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The US and Canada Have Long Managed the Great Lakes Together. That Era Could be Ending.
March 27th, 2025
Via Grist, an article on how political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth: Great Lakes Day is an annual summit where politicians and officials of all stripes gather in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate their commitment to the region home to the largest freshwater ecosystem on the planet. For years, […]
Read more »Trump Threatens Great Lakes Agreements Between U.S. and Canada
March 19th, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a look at how Great Lakes water and related agreements between the U.S. and Canada are clearly on President Trump’s radar: In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once he was elected, Canadians started […]
Read more »Forget Tariffs, Trump May Target the Great Lakes and Canada’s Freshwater Next
March 12th, 2025
Via The Financial Post, a report on how – with parts of the U.S. facing chronic drought – the U.S. president has reportedly threatened to tear up joint agreements regulating the natural wonders: Thomas Kierans was stopped by a reporter in St. John’s, Nfld., on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Regarded around town as […]
Read more »Trump: ‘Large Faucet’ Can Divert Canadian Water To California
January 3rd, 2025
Via the Canadian Press, commentary on President Trump’s September claim that a ‘large faucet’ can divert Canadian water to California: Former American president and current Republican nominee Donald Trump was asked earlier this month by a news reporter what he would do to help alleviate California’s natural disasters and other water woes. Trump responded saying […]
Read more »The North American Water and Power Alliance: The Forgotten Project That Could Have Saved America From Drought
September 20th, 2024
Via the now discontinued BuzzFeed (but saved with web archive), a look at the North American Water and Power Alliance – an audacious proposal to divert water to parched western states that would have cost hundreds of billions of dollars and pissed off Canada. But what if it had worked? When the fire started on a […]
Read more »As Canadian River Shrivels, Northern Communities Call for a Highway
August 8th, 2024
Via Yale e360, a look at how – with the Mackenzie River too low for barge traffic – villages in the Northwest Territories are flying in food, fuel, and other essentials. A proposed highway could offer a lifeline as climate change further reduces flows, but the project faces big challenges in a warming Arctic. In […]
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