By SHAWN McCARTHY of The Globe and Mail Canada’s oil sands producers have suffered another black eye in the United States with the Enbridge pipeline break that has spilled some three million litres of crude into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. The high-profile accident and resulting political outcry comes at a sensitive time for the Canadian industry, [...]
Why a New Water Project in China May Be a Catastrophe in Waiting
By Christina Larson, Yale Environment 360. January 12, 2009. In January 2007, an independent geologist named Yong Yang set out from his home in China’s western Sichuan Province with a small team of researchers packed into two SUVs to find the unmarked place on the Tibetan plateau from which the Yangtze River springs. They drove [...]
