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2012-02-09 20:19
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Ecosystems, Government, Indigenous Sovereignty, Atmosphere & Energy, Health & Environment, Protecting Biodiversity
Amidst rising concerns around climate change and the controversial review of the Northern Gateway pipeline, the government’s proposed changes to Environmental Assessment legislation have many critics up in arms.
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) is just one of several pieces of legislation up for review this year, along with proposed changes to the Criminal Code, immigration laws and the Copyright Act. So far, the suggested changes to Environmental Assessment legislation...
2012-02-08 18:42
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Ecosystems, Forests, Forests and Biodiversity, Wilderness and Species Conservation, Protecting Biodiversity
Vancouver Sun (Feb. 7, 2012)
Eco groups urge government to complete protection promise for Great Bear Rainforest
By Gordon Hamilton
Environmental groups supporting the Great Bear Rainforest agreement said Tuesday that the B.C. government is not meeting conservation targets set six years ago in a landmark agreement that would preserve 70 per cent of the central coast forest but allow commercial logging on the rest.
ForestEthics, the Sierra Club and Greenpeace said with two years to go before...
2012-02-04 18:52
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Ecosystems, Sustainable Fisheries, Oceans, Transition to Sustainable Economy
Fred Winsor says he's happy to see vindication from national science panel calling for sweeping changes to Canada's fisheries managment policies.
Winsor, the conservation chair for Sierra Club, said that he's been saying for a while the federal government's efforts to foster cod stocks just aren't working.
"I've lost track of the number of letters I've written to ministers of fisheries, asking to have various areas closed for marine protected areas and,...
2012-02-04 18:46
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Nuclear Phaseout, Nuclear Subsidies, Radioactive Waste, Nuclear-Free Canada
Bruce Power’s licence to transport steam generators containing radiation for recycling expired Friday.
The nuclear power generator has not reapplied and said in a news release Friday it will do so “when it’s appropriate.”
It also said there is “no urgency” to ship the generators.
Company spokesman John Peevers declined to answer questions about it.
“Bruce Power continues to believe recycling offers the best environmental solution for reducing our...
2012-02-03 10:33
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Change, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught
Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent and his Alberta counterpart Diana McQueen will take the wraps off a new oilsands monitoring program Friday afternoon.
Environmental groups are anxiously awaiting the details of the plan which has been in the works for more than a year.
The Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada says it's imperative the plan be totally independent of government and industry interference.
John Bennett says Canadians also want assurances that industry is...
2012-02-01 11:35
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Change, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines
A B.C. environmentalist claims in a sworn affidavit the Harper government labelled him and his organization, ForestEthics, an "enemy of the government of Canada" and an "enemy of the people of Canada" and threatened to pull the charitable status of its funder, the Tides Canada Foundation, because of ForestEthics' opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker project exporting tarsands oil to China.
Tides Canada is a major social-policy and environmental...
2012-01-25 23:34
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Change, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught, Atmosphere & Energy
ForestEthics whistleblower Andrew Frank claims that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office is resorting to threats to quell environmental opposition against the Northern Gateway pipeline. There have been conflicting reports on what actually happened at Frank’s organization, but for others in the environmental community his serious allegations come as no surprise.
In an open letter and signed affidavit, the former ForestEthics communications manager...
2012-01-25 22:22
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Nuclear Phaseout, Nuclear Subsidies, Radioactive Waste, Nuclear-Free Canada
TOKYO—Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan returns to the world stage this week, part of a campaign to reinvent himself as a global antinuclear activist nearly a year after he oversaw his government's widely criticized handling of the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
"I would like to tell the world that we should aim for a society that can function without nuclear energy," he said in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, previewing his speech scheduled for Thursday...
2012-01-25 21:48
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Change, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught, Atmosphere & Energy
The Harper government says it doesn’t want foreign influence on opposition to a proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast. The PM and his Environment Minister, Joe Oliver, say American radicals are funneling money into Canadian environmental branches to unfairly challenge the project at National Energy Board hearings that began Tuesday.
Canada pursues trade agreements with countries the world over, allowing foreign interests a say in how we do business. Northern Ontarians...
2012-01-24 16:49
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Alberta Tar Sands and Mackenzie River Delta, Climate Change, Alberta Tar Sands Pipelines, Energy Onslaught
I watched the CBC news program Power and Politics last week when they had representatives from the Sierra Club and the group Ethical Oil discussing the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project. Host Evan Solomon repeatedly asked Kathryn Marshall, from Ethical Oil, if her group receives funding from Enbridge or any other oil companies with a stake in the pipeline project.
Marshall kept insisting Ethical Oil “is a small grassroots, public advocacy organization. We don’t take any...
