What are the risks to the NWT’s water quality?

Life's Better at the Cabin

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Ian McEwan's two-part #speculativefiction and contemporary #literaryfiction novel is a 22nd century scholar's wistful obsession with the literary and natural world of the early 21st century and that world as it really was in those decades from the prospective of a scholar embroiled in it. The novel tackles a host of issues - #gender, #ethics, #climatebreakdown, #dementia, #patriarchy, #ecosystemDestruction, and loss and grief. It's a decent read albeit somewhat sexist.
#books #bookstodon
In one chart, the near-disappearance of a caribou herd

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Fracking with Freshwater 2025 - Stand.earth

At a time where we should be making every effort to conserve water and phase out fossil fuels, oil and gas companies in B.C. withdrew and polluted enough freshwater for more than 110,000 households – the equivalent to the entire population of Nanaimo. While B.C.’s Peace River Region is facing an ongoing severe drought freshwater has […]

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Before the Trees Are Gone

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"#Shell’s shift to offshore operations certainly “opens a new frontier for the destruction of the #environment,” but should not distract from the company’s culpability for poisoning #Nigerian communities for decades." https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/shell-exits-nigeria-leaving-behind-a-trail-of-environmental-degradation

#BigOil #EnvironmentalRacism #Nigeria #EcosystemDestruction

Shell exits Nigeria, leaving behind trail of environmental degradation

The issue of environmental justice is relevant today in light of Shell’s decision to sell its onshore oil and gas operations in Nigeria, the continent’s biggest oil producer. In March 2025, Shell finalized the sale of $2.4 billion in onshore and shallow-water assets in Nigeria to a consortium of Nigerian companies called Renaissance.

It's so frustrating when you live in a country half of the world don't even know/care about and the other half think it is one of the best countries of its own region and a safe haven from a lot of political and economic inestability all while the actual country itself is rushing directly to its doom. #openpitmining #latinamerica #globalsouth #imperialism #neocolonialism #PanamaValeMásSinMinería #corruption #panama #extinctionrebellion #climatechange #ecosystemdestruction #policebrutality #acab