Save the Experimental Lakes Area petition

From http://saveela.org/

Canada’s scientific and environmental community received a huge blow last week with news that the Government of Canada plans to shut down the ELA. Employees of Fisheries & Oceans Canada learned on May 17, 2012 that research at ELA no longer fits within the government’s mandate and the world-renowned facility will be terminated in March 2013.

The abrupt closure means invaluable water research projects—not being done anywhere else in the world—will be lost, and their future findings lost with them. This includes a one-of-a-kind climate change study and the only investigation in the world looking at what happens in a lake polluted by nanosilver, the increasingly popular antimicrobial agent found in everything from household cleaning sponges to socks and even children’s teddy bears.

Please go to their website, learn more about the issue and download a petition to reinstate funding for this irreplacable environmental research area!

http://saveeladotorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/save_ela_petition.pdf