Staff - MB Co-Operator -9/13/2009 Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq on Friday pledged $75 million for investments in Canada's food safety system. A woman works to sterilize meat processing and packaging equipment at the Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto in a file photo. Photograph by: Mark Blinch, Reuters
Mary Jo Laforest - Canadian Press. Se. 13 '09 Photo courtesy Nat'l. Geographic Alberta's oilsands produce more greenhouse gas emissions than some European...
Sep 11, 2009 - By Timothy Gardner. U.S. cracks down on mountaintop coal-mine permits . Photo courtesy Vivian Stockman - Flyover courtesy SouthWings.org NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. environmental regulators said on Friday they will scrutinize 79 applications for mountaintop coal-mine permits...
Published on Thursday, Se. 10, 2009 by Agence France Presse BANGKOK - Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars in Singaporean banks, a rights group said Thursday.