Canada Should Fight a Pollution Battle Instead of a PR Battle

Huff Post Green - Hannah McKinnon

Climate Action Network Canada - 11/24/11

In the lead up to the next round of UN climate talks, instead of taking responsibility for their own pollution problem, the Canadian Government is focusing on a full scale public relations and diplomatic campaign to ensure no door is closed to Canada's highly polluting tar sands. Details here.

Can the Oceans Continue to Feed Us?

By Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers - Nov 10 '11
WASHINGTON — Far out on the Pacific Ocean, the world's industrial fishing fleets pursue one of the last huge wild hunts — for the tuna eaten by millions of people around the world. Details here.

Quiet Shift in Feds' Criteria for Approving Northern Gateway Pipeline

By Gerald Graham, 16 Nov 2011, TheTyee.ca
'Need for project' now trumps environment in fine print of pipeline documents. Details here.

PLT: And people wonder why there is an Occupy movement!

Time to Test Corporate Leaders to Weed out Psychopaths

By Mitchell Anderson, Today, TheTyee.ca

Shark-like, they rise fast but risk killing the world economy, concludes a business professor. Details here.

Broadcaster Bill Moyers "Nailed" the Motivation Behind the Occupy Movement - Even Before it Began! (Video)

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Uganda's Protected Mabira Rainforest Threatened Again by Sugar Production

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet - November 21, 2011

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Public Happy Face on Ottawa's Cuts Smeared by Official's Private Memo

Mike De Souza - Vancouver Sun - Nov. 20-'11

OTTAWA — A senior Environment Canada bureaucrat who publicly defended the federal government’s plans to slash funding and eliminate “redundancy” within the country’s ozone monitoring programs, privately approved a briefing note that concluded there was no duplication in its network, Postmedia News has learned. Read more here.

PLT: It is truly a sad day when a Prime Minister can instil such fear in his public servants that they feel compelled to tell a different story in public than in private, just to keep their jobs! 

Extreme Weather to Worsen With Climate Change-IPCC

Reuters - Nov 18-'11
More heat waves, heavier rains, worse cyclones likely. Details here.

Courtesy of Common Dreams

Common Infections Will be 'Untreatable' if Antibiotic Misuse Continues

Ecologist - Nov 19  Scientists issue new warning as campaigners call for stronger controls on excessive use in intensive farming. Details here.

Be - Without Water? A Video of the Struggles of Citizens of New Brunswick Against Fracking

EU Lawmakers Call For Action to Protect Bees

(Reuters) - Nov 15'11   European Union lawmakers on Tuesday called for stronger action to protect Europe's bees, saying that the rapid decline in the bee population could PLT bumblebee photo affect the growth of important food crops. Details here.