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CP Daily: Friday May 25, 2018
Canada aims for early indicator on post-2022 carbon price trajectory
Waste and Climate Change Intern, Center for Clean Air Policy – Washington DC
'Wolf-like' creature shot on Montana ranch puzzles experts
LCFS Roundup: California prices top $160 as ICE launches trade
ICIS loses second senior carbon analyst
Dinosaur dandruff reveals first evidence of skin shedding
Dinosaur dandruff reveals first evidence of skin shedding
The quick way to make a feather hat in Tynemouth | Brief letters
It is not only the Church of England that is forbidden in law to conduct same-sex marriages (Letters, 25 May). The same legislation applies to the Church in Wales, disestablished in 1920.
Rev Dr Peter Phillips
Swansea
• The Church of England should have read the work of Fredric Brown before teaming up with Amazon (Want to know who God is? Now you can ask Alexa, 25 May). In his short story Answer, a scientist asks the first intergalactic supercomputer the first question: is there a God? “Yes,” it replies, “now there is a God.”
John Cranston
Norwich
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Air pollution, online wildlife trade and puffins in peril – green news roundup
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Continue reading...The week in wildlife – in pictures
Wild horses, an Ethiopian wolf and a dolphin attacking a porpoise are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
Continue reading...Doug Ford isn’t “for the little guy” – he’s a mercenary for the millionaire class | Martin Lukacs
A surging NDP can defeat Canada’s Trump – whose folksy act is a front for an assault on working people and the environment
A recent episode perfectly captures the appeal of Ontario Tory leader Doug Ford. Asked about a delayed mining plan in the province’s north, this is how he answered: “If I have to hop on a bulldozer myself, we’re going to start building roads..it will benefit local people but it is also going to benefit everyone in Ontario.” The statement quickly went viral.
In a single gesture, witness the dizzying acrobatics of right-wing populism. There’s the posture of an unflinching maverick, spitting on his hands and getting the job done. There’s the plain-spoken concern for the common man and woman. And then there’s the actual result: a resource scheme that would enrich multinational corporations – who’d help themselves to a 10-year tax holiday – while trampling Indigenous rights and razing one of the last intact wild areas in Canada.
Continue reading...New UK nuclear power plants 'hinge on deal between Hitachi and government'
Japanese group believed to be demanding direct financial support with consumers making up the difference
Britain’s hopes for a number of new nuclear power stations could collapse if the government and Japanese conglomerate Hitachi fail to make a breakthrough on talks for a plant in Wales, a top nuclear lobbyist has warned.
Hiroaki Nakanishi, the firm’s chairman, met Theresa May earlier this month, to press the prime minister for financial support for two reactors at Wylfa on the island of Anglesey.
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