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SYDNEY, Australia – Nearly a hundred wildfires burned across Australia’s most populous state on Thursday, 18 of which were out of control, as unseasonably hot temperatures and strong winds fanned flames across the parched landscape, officials said. Several homes were likely lost in the fires across New South Wales, though the exact number was not […]
By Canadian Underwriter | October 17, 2013
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Ottawa will invest $70 billion in federal, provincial, territorial and community infrastructure over the next decade, Governor General David Johnston said during the Speech from the Throne Wednesday. “Projects such as building subways in the Greater Toronto Area, replacing Montreal’s Champlain Bridge, building a new Windsor-Detroit crossing and constructing Vancouver’s Evergreen Line will create jobs […]
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Aging infrastructure and climate change are contributing to water-related residential losses in Canada, but educating consumers is one way to mitigate those losses, suggests an official with the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR). “People blame the city,” if their basement gets flooded, ICLR managing director Glenn McGillivray said Wednesday. “They don’t blame the province […]
By Canadian Underwriter | October 16, 2013
TOKYO – A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweeping up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo’s transportation during the morning rush. At least 17 deaths were reported and nearly 50 people were missing. Hardest hit from Typhoon Wipha was Izu […]
CEBU, Philippines – The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippine island of Bohol on Tuesday rose to 93, as rescuers struggled to reach patients in a collapsed hospital. Centuries-old stone churches crumbled and wide areas were without power. Bohol police chief Dennis Agustin said 77 of the deaths came from […]
By Canadian Underwriter | October 15, 2013
PODAMPETTA, India – Her house in this seaside village was flattened by the cyclone that roared in from the Bay of Bengal with torrential rains and winds topping 200 kilometres (131 miles) per hour. But the fact that Agya Amma was still here to survey the pile of twisted wood and shredded thatch that had […]
It is unlikely what went wrong with isolation condenser units at the nuclear reactor in Japan in 2011 will be known, if ever, until robotics can disassemble the associated valves and systems, attendees heard during the Canadian Boiler and Machinery Underwriters Association’s 40th Annual Engineering Insurance Conference in downtown Toronto last week. “We still to […]
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BHUBANESHWAR, India – Officials ordered tens of thousands of coastal villagers to flee their homes Friday as a massive cyclone – so large it filled nearly the entire Bay of Bengal – gathered strength and headed toward India’s eastern seaboard. Officials cancelled holy day celebrations and stockpiled emergency supplies in coastal Orissa and Andhra Pradesh […]
By Canadian Underwriter | October 11, 2013
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The Western United States has more than 268,000 residential properties, with structural values exceeding US$41 billion, at very high risk of wildfire, according to a recent report from database provider CoreLogic Inc. CoreLogic Wildfire Hazard Risk Report: Residential Wildfire Exposure Estimates for the Western United States 2013 provides several case studies and analyzes properties for their […]
By Canadian Underwriter | October 10, 2013
ROSEBUD, Alta. – An Alberta woman has lost a round in her legal battle against the contentious process of hydraulic fracturing. Jessica Ernst launched a $33-million lawsuit against the Alberta government, the province’s energy regulator and energy company Encana. She claims gas wells fracked around her property in southern Alberta unleashed hazardous amounts of methane […]
By The Canadian Press | October 10, 2013
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