PLANET IN PERIL

AlterNet / By Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher Poll-oriented groups say that public opinion surveys prove Americans care most about jobs and lack the capacity to act on some distant threat. But here's where they're wrong. Details here.

Geneva, 5 Apr '11 (WMO)  Depletion of the ozone layer- the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays - has reached an unprecedented level over the Arctic this spring… Full story here.

BY Jim Harding THE SASKATCHEWAN CONNECTION  Published in R-Town News on April 1, 2011 (Please also read - "Uranium City - a Legacy of Cancer.") The Fukushima’s nuclear reactors which are steadily contaminating Japan’s atmosphere, seashore, watersheds, food chains and making millions of Japanese into nuclear refugees are owned and operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. or Tepco.  Tepco  has Saskatchewan connections. The Globe and Mail describes Tepco as “one of (Cameco’s) largest customers for uranium used to fuel nuclear power plants”, and there is little doubt that much of the radioactive contamination threatening Japan comes from uranium fuel mined in northern Saskatchewan. And Tepco is directly involved in this mining; since the 1990s it has been Cameco’s partner in the massive Cigar Lake mine, which has itself had serious “accidents” and is years behind its production schedule due to recurring underground flooding.  Cameco has taken a big hit since

Zachary Shahan - PlanetSave Apr 4  '11 Climate change is sometimes portrayed as a victimless crime, but it’s not. Full story here.

PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: In view of the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan, I've decided to "recycle" one of my old stories, below. I wrote it while working as a journalist with CBC Radio in Regina, SK in the late '80s. It chronicles years of cancer, a virtual "epidemic" among workers at the uranium mine at Uranium City, in the extreme north end of that province. If nothing else, it might provide an insight into the fact that it is not just the power plant phase of the nuclear system which is problematic. Keep in mind, given that Saskatchewan was a leading player in uranium production, the fuel rods melting down in Japan may well have been made from Saskatchewan uranium.   I even sent it to George Monbiot, hoping to help convince him to turn away from his recent and ill-advised conversion to all things nuclear. He has not responded!  ==== 1984 - by Larry Powell Please also read,  "How is Saskatchewan Involved in Ja

A mystery lurks in Lake Winnipeg. And it's  one which science is only now waking to. Watch video here. (Runs about 45 mins.)

Canadian Foundation for Climate and Asmospheric Sciences (CFCAS)                                OTTAWA March 23, 2011    The Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS) is deeply concerned.. .Details here. PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: We can only dream the next government will be more "science friendly! l.p.

By Chris Hedges Mar 27 '11 - Truthdig The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. Details here.

1 April 2011, Rome - United Nations chemical experts have recommended that two pesticides and one severely hazardous pesticide formulation - be included in... Details here. A collection depot for pesticide containers in Manitoba.

Apr 1 - '11 - AlterNet - Casson Trenor Money can buy just about anything these days, especially when it comes to fish -- and that is devastating for our oceans. Details here. www.animalinformation.blogspot.com