Climate justice advocate leads tar sands protests
By Alana Power
Climate justice is high on the list of priorities for Toban Black.
Black heads up the group Mobilization for Climate Justice at the University of Western Ontario. He is working on his PhD in sociology, but that doesn’t stop him from being an environmental activist.
His group serves as advocates for the people who are harmed by climate problems.
“We look at who is more responsible for climate problems and who is harmed by climate problems and how that responsibility and that harm falls along the lines of injustices like racism and class inequalities,” he said.
However some people say that the justice issues are not really open to his group’s point [...]
Climate change may increase spring rain
By Anna Delaney
Our changing climate is causing some to worry that our springtime rainfalls in South Western Ontario will be more frequent and more intense than in previous years.
One of those worriers is James P. Bruce, a Canadian policy representative for the Soil and Water Conservation Society. He spoke about this issue to a small group of students and faculty at the University of Western Ontario on Monday. His talk, Water Resources in a Changing Climate, looked at how greenhouse gas emissions in the past 40 years can predict how much warming we can expect in the next 40 years, he said.
“Since greenhouse gases are going to drive the [...]
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How Environment Canada ordered a Dutch web hosting company and German server group to take down a Danish web site running an American political parody
By Bill Kovarik
A Danish web administrator says he only acted under duress when he complied with a Dec. 21 Environment Canada order to take down a Yes Men political comedy web site criticizing Canada’s climate stance at Copenhagen.
“I felt really bad promising to take the sites offline without a warrant, as I am a firm believer of the UN Human Rights,” said Ole Tange, a Danish web developer. However, had he not taken the sites down, 4,500 other sites he manages would have been kept [...]