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Alberta Pipeline Safety Review Too Industry-Influenced:
Greenpeace
A review of pipeline safety commissioned by the Alberta government
after a series of high-profile accidents was heavily influenced by industry
and designed more to quiet public concern than improve the system, say
Greenpeace campaigners.
Fossil Free’ Campaign By 350.org’s Bill McKibben Aims To
Convince Colleges Not To Invest In Oil
Among environmental scribes, Bill McKibben is a legend. That’s not
only because he had a knack, in such books as The End of Nature (1989),
The Age of Missing Information (1992) and his most recent Eaarth (2011),
of telling an important story before anybody else, but also because he is a
mensch, and so darned helpful reviewing and blurbing books for other
writers. Including at least one of mine.
That’s why it got attention when McKibben largely stopped writing
and became a climate activist, best known as the founder of 350.org. The
reasons for that are in an article he wrote for Rolling Stone last summer.
“The official position of planet Earth at the moment is that we can’t raise
the temperature more than two degrees Celsius,” he wrote. “It’s become
the bottomest of bottom lines. Two degrees.” And we’re already three
quarters of the way to overshooting that target.
Oil spill panel makes recommendations to Mont. Gov
A council appointed to come up with pipeline safety improvements in
Montana following last year’s Yellowstone River crude spill has offered its
recommendations to the governor’s office.
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