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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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Keep Jasper Park like a park

Submitted by delores on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 14:21.
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It's definitely one of that multitude of opportunistic schemes -- a kind of ultra modern Disneyesque for-profit 'Glacier Discovery Walk’ at the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park. It's just the sort of attempt to profiteer from the few public spaces reserved in this country that hits a nerve. There are wildlife concerns, traffic concerns, construction concerns, and on top of all that, the development will restrict public access in a public park! Parks Canada has been forced to delay their opposition by the swell of opposition. Sign the Avaaz petition here. Better yet, phone your MP, if they are the kind that take your calls.  

Pipeline Safety, Dilbit, Captive Regulators and Smart Pigs

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The issue of pipeline safety is clouded enough with a slew of "captive regulators, from Alberta to the United States, but the situation gets even more sticky because the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, and others from the tar sands, will be transporting "dilbit" which carries its own problems with it.

By Joyce Nelson

This article is a preview of the story to be published in the March-April Watershed Sentinel.

Enbridge Spills

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A Decade of Enbridge Oil Pipeline Spills

by Joyce Nelson, part of a feature Pipeline Safety, Dilbit, Captive Regulators and Smart Pigs coming in the March-April Watershed Sentinel

2000: 7,513 barrels. Enbridge reported 48 pipeline spills and leaks, including a spill of 1,500 barrels at Innes, Sask.

2001: 25,980 barrels. Enbridge pipelines reported 34 spills and leaks, totalling 25,980

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?"

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