Story in the Globe and Mail. “B.C. Auditor-General John Doyle says the province’s budget deficit should be $73-million higher than reported after his review of the government’s financial statements for the 2009/2010 fiscal year.” Read article
Article by Scott Simpson in the Vancouver Sun. “B.C. wants California to take another look at an assembly climate bill that disqualifies many potential run-of-river hydroelectric sources from consideration as premium-priced renewable power under the state’s renewable electricity portfolio requirements.”
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Article by Remy Scalza in BC Business. “The need for wineries to conserve has never been more acute. On the heels of a drought last year, the South Okanagan is anticipating another dry summer. For the second consecutive year and the sixth time in the last decade, dry conditions have prompted a drought declaration on Osoyoos Lake. Even outside the dry South Okanagan, water woes are evident.” Read article
Article by David Roberts in The Guardian. “There’s been a lot of talk lately about what went wrong on the climate bill, but it’s always struck me that the original wrong turn was the introduction of climate change to American politics as an ‘environmental issue.’ It is the mother of all framing errors — the one from which all others flow.” Read article
Article in National Geographic, with photos by Ian McAllister.
Cristina Mittermeier, president of the International League of Conservation Photographers: “With the ongoing oil disaster we are witnessing in the Gulf of Mexico, and the State of Michigan, Canada should reconsider bringing oil to the Great Bear Rainforest.”
Article by Jennifer Feinberg in the Hope Standard. It’s about a five day paddle down the Fraser River that starts on October 19. Read article
Article by Kate Sheppard in Mother Jones. “EPA administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged that the impacts of using dispersants underwater and in large volume are largely unknown… Two days later, Jackson directed BP to switch to less-toxic dispersants, but BP said it hadn’t found the alternatives suitable and continued to use Corexit.” Read article
Article by Micheal Vonn in the Georgia Straight. “It comes right out and says that the government considers it part of the job of senior bureaucrats to fabricate crises in order to advance policy.” Read article
Article by Dahr Jamail in globalresearch.ca. “These most recent, and most blatant of the BP/US Government propaganda gems are easily undermined by countless facts.” Read article