Sunday, March 12, 2017

The top 10 threats to the most biodiverse place on planet Earth

The Guardian

Manu national park in Peru threatened by roads, oil/gas operations, narco trade, gold-mining, logging and ‘human safaris’ Story here.

In North America, there are also species in decline, 
like this Bobolink on the Canadian prairies. PinP photo. 

Did an American pipeline company donate illegally to the Premier of British Columbia?

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Oil line pipe loaded on rail cars in Manitoba. PinP photo.


Elections BC asked to investigate Texas pipeline money. Story here.

Saturday, March 11, 2017

UNESCO issues warning about Wood Buffalo National Park due to dams, development


NEWS 1130

An United Nations agency has issued a warning about the environmental health of Canada’s largest national park. Story here.

Gros Beak Lake, Wood Buffalo Park.
photo by Ansgar Walk

Glyphosate presence in honey raises concerns

The Western Producer

A Manitoba honeybee hive. PinP photo.
For years, environmentalists have said insecticides must be banned to protect bees. Now, some of those same environmental groups are saying that glyphosate must be banned to protect consumers from tainted honey. Story here.

Scott Pruitt Went on TV to Deny Climate Change

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Friday, March 10, 2017

Trump's EPA Budget Details Announced


Trump's draft EPA budget: a love letter to Big Energy
Smokestacks and pollution
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Trump's draft EPA budget is in -- and it's one giant, water-poisoning, coal ash-spilling, asthma-inducing love letter to his Big Energy cronies.
The truly draconian document puts wildlife and human health in serious jeopardy by (among other things):
  • Halting the Clean Power Plan and its first-ever carbon emissions limits on dirty, coal-fired power plants.
  • Decimating the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which protects the planet's largest freshwater source, by slashing its funding from $300 million to $10 million.
  • Threatening the Chesapeake Bay, the country's largest estuary, by cutting funding for monitoring and compliance with environmental laws from $73 million to $5 million.
  • Stripping funding for toxic cleanup in communities contaminated by industrial waste.

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

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