Andrew Henry
The epitome of crisis capitalism.
Under-staff air traffic control, which leads to accident, insert AI solution. Continue under-staffing air traffic control.
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LaGuardia Crash Bolsters Case for Using AI in Air Control Towers
New technologies are helping to sift airport traffic data and prevent accidents.
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Andrew Henry
RE: https://federate.social/@Roundtrip/116261733786171270
“That sucks too!” another attendee yelled back. This was nothing to worry about, Farris tried to convince the audience. This would bring in tax revenue, he said. It was just an office park, albeit one with roughly 450 diesel backup generators.
Andrew Henry
AP: Turkey’s Foreign Minister
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"Well, if you look at the Israelis, Israelis are after the worst case scenario because they don't pay the price. Region pays the price. The Americans pay the price, the Europeans pay the price. They are very well off all the time. You know, this is how they built the system around the world. So the Israelis really don't care about. [...] Because Netanyahu cannot bring security to the Israelis. He can only bring war to the Israelis."
Andrew Henry
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Norway’s $2tn wealth fund would lose almost a quarter of its equity portfolio value in the event of climate shocks and more than half would be wiped out by a correction in AI valuations, its latest modelling shows.
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#AI #climatecrisis #climate
https://www.ft.com/content/a8263c83-cc22-4ac2-9b34-0185d015eab6
https://archive.ph/osScp#selection-1931.0-1931.214
Andrew Henry
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Germany holds the world’s second biggest national gold reserves after the US, of which approximately €164bn (£122bn) worth – 1,236 tonnes – is stored in New York.
Emanuel Mönch, a leading economist and former head of research at Germany’s federal bank, the Bundesbank, called for the gold to be brought home, saying it was too “risky” for it to be kept in the US under the current administration.
Andrew Henry
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Police Complaint Commissioner Prabhu Rajan announced the hearing at the end of 2024, noting Gray died after the VPD officers “used significant force to subdue and restrain him,”
Gray’s injuries included ruptured testicles, a broken voice box, a fractured eye socket and widespread bruising.
Andrew Henry
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As Canada contemplates our response to the collapse of the American empire and its alliances with the world, the cornerstone of our current strategy is sacrificing our dollars, water and energy in order to become more dependent on America, in a weird and improbable bet that we will figure out how to make millions of Canadians unemployed. I’m sorry, that just doesn’t sound like a great idea to me.
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#canada
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-13-not-sorry-mere-billions-40dd2b261390
Andrew Henry
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almost 4 years into this war, and the Russians are sacrificing hundreds of thousands of their soldiers yearly to take small farm fields. Putin is making the bloody calculation that the Ukrainians are smaller in number and therefore will run out of manpower sooner. If the Russians do not care about their people, the Ukrainians understand, it is unlikely that they care at all about the Ukrainians.
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https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-167-lets-be-honest
Andrew Henry
A long term abusive relationship.
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With every legal avenue exhausted, county officials say there’s no way to recover the outstanding money.
“[The industry] helped build Alberta as a whole to what we are today,” said Reeve Tyler Airth.
“But it’s really hard to be proud to support oil and gas when every time you turn around you feel like you're getting kicked by this very industry you fought so hard for.”
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#canpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/northwest-alberta-unpaid-oil-tax-9.7018017
Andrew Henry
Oil market faces ‘super glut’ as supply surge hits prices
Commodities trader Trafigura says burst of new supply coming online will collide with reduced demand growth
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Demand from China, the world’s biggest oil importer, is expected to grow more slowly next year due to its huge fleet of electric vehicles, which have sharply reduced petrol demand. Low prices this year have prompted China to buy more crude to fill its strategic stockpile.
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#canpoli
#energytransition
https://www.ft.com/content/37a7bc5c-3d16-4f00-be12-9e039b9bfea1
Andrew Henry
A tough year for the folks we got our Fall CSA basket from.
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The drought didn't help. The many days of dangerous smoke. the unbeaerable heat. Post heat wave we had a wave of sickness and mental health break requests.. it was a difficult summer for all of us.
Food security is precarious due to the enviromental unpredictability that comes with climate change (chaos) but also because of the toll it takes on the people that are working through this chaos.
Andrew Henry
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Teresa’s Story: Albertan Farmer Speaks Out About Multi-Billion Dollar Well Cleanup Crisis
Teresa lives near Vermillion, AB and has been struggling for years with unexplained health issues occurring in her children, her animals and herself. After being ignored by the company and the AER about the terrible odors from the two wells on her home quarter, experts show huge amounts of air contaminants being vented from the wells and leaking into her home.
Andrew Henry
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The Hudson Medical Centre serves about 11,000 patients, mainly English speakers, according to Dr. Tara McCarty, a family doctor at the clinic and one of its co-owners.
It is the only bilingual m family doctor group in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region, she says.
McCarty said Wednesday that the clinic will be forced to close April 1 after three of the seven doctors practising there decided to leave the province in response to the new legislation.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hudson-medical-centre-9.6993716
Andrew Henry
Wrote something for the local paper.
Eastern Canada, like most of the country is in a nasty drought. We are pretty obviously now in the depths of the climate crisis with obvious economic, societal and landscape consequences.
The piece points out that it is at the provincial level in Canada where the operational changes needed to rapidly decarbonize need to occur. Yet, provincial premiers are oblivious to the crisis, and though not mentioned are making things worse.
https://lowdownonline.com/facing-climate-crises-premiers-achieve-new-highs-with-lows/
Andrew Henry
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Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say.
A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer.
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#climatecrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say
Andrew Henry
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Flash drought hits parts of the Northeast
Drought developed quite rapidly in the Northeast this summer, affecting private wells, farms and hydropower production. In Vermont, there were more than 400 wells and springs that were no longer producing enough water. Many water sources ran dry in Orange, Caledonia and Orleans counties.
Across the Connecticut River, which was low enough to walk across in places, wells in New Hampshire were running dry.
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#drought
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3e81092a31fd4a8c890ce9f09aaf284b
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“**water levels in parts of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are likely to reach critically low stages soon, forcing shippers to light-load harvest-season grain barges for the fourth year in a row.**”
‘We’ve had low water levels for four years in a row now,’ said Mike Seyfert, president and CEO of the National Grain and Feed Association. ‘What I would say is, it certainly doesn’t make things easier.'”
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#drought
https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/10/low-mississippi-river-levels-to-again-disrupt-harvest-shipping/
Andrew Henry
This should not to have happened.
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"I am saddened to share that we have had our first death from measles in the province. A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth."
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#canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/premature-baby-dies-of-measles-in-alberta-outbreak-s-1st-death-1.7649692
Andrew Henry
China isn't buying American grain.
"Cash Grain Receipts Lowest in History: The Ugly Truth About USDA's Higher Farm Income Forecast"
From: The Farm Journal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFdxuKybEzQ
Andrew Henry
Alberta’s ethical oil!
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The Alberta government is planning to create standards for releasing treated oilsands tailings into the environment.
Tailings are mixture of water, sand, bitumen residue and chemicals considered toxic to fish and other wildlife. As of 2023, nearly 1.4 trillion litres of the substance were stored in the province.
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#canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/oilsands-tailings-action-plan-1.7626374
Canadian. Local paper occasionally publishes pieces I write about climate, energy, and Passivhaus. Also interested in disability issues, for reasons. Nordic skier who played rugby. Happiest out skiing on a sunny and cold winter's day.
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