Studying the fate of drugs in wastewater

December 23, 2005 [International]

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Pesticides permeate streams

A fisheries study found 39 different pesticides at one location on Musqueam Creek

December 22, 2005 [B.C.]

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Mine tailings may dump into Ootsa

Mike Robertson says the position of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation is clear when it comes to Tahtsa Reach. "We are not going to sacrifice our whole lake system for two years of a dying mine," says the senior policy advisor with the Nation, on the south side of Francois Lake.

December 14, 2005 [B.C.]

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Building Hydro Dams To Fight Climate Change Destroys The ...

December 8, 2005 [Canada]

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Fish study counters the Grove parking lot plans

Two years of volunteer time has turned up six reasons why a parking lot should not be built in Cathedral Grove, says independent fisheries biologist Dave Clough.

December 6, 2005 [B.C.]

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McWane, Inc. and Company Executives Sentenced for Environ...

December 5, 2005 [U.S.]

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Startling Cathedral Grove Fish Habitat Assessment Report ...

The Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Mid Island Chapter is pleased to announce that a two-year fish habitat assessment for Cathedral Grove"s Cameron River Floodplain has been completed.

December 1, 2005 [B.C.]

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Sierra Club urges responsible mining

Coal harvesting can damage groundwater and soil, but environmentalists say the right methods can preserve resources

November 30, 2005 [U.S.]

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Carbon in Canada's boreal forest worth $3.7 trillion

Ecosystem services estimated at $93 billion per year

November 25, 2005 [Canada]

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America is thirsty

They're already looking for ways to take our water. We should tone down the emotion and figure out how to sell it to them.

November 24, 2005 [Canada]

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Addition of Ecologically-Significant Lands will Double th...

November 22, 2005 [Canada]

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World Wildlife Fund: Pulp Mill Devastates Swans' Sanctuar...

A recently opened pulp mill in Chile has devastated one of South America's most biologically outstanding wetlands, decimating its famed population of black-necked swans, along with most other bird life.

November 21, 2005 [International]

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Study Shows Climate Warming To Shrink Key Water Supplies ...

In the looming future, global warming will reduce glaciers and storage packs of snow in regions around the world, causing water shortages and other problems that will impact millions of people.

November 18, 2005 [U.S.]

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Tembec fined a record $1 million for polluting

The Quebec government has fined forestry company Tembec $1 million for polluting the Ottawa river near its paper mill in Temiscamingue. The government says it is the highest fine ever imposed on a company for breaking the province's environmental laws.

November 9, 2005 [Canada]

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Mouldy homes of B.C. First Nation to be replaced

The federal government has struck a deal with a First Nations community in British Columbia to replace 26 homes condemned because of mould problems.

November 9, 2005 [B.C.]

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B.C. natives want salmon back in Columbia River

IJC asked to determine U.S. responsibility for restoring Ktunaxa's lost fishing rights

November 3, 2005 [B.C.]

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Canada Opens New Run-of-River Hydro Facility

"The Upper Mamquam project is an exceptional example of how the industry can step up to the plate and help BC Hydro meet its goal of electrical self-sufficiency."

November 2, 2005 [B.C.]

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CN Rail on the wrong track

The recent privatization of BC Rail – the operating rights were sold to CN Rail in 2004 in a complex and bizarre deal – has seen CN Rail order B.C. residents with private crossings on their property to bring the crossings up to federal regulations. The residents must also pay for upgrades and pay an annual maintenance fee of $535 per year.

October 31, 2005 [B.C.]

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B.C. aboriginal chiefs oppose mine's plan to dump waste i...

The B.C. Assembly of First Nations has passed a resolution supporting First Nations opposing plans that are part of Northgate Mineral Corp.'s proposed $200-million gold and copper mine expansion.

October 28, 2005 [B.C.]

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Impact of ...

October 24, 2005 [B.C.]

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Climate warming affects entire lakes

Canadian scientists in a University of Alberta study indicate global warming is producing major ecological changes in remote arctic lakes at an alarming rate.

October 21, 2005 [Canada]

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Human and animal health focus of international water meet...

Did you know? New subdivisions in Calgary are now built with holding ponds for storm water run-off - so that pesticides, herbicides, antifreeze, dog feces, other chemicals and waste in yards and lawns do not go directly into the Calgary water supply.

October 13, 2005 [B.C.]

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Environmental lethargy is one more example of a worn-out ...

The federal government is blowing a lot of hot air on environmental issues and its lack of action is threatening Canadians' well being.

October 11, 2005 [Canada]

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Post-Katrina floodwaters are dirty, but so are other U.S....

Last month, "toxic gumbo" entered the American lexicon with the speed and force of the floodwaters it describes.

October 11, 2005 [U.S.]

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A solution for Handford N-waste

A nasty legacy of the Cold War lurks beneath the arid plains of south central Washington state: millions of gallons of nuclear waste that the U.S. Department of Energy needs to clean up before it finds its way into the nearby Columbia River.

October 10, 2005 [U.S.]

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Major drought in Amazon rainforest

The worst drought in more than 40 years is damaging the world's biggest rainforest, plaguing the Amazon basin with wildfires, sickening river dwellers with tainted drinking water, and killing fish by the millions as streams dry up.

October 10, 2005 [International]

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Alaska wildlife refuges are protected and pristine

Beginning today, the 100-plus-year-old system of protected lands across the country celebrates National Wildlife Refuge Week, a weeklong recognition of the 540 or so parcels of land that were set aside as early as 1903 to protect critical habitat and wildlife areas across the United States.

October 9, 2005 [U.S.]

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EU legislation on detergents simplified and aquatic envir...

October 7, 2005 [International]

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Brazilian bishop succeeds in stalling damaging river proj...

October 7, 2005 [International]

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Coca-Cola: In hot water

The world's biggest drinks firm tries to fend off its green critics

October 7, 2005 [International]

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Toxic Gumbo: Katrina's Environmental Legacy

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect the Gulf Coast's homebound citizens from Katrina's poisons.

October 6, 2005 [U.S.]

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957 species at risk in Puget Sound area

Six-year effort tallies creatures and plants dying from habitat loss

October 6, 2005 [U.S.]

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World Bank: Burden Of Disease Increased By Environmental ...

Close to one-fifth of the burden of disease in developing countries can be attributed to environmental risks .

October 5, 2005 [International]

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Amazon dries out as worst ever drought hits rainforest

Large parts of the Amazon rainforest are at their driest in living memory, a direct consequence, scientists say, of the severe hurricane season off the US Gulf coast.

October 1, 2005 [International]

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Damming the Flow of Drugs into Drinking Water

So far there is no evidence of adverse human health effects due to traces of pharmaceuticals in water. But scientists have linked certain pharmaceuticals with disturbing ecosystem changes.

October 1, 2005 [International]

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Big thaw could unleash ancient plague

As global warming melts the world's ice sheets, rising sea levels are not the only danger. Viruses hidden for thousands of years may thaw and escape - and we will have no resistance to them.

September 30, 2005 [Canada]

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Health Canada will require testing of water on airlines, ...

After years of quiet wheedling, the government has warned it will pass regulations if necessary to ensure that drinking water on aircraft is tested for safety and quality

September 30, 2005 [Canada]

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Fish farms on the hook

Pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago are doomed unless fish farms are contained, according to stakeholders.

September 29, 2005 [B.C.]

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Canadian activists receive 'alternative Nobel prize'

Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians) and Tony Clarke (Polaris Institute) will be receiving the prestigious Right Livelihood Award (RLA) known worldwide as the “alternative Nobel Prize.” They were chosen for, among other accomplishments, their work promoting the fundamental right to water.

September 29, 2005 [B.C.]

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Report slams Canada over environment

The federal environment watchdog says the government produces a lot of talk but not much action on environmental issues.

September 29, 2005 [Canada]

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Official report slams Canada over environment

Canadians are being forced to drink unsafe water, fish stocks are endangered and national parks are under threat because Ottawa is doing a very poor job of protecting the environment, according to an official report issued on Thursday.

September 29, 2005 [Canada]

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Ottawa slack on green initiatives, report says

The Liberals make splashy environmental proclamations but rarely follow them through, Johanne Gélinas said in her frank report on the government's environmental record to the House of Commons.

September 29, 2005 [Canada]

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2005 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Su...

Commissioner is expected to table her Report in the House of Commons on 29 September 2005. The following is a brief description of the eight chapters contained in the Report.

September 28, 2005 [Canada]

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2005 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and

September 28, 2005 [Canada]

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Guilty plea in Pennask Creek pollution offenses

BC Ministry of Transportation Ordered to Pay More than $46,000

September 27, 2005 [B.C.]

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New website helps people protect salmon habitat in their ...

Salmonopolis.ca enables salmon stewards to share resources and connect with local and national organizations to better protect salmon habitat.

September 27, 2005 [B.C.]

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Crews work to clean up potash spilled after 14 rail cars ...

CP Rail spokesman Ed Greenberg said the 14 units of 123-car train, heading south to the United States, derailed Sunday morning near Yahk in southern B.C.

September 27, 2005 [Kootenays]

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Damage to Skeena River from fuel oil spill reported minim...

Damage to the Skeena River, an important salmon spawning waterway in northwestern B.C., appears minimal after a truck spilled thousands of litres of furnace fuel, an Environment Ministry spokesman said Monday.

September 27, 2005 [North]

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The truth behind the trash grab

The selection of a sustainable landfill following the closure of the Cache Creek site in 2008 is a critical issue for British Columbia, and it is important that British Columbians be given all the facts.

September 27, 2005 [B.C.]

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Right to Do Our Jobs Campaign By Local 20729, Union of En...

We maintain that funding cuts over the past two years, and cuts proposed in the future leave us in a position of being unable to fulfill legal mandates set out in the Fisheries Act, and other statues and laws.

September 26, 2005 [Canada]

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