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Trans Mountain Construction Cost Rises 133% to $12.6 Billion
 
The projected cost to complete the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has skyrocketed to C$12.6 billion, driving the total price tag above $16 billion when the expense of buying the project on taxpayers’ behalf is taken into account.
 
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Extreme Heat Drives North American, European Bumblebee Species Toward Extinction

Extreme heat waves brought on by climate change have already driven some North American and European bumblebee species to the edge of extinction, according to a new study published last week in the journal Science.

 
 

 

Warming Speeds Up Ocean Currents Far Sooner Than Climate Models Predicted

Just over three-quarters of the world’s oceans have sped up in the last decade, in what the Washington Post calls a “massive development that was not expected to occur until climate warming became much more advanced”.

 
 

 

Big-City Mayors Call for Predictable, Long-Term Transit Funding

Canada’s big-city mayors are pushing for predictable, long-term mass transit funding and immediate dollars for climate change programming when Finance Minister Bill Morneau issues his climate-focused budget next month.

 
 

 
 
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Week 3, January 20: Canada’s Carbon Tax

Carbon taxation is a net benefit to all Canadians and an essential tool as we navigate a rapid transition to renewable energy. The current tax is $30 per tonne in 2020, rising by $10 a year to $50 by 2022, the revenue from which is being returned to Canadians as tax rebates.

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Garneau Orders Slower Speeds After Second Oil Train Derailment in Two Months

Transport Minister Marc Garneau has ordered all large trains carrying dangerous goods to slow their speeds along federal rail lines for 30 days, after a second crude oil train in two months derailed near the Saskatchewan hamlet of Guernsey.

 
 

 

Tyendinaga Protesters Block Rail Line Near Belleville in Support of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

Protesters from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario have blocked passenger and freight trains through Belleville, Ontario, in a multi-day demonstration of support for the Wet'suwet'en Nation in British Columbia.

 
 

 

Cape Breton’s Donkin Coal Mine Reports 11th Rockfall Since 2017

The Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton is reporting its eleventh rockfall since it opened in February 2017, about 20 metres away from where miners were last working.

 
 

 

Ottawa Mulls Alberta ‘Aid Package’ as Province Angles for Teck Mine Approval

With an end-of-month deadline looming for a cabinet decision on Teck Resources’ proposed Frontier tar sands/oil sands mine, Ottawa was preparing an “aid package” to cushion the blow for Alberta if it rejects the company’s plan, Alberta said it wasn’t interested in a federal “handout”, and Teck itself was facing stiff financial headwinds that were entirely unrelated to the C$20.6-billion megaproject.

 
 

 

Redirect Military Spending to Climate Action, Sanders Argues During Democratic Debate

The back-and-forth among seven Democratic candidates during a high-stakes presidential primary debate in New Hampshire Friday evening veered into the connections between the climate crisis and the United States’ massive military budget and trade relations.

 
 

 

‘Absolute Welcome Disruption’ as Torrential Rains Help Quell Australian Bushfires

Hot, dry, windy conditions in the Australian state of New South Wales have given way to torrential rains that have reduced the number of active bushfires from 60 to 42, but raised the prospect of flooding and landslides for parts of the country’s east coast.

 
 

 

Coronavirus Drives Sharpest Oil Demand Drop Since 9/11

Oil consumption in China is down 20 to 25% this month and at least one market analyst firm has cut its projection for global oil prices, as the coronavirus drives the biggest demand shock fossils have seen since the 2008 economic crash, and the most sudden one since 9/11.

 
 

 

Saudi Wealth Fund Misses Out as Tesla Shares Soar 40% in Two Days

After shares in Tesla Inc. soared 40% in two days last week, the company’s fans were inspired, its skeptics were unmoved, founder Elon Musk’s personal wealth ballooned by US$13.5 billion, and a news report said Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund had missed the fun by selling most of its stock too soon.

 
 

 
 
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