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Emerging details of accidental radiation exposure at an Ontario nuclear power plant have triggered an order to investigate the possibility of similar incidents across the country, while raising doubts about safety at Canada’s only privately owned operator.

Last Nov. 26, a routine air sample taken at Bruce Power’s No. 1 reactor on Lake Huron near Owen Sound detected elevated levels of radiation. The incident is one of the most serious safety breaches at a Canadian reactor in recent memory and poses troubling questions about why Bruce executives assumed – mistakenly, it turns out – that they could send workers in to upgrade a laid-up reactor without exposing them to cancer-causing alpha radiation.

Ben Webster – Environment Editor, The Times Online April 19, 2010

The grounding of 63,000 flights over the past four days has saved 1.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, more than the annual emissions of many developing countries.

Aviation is responsible for about 2 per cent of global emissions of CO2, but accounts for a much higher proportion of emissions in European nations, which have many frequent flyers. Aircraft are responsible for more than 6 per cent of Britain’s CO2 emissions.

On a normal day, the 28,000 flights in European airspace emit about 560,000 tonnes of CO2, or a third of the world’s aviation emissions.

An Ottawa high-tech company and an Ottawa-area wheat farmer are celebrating their part in Italy’s Ferrari team victory in Sunday’s Grand Prix race in the middle eastern Kingdom of Bahrain.

Iogen Corporation produces a type of ethanol in Ottawa, using straw from a farm in Mountain, Ont., just 60 kilometres south of Ottawa. It’s that ethanol that was used in the Ferrari cars.

By Jason Dearen The Associated Press / January 7, 2010 Methane gas produced in California landfills fuels garbage and recycling trucks, reducing the state’s carbon emissions.

9 November 2009

New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now. This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected.

Boreal Forests Store More Carbon than Tropical Forests

Ottawa, Ontario—When the world thinks of forests and their value to offset global warming, tropical forests come to mind. A report released today shows that the global impact of Canada’s boreal forest, which stores nearly twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical forests, has been vastly underestimated.

November 12, 2009, By John Lorinc

David Adam, environment correspondent, The Guardian, Monday 28 September 2009 Unchecked global warming could bring a severe temperature rise of 4C within many people’s lifetimes, according to a new report for the British government that significantly raises the stakes over climate change.

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 25, 2009

Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world’s leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.