Antonio in Tokyo

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Voice Mail Recording

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The roar of the #NWT's Alexandra Falls

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Great Northern Arts Festival, Inuvik #NWT #GNAF (Video playlist)

Images and sounds of the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada TouTube videos

Tell the #premiers of the #Yukon, #NWT and #Nunavut to make #housing a top priority at next week's meeting of the Council of the Federation

Tell our territorial #premiers to make #housing a top priority at next week's meeting of the Council of the Federation.
See what you can do to support this effort: http://ow.ly/n45SI
Dignity for All: the campaign for a #poverty-free Canada has joined with over 50 organizations to encourage our leaders to act on housing.

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Subject: Make Housing a Priority at the Council of the Federation
Body:
Dear Premier:

I would like to express my concern regarding the high rate of poverty in our country and encourage you to make affordable housing a top priority when you host the Council of the Federation by putting pressure on the federal government to:

1) Fund the $1.7 billion in expiring annual operating funds for social housing providers.

2) Implement a robust national housing strategy.

With over 3 million living in poverty and 200,000 homeless persons in Canada, action must be taken!

Yours sincerely,

Nunavut
Aariak, Eva
Telephone: 867-975-5050 Fax: 867-975-5051
P.O. Box 2410
Iqaluit, Nunavut
X0A 0H0
Internet: http://www.premier.gov.nu.ca/apps/authoring/dspPage.aspx?page=home
E-Mail: premier@gov.nu.ca


Northwest Territories
McLeod, Bob
Telephone: 867-669-2311 Fax: 867-873-0385
P.O. Box 1320
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
X1A 2L9
Internet: http://www.premier.gov.nt.ca/
Bob McLeod <bob_mcleod@gov.nt.ca>
E-Mail: premier@gov.nt.ca

Yukon
Pasloski, Darrell
Telephone: 867-667-8660 Fax: 867-393-6252
Yukon Government Administration Building
2071 Second Avenue
P.O. Box 2703
Whitehorse, Yukon
Y1A 1B2
Internet: http://www.yukonpremier.ca/index.html
E-Mail: premier@gov.yk.ca

Earthquakes can be triggered at the sites of fracking wastewater injection by quakes on the other side of the world

"... Earthquakes can be triggered at the sites of wastewater injection by quakes on the other side of the world, research suggests.
The injection of wastewater from underground operations such as oil drilling is known to increase local seismic activity.
Now a study in Science http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6142/164.abstract suggests that waves from the most distant temblors can cause quakes at wastewater sites.
Researchers suggest this can act as a kind of "stress meter" for the sites.
The notion of natural earthquake triggering is not new; in hydrothermal and volcanic areas, tremors can be triggered by large, distant earthquakes. But the new study suggests what is in effect a new category: natural triggering of seismic events primed by human activity.
Seismic push
Injection of wastewater from operations such as drilling, geothermal, or hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is banned in the UK and many European countries, but it has become increasingly prevalent in the US.
In the state of Texas alone, more than 7,000 such wells are in operation and the link between injection wells and even large seismic events is strengthening...."

'...Richard Davies, http://www.dur.ac.uk/earth.sciences/staff/?id=3355 director of the Durham Energy Institute at the University of Durham, called the paper "an exciting, interesting result".

"Seismologists have known for some time that there are transient stresses from earthquakes that can potentially cause other faults to slip, causing an earthquake," Prof Davies told BBC News.

"But this paper is a very interesting contribution, as it proposes that mankind can artificially 'prime the faults' by injecting wastewater over long periods under the ground.

"Mankind is essentially lubricating the faults enough so that they are eventually triggered by a distant, natural earthquake. Think of a hovercraft - the air pumped into the base of the craft means that even small forces allow the heavy vehicle to move - the physics is the same."..."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23271168

Magnitude 4.9 #Earthquake 136km SSW of Wrigley; 157 km W of Fort Simpson #NWT

Magnitude 4.9 #Earthquake 136km SSW of Wrigley; 157 km W of Fort Simpson #NWT http://ow.ly/mV7OS 13:59 July12, 2013