For this reason we have more power if we have the opportunity to share this information with those who are still experiencing impacts by polluting industry.
Thirteen oil and gas corporations operating or based in Canada are also on the list of 88 big carbon polluters being called out for a major share of the forested lands lost to wildfires in North America between 1986 and 2021.
I am in Southern California and will be visiting the University perhaps to ask this researcher about her study. The letter provided some really devastating statistics. Watch her video on the link above it is only 1 minute. Her last statement is very eye opening.
See the video by Kristina Dahl.
“What we found is those fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers are responsible for almost 40% of the area of western US and southwestern Canadian forests that burned since the mid 80’s. And they are responsible for about half of the increase in fire danger conditions that’s happened over the last century”.
Previous research has linked fires and it’s human causes by these extraction industries oil and gas and cement manufacturers. This letter was published in Feb 2023. So I hope to hear back about the issues. My colleague, Dr. David Ellison has a power point from our last Task Force meeting with the United Nations and his assessment of forests from his two studies recently published.
Links to these studies include a reference to coal mines and water resources
Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests
On the Objectives of Landscape Restoration: Forest Carbon, Water, and Energy Cycle Synergies & Nature-Based Solutions
DAVID ELLISON Natural Resource Group (NARP)
Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich Land systems and sustainable land management (LS-SLM) Geography Institute U. Been UNECE, Geneva Switzerland June 11, 2024
“Adopt a cumulative effects strategy in the regulations that adequately addresses the consequences of numerous and ongoing industrial impacts on the landscape, and how these negatively affect water quality. Currently, the regulations fail to consider the impact that multiple coal mines have on a watershed. They also fail to effectively address the impacts of other activities on the same landscape; assessing multiple uses at a landscape-level is integral to understanding how coal mines further exacerbate regions that are already under pressure. This includes capturing the effects of forestry, agriculture, and recreational activities, in addition to those contributed by a current or future mine.”
These were my comments at the first meeting for the Task Force on June 14, 2023 and by the fourth meeting I had received confirmation to have a receipt of his study submissions. Page 3 (k) Some new ideas were also presented mine is above (ii)
We understood that water was to be addressed and therefore we made our request. On the fifth meeting he made the presentation to the attendees and it was the last meeting of the task force.
The fifth and final meeting on June 11, 2024 was the presentation by Dr. Ellison.
You can just google First meeting of the Task Force on Safe Operations and Closure of Coal Mines and fourth meeting.
The follow up article is a submission from Lorne Fitch.
There is no reference to published science which would support his argument nor does he seem to be aware of the lack of any evidence of adverse effects anywhere, ever on the Elk River which continues to deliver its water into the US where no adverse effects are being observed.
Commenting on Spray Lakes logging practices, Tim Juhlin said, "It’s beneficial to wildlife to have a natural disturbance – something that logging actually helps with. We’re trying to go into this area, make a fairly significant disturbance and then stay out of there for many years.”
Juhlin also said said he couldn’t comment on whether the trout stream had been impacted.
For this reason we have more power if we have the opportunity to share this information with those who are still experiencing impacts by polluting industry.
Thirteen oil and gas corporations operating or based in Canada are also on the list of 88 big carbon polluters being called out for a major share of the forested lands lost to wildfires in North America between 1986 and 2021.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acbce8/pdf
I am in Southern California and will be visiting the University perhaps to ask this researcher about her study. The letter provided some really devastating statistics. Watch her video on the link above it is only 1 minute. Her last statement is very eye opening.
See the video by Kristina Dahl.
“What we found is those fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers are responsible for almost 40% of the area of western US and southwestern Canadian forests that burned since the mid 80’s. And they are responsible for about half of the increase in fire danger conditions that’s happened over the last century”.
Previous research has linked fires and it’s human causes by these extraction industries oil and gas and cement manufacturers. This letter was published in Feb 2023. So I hope to hear back about the issues. My colleague, Dr. David Ellison has a power point from our last Task Force meeting with the United Nations and his assessment of forests from his two studies recently published.
Kristine Dahl’s email is
kdahl@ucsusa.org
David Ellison’s email is
ellisondl@gmail.com
Both Kristine’s letter and David’s presentation are available in the attachments below.
To learn more please visit the UN’s webpage dedicated to the Safe operations and closure of coal mines will find an agenda.
https://unece.org/sustainable-energy/events/fifth-meeting-task-force-safe-operations-and-closure-coal-mines
Links to these studies include a reference to coal mines and water resources
Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests
To cite this article: Kristina A Dahl et al 2023 Environmental Research Letters https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acbce8
On the Objectives of Landscape Restoration: Forest Carbon, Water, and Energy Cycle Synergies & Nature-Based Solutions
DAVID ELLISON Natural Resource Group (NARP)
Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich Land systems and sustainable land management (LS-SLM) Geography Institute U. Been UNECE, Geneva Switzerland June 11, 2024
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/Ellison_On%20the%20Objectives%20of%20Landscape%20Restoration_UNECE_June_11th_2024_0.pdf
Two of his studies are available Even cooler insights: On the power of forests to (water the Earth and) cool the planet https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.17195. Some conclusions are
Each tree is a carbon sink, each tree is a cooling tower, each tree is a potential source of future rainfall.
Degraded landscapes contribute to the land heat sink and promote additional warming
Degraded landscape restoration is necessary to reverse warming and improve the cooling power of trees, forest and vegetation cover.
“Adopt a cumulative effects strategy in the regulations that adequately addresses the consequences of numerous and ongoing industrial impacts on the landscape, and how these negatively affect water quality. Currently, the regulations fail to consider the impact that multiple coal mines have on a watershed. They also fail to effectively address the impacts of other activities on the same landscape; assessing multiple uses at a landscape-level is integral to understanding how coal mines further exacerbate regions that are already under pressure. This includes capturing the effects of forestry, agriculture, and recreational activities, in addition to those contributed by a current or future mine.”
These were my comments at the first meeting for the Task Force on June 14, 2023 and by the fourth meeting I had received confirmation to have a receipt of his study submissions. Page 3 (k) Some new ideas were also presented mine is above (ii)
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/20230614%20TF%20on%20Safe%20Operations%20and%20Closure%20of%20Coal%20Mines%20-%201st%20meeting%20-%20Summary%20v2.pdf
For the second meeting of the Task Force on Safe operations and closure of coal mines https://unece.org/info/events/event/383387
Two case studies one from Poland and my case study from Cardinal River Mine in Canada were presented. https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/20231026%20TF%20on%20Safe%20Operations%20and%20Closure%20of%20Coal%20Mines%20-%202nd%20meeting%20-%20Summary.pdf
My case study was of Cardinal River Mine (shared in folder for UNECE attendees only) on SharePoint so information is available in my Google drive https://docs.google.com/file/d/1YCu4YtmeS8cngMdc_hOpKB6Zh3qrkKTE/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword I have since included the methane portion of the project
We understood that water was to be addressed and therefore we made our request. On the fifth meeting he made the presentation to the attendees and it was the last meeting of the task force.
The fifth and final meeting on June 11, 2024 was the presentation by Dr. Ellison.
You can just google First meeting of the Task Force on Safe Operations and Closure of Coal Mines and fourth meeting.
The current coal royalty act in Alberta is 1 dollar per tonne. One loonie per tonne. Sellers beware as the coal sells for 150 dollars a tonne.
The follow up article is a submission from Lorne Fitch.
There is no reference to published science which would support his argument nor does he seem to be aware of the lack of any evidence of adverse effects anywhere, ever on the Elk River which continues to deliver its water into the US where no adverse effects are being observed.
Some folks are just delusional.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/teck-coal-lake-koocanusa-court-battle-1.6850286
https://elkriveralliance.ca/selenium/
https://static.aer.ca/prd/documents/applications/hearings/Proceeding-444-vol-5-Jan-16-2025.pdf
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/selenium-alberta-jeff-kneteman-jason-penner-coal-mining-1.6566604
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/selenium-alberta-coal-mines-contamination-1.5886293
https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/0778546055
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354004696_Selenium_management_A_crucial_consideration_in_coal_policy_development_for_Alberta_Canada
Commenting on Spray Lakes logging practices, Tim Juhlin said, "It’s beneficial to wildlife to have a natural disturbance – something that logging actually helps with. We’re trying to go into this area, make a fairly significant disturbance and then stay out of there for many years.”
Juhlin also said said he couldn’t comment on whether the trout stream had been impacted.
Not sure why he thinks he's qualified now.