{"id":2119,"date":"2014-06-25T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2014-06-30T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:36:07","slug":"comment-experts-call-for-moratorium-on-new-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/comment-experts-call-for-moratorium-on-new-pipelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Experts call for moratorium on new pipelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a Comment piece in <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Nature<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Eight experts in environmental science, policy and risk call for a moratorium on building new oil pipelines in North America. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both Keystone XL pipeline (which would run from Alberta through the US Midwest) and Northern Gateway pipeline which would connect Alberta with a port on British Columbia\u2019s coast \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">highlight flaws in oil-sands policies\u201d. They recommend \u201cno new oil-sand projects until unless developments are consistent with national and international commitments to reducing carbon pollution\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/energy-consider-the-global-impacts-of-oil-pipelines-1.15434\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 25, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendy Palen, Simon Fraser University,\u00a0British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thomas Homer-Dixon, University of Waterloo,\u00a0Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mark Jaccard, Simon Fraser University,\u00a0British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ken Lertzman, Simon Fraser University,\u00a0British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thomas Sisk, Northern Arizona University, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maureen Ryan, Simon Fraser University,\u00a0British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Comment piece in Nature, Eight experts in environmental science, policy and risk call for a moratorium on building new oil pipelines in North America. Both Keystone XL pipeline (which would run from Alberta through the US Midwest) and Northern Gateway pipeline which would connect Alberta with a port on British Columbia\u2019s coast \u201chighlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,1445,171,644,215],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-energy","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-yb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}