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Backlash Against Peak no Small Potatoes

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By: Laura Rance - Winnipeg Free Press - 10/04/2010 If there is one conclusion that can be drawn from the ongoing spat...

Another Strike Against Ethanol - Maybe it Will be "Out" Soon!

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Manitoba Wildlands.org Please also read; "Bursting the Ethanol Bubble"

Tar Sands Operations Killing More Than Ducks

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Shared by: F. Los on April 9, 2010 - thegreenpages.ca Edmonton - An information request has forced the Alberta government…. A flock of Canada Geese over open pit mining operations. There's considerable debate whether wildlife is effectively being kept separate from the mining operations & ponds of toxic water. beautifuldestruction.ca

Canada's Hemp Acres on the Rise

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Phil Franz-Warkentin - 4/7/2010 Corrected, April 7 (Resource News International) Canadian farmers are... Manitoba hemp crop. l.p. photo Please also read "Save the Earth. Time to Substitute Hemp for Oil."

Manitoba Supports First-of-its-Kind Hemp Processing Plant in Gilbert Plains: Struthers

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Gov't. of Manitoba April 6, 2010 GILBERT PLAINS—The Province of Manitoba is providing $500,000 to Plains Industrial Hemp Processing in support of a new, innovative project designed to process hemp, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers announced here today. A Manitoba hemp crop. l.p. photo "The Province of Manitoba is committed to funding innovative agricultural initiatives and projects," said Struthers. "This hemp processing project is a first of its kind in Canada and we are proud that it will be located here in Manitoba." Plains Industrial Hemp Processing currently manufactures several hemp-based products such as hemp pellets, animal bedding and insulation. "Once Plains Industrial Hemp Processing builds its new hemp fibre processing plant, it will have the capacity to process up to 18,000 metric tonnes of hemp per year," said Struthers. "Not only will this create jobs for local residents but it will g

Our Obsession With Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities and Our Health

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Free Press, Simon & Schuster / By Annie Leonard / Apr 4 - '10 A dump in Alaska. National Geographic.

The White House Egg Roll v. Gulag Ag

CounterPunch Diary - By ALEXANDER COCKBURN - Apr 4 '10 Editor's note: More death by fire at a factory farm. l.p.