When will #Canada make #ExtractiveIndustries pay to clean up their mess? Taking public resources and running away with extreme profits is criminal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/northern-contaminated-sites-watchdog-report-1.7189589

#cdnpoli #mining #fossilfuels #environment #toxicSites #nwt #Nunavut #Yukon #WaterisLife

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/27/20000-toxic-sites-in-sagging-arctic-permafrost/

Exposed yedoma permafrost along an eroded #Arctic coast. Image courtesy of the #NationalParkService.

#Yedoma is an organic-rich (about 2% carbon by mass) #Pleistocene-age #permafrost with ice content of 50–90% by volume.
"The deposits formed due to a combination of aeolian, colluvial, nival, and alluvial deposition and simultaneous ground ice accumulation. [...] #thermokarst

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825217300508?via%3Dihub

#ClimateChange #GlobalBoiling #permafrost #toxicsites