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    Last week, the Star wrote a story about the fears of a conservation agency, Wildlands League, that there will be serious repercussions to the habitats of endangered species if Ontario bends over backwards to accommodate industries as it embarked  on “modernization of approvals” under the Endangered Species Act.

    The story was in the paper on Wednesday. By Thursday, environmental groups emailed to say they believed a cabinet decision was imminent.

  • EC: Almost 1 in 10 hunters/anglers inspected are breaking law

    Media release from Environment Canada

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  • Salamanders in Crisis!

    An Overview of why Salamander Conservation is Needed.                                                                                   

    By Matt Ellerbeck - Salamander Conservationist

  • Seal cull will not revive Canada's cod stocks, say scientists

    Canada's multimillion dollar proposal to cull grey seals will not bring back the ravaged stocks of Atlantic cod it is intended to help, scientists have said.

    In October, the Canadian Senate approved a controversial plan to kill 70,000 grey seals in the Gulf of St Lawrence under a bounty system next year, ostensibly to revive the cod stocks that the seals were eating.

    But a group of marine scientists at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have said in a recent open letter: "There is no credible scientific evidence to suggest a cull of grey seals in Atlantic Canada would help depleted fish stocks recover.

  • Pickering nuclear seeks to renew its licence

    Ontario’s oldest nuclear plant pleads its case this week for a few more years of active life.

    But nuclear skeptics say it’s time to bring down the axe on the Pickering nuclear station.

    It’s an old debate that pits hardened nuclear campaigners such as Greenpeace against low-profile supporters such as the Pickering Soccer Club.

    It comes to a head because the Pickering station’s operating license runs out this year. But Ontario Power Generation, which owns and operates the plant, wants to keep the station running until about 2020.

    The company wants to continue the operation without doing an environmental impact assessment, and without performing a major overhaul of the aging station.

  • Quiet Walk for the Protection of the Gulf

    PEI members of the Save our Seas and Shores Coalition (SOSS) are organizing a Quiet Walk for the Protection of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to be held on September 11 in conjunction with a meeting of the federal and provincial Ministers of Energy and Mines at the Delta Prince Edward Hotel, Charlottetown, PEI.

    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2012

    11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

    MEET at the Confederation Landing Park Gazebo at 11:30 or JOIN the walk anytime between 11:30 and 1:30 on Water Street between Peake's Quay and the Delta Prince Edward Hotel, where federal and provincial Ministers of Energy will be meeting. We will walk single file on the sidewalk on Water St. to avoid keeping anyone from going about their business.

  • First Nations joins fight to restore our upper Great Lakes levels

    MEDIA ALERT -- For Immediate Release                                

    Attention: Great Lakes, Water, Federal, Provincial, Municipal Politics, Environment  

     

  • Asian Carp Report Must Lead to Action, Groups Say

    ANN ARBOR, MICH. (July 13, 2012)—Yesterday the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canadian released a study affirming that all five Great Lakes are hospitable to Asian carp and that once established the non-native fish will likely disrupt the native fishery, alter the ecosystem and create another food web.

  • Canada should ban bee killing pesticides now

    Sierra Club Canada is calling on the federal government to follow the lead of European Union and take action to protect at-risk bee populations by banning three neonicotinoid pesticides: Imidacloprid, Clothianidin and Thiamethoxam.

    The pesticides, which attack the bees’ nervous system, are being banned in Europe after strong evidence from a European Food Safety Authority study linked them to the bee die-off witnessed in Europe.

    RELATED: Bee deaths lead to EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides  BBC News (April 29, 2013)

  • 2012: A bleak year for environmental policy

    Austerity and obscurantism. These were the defining features of the first full calendar year of Stephen Harper’s majority government, which came to a quiet close this week.

    Take, for instance, Bill C-38, Canada’s longest-ever federal budget. Setting out $5-billion in spending cuts, the budget was the most austere in over a decade. And yet, despite the depth of the slashes and thus their potential to remake the country, their nature and likely impacts remain intentionally obscure. As part of an omnibus budget, most of the cuts were not evaluated by the relevant parliamentary committees; details about their implementation were withheld from watchdogs and opposition MPs; and many cuts were to programs without which it will be very difficult to measure the price we’ve paid for austerity.

            

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