The five largest Canadian banks have doubled their funding for oil sands production and related projects in Canada to $16.8 billion last year, amid a global energy shortage, according a April 11 report by the Financial Times. This is despite the five leading Canadian banks’ agreement last year to join the U.N.’s Net-Zero Banking Alliance, led…
Top Canadian Banks Have Increased Financing for Oil Sands Production
April 11, 2022
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With Lithium Prices Up Ninefold, Report Underscores U.S. Dependence on Foreign Minerals
April 11, 2022
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A recent white paper has laid out some of the challenges in supplying minerals for any energy transition from fossil fuels, offering a timely warning for policymakers as the increased demand for electric vehicles (EVs) drives up the costs of materials used in such products. Notably, the benchmark prices of lithium, lithium carbonate, and lithium…
With Lithium Prices Up Ninefold, Report Underscores US Dependence on Foreign Minerals
April 11, 2022
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A recent white paper has laid out some of the challenges in supplying minerals for any energy transition from fossil fuels, offering a timely warning for policymakers as the increased demand for electric vehicles (EVs) drives up the costs of materials used in such products. Notably, the benchmark prices of lithium, lithium carbonate, and lithium…
Rural Medical Schooling Increases Rural Practice
April 11, 2022
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A study on Australian medical graduates has found graduates who did clinical placements in rural areas were far more likely to work in rural areas as doctors than graduates who did not. “Eight years after graduation, rural origin graduates with extended rural clinical school experience were more likely than metropolitan origin graduates without this experience…
CRISPR Gene Editing Finds Possible Therapy to Sickle Cell Anaemia
April 10, 2022
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Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have found the mechanism behind sickle cell anaemia and beta thalassemia—common genetic anaemia—through CRISPR (DNA editing) techniques, with the discovery promising for future therapies. “We can use this understanding of the mechanism to help us look for new therapeutic approaches–it’s a key piece of the puzzle,”…
Unsafe Levels of Uranium Present in American Public Drinking Water: University Study
High concentrations of uranium were discovered in U.S. community water systems (CWS), according to a study conducted by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. “We estimated that 63.1 percent of CWS compliance monitoring records reported detectable concentrations of uranium, and that 2.1 percent of CWSs with available uranium data had 2000–11…
Space Station’s First All-Private Astronaut Team Docked to Orbiting Platform
The first all-private team of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS) arrived safely at the orbiting research platform on Saturday to begin a week-long science mission hailed as a milestone in commercial spaceflight. The rendezvous came about 21 hours after the four-man team representing Houston-based startup company Axiom Space Inc lifted off…
SpaceX Launches 3 Visitors to Space Station for $55 Million Each
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX launched three rich businessmen and their astronaut escort to the International Space Station on Friday for more than a week’s stay, as NASA joins Russia in hosting guests at the world’s most expensive tourist destination. It’s SpaceX’s first private charter flight to the orbiting lab after two years of carrying astronauts there…
‘When You Think ESG, You Should Be Thinking CCP’: Peter Thiel
April 8, 2022
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In his keynote address to the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, venture capitalist Peter Thiel said environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is “perhaps the real enemy” of the cryptocurrency, likening the movement to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “I think that ESG is just a hate factory. It’s a factory for naming enemies, and…
EPA Nominee Whose Tweet #ResistCapitalism Advocated ‘Climate Reparations’ Now Closer to Senate Confirmation
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) deadlocked 10-10 on April 7 on the nomination of Carlton Waterhouse to serve as assistant administrator for the Office of Land and Emergency Management in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—but a motion by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) could still send it to the Senate…
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