Fish and Water

www.salmonopolis.ca
One feisty stop for all the resources needed to protect salmon on BC's coast - contacts, news, and Habitat Violation of the month

http://www.wcel.org/issues/water/bcgwlp/
Comprehensive overview of ALL the laws and planning processes that govern water management in British Columbia. Designed for the layperson as a quick, one-stop point of access.

www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/Biotech-Environ/Environmental/INDWASTE/pandpcover.html
An overview of pulp pollution now and in 2020

www.pollutionwatch.org
Look up the polluters in your neighbourhood and find out what those chemicals do to human health. Based on Canada’s National Pollution Release Inventory data and 8 toxicological databases.

www.ourstolenfuture.org
Website for authors of Our Stolen Future, provides regular updates about the cutting edge of science related to endocrine disruption. Search this site for specific chemicals.

www.mcs-global.org
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - Global Recognition Campaign for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and other chemically induced illnesses, diseases and injury affecting civilians and military personnel, with extensive information links.

www.ecobc.ca
The "on line communty" website for the British Columbia Environmental Network with contacts to hundreds of organizations

www.earthfuture.com
Econews, The site for practical hands on actions at any level, from the individual to governments, on energy and cancer-causing toxics

www.wcel.org
News, reports and analysis from West Coast Environmental Law

www.i-sis.org.uk

The Institute for Science in Society website is chockful of interesting reports on everything from GMO to the Life Cycle Analyisis of renewable energy.

http://www.globalexchange.org
Visit Global Exchange, promoting "people centered globalization" to read the full report of the Most Wanted Corporate Human Rights Violators. to understand the WTO and other underpinnings of global capitalism, and find out how to connect with groups that are doing something about corporate abuses.

www.islandtides.com
Island Tides, the intelligent and local newspaper for the Gulf Island and Vancouver Island, always has some good articles and lots of backgrounders

www.ComoxValleyblogs.com
Local blogs from the Comox Valley

www.thetyee.ca
The Tyee, BC's" feisty" online newspaper

www.rabble.ca
provocative, progressive, independent news and views, featuring prominent Canadian writers and activists

www.prwatch.org
PR Watch helps the public recognize manipulative and misleading PR practices by exposing the activities of secretive, little-known propaganda-for-hire firms that work to control political debates and public opinion.

www.propublica.org 
ProPublica is an American independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. "We strive to foster change through exposing exploitation of the weak by the strong and the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them." Their coverage of Katerina and the aftermath is outstanding.

Community Action on Energy and Emissions (CAEE) Take note of the current Participating Communities, more than 52 altogether
The BC Climate Action Toolkit offers lots of opportunities for community action

Incineration and Power Boilers

www.epa.gov/ttncatc1/dir1/tire_eng.pdf
EPA Clean Air Technology Center, 1997 Air Emissions from Scrap Tire Combustion The bottom line is that air emissions are generally low for controlled burns in 100% tire incinerators with appropriate controls, that industrial boilers, cement kilns, paper mills, etc. can burn up to 20 % tire-dreived fuel if it is shredded and dewired and if they have appropriate particulate controls, e.g., electrostatic precipitators, etc. In results from 22 tire-burning facilities, emissions were generally lower with 10-20 % tire derived fuel than with 100 % coal, wood, or fuel oil. The exception was that higher zinc emissions were consistently observed because zinc tends to be emitted on particles too small to be captured by precipitators. Only two facilities had measurements for dioxins.