Welcome back to CP24 News, and I'm your host Jeevan here to tell you about the 5 majors oil spills that have taken place in Alberta in the last couple of years. Let's get started, starting in the south. The Red Deer River is a river which is mainly located in Alberta, but a small portion of the lake is also located in Saskatchewan. The river is one of the main water sources in Alberta. The river is 724 kilometres long with a basin size of 45,100 km squared. In June of 2012, the Red Deer River faced a massive oil spill in which approximately half a million litres of crude oil leaked into the Red Deer River. An estimated 2,900 barrels spilled into the lake. Now let's head up a bit north to Elk Point. Where also in June of 2012, over 230,000 litres (1,400 barrels) of oil spilled into the water point. The spill was easily taken control of cleaned up. Now it's time to go to Alberta's capital of Edmonton. The Slave Lake is located in central Alberta, just northeast of Edmonton. The 67 feet deep lake had to deal with a very major spill. The spill happened when an above-ground pipeline failed and caused 70,000 litres oil and processed water spilled, after the spill it took multiple months until the lake got back to its original state. Now let's head northwest to the Red Earth Creek. Red Earth Creek is a creek located in northern Alberta. In November of 2014, a pipeline leaked due to a mechanical failure, which then ended up causing 60,000 litres of crude oil to spill. Along with crude oil spilling, hydrogen sulphide was also detected in the oil. And now its time for our last oil spill. The Little Buffalo, which is a lake located by Little Buffalo state park in Alberta. On April 29, 2011, it had to deal with the 2nd largest pipeline spill in the entire nation. The spill had originally started from a pipeline leak 10 kilometres away but then eventually found its way into the lake. Over 28,00 barrels of oil spilled into the lake killing many animals living in and around the water. Even though all these past oil spills have been cleaned up tremendously, the real question is why do they even happen in the first place? They harm all the wildlife surrounding it and ruin it all, and not only do they ruin wildlife but they can be very harmful to all humans as well. If they end up in the water pipelines since water is extracted from bodies of freshwater such as these water bodies, we all as humans would be impacted.
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Global Warming is one of the biggest current problems, and greenhouse emissions are a huge contributing factor to global warming. As of 2018, Canada accounts for 1.6% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, which then means that each person in Canada is responsible for 22 tonnes of greenhouse gasses yearly. According to a survey done in 2017 Alberta had the highest levels of emissions and that number seems to be increasing yearly. Alberta is the home to the third-largest oil reserve worldwide, which is also it's main industry. While in other provinces such as Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick their GHG emissions have been decreasing since 2005.
The Christmas season is one of the most waited seasons all year long. Everyone is happy and everything seems to be falling into place. An event that often waited upon during the Christmas season in Sweden is the Gavle goat. Starting in 1966 every year a 13 meter tall is built and placed in the middle of Gavle Castle Square, which is a popular Christmas market. But there has been a new tradition started, which consists of burning the goat down. Since the 1960's the goat has successfully been burnt down 29 times, most recently in 2016.Map Action is an organization that is a humanitarian aid company, which helps people after natural disasters strike their homes. As most humanitarian emergencies are unpredictable they often strike without warning, which normally causes problems for first responders. Most of the time first responders do not know which paths are closed off and or broken until they reach there, which wastes a lot of time. This is where Map Action comes in handy. Map Action provides data and mapping from the locations where the natural disaster occurs, they are able to find out things such as the extent of the disaster and how many people are affected. They provide clear and detailed maps that feature different layers and legends. In the end, I personally believe that Map Action does a great thing, they take everyday objects such as maps and turn them into something so valuable and by doing that they are able to help save the lives of countless people.
Plastic, it's one of those materials that we use everyday in our daily lives and we rely on it. But is it being disposed properly, the unfortunate answer is no. Approximately 1.1 to 8.8 metric tons of plastic enters our bodies of water across the globe. With there being so much plastic in the water is it expected that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the water than fishes in the ocean.We use a plastic water bottle and drink from it and then throw it in the garbage and then we carry on with our lives, but we don't realize all this plastic that doesn't get thrown into the recycling ends up in landfills or in the case the oceans. And the main problem is that its so avoidable all we have to do is recycle right. Each year so many sea animals die from ingesting plastic which doesn't break down for 100's of years, something needs to be done and that to immediately.
Climate Change these are words that we hear way too often about, but what can we do. Climate change is causing multiple problems for us but the one we are going to be talking about today is rising sea levels. Rising sea levels is something that has been slowly happening for multiple years but it wasn't taken seriously until a couple of years. Three ways that cause rising sea levels, and they are oceans expanding, ice sheets losing ice and glaciers melting. Over the past 100 years, the sea levels have risen 13-20 centimeters. As the ice levels rise due to global warming, many beautiful places that we know of today wouldn't exist. The entire country of Greenland would be gone without a trace, the southern part of Vietnam and Manhattan, the New York City borough would all be gone. Something needs to be done, and that too immediately, because otherwise it will be too late and then we won't have only options and choices to help. If I want to help with lowering rising sea levels, there isn't anything that I can directly do, to help rising sea levels the temperature needs to go down and for that to happen there are multiple things I can do now as a teen and should do as an adult. Which include walking, biking to places that I need to go to since new cities that are being built these days are being created using the 5 kilometer walking scale. I can also also reduce the energy waste along with reducing my waste and trying to be zero waste.
Human Scale determines a lot about us. But mainly it determines how you interact with others, it's scientifically proven that people need to be social and interact with others to be successful. If you were to go back fifty years you would see how everything was close by, which made people walk and while walking to their destinations they interacted with others, because everything was within a 5 kilometre radius.Not like these days where you need to drive to get to your everyday places.
Public transportation, its something others rely on daily to be able to do their basic everyday tasks such as go to work or school. For me personally I've never had to rely on public transportation to get to the places where I need to be, I either walk to the place if its close or my parents drive me to where I need to be. But the case is not the same for many others living here in Canada, 59.6% percent of Canadians citizens rely on public transportation. Whether its taking the subway,city buses,trains, or street cars. You would think that since almost 60% of Canadians rely on public transportation you would expect better service, unfortunately that isn't the case, if anyone listens to the news there's always news about something not working. But all of that is something is avoidable is more money was put into the budget for public transportation. Even though Canada's public transportation is better than the transportation in many different countries including the United States there still is a lot of that still needs to be done.
The map above is a map of ST.Augustine SS, this map pin points three vital parts of the school which include the front entrance, the cafeteria and the gym. The first pinpoint shows you a picture of the front entrance of the school which is used by 100's daily. The second pinpoint is a pinpoint the the cafeteria where multiple students eat lunch everyday alongside where drama performances and assemblies are held. The last but not least pinpoint is a picture of the school gym, where students go to be physically active.
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