"Fifty years ago, following the discovery of vast mineral deposits, Leaf Rapids was designed and built in a span of four years and heralded as the town of the future. Today, it's hanging by a thread."

Winnipeg Free Press

Manitoba's summer wildfire threat was the latest nail in the coffin for once-prosperous Leaf Rapids

LEAF RAPIDS — Travelling north of the 56th parallel along Provincial Road 391, the boreal forest occasionally thins to showcase where lake meets ...

Mining always leaves devastation in its wake. It comes, it extracts and what it leaves is toxic waste, destroyed Nature and lost people. We will soon be mining a Mount Everest of materials every year to feed our devouring civilization. Collapse is coming.

How the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply "Water demand to service datacentres in Sydney is forecast to be larger than volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade. In Melbourne the Victorian government has announced a “$5.5m investment to become Australia’s datacentre capital”, but the hyperscale datacentre applications already exceed the water demands of nearly all of state’s top 30 business customers combined."

the Guardian

Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply

The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade