Winnipeg Spraying for Dutch Elm Disease

Last Updated: Friday, August 7, 2009 - CBC
The City of Winnipeg has begun treating American Elm trees on private and public property with the chemical Dursban to control elm bark beetles, the carriers of Dutch Elm Disease.
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Eds. Note - Nine years ago, (2000), after the most extensive assessment of any chemical in its history, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided that Dursban may be more dangerous to people than once believed. It removed use of the pesticide, also known as chlorpyrifos, from products sold over-the-counter there.
A "sister" pesticide, Lorsban, containing the same active ingredient and with similar chemical properties, became a nightmare for a Manitoba family when it was sprayed on a nearby crop.
l.p.

Warming Oceans Starved of Oxygen

ISIS Press Release 10/08/09

Global warming is depleting oxygen from the ocean waters and threatening the survival of fisheries and the entire marine ecosystem.

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Severe Global Warming Will Render Half of World's Inhabited Areas Unliveable, Expert Warns

David Adam in Copenhagen - guardian.co.uk

Parts of China, India and the eastern US could all become too warm in summer for people to lose heat by sweating, expert warns.

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Baby Emissions Fuel Global Warming

The Guardian - Estimates of the carbon legacy of bringing a child into the world suggest that the green choice may be to stop at two kids.

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Organic Consumers Association Responds to Faulty and Misleading FSA Food Study

* Press Release
Organic Consumers Association, July 30, 2009
Straight to the Source
CONTACT: Ronnie Cummins/Alexis Baden-Mayer

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Wind Turbines Cause Health Risks

Manitoba Wildlands newsletter - 07 August 09

New research exposes the health risks of wind energy turbines including heart disease, vertigo, panic attacks, migraines, increased heart rate and sleep deprivation.

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COMMENT:
Hi Larry
While browsing your page and links I noticed an article about Wind Turbine Syndrome, and Dr. Nina Pierpont.
There seems to be many doctors who disagree with Pierpont, and the basis for her arguments.
Anyhow, I live in Prince Edward County, Ontario, which seems to be the Ontaro hub of NIMBYism with regard to wind energy development, here.
Many in our local group helped groom the final version of our position on this issue.
http://www.countysustainability.ca/WindTruth.htm)
Thought you might be interested.
That is quite an extensive web page you run! Well done.
Don Chisholm

The Climate Battles Present -

NEW ENERGY VS. TARSANDS SHOWDOWN IN REGINA

Regina SK. Aug. 6 '09 - by Larry Powell

Protesters from far and wide converged
on Regina this week, demanding climate
justice on the occasion of the Premiers'
("Council of the Federation") meeting here.

Targets at the rally, in front of the Saskatchewan legislature, were this province's headlong rush to promote nuclear energy; and the Alberta tar sands, the dirtiest energy project on earth! Organizers of this and various other protests and rallies around the city during the week, included Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and Council of Canadians.

"Premiers Stelmach" (above l),and "Wall," (above r) and "Prime Minister Harper," wage shameless war against Mother Earth by denying climate change and refusing to do anything about it.

A First Nations activist (r) urges the crowd to

demand climate justice, support indigenous
rights and the closure of the tarsands!

A young member of the "Pedal for the Planet" group, (l) shows the rally eyeglasses he hopes will correct the short-sightedness of the Premiers and a special book to help them understand our climate crisis and to take it seriously!


It was a day for the young, the not-so-young and the in-between.

Author's note- I didn't get to take copious notes at this event. But here's a quote which stood out for me...

"It's wrong to undermine the habitability of our planet!" Amen to that! l.p.

(Photos by me.)