PLANET IN PERIL

By Amy Goodman , Democracy Now! . Posted October 23, 2009. No federal regulations specifically govern the disposal of power plant discharges into waterways or landfills... USDA photo

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 - the Green Pages Student Earns Award For Effort to Protect Nearly One Million Acres of Boreal Forest From Industrial Logging Berkeley, CA- Robin Bryan, a 21-year-old student at the University of Winnipeg, will be among the six recipients of the 2009 Brower Youth Award. Hosted by Earth Island Institute, the Brower Youth Awards are North America's most prestigious prize for young environmental leaders. Bryan fought for years as a campaigner with the Wilderness Committee to put an end to industrial logging activity within the boundaries of provincial parks in Manitoba. Originally from Prawda, Manitoba, Bryan is now completing his degree at the University of Winnipeg. MB Wildlands While attending school full-time, Bryan organized rallies, spoke with elected officials, delivered classroom presentations about the issue, fundraised tirelessly, and organized volunteers to write and collect 20,000 letters to the government. Bryan lives in close proximity to the w

Manitoba News Release ............................................................ October 22, 2009 PROVINCE RULES OUT PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AT MEDITATION LAKE - - - Government Renews Commitment to Work with Tim Horton Children's Foundation To Build Camp for Underprivileged Youth: Struthers Based on water testing results at Meditation Lake and feedback from public consultations, the province and Tim Horton Children's Foundation will now seek another location in Whiteshell Provincial Park for a youth leadership camp. The decision was announced today by Conservation Minister Stan Struthers and Tim Horton Children's Foundation vice-president Dave Newnham. "We will look at an alternate location in the Whiteshell to meet the program and wilderness experience needs required by the youth leadership camp proposal while keeping in mind the needs of current and future park visitors," said Struthers. "The public review held in the spring on the Meditation Lake propos

by Robert Goodland & Jeff Anhang - WWI Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change are...cows, pigs, and chickens?

Call for Position Statements - Bucko Lake and Metal Mining Effluent Regulations
 Local and national consultations sessions are being planned for amendments to the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER) in the near future. These would require alterations of our Fisheries Act, too, allowing for harmful substances (toxic mining waste) to be dumped into dammed freshwater lakes, thus turning them into Tailings Impoundment Areas - a euphemism for ruined, former life bearing lakes. Here in Manitoba, Crowflight Minerals Inc. (see photo, below) has applied for a permit to dump their nickel mine waste into Bucko Lake, close to Wabowden, south of Thompson, a portion of the headwaters for the Grass River system, and in woodland caribou territory. Yikes. The application is in the Public Registry and Conservation is accepting comments even though the time period has passed. We asked for that. The faces of the people who would turn Bucko Lake into a toxic dump. It is a subsidy for the mining

By: THE CANADIAN PRESS - 20/10/2009 Minister says food safe.....