Article by David Ebner and Wendy Stueck in the Globe and Mail. “Warmer ocean water is believed to have reduced the amount of food for sockeye, and colder water recently might have helped this year’s massive run. The proliferation of fish farms on B.C.’s coast has been blamed for spreading sea lice, and other diseases that prey on young sockeye.” Read article
Article by Robin Mathews at ViveleCanada.ca. “The New Lawlessness (subscribed to, I allege, by Gordon Campbell, Stephen Harper, and Ed Stelmach in Canada) is nothing more than a seamless alliance between governments and huge private corporations to elude law – where corporate interests are pursuing unregulated pollution, cheapest exploitation of resources, get-rich-quick manufacture of fraudulent securities, dubious ownership transfers, sales of non-existent commodities – or, in fact, any action or design that previously would be (and now should be) criminal in private corporate behaviour intended to enrich Corporation ‘principals’ at the expense of the public.” Read article
Article by BBC News. “In a message posted on his video blog on Thursday, Mr Medvedev said he had ordered the suspension because ‘our people, from the governing United Russia party to united opposition groups to circles of experts, are saying this demands more analysis’.” Read article
Article by Carrie Tait in the Financial Post. “After two years of revamping its PR strategy, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers hopes it can trump, even pre-empt, its critics’ charges.”
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Article by Chris McGreal in The Guardian. “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a ‘frankenfish’ by critics.” Read article
Article by Guo Qiang and Fang Yunyu in Global Times. “Traffic authorities were still struggling to cope with days-long congestion on a major national expressway, nine days after traffic slowed to a snail’s pace, and nearby residents are profiting on the latest traffic snarl by overcharging drivers for food.” Read article
Article by Andrew Nikiforuk in The Tyee. “Calling for sweeping reforms and strong federal leadership on water science, the referenced 49-page report concluded that the Canadian government clearly lacks ‘proper knowledge on the state and dynamics of the regions water resources and how they will react to years of oil sands mining, both surface and in situ.'” Read article
Article by Michael Smyth in The Province. “The lawsuit should never have been launched. There was no way a judge was going to go down in the history books as squashing the very first successful citizen-initiative petition ever achieved in Canada.”
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Article by Don Butler in the Ottawa Citizen.
“(Tom) Adams (of Energy Probe) assigned much of the blame for the rise in electricity rates to Ontario’s Green Energy Act, which promotes the use of solar, wind and other alternative power sources.
“The Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program, which locks in generous payments for 20 years for large green energy projects, is ‘just outrageous,’ Adams said.”