Dans les nouvelles
2007-10-26 00:00
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Water Conservation, National Water Strategy
OTTAWA — The "myth" of freshwater abundance in this country should be abandoned by Canadians and their governments, warns a report from an expert panel recommending radical action to protect the nation's drinking water.The newly formed Gordon Water Group, which describes itself as an organization of scientists, lawyers, policy experts and former senior government policy advisers led by the Sierra Club of Canada, is releasing the 55-page call to action Friday.The threats to Canada's...
2007-10-24 00:00
In what is being called a historic and precedent-setting decision, an environmental review panel has asked the province to reject a controversial proposal to build a 150-hectare quarry on the Bay of Fundy shoreline near Digby.The panel, chaired by Dalhousie University oceanographer Robert Fournier, also calls on the government to create a comprehensive management plan for coastal development.Paul Buxton, the project manager for quarry proponent Bilcon of Nova Scotia, wasn’t taking calls from...
2007-10-24 00:00
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Endangered Species
Les derniers caribous de montagne de la planète peuvent respirer: la Colombie-Britannique a décidé d'accorder à ces 1900 cervidés un vaste territoire où les activités commerciales seront strictement limitées à partir du printemps prochain.380 000 hectares de forêt humide tempérée situés au sud-est de la province de la côte pacifique s'ajouteront à une zone déjà protégée de 1,8 million d'hectares, soit une superficie globale représentant deux fois la taille de la Jamaïque.La récente décision du...
2007-10-15 00:00
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Climate Summits
Most Canadians have yet to feel the adverse effects of climate change and that makes us somewhat complacent, says the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada."I think to be honest, most of us are enjoying it so far," Stephen Hazell told an audience of about 200 people at the second annual Shirley Shipman public lecture series at Ryerson University yesterday afternoon."On the one hand, we're sorry it's destroying the planet, but we're also enjoying the warm weather in...
2007-10-04 00:00
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Great Lakes
Globe environment reporter Martin Mittelstaedt's excellent article The Great Lakes Disappearing Act summarized succinctly the case of our shrinking Great Lakes. He rightly points to global warming and dredging in the St. Clair River as major threats to lake levels, noting that Lake Superior is setting records for low-water marks, and levels in the other four sweet-water seas are well below long-term averages.We must also take seriously the burgeoning water demands of rapidly growing urban...
2007-09-26 00:00
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Endangered Species
The federal government is dooming the prairie grizzly bear to extinction without first doing its homework, conservation groups say."Environment Canada's main conclusion is that they're giving up on the prairie grizzly population -- they're condemning it to extinction," Jean Langlois, the Sierra Club of Canada's national campaigns director, said Tuesday.The Sierra Club, along with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), issued a scathing condemnation of a federal report...
2007-09-25 00:00
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Climate Summits
UNITED NATIONS -- Interest in a "flexible" approach to combating global warming is now in the ascendancy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told world leaders yesterday at a United Nations summit on climate change.In a speech counter to the reason UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the gathering, Harper said there is an "emerging consensus" on the need for a rethink on how to respond to global warming.Ban opened the summit yesterday by saying the UN was the "...
2007-09-24 00:00
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Climate Summits
UNITED NATIONS - Prime Minister Stephen Harper pushed a flexible, balanced approach to global warming Monday at a huge world summit designed to spark major momentum for a new climate change treaty.As UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon called for "unprecedented action and leadership," Harper told a side panel that Canada is pursuing a slow, steady course in reducing harmful greenhouse gases that could help forge consensus among countries."We are balancing environmental protection...
2007-09-24 00:00
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Endangered Species
OTTAWA - Two top environmental groups are warning that the federal government is doing nothing as grizzly bear numbers plummet toward extinction.The International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Sierra Club of Canada say Ottawa's failure to protect the species could lead to its demise.In a report released jointly, the groups say grizzly bears have already disappeared from their former prairie habitat, and a draft federal strategy recommends against trying to recover them.The Northwest...
2007-09-24 00:00
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Climate Summits
NATIONS UNIES - Le Canada s'aligne avec le groupe Asie-Pacifique dans la lutte aux changements climatiques, s'éloignant ainsi encore plus du protocole de Kyoto.Après avoir prononcé un discours à une table ronde de l'ONU, lundi, le premier ministre Stephen Harper répondait aux questions des journalistes lorsqu'il a annoncé qu'il fallait que le Canada se joigne aux discussions de ceux qui ont rejeté Kyoto, comme les Etats-Unis et l'Australie. D'après le premier ministre, sans la participation de...
