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Politics
Coastal GasLink Pipeline politics
BigStock Photo ID: 165844508
Copyright: Leonid Eremeychuk
Release: Signed model release filed with Bigstock.

Have a dozen stop-work orders changed anything for CGL?

BC’s Environmental Assessment Office says things have improved. We won’t know until the next big downpour.
Causes
microplastic crisis
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The microplastic crisis is getting exponentially worse

Plastic production is skyrocketing, pushing microplastic pollution to dangerous new levels. Now research shows even the Arctic is increasingly contaminated.
toxic Red floods from nickel mines
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Red floods near giant Indonesia nickel mine blight farms and fishing grounds

Farming communities in the shadow of Sulawesi’s giant Pomalaa nickel mining area say their fields have been flooded with red water, possibly laterite waste from the mining operations.

Causes
Coastal GasLink sediment spills
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Photos show Coastal GasLink sediment spills into wetlands, rivers

On an Indigenous-led monitoring flight over the Coastal GasLink pipeline, The Narwhal documented worksites overwhelmed by spring melt and numerous environmental infractions including slope failures, flooded worksites and sediment entering wetlands and waterways
Politics
deep-sea mining ocean pollution
flickr.com

Leaked video footage of ocean pollution shines light on deep-sea mining

Company rebuts claims by scientists that ‘uncontrolled and unscientific’ practices highlight dangers of going ahead with seabed mining.

Causes
pennsylvania's loyalsock creek sediment pollution
Nicholas_T/Flickr

Hellbender habitat slammed by pollution in Pennsylvania's Loyalsock Creek

Repeated sediment pollution incidents and accusations of destroying habitat for rare hellbenders on a Pennsylvania “river of the year” have brought criticism over natural gas operations in a scenic valley.

Impacts
B.C. flood resilience & low-tech restoration
Province of British Columb/Flickr

When B.C. floods hit her farm, she found solutions in a river

An unlikely group from northwest B.C. is working together to restore the heavily impacted Upper Bulkley River to protect farmland from floods and bring balance back to a disrupted ecosystem.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
Wildfire smoke is now linked to worsening eczema symptoms

Wildfire smoke is now linked to worsening eczema symptoms

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Scientists warn that 2023's extreme ocean heat may signal a major climate shift

Scientists warn that 2023's extreme ocean heat may signal a major climate shift

CLIMATE
Wind turbine blades could soon be recyclable

Wind turbine blades could soon be recyclable

Chevron agrees to a $550 million settlement with California city

Chevron agrees to a $550 million settlement with California city