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by CHARLES CAMPBELL - Dogwood Initiative Enbridge can't hide the fact that their Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker project has been delayed yet again. Could Dogwood supporters have anything to do with it? Read More . . .

A Billion People's Water at Risk From Melting Ice - Al Gore

AFP. Posted December 14, 2009. At UN climate talks Monday, Gore warned that record melting...

Youth and Indigenous People Escalate Protests Inside the UN

BY JOSHUA KAHN RUSSELL | Rabble.CA - DECEMBER 10, 2009 Echoing the words of Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed (We will not...

Climate Justice - Take Action for People & the Planet

Council of Canadians reporting from Copenhagen...

MANITOBA HAS PLAN TO REDUCE PLASTIC BAG USE: BLAIKIE

Manitoba News Release ............................................................ December 8, 2009 - - - Manitobans Asked For Input To Guide Action to Protect Environment Manitobans are being asked for their views on the best way to reduce the impact of plastic bags on the environment, Conservation Minister Bill Blaikie announced today. "We want to hear what Manitobans think and we want to work with shoppers, vendors and bag manufacturers," said Blaikie. Manitoba was the first province in Canada to ban plastic bags in liquor stores and the second to set targets for packaging. Plastic bags are regulated as service packaging under the Packaging and Printed Paper Stewardship Regulation, passed in December 2008. The Guideline for Plastic Bags under the regulation establishes a target to reduce the use of plastic bags by 50 per cent within five years. Next spring, Multi-Material Stewardship Manitoba (MMSM) will launch a new industry program to manage packaging and printed pap

Global Protests Demand Action on Climate Change

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of activists across...

Can Wind Power the World?

Thu May. 19, 2005 - Mother Jones Two Stanford researchers have put out a new scientific study suggesting that the potential for wind-driven energy is actually many times....

Canada's Trade Trumps Environment

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Winnipeg Free Press - By: Frances Russell - 9/12/2009 AB tarpond, courtesy beautifuldestruction.ca Canada should be setting climate change policy...

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...

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

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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.)