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Manitoba's Bi Pole III Debate: Where The Rubber Hits The Road

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives  Mar 11-'11 Sustainable development and the precautionary principle must not be forgotten in this debate. Full story here.

More Insights Into Tar Sands Attitudes

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Please read an updated vesion of my earlier article, "How Ethical Are Ethical Funds,"   here, on the online magazine, The Dominion. OBSERVATION: If anything, this latest version affords an insight into how some can rationalize that how they invest is "really OK," because they can somehow make change from within - sort of like defending the indefensible. l.p.

On the Brink of Meltdown: The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

March 11, 2011 · By Robert Alvarez - IPS The devastating Japanese quake and its outcome could generate a political tsunami here in the United States. Full story here. Footnote: An explosion has now destroyed the building housing the reactor. l.p.

Gulf Spill Sickness Wrecking Lives

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Dahr Jamail - Al Jazeera 09 Mar'11 Nearly a year after the oil disaster began, Gulf Coast residents are sick, and dying from BP's toxic chemicals. Full story here.

Chevron Wins Halt to $18 Billion Judgment in Ecuador Pollution Case

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NEW YORK, New York, March 7, 2011 (Environment News Service)   Crude oil in a Chevron oil waste pit in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.  (Rainforest Action Network photo)    In a New York courtroom today, oil giant Chevron Corp. won a halt to enforcement of an $18 billion judgment for oil pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon imposed by a court in Ecuador. Full story here. PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: To the US judge who made this ruling - "do da word 'sovereignty' ring a bell to ya?" l.p.

California's Regulators Turn Blind Eye to Groundwater Pollution From Dairies

by Jaymi Heimbuch,  Treehugger - San Francisco - 02.28.11 In the Central Valley of California cows generate the same amount of fecal waste as a city of 21  million people, much of which goes untreated and pollutes waterways. Full story here.