“Canada Not Ready for Climate Change”

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Canada not ready for climate change, report warns

Canada is ill-prepared for the increased flooding and extreme weather that will occur under climate change, and needs to act now or face much higher costs to fix damaged buildings and infrastructure in the future, a new report warns.

The federal government is set to announce major infrastructure programs in its fall update Tuesday, but Ottawa and the provinces have yet to properly assess how to make the country’s transportation, electricity and water systems more resilient to the threat from climate change, the University of Waterloo’s Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation says in a report to be released Monday.

New FEMA Website Aimed at Helping Businesses

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According to an article in the current issue of Emergency Management magazine , FEMA has recently created a new site to help get the emergency preparedness message out to businesses.  The Hometown Security site is here: www.dhs.gov/hometown-security. The idea is good, but I do not readily see what is new and different about this site.

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“How FEMA Learned from its Mistakes”

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From Federal News Radio: How FEMA Learned from its Mistakes.

When Hurricane Matthew made landfall in the U.S. in early October, it was a chance for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prove it’s learned from its mistakes.

“I think that what you see in Matthew is the maturation of FEMA’s ability to be prepared and then respond to a disaster,” said Joe Nimmich, deputy FEMA director, on Homeland Security Month.

Amtrak Gets EM Certification

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In case you missed this article in railway age, note that Amtrak receives first-ever Emergency Management recognition. Always nice to have a kind word about Amtrak.

Amtrak has earned accreditation by the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP), a recognition typically awarded to federal, state, local and tribal emergency response agencies. Amtrak is the first railroad ever to earn the five-year accreditation.

NSF and NOAA Collaboration

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From the Homeland Security Newswire, this news about a new scientific collaboration: Harnessing science to help in emergency response.

Four years ago, communities across the East Coast faced Superstorm Sandy, a weather system that claimed more than seventy lives in the United States and caused $65 billion in damages. Earlier this month, Hurricane Matthew devastated Haiti, killing more than a thousand people before turning north to the United States, where it caused another forty-three deaths. The NSF and NOAA collaborate to provide the necessary tools to ensure people respond appropriately to dangerous weather systems