Article by Jim Quail at rabble.ca. “The B.C. Premier’s Office has locked its smallish collective brain onto the notion that B.C. Hydro can be used as a catalyst to subsidize and launch a huge lucrative electricity export trade. Their slogan (slogans substitute for analysis these days) is ‘A Clean Energy Powerhouse.'” Read article
Article in the Calgary Herald. “Growing up, [Alexandra] Morton was fascinated by animal communication. But the only woman scientist role model she knew of was Madame Curie. And the stark photos of Curie surrounded by test tubes in an early 20th century laboratory petrified the young Morton, who dreamed of working in the wild.” Read article
Story with video by Peter Grainger at CTV for BC. “Protestors from Greenpeace, the Wilderness Committee and No Tanks! gathered in Vancouver’s Stanley Park Sunday to picket oil tankers off the B.C. coast, arguing it’s only a matter of time before a devastating spill occurs.” Read article
Canadian Press article. “Shambrook Hills Development Corp., also known as Sunriver Estates, pled guilty Friday to one count of paying $50,000 to Dave Basi for his attempts to remove farmland from the Agricultural Land Reserve.” Read article
Blog posting by Gordon Wilson. “The public has been very poorly served by this process, and continues to be very poorly served by an Attorney General who seems to think that the narrow view of a special prosecutor appointed by those who have a vested interest in the trial constitutes justice.” Read article
Article by Tyee Bridge in BC Business. “The DFO is the federal government bureaucracy that presided over the collapse of Atlantic cod. Overharvesting by Canadian fleets ultimately cost taxpayers $3.9 billion in support to Newfoundland and Labrador for cod-licence buyouts, regional assistance and job retraining between 1992 – the year the cod population hit bottom and the fishery was closed – and 2007.” Read article
Article by Tom Zeller Jr. in the New York Times. International oil companies see US 12 as a road to riches. They are angling to use it to ship gargantuan loads of equipment from Vancouver, WA, to Montana and the tar sands of Alberta. Read article
Story by Michael Smyth in The Province. “At least $350,000 could be recovered from guilty pair to help pay $6 million in legal fees.” Read article
Article by D.C. Reid in the Times Colonist. “In 2008, volcano, Kasatochi, in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands, blew its top and ash drifted out over a large area of the North Pacific Ocean.
Within a few days, the largest bloom of phytoplankton ever observed spread across more than 1,000 kilometres of surface water.” Read article