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Protests against Harper cuts to science, threats to free speech
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Protecting Canada’s fisheries: an open letter to Stephen HarperDear Prime Minister Harper: As privy councillors from British Columbia who have served as ministers of Fisheries and Oceans in past feder…0
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Frances Beinecke: An Oil Industry Witch Hunt in Canada Threatens Us AllBig Oil and the Canadian government are showing their true colors these days, and what an ugly spectacle it is. Not content to squeeze ta…0
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Scientists decry Ottawa’s plan to close environmental research centreFor six years, Cynthia Gilmour, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, led a research team that annually pour…0
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MPs don’t get to hear from whistle-blowing biologist | Vancouver SunFormer fisheries minister Tom Siddon, featured in blogpost below, said it was a “travesty” that the massive changes to environmental laws…0
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Alberta band downstream of oilsands releases pictures of deformed fishThe Canadian Press – ONLINE EDITION FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alta. – Natives downstream from the oilsands in northern Alberta say they have caught…0
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The Religion Factor in Canada’s Environmental PoliticsCanadian politics has traditionally avoided the religion factor. By common agreement, belief has been deemed a private matter, a facet of…0
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Wild salmon ‘sanctuaries’ under threatRecent federal budget cuts to Canada’s environmental review processes have weakened environmental protections, leaving many of the last b…0
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Alberta and other oil spills
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Spill sends 22,000 barrels of oil mix into Alberta muskegA huge spill has released 22,000 barrels of oil and water into muskeg in the far northwest of Alberta. The spill ranks among the largest …0
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Alberta Oil Spill Among Largest In Recent YearsAn oil spill that went undetected for days has released 22,000 barrels of oil into northeastern Alberta’s muskeg, news sources report. Th…0
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Grand Canyon National Park Pipeline Break Closes Section Of North Kaibab TrailGRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) – A third pipeline break in Grand Canyon National Park has closed a one-mile section of the North …0
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Oil, water and politics
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Burnaby NewsLeader – Burnaby council officially opposes proposed pipeline expansionThe proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion is all risk and no reward for Burnaby, said Burnaby council in officially opposing the proj…0
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Harper’s hunting panel includes groups backed by foreign moneyOTTAWA – While the Conservatives accuse some Canadian environmental groups of using foreign money to attack domestic interests, the gover…0
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Could profit-sharing get Alberta crude to the Pacific?If only the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline shipped $100 bills to the West Coast, life would be so much easier for Alberta. No protest…0
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Stand up Canada | The Castlegar Source“We become civilized only by knowing what to refrain from doing.” – Nassim Taleb We have been warned. The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipel…0
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Tory Heritage Minister sticks to his guns on Coast Guard cutsVANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) Shane Woodford | Email news tips to shane.woodford@corusent.com 5/31/2012 BC’s highest ranking Conservative MP and …0
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LNG
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B.C. is gungo-ho on gas | Energy | News | Financial PostRich Coleman must have used the word aggressive at least five times in a short interview to underline just how intensely focused British …0
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Oregon Tsunami Drill Planned In Response To 2011 Japan TragedyCOOS BAY, Ore. (AP) – Thousands of people in three Oregon coastal communities are holding their first tsunami evacuation drill, stirred t…0
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Climate change
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New Mexico’s record-setting wildfires deepen trend of devastating ‘megafires’The first Shane Wolfe saw of the wildfire now raging through the New Mexico wilderness was from a helicopter – just as the firefighter wa…0
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