Friday, September 4, 2015

Oil Slurry Spill on Mississippi River Illustrates Need to Move Beyond Fossil Fuel Economy

CommonDreams

Coast Guard said up to 250,000 gallons of refining byproduct may have spilled into waterway. Story here.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

The Biggest State in the US Hast Voted To Divest From Coal

CLIMATE PROGRESS

The California Assembly has passed a bill that prompts the state’s public employee pension funds to divest from coal. Story here.

EU Diplomats Reveal Devastating Impact of Ethiopia Dam Project on Remote Tribes

TheGuardian
Lives of semi-nomadic tribespeople being irreversibly changed by relocation into poorly planned settlements to make way for sugar plantation, says released report. Story here.

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Obama Announces New Plan to Save Arctic: More Icebreakers!

CommonDreams

During his controversial Alaska visit, the US president continues his trend of lofty, climate change speeches coupled with more support for Arctic drilling. Details here.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

The Great Unraveling

Chris Hedges - OpEd News

The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling. Story here.

Pick up the Phone, Steve! Demand Justice for Mohamed Fahmy! (Editorial)

by Larry Powell

The sentencing in August of the Canadian journalist, Mohamed Fahmy to three more years in an Egyptian jail, is, sadly, yet another painful reminder of just how little the Harper Government seems to care about one of its most sacred trusts - protecting Canadian citizens who get into trouble abroad. 

Sunday, August 30, 2015

GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health

New England Journal of Medicine

The science and the risk assessment supporting the Enlist Duo decision are flawed. The science consisted solely of toxicologic studies commissioned by the herbicide manufacturers in the 1980s and 1990s and never published. Story here.

RELATED:"A Canadian Senior Citizen's Open Letter to the Minister of Agriculture"

Saturday, August 29, 2015

A Canadian Senior Citizen's Open Letter to the Minister of Agriculture

Dear Minister Ritz,

I am a senior citizen (a scientist & a retired Professor from the University of Toronto). I am writing to you concerning your statements last April at an international conference in Saskatchewan (“Feeding the Global Middle Class”), regarding GMOs. You were quoted as saying (in the Western Producer): “Industry slow to defend GMOs”.







A  ground sprayer at work in Manitoba. PinP photo.

Actually, in my opinion, and in the opinion of tens-of-thousands of independent scientists globally: GMOs should be banned (& not DEFENDED!). The reason is simple: GMOs were “created” through a massive fraud in the United States about 25 years ago, then “exported” globally by a transnational cartel, and have never been tested adequately for safety in the food-chain.

Is This What Climate Change Looks Like?

The water tower in my home town is barely 
visible in smoke said to have spread all the way from Washington State, about 2,000 kilometres away! PinP photo.

Cover Up? TTIP Negotiators Outed for Secret Talks With Big Tobacco

Common Dreams
Forced by freedom of information request, officials release documents scrubbed of all content and names. Story here.



Health Canada probes claim that government officials helped pesticide company overturn a ban

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