PLANET IN PERIL

By: Laura Rance - Wpg. Free Press - Posted: 05/7/2011  Monopoly did much more for farmers than just sell their grain for them. Details here.

May 10-'11 Food & Agriculture Organization scrape TV  FAO calls for wildfire emissions monitoring and comprehensive fire management strategies.  Details here.

International Rivers - 9/5/11 Coyhaique, Chile - A five-dam hydroelectric scheme that locals fear will destroy the character of one of Chile's most important wild regions was approved today.  Details here.

Manitoba News Release - May 8, 2011 - FLOOD BULLETIN #38 - Manitoba Water Stewardship reports: *    A three-day unstable weather system is expected to bring widespread rain ranging from 20 to 50 millimetres across the entire southern Manitoba watershed.  The Assiniboine River, just below the Shellmouth Dam. Due to recent rain, soils have a reduced capacity to retain water and any further rain will likely run off into streams and rivers.  *Communities along the Assiniboine River between Portage la Prairie and Headingley are advised that water levels along the river will be increasing in approximately two to four days.  The unprecedented flows are a result of last week's weekend storm, the timing of the melt from the storm and additional rainfall forecast for this week.   *Water levels on the Assiniboine River at the First Street Bridge in Brandon are 1,182.17 ft., an increase of 0.87 ft. since yesterday.  *    Protective dikes in Brandon are being raised another t

Winnipeg Free Press - 05/6/2011 Faulty gauge led to innaccurate water level readings. Details here. Water thunders over the Shellmouth Dam spillway, upstream of Brandon in late April, with the reservoir behind it at near capacity. (l.p. photo)

 By Darcy Henton, Calgary Herald May 5, 2011 Read more here.