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Landslide Sweeps Away Alberta Highway

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.21.2013 | Canada Alberta
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PEACE RIVER, Alta. - A landslide has forced the closure of a highway outside of the Town of Peace River in northwest Alberta.The ground underneath Hig...

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Environmental Threats Beyond Pipelines and Mega Quarrys

David Suzuki | Posted 05.20.2013 | Canada
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Although industrial projects like the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline or the recently defeated mega-quarry in Ontario typically grab the headlines and bring out public opposition, it's often the combined impacts of a range of human activities on the same land base that threaten to drive nature beyond critical tipping points.

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Site C Cost Is Too Dam High: Advocate

CBC | Posted 12.03.2012 | Canada British Columbia
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An energy advocate in northeastern B.C. is raising red flags about the cost of the proposed Site C hydroelectric dam. Rick Koechl, of the...

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Constitutional Chaos Threatens 'Amazon Of The North'

CP | Dene Moore, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.03.2012 | Canada
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Scientists call it the Amazon of the North and they fear the Mackenzie River Basin, an extensive watershed three times the size of France, is under th...

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