "major
milestone." Construction is set to begin later this month.
Federal cabinet approved the project last
November. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the infrastructure is needed
because of a dearth of pipeline capacity for Alberta producers. At the time,
Trudeau said the government expects Kinder Morgan to "meet and
exceed" the 157 conditions the National Energy Board imposed on the
project, including spill-mitigation plans.
John
Paul Tasker, CBC News Posted: Sep 07, 2017 5:20 AM ET
Cinq étoiles à Ghislain Picard :
Des
Autochtones font pression sur Desjardins pour qu'elle sorte des oléoducs
Des leaders autochtones rencontreront jeudi la
direction de Desjardins pour convaincre l'institution financière québécoise de
rendre son moratoire sur les investissements dans les nouveaux oléoducs
canadiens permanents.
Selon
Ghislain Picard, chef de l'Assemblée des Premières Nations pour le Québec et le
Labrador, cette rencontre constitue une étape importante pour le vaste
mouvement d'opposition aux projets d'oléoducs Énergie Est et Trans Mountain.
Source : Radio-Canada avec CBC, Affaires
autochtones 06/09/2017
#$@&%*!
Trump Nominates Climate Change Denier to Head NASA
Trump Nominates Climate Change Denier to Head NASA
President
Trump's intention to nominate Rep. Jim
Bridenstine of Oklahoma as the next administrator of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has drawn controversy as the
Republican congressman denies the human
causes of climate change.
“I would say that the climate is changing.
It has always changed. There were periods of time long before the internal
combustion engine when the Earth was much warmer than it is today,"
Bridenstine told Aerospace America in a 2016 interview. "Going back to the
1600s, we have had mini Ice Ages from then to now.”
Bridenstine – a veteran Navy combat pilot and
member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee – is a proponent of space
commercialization and introduced the Space Renaissance Act earlier this year.
He also wants to send Americans back to the moon.
But NASA
is not just a space exploration program – it also plays a major role in global climate
science, including “research on solar activity, sea level rise, the temperature
of the atmosphere and the oceans, the state of the ozone layer, air pollution,
and changes in sea ice and land ice. NASA scientists regularly appear in the mainstream
press as climate experts,” the agency states.
Cinq étoiles à Naomi Klein :
Look Around: The Costs of Not Acting
on Climate Are Adding Up Fast
From
major hurricanes and flooding to droughts and fires, the refusal to accept the
science of global warming is getting very expensive
Trump and his cabinet remain reluctant to
discuss the causes of disasters like Harvey as they strike. Environmental
Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt
declared it was "misplaced" to discuss the storm's link to climate
change last week.
But that view was specifically countered by
journalist Naomi Klein who said that it is in the midst of these
climate-related disasters when the conversation about global warming and its
impacts is most important.
"Talking
honestly about what is fueling this era of serial disasters – even while they’re playing out in
real time – isn’t disrespectful to the people on the front lines," argued Klein at The Intercept. "In fact, it is the only way to truly
honor their losses, and our last hope for preventing a future littered with
countless more victims."
Source:
Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue.
Now is the Time to Talk About Climate Change.
Naomi
Klein | August 28
2017, 4:25 p.m.
Now
is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic
injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters
like Harvey into human catastrophes.
Turn on the coverage of the Hurricane Harvey
and the Houston flooding and you’ll hear lots of talk about how unprecedented
this kind of rainfall is. How no one saw it coming, so no one could adequately
prepare.
What you will hear very little about is why
these kind of unprecedented, record-breaking weather events are happening with
such regularity that “record-breaking” has become a meteorological cliche. In
other words, you won’t hear much, if any, talk about climate change. [...]
It’s a decision to spare feelings and avoid
controversy at the expense of telling the truth, however difficult. Because the
truth is that these events have long been predicted by climate scientists.
Warmer oceans throw up more powerful storms. Higher sea levels mean those
storms surge into places they never reached before. Hotter weather leads to
extremes of precipitation: long dry periods interrupted by massive snow or rain
dumps, rather than the steadier predictable patterns most of us grew up with.
The records being broken year after year – whether for drought, storm surges,
wildfires, or just heat – are happening because the planet is markedly warmer than it has been
since record-keeping began. Covering events like Harvey while ignoring those
facts, failing to provide a platform to climate scientists who can make them
plain, all while never mentioning President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw
from the Paris climate accords, fails in the most basic duty of journalism: to
provide important facts and relevant context. It leaves the public with the
false impression that these are disasters without root causes, which also means
that nothing could have been done to prevent them (and that nothing can be done
now to prevent them from getting much worse in the future). ...
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