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Watershed Sentinel - sustainable planetOn the Ground in Lesotho Worldwatch says the small farmers of the world can feed their countries within the decade
GE & the Privatization of Water  Joyce Nelson explores GE's Aqueduct Alliance as BC and Alberta's new Water Acts turn water licenses into tradeable commodities 
Toxic Mining in Baja The unwelcome Canadians in search of gold
Cohen Hearings on Salmon Virus Report on the ISA virus
BC Forest Monopoloy Two companies own access to most of the forest in BC and they're working on water
Battle for Trees on Vancouver Island Cortes Island, Clayoquot Sound, Flores Island

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CETA Trade Deal Threat to Public Water

Submitted by delores on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 09:31.
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New report on leaked CETA documents explains threat to water services from Canada-EU trade deal

Dylan Penner
January 26, 2012

 

OTTAWA, ONTARIO - The Council of Canadians and Canadian Union of Public Employees have released a briefing note on recently leaked documents related to ongoing Canada-European Union free trade negotiations. The documents show that Canada and the provinces have failed to protect drinking water and wastewater services from trade rules that would encourage and lock in privatization.

Rally against Vancouver Island Raven Coal Mine

Submitted by delores on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 15:24.
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Hundreds Attend Solidarity Rally Opposed to Coal

by Fireweed, on behalf of the Water Dragon Alliance

Over 400 people showed up in Buckley Bay on Vancouver Island on Saturday, January21st, in support of a festive outdoor anti-coal rally called, "Solidarity - Not Compliance!"

Coal demo on bridge

Enemy of the State - ForestEthics? Really?

Submitted by delores on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 17:27.
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"At the very highest levels of this government, Canadians who have a legitimate concern about this oilsands pipeline are being called enemies of the government of Canada and enemies of the people of Canada. And that's the language of anti-terrorism.

"When a government calls its own citizens enemies, you've lost your moral authority to govern."

Fukushima Update: erratic temperature, radiation increase

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Fukushima Update #76, January 23, 2012

by Nelle Maxey
Unit 2

Enbridge Pipeline: The Oil Spill in the Sky

Submitted by delores on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 14:19.
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Terrific article in the Vancouver Observer (on?) this Thursday about the oil-spill-in- the-sky that is the real damage from the proposed Enbridge pipeline from the tar sands to China or the USA. Barry Saxifrage writes:

"One way or the other, every gallon of tar sands crude oil that Enbridge wants to pump down its proposed B.C. pipeline will be spilled into our environment. All of it. Every drop.

"Any crude that Enbridge doesn't first spill into our B.C. lakes, rivers, streams, Great Bear Rainforest and wild coastline, will instead become a gigantic burnt oil spill dumped into our destabilizing atmosphere and acidifying oceans.

The ISA Virus, Cohen Inquiry and DFO - But What About the Fish?

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Cohen Inquiryby Catherine Stewart

I have a t-shirt that reads "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." It's broadly applicable to the state of our world and particularly relevant following the revelations at the recent federal Cohen Inquiry hearings on the topic of Infectious Salmon Anaemia virus (ISAv).

Those of us attending the hearings in Vancouver were more outraged than we anticipated. All Canadians - all citizens of the planet - should be outraged by the behaviour of our federal government agencies in the face of this potentially disastrous virus.

How Oil Runs Canada

Submitted by delores on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 09:47.
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Murray Dobbin's opinion piece in the Tyee this morning is worth reading by all thoughtful people - he sets off with a heart-stopping lead:

"Where will you be and what will you be doing when the first giant oil tanker (there will be two every three days), carrying over 200,000 gallons of tar sands goop diluted with solvent, spills its load into the pristine waters of the northern B.C. coast?"

Enbridge Deal Leads Gitxsan to Occupy

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by Susan MacVittie

Many Gitxsan First Nation people and their supporters spent their Christmas holidays at the blockade outside of the Gitxsan Treaty Office (GTO) in New Hazelton, BC. On December 5, 2011, after consultation with their clan members, Chiefs and members converged on the Gitxsan Chief's Office in response against a deal signed on December 2 with Enbridge in support of the controversial Northern Gateway Project by hereditary Chief Elmer Derrick, a negotiator with the GTO. The deal provides the Gitxsan with an equity stake in the pipeline project that could be worth $7 million over the life of the project.

GE and the Privatization of Water

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water privatization by Joyce Nelson

Investment banker Goldman Sachs has famously been described by the Rolling Stone's business writer Matt Taibbi (July 2009) as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." So it's a good idea to take notice whenever that Vampire Squid moves its blood funnel towards something. Having profited handsomely from the Wall Street bailouts, the Squid has smelled money in a new direction: water privatization.

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