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La forêt n’en finit plus de brûler à Fort McMurray
▻http://reporterre.net/La-foret-n-en-finit-plus-de-bruler-a-Fort-McMurray

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Sur la scène politique canadienne, peu se bousculent pour aborder le sujet. La chef du parti vert canadien, Elizabeth May, s’est même vue désavouée par Justin Trudeau, le premier ministre, après avoir avancé que le changement climatique était la cause de la catastrophe de Fort McMurray. « Il y a toujours eu des feux. Pointer une responsabilité en particulier en disant ’il se passe ceci à cause de ça’ n’aide pas beaucoup et n’est pas tout à fait juste. Il faut séparer un mouvement qui s’inscrit dans le temps à un événement particulier comme celui-ci », a t-il répondu lors d’une séquence de questions avec la presse le 4 mai. Un événement particulier que n’avait pas prévu la province de l’Alberta : son gouvernement, rappelle Edward Struzik ,avait réduit cette année son budget en prévention et gestion des incendies de plus de 14 millions !

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Kevin Libin: Oil didn’t cause the Fort McMurray fire — it helped save people’s lives
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That’s a lot of speculation and conjecture about probable reasonable conclusions five decades out. Whatever you believe, though, it’s still a fact that large fires like this will happen, more or less, whether we use oil or we don’t. But as anyone who made it out of Fort Mac in time will tell you, whether you and your family survive the next fire — or any other natural disaster — depends on whether you have petroleum products or not.

That’s why obsessive climate zealots like Elizabeth May have it once again exactly backwards. The leader of the rapidly fading Green Party managed to provoke national media attention Wednesday for jumping on the crisis at Fort McMurray to demand Canadians “slash” fossil fuel consumption to prevent future wildfires. But no real scientist believes that wildfires can be completely prevented. Forests around Canadian townsites are already dangerously old and tindery, since they’re no longer allowed to regenerate through regular burning. And whether they wreak devastation across an uninhabited hillside or your local downtown depends as much on a sudden change in wind direction — as happened to Fort McMurray — as it does anything else. In fact, the only thing we can control is how prepared we are to escape them when they come. All the wind turbines and solar panels in the world won’t help rescue 88,000 people from a rapidly spreading inferno. For a miracle like that, we can only count on oil.

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’Of Course’ Fort McMurray Fire Linked To Climate Change, Elizabeth May Says
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/05/04/of-course-fort-mcmurray-fire-linked-to-climate-change-elizabeth-may-s

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The leader of Canada’s Green Party said Wednesday climate change was partly to blame for the wildfire devastating Fort McMurray, Alta., touching off a debate about whether it was the right time to discuss the causes of the conflagration.

“Of course,” Elizabeth May said Wednesday when asked if there was anything about the fire that is linked to global warming. “The temperature records were being smashed through last month for northern Alberta,” she said, while noting that no single event is caused by climate change alone. "It’s due to global emissions.

“Scientists will say we know with a destabilized climate, with a higher average global temperature, we will see more frequent, more extreme weather events ... due to an erratic climate, due to our addiction to fossil fuels.”

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Levels of First Nations poverty in Canada?
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/levels-of-first-nations-poverty-in-canada

Green Party leader Elizabeth May answers the question “Are you concerned about the level of poverty in First Nations communities and what would you do to address it?” -------- More info and videos...