#dofasco

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

NATIONALIZE DOFASCO CANADA

RENATIONALIZE CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS

NATIONALIZE THE MINES

[narendur]

Oh, my dad works trying to regulate these assholes in BC! The Ktunaxa are right about unfiltered wastewater btw. It's super cool that they're explicitly part of the conversation now tho, which has been becoming a thing for the last 15 years or so.

My dad grimly joked to me the other day that as long as his bosses are committed to the concept of environmentally sustainable coal mining he's going to regularly be face to face with ecological horror but at least he'll have job security the rest of his life

Also since people may not be aware, one of the bigger uses of coal (and other mined stuff) that we aren't fully engineered out of right now is steel production. Per govt Canada, it's more than half of what coal mined here is used for. There's been some really cool research into making steel with hydrogen or garbage tires instead (look! Dofasco is getting in on it!!!) and increased focus on recycling over production (I just saw an ad for annual grants for 'community oriented circular economy waste reduction projects'), so I'm not entirely despairing. A combination of lowering demand and continued public and regulatory pressure (which also requires public agitating to get relevant laws improved!) could suffocate the coal industry - the faster, the better.

I do wanna say that we should close the maintenance loophole soon tho, as rare earth mining continues to ramp up globally. If we're going to have any new mines, they shouldnt be added to a flawed regulatory system.

Urls below if you couldnt click the links

https://leard.frontlineaction.org/coking-coal-steel-production-alternatives/

https://natural-resources.canada.ca/our-natural-resources/minerals-mining/mining-data-statistics-and-analysis/minerals-metals-facts/coal-facts/20071

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/the-promise-of-carbon-neutral-steel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veena_Sahajwalla

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/take-a-deep-breath-the-end-of-a-century-of-coal-fired-steel-pollution-in/article_3b3251f7-169f-5351-91a6-90f0ad4c38f1.html

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/water/laws-rules

Imagine you own a coal mine in British Columbia. (Yes, governments in Canada are still approving new coal mines.)

Over the last three decades, you’ve made a bucket-load of money stripping the top off a mountain, and now you’re sitting on a pile of environmental liabilities that threaten to eat into your profits.

You have two choices. You could spend millions of dollars on a process known as reclamation, stabilizing hazardous waste and restoring the site to some semblance of its former ecological value, which is what you committed to when you opened the mine. 

Or, you could declare the mine to be in “care and maintenance,” a status that is accepted as standard by most jurisdictions, despite the fact that it lacks a formal legal definition.

The status has very little to do with actual care or maintenance. It might more accurately be described as “abandonment and neglect,” but that wouldn’t sound nearly as elegant. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid

[eternal--returned]

Emmylou Harris ֍ Black Hawk (1995)

Well I work the double shift In a bookstore on St. Clair While he pushed the burning ingots In Dofasco stinking air Where the truth bites and stings I remember just what we were As the noon bell rings for Black hawk and the white winged dove

Hold on to your aching heart I'll wipe the liquor from your lips A small town hero never dies He fades a bit and then he slips Down into the blast furnace In the heat of the open hearth And at the punch clock he remembers Black hawk and the white winged dove

I remember your leather boots Pointing up into the sky We fell down to our knees Over there where the grass grew high Love hunters in the night Our faces turned into the wind Black hawk where are you know Black hawk and the white winged dove We were Black hawk where are you know

Do you still have the ring I gave you On the banks of Lake Bear Where I felt certain that I knew you My cool and distant debonair Now we drink at Liberty Station Another cup of muscatel Wrapped in the strong arms of the Union Raisin' kids from raisin' hell

[aryburn-trains]

Ready for the morning commute: two GO Transit trainsets make their way to the CN James St. (Hamilton) Station, deadheading out of service together through CN's Stuart Street Yard as the sun rises on a cold April morning. According to Reg's notes, the consists of today are: the first train with GO GP40-2W 708, leased CN GP40 9317 (one of two with 89mph passenger gearing) leading 10 bilevels, and APCU 900 trailing to provide the HEP. The second train coupled on has GO GP40TC's 501 and 505 sandwiching 9 bilevels. Upon arrival at Hamilton, they will uncouple and depart on two separate morning departures eastbound for Toronto's Union Station. Timetables for that period list the pair of morning Hamilton trains as #952 (departing 6:40am) and #958 (7:15am). A morning VIA #636 (#635 from Niagara Falls, continuing as #636 to Toronto) also served the station daily at 7:40am. Among the goodies in the yard are some barrel-style ore cars for the Dofasco ore trains, CN piggyback trailers, some tarped container loads on flats, and some blue CAST containers stacked in the distance. A CN GP9 appears to be switching at the far end of the yard. April 7, 1982 Reg Button photo

[techpedo]

Mark Carney to be sworn in as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister on Friday | World News

Toronto: Former central banker Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister of Friday by the country’s Governor General Mary Simon. Mark Carney, Canada’s incoming prime minister, speaks at an ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel facility in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday. (Bloomberg) The announcement of the swearing-in ceremony was made by her office on Wednesday. Prime Minister…

[gocnhindautu]

TT Trump Áp Thuế Thép, Nhôm 25%: EU Và Canada Phản Đòn Quyết Liệt

Cuộn thép tại cơ sở sản xuất thép ArcelorMittal Dofasco ở Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Ảnh: Nick Iwanyshyn/The Canadian Press/AP) (GNĐT) – Ngày 12/3/2025, Tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump đã chính thức áp dụng mức thuế 25% lên toàn bộ thép và nhôm nhập khẩu vào Mỹ, không miễn trừ bất kỳ quốc gia nào. Ngay lập tức, Liên minh châu Âu (EU) và Canada đã tung ra các biện pháp trả đũa mạnh mẽ, áp thuế lên…

[qubixo1]

Canada titles, aluminum titles will take 50%

Prime Minister Justin Trouse Tourcorco Dofasco in Hamilton in Hamilton, Otario Feb. 14, 2025. Carlos Osorio | Repayment President Donald Trump They said Tuesday’s remedy to prepare for gossiping to grow gossip on Canadia and aluminum components and 25%, which leads to 50% work. The new process will start working on Wednesday morning, Trump said in the customary story that repeated to Canada to…

[moneymovespress]

Trump Raises Canadian Steel, aluminum tariffs to 50% in retaliation for ontario energy duties

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tors the Galvanizing Line at Arcelromittal Dofasco in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Feb. 14, 2025. Carlos osorio | Reuters Presiding Donald Trump Said tuesday he has ordered his administration to raise tariffs on canadian steel and aluminum imports by an additional 25%, bringing the total duties to 50%. The new policy will go into effect wedding morning, Trump…

[vaniceseasonalgiftsdecor]

Can carbon dioxide removal really help save us from ‘global boiling’? The U.S. government is intensifying its push to find out

Thanks ;David Meyer Published ; August,8 Hamilton’s ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel mill.© Lucas Oleniuk—Toronto Star via Getty Images he U.S. government is about to give what may prove a significant boost to the controversial carbon dioxide removal sector, according to a new report. There are several existing or potential carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies out there, ranging from…

[tsmom1219]

GM signs steel deal with ArcelorMittal North America

Read the full story in Manufacturing Dive. ArcelorMittal North America will supply GM with recycled steel as part of a new agreement.  Steel produced for the automaker will contain at least 70% scrap material, part of ArcelorMittal’s mission to reduce carbon emissions used in the production process, according to an announcement of the deal.  The steelmaker’s subsidiary ArcelorMittal Dofasco…

[canadian-riddler]

I probably shouldn’t have been the one to do French-Canadian Riddler, but on the other hand making his hometown Hamilton like mine would have been a horrendous experience

[old-aspiring-awesomeness]

Hiya there, I moved to aspiring-awesomeness (https://aspiring-awesomeness.tumblr.com/) :D

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Dofasco for today’s art fight attack belongs to ZeroDiablo: https://www.facebook.com/ZerosChaos

I feel like Im being prepared for a side gig in furry art with this artfight X’D

[smackdownhotel]

Tag it up at the Dofasco graffiti tunnel!

Pt2

[digitalrailartist]

Canadian National GE Dash-8 40CM 2448 by Craig Garver Via Flickr: Canadian National GE Dash-8 40CM 2448 at Durrand, Michigan, April 26, 2003. Photographer unknown. Scanned from a 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 negative owned by Digital Rail Artist. The Dash-8 40CM is a conventional C40-8 with Dofasco trucks, a Canadian style safety cab, and a Draper Taper carbody. A total of 84 units were sold to three customers: CN, British Columbia Railway, and the Quebec, Northshore & Labrador, all built 1990 to 1994.

[danismm]

Ad detail for Dofasco Steel, 1967

[margiekelk]

UnderSee, created by Lynne Slater and me, Margie Kelk, with music by AlanSondheim and associates, will be screened during Photophobia on Saturday, August 10, at 8:30 pm in Hamilton Artists Inc.’s ArcelorMittal Dofasco Courtyard (155 James St. N.,Hamilton, ON). Https: www.facebook.com/hamiltonartistsinc

#photophobia2019 #canadiananimation #torontoanimation #torontostopmotion #savetheoceans #underseaworld #jellyfish #lynneslater #alansondheim #margiekelk