Thursday, December 10, 2009

Canada's Trade Trumps Environment

Winnipeg Free Press - By: Frances Russell - 9/12/2009
AB tarpond, courtesy beautifuldestruction.ca

Canada should be setting climate change policy...

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Activist Naomi Klein Calls for Disobedience at Copenhagen

Dec.9-'09 Guardian.Co.UK

Klein labels the climate summit as the worst case of disaster capitalism, ever...

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Greenhouse Gases Imperil Health, E.P.A. Announces

NY Times - John Broder - Dec. 7-'09

l.p.photo
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has paved the way for regulation of carbon.....





EPA to Strengthen Oversight of Pesticide’s Impact on Children and Farmworkers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - December 8, 2009 EPA

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to strengthen…

(Editor's note: Perhaps our Canadian regulators could listen and learn....l.p.)

Monday, December 7, 2009

Tarsands Adding Carcinogens to Athabasca River: Study

CBC - De 7'09
A study of water quality at 60 sites along the Athabasca River and its tributaries makes it clear...
Climate demo - Regina SK
Summer - '09 (l.p. photo)

Hog Industry on the Ropes

by Elecia Chrunik - THE SASQUATCH - Dec/Jan '09

The Canadian hog industry is in trouble. Supply is...

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Canada Must do More to Confront Climate Crisis - Science Matters

R. Turgano on December 4, 2009

By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola.

People who deny the reality of human-caused global warming are wetting their...

Controversial chicken ‘megafarms’ in the UK given millions in government handouts.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Campaigners call for more sustainable system after revelations that huge farms near the Wye and Sever...