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Port in Winnipeg Could be Model for Port at Churchill

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Diane Gray - 06/9/2011 - Winnipeg Free Press - View From the West The Golden Boy faces north from his lofty perch-- serving as a bold reminder of the unrealized economic potential.... Details here.   Courtesy of Manitoba, eh? PLT - I wonder just how much is enough for the human species? Winnipeg & Manitoba are already beautiful places with lots of natural beauty, physical infrastructure and cultural resources. Just how much further must we go to "realize our potential" by making it ever-easier to move people and widgets from here to the far corners of the continent. As far as I'm concerned, "Centre Port" is an exercise it excess which will only enrich the pockets of the few, worsen traffic gridlock and climate change while doing little to advance the human condition. "We can build it - therefore we must need it," might as well be the rallying cry. Globalization has already been shown to be a failure on so many levels. Lets stop bowing down

AAFC Dials Back Estimated Crop Area Due to Flooding

June 9, 2011 - Manitoba Co-Operator Canada's agriculture department has lowered its estimates of crop harvested areas, as flooding and excessive rain look to leave much land fallow this year. Details here.

A British Perspective on "Our" Tar Sands! (Video)

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You Want Superbugs With That?

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Barry Estabrook - ONEARTH - 05/27/11 Feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock is leading to an emerging human health crisis -- one scientists and the government have seen coming for decades.   Details here.

Feds to Consider Flood Infrastructure Program

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June 7 '11 Manitoba Co-Operator The federal government says it's "prepared to discuss" a plan to help all provinces and territories build up their infrastructure to better withstand floods in the future. Details here. MIKE.DEAL@FREEPRESS.MB.CA Delta Beach, at the south end of Lake Manitoba,  a victim of high water aggravated by high winds. Because the lake is so shallow,  wind is especially damaging. PLT : Once again, the brain-dead morons who control our lives believe digging deeper ditches in the absence of meaningful action to combat climate change, will solve all of our problems. These climate crooks belong in jail for neglecting the root-causes of the crisis that is beginning to ravage us all.   l.p.

Canadian Environment Week

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Environment Canada - June 8 '11 Preserving our Forests, Protecting our Future
 June 5-11, 2011 Details here. Goldfinch. l.p. photo

Report: Large Swaths of Tropical Forests Have Been Set Aside, but Little Managed Sustainably

By: Raphael G. Satter, The Associated Press - 06/7/2011 LONDON - Large swaths of the world's tropical forests have been officially shielded from deforestation, but an international conservation group says that may not be enough to save them. Details here.

Australia Climate Commission says Warming Earth is ‘Beyond Doubt’

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DIGITAL JOURNAL - May 2011 Australia’s Climate Commission states action to battle effects of a warming planet has “never been more urgent” than now, with huge... Details here. ==== PLT: Here in Manitoba, Canada, flooding has been unprecedented by any measure; depth of water, area affected, human suffering and economic damage. Yet governments, politicians, business and sadly way too many individuals, (all aided and abetted by timid media) just don't get it. They refuse to admit it even MAY be anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change at work here. Or they hide behind the ever-weakening argument that "you can't tie any given weather disaster" to global warming. HELP! I'm beginning to think there is no hope! l.p. ======= Ani Hubba Bubba · Winnipeg, Manitoba you are absolutely right! I couldn't agree more with you!! Watching what's happening in Manitoba is devastating. We have to wake up! NOW!  

Natural Disasters Displaced 42 Million People World-Wide in 2010

DIGITAL JOURNAL - June 6 - '11  Oslo - More than 42 million people world-wide were forced to flee due to a series of climate change-related natural disasters in 2010, more than double…. Details here.

Glued to the Weather Channel While the World Burns

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Paul Loeb HUFFPOST GREEN - 06/ 6/11 Following the weather is beginning to feel like revisiting the Biblical plagues. Details here. A wildfire sweeps over Alpine, Arizona, burning 120,600 acres by Saturday. Courtesy of Common Dreams

Oil Company's Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Backfires

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Nick Young - Greenpeace - 6/6/11 Today an Amsterdam court judge turned the tables on Cairn Energy. Details here. Greenpeace protesters spent four days in a survival pod attached to the the Leiv Eiriksson rig.  (Photograph: Steve Morgan/Greenpeace)