Sunday Sundries

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Doing housework could cut your risk of developing dementia
Be kind to your spouse, and let them know you’d like to help them avoid dementia. That’s according to the World Economic Forum. It’s activity, not specifically housework, that cuts the risk.

Gander International Airport

Comment
“There is a growing tendency among Canadians to scapegoat “our colonial past” and heap our sins on the British. It’s absurd. Who interred Japanese Canadians? Who ran the residential schools? Who broke one treaty after another? Not the British. Not some dead monarch. Canadians.”
Dan Gardner

Derry City Cemetery Records Project
Updated

Carbon Bombs
The article Why defusing ‘carbon bombs’ offers a promising new agenda for tackling climate change links to a list of 425 worldwide Carbon Bomb, a fossil fuel extraction projects that can cause over a gigatonne of CO₂ emissions during its lifetime.

Here are the top ten worldwide:

Development	Country	GtCO2	Type
Permian Delaware Tight	USA	27.8	Oil&Gas
Marcellus Shale	USA	26.7	Oil&Gas
Ghawar Uthmaniyah	Saudi Arabia	19.2	Oil&Gas
Permian Midland Tight	USA	16.6	Oil&Gas
Tavan Tolgoi Coal Mine	Mongolia	16	Coal
Montney Play	Canada	13.7	Oil&Gas
Haynesville/Bossier Shale	USA	13.2	Oil&Gas
Safaniya	Saudi Arabia	11.9	Oil&Gas
*North Field	Qatar	11.6	Oil&Gas
Bovanenkovo Zone (Yamal Megaproject)	Russia	11.2	Oil&Gas

Here are all the Canadian projects on the list.

Project	Prov	GtCO2	Type
Montney Play	Alta	13.7	Oil&Gas
Murray River Coal Mine	BC	8.5	Coal
Spirit River (Notikewin, Falher, Wilrich)	Alta	3	Oil&Gas
Gething Coal Mine	BC	2.1	Coal
Horizon Oil Sands Project	Alta	2	Oil&Gas
Kearl	Alta	1.9	Oil&Gas
Duvernay	Alta	1.9	Oil&Gas
Athabasca Oil Sands Project	Alta	1.4	Oil&Gas
Christina Lake	Alta	1.2	Oil&Gas
Liard Shale	BC	1.2	Oil&Gas
Syncrude Mildred Lake/Aurora	Alta	1.2	Oil&Gas
Fording River	BC	1	Coal

The two top projects account for over half the Canadian ten project total.

Thanks to this week’s contributors: Anonymous, Basil Adam, Brenda Turner, Jean Milne, Leslie Anderson, Teresa, and Unknown.