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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 Harper
Dear 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 All
Big 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 centre
For 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 Sun
Former 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 fish
The 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 Politics
Canadian 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 threat
Recent 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 muskeg
A 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 Years
An 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 Trail
GRAND 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 expansion
The 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 money
OTTAWA – 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 cuts
VANCOUVER/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 Post
Rich 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 Tragedy
COOS 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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