Life next to the fast lane full of health hazards

Living close to major roadways risky for residents

December 31, 2005 [B.C.]

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Ship Company to Pay $10.5 Million For Covering Up Oil Pol...

Largest Environmental Criminal Fine in Massachusetts History

December 19, 2005 [U.S.]

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Motorcycles emit 'disproportionately high' amounts of air...

December 19, 2005 [International]

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Port plan review draws large crowd

Locals find out more about the environmental review of the Vancouver Port Authority's plans to add a third berth to its container terminal at Deltaport.

December 16, 2005 [B.C.]

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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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Environmental lobby ignoring the bigger picture on CO2 em...

The SMMT has reacted with concern to a Friends of the Earth statement calling for increases in tax on 4x4 vehicles, 'whilst seemingly refusing to participate in the nuclear debate'. FOE urged the Chancellor last week to adopt a number of green measures including increasing tax on ‘gas-guzzling" vehicles including 4x4s, and giving cash incentives for motorists to buy greener cars.

December 5, 2005 [International]

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Chemists detect toxic emissions linked to catalytic conve...

December 5, 2005 [U.S.]

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Network Says Cars Cause Climate Change

UN Summit Urged To See The Elephant In The Room: Cars Cause Climate Change

November 29, 2005 [International]

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Oil port proposals a threat, says Anderson

Retiring Victoria Liberal MP David Anderson warns that proposals for oil ports in Vancouver and Kitimat are more imminent threats to B.C.'s marine environment than offshore oil and gas exploration.

November 25, 2005 [B.C.]

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Oil Tankers Are Coming to the BC Coast

November 24, 2005 [Lower Mainland]

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Conference Organizers Take Measures to Reduce Delegates' ...

Eco-friendly transport, recycled paper, and composting leftovers are just some ways the COP MOP is attempting to make an influx of over 10,000 conference-goers more environmentally sustainable

November 23, 2005 [Canada]

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Park may sue airline for pollution

China Eastern Airlines is facing a potential lawsuit after the park, the site where one of its planes crashed last year killing 55 people, has asked for a 105 million yuan (US$13 million) compensation. The airline is being blamed for the environmental pollution that resulted from the disaster.

November 22, 2005 [International]

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More Reefs Become Roadkill on the Marine Highway

Industrial-scale dive chartering coming to a fragile reef ecosystem near you! Don't these new novice divers realize the nearby mother ship's guests will be waste discharging all over them as they dive? - Editor

November 22, 2005 [International]

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Cruise ship trash-burning curbed

U.S. regulators adopt 3-mile coastal ban

November 21, 2005 [U.S.]

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Marine Life Suffering from Ocean Noise

A report recently released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental advocacy group, found that the effects of ocean noise on marine life range from long-term behavioral change to hearing loss to death.

November 14, 2005 [International]

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CATHEDRAL GROVE'S FATE STILL HANGING IN THE BALANCE

Concerned citizens put a stop to this plan and as a result of public protest the park has been doubled in size. However, to date the public has not been given an opportunity to provide input into the proposed plans for a parking lot. The BC Liberal government is holding open houses to show their latest plans for Cathedral Grove.

November 14, 2005 [B.C.]

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Rail seeks to improve its environmental credentials - and...

Increasingly strong legislation governing rail vehicle emissions has accelerated the study and implementation of alternative traction technologies and fuel sources. In North America, British Columbia-based RailPower Technologies Corporation has started to make a significant impact with its range of hybrid locomotives.

November 11, 2005 [B.C.]

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Reaching the Point of No Return

A renewable energy manifesto

November 7, 2005 [U.S.]

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New Society Publishes "Biodiesel Power" by Lyle Estill

All the buzz from the biodiesel blog on the movement that is changing our energy world

November 7, 2005 [International]

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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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Energy Failure

President Bush's habitual response to energy-related problems like oil dependency is to try to increase supply rather than to cut demand through energy efficiency. The imbalance is getting worse as Congress rushes to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. Meanwhile, the Interior Department is leasing out more fragile public land than the oil and gas companies know what to do with in the Rocky Mountain West.

October 31, 2005 [U.S.]

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Emission control a GVRD mission

The Port of Vancouver, transit and the commercial transportation industry are exploring initiatives for improving air quality

October 29, 2005 [Lower Mainland]

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Toyota's Hit and Myth Marketing

An activist group says the carmaker's environmentally friendly image is a slick marketing ploy. It has a point

October 28, 2005 [U.S.]

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Regulator asked to probe safety at CN Rail

After two derailments just a few kilometres apart in the Cheakamus Canyon, near Squamish, Transport Canada has been asked to ensure that CN Rail is operating safely on lines it recently acquired by purchasing BC Rail.

October 27, 2005 [B.C.]

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Twin Arrow four-seater to monitor environment

October 25, 2005 [International]

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Toyota Gets Bitten by Environmental Group

Toyota has been pushing a green image with its Hybrid-Synergy drive ad effort, but the company is now getting heat from a division of Friends of the Earth for opposing emissions standards in California.

October 25, 2005 [U.S.]

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Ford Delivers More Hydrogen Focus Fuel Cell Vehicles to C...

The Ford Focus Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) represents Ford's commitment to advancing the use and development of alternative-fuel technologies. It is one of the industry's first hybridized fuel cell vehicles combining the improved range and performance of hybrid technology with the overall benefits of a fuel cell. Ford has been conducting fuel cell research for more than 10 years and believes fuel cell vehicles could be commercially viable by the middle of the next decade

October 24, 2005 [U.S.]

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Small band of pilots guiding ships in Puget Sound is dwin...

By law, the pilots use their local knowledge to guide ships into the Sound from Port Angeles and back out from Washington ports. But in the past several months a combination of retirements, injuries and an increasing number of ships calling on Washington ports has led to a shortage of these skilled guides.

October 24, 2005 [U.S.]

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National Trucking Association Endorses Biodiesel

High energy prices affect every part of the economy but the transportation sector is dealt one of the harshest blows. That's one of the main reasons behind the recent endorsement of biodiesel from the U.S. trucking industry's major national representative group.

October 24, 2005 [U.S.]

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Ad Attacks Toyota's Environmental Policies

Company's lobbying and litigation run contrary to carefully cultivated "green" image

October 24, 2005 [U.S.]

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Bird Plus Plane Equals Snarge

Each day, the Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Laboratory receives about a dozen packages from around the country, each containing tissue swabs from bird/plane collisions.

October 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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New fuel-cell technology could help power future vehicles

Innovations that drastically reduce the operating temperature of a promising type of fuel cell, may be an advance that could help power future vehicles.

October 22, 2005 [U.S.]

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100 Mile Diet spurs appetite for local food

B.C. couple become Web stars by eating only items grown within 160-km radius

October 22, 2005 [B.C.]

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Project Green Initiative Will Significantly Reduce Air Po...

October 20, 2005 [Canada]

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No rebates for green cars: Activists

A federal advisory agency has recommended against giving consumers rebates on the purchase of fuel efficient cars or charging special taxes on gas-guzzlers, despite research showing such a "feebate" program would cut pollution.

October 20, 2005 [Canada]

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Glacier Bay ship traffic frozen at current level for a ye...

Marcia Blaszak, Park Service regional director for Alaska, said she shares Murkowski's goal of increasing the number of visitors to the area, but that it must be done responsibly and using the best science available.

October 20, 2005 [International]

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FEMA criticized for cruise ship deal

Hasty negotiations lead to $236 million agreement

October 20, 2005 [U.S.]

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Record breaking run for Peugeot 307 diesel

The 1.6 litre diesel Peugeot completed the 3,021 kilometre distance on 111 litres of fuel, averaging an astounding 3.7 litres/100 km (76.3 miles per gallon).

October 17, 2005 [International]

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Parks Group Cautions: Study Needed Before Any Proposed In...

We are pleased with today's announcement from the National Park Service that it is not proposing to increase the number of cruise ships entering Glacier Bay in 2006, and caution that the Park Service needs adequate funding to complete baseline studies on impacts to park resources before they can consider the proposed 10 percent increase in vessels in 2007.

October 17, 2005 [U.S.]

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North Vancouver B.C. Carwash to be Powered by a Hydrogen ...

Canadian Federal Government & Sustainable Development Technology Canada announce funding contributions to the Integrated Waste Hydrogen Utilization Project (IWHUP).

October 14, 2005 [B.C.]

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Toyota sponsors National Public Lands Day events

For the seventh consecutive year, Toyota sponsored National Public Lands Day (NPLD), the largest hands-on volunteer conservation program in the U.S. More than 90,000 volunteers, including thousands of Toyota Associates, improved trails, built bridges, removed invasive plants, and planted trees in natural areas and parks across the country.

October 14, 2005 [U.S.]

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Ford Redoubles Greenwashing Efforts; Activists Double Ove...

Jumpstart Ford Campaign Announces November 12 "Day of Intervention" and Welcomes The Ruckus Society As New Partner

October 14, 2005 [International]

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Westport to Showcase Four Hydrogen-Blend Buses with Trans...

Westport Innovations Inc. announced its participation in the launch of an $18.3 million hydrogen technologies project supported by the Government of Canada, Sustainable Development Technology Canada and a consortium of Vancouver-based industry partners.

October 13, 2005 [B.C.]

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New cleanup efforts fight ocean debris

An estimated 40 tons of marine debris wash up on Hawaiian reefs and beaches each year, and while cleanup efforts are cutting into the accumulated tangles of nets, ropes, plastic bottles, medical waste and other trash, the stuff keeps rolling in with the surf.

October 12, 2005 [U.S.]

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California Clean Coast Act Enacted

This new law will prohibit oceangoing ships from conducting onboard incineration while operating within three miles of the California coast. The law will also prohibit oceangoing ships from releasing hazardous waste, other waste, sewage sludge, and oily bilgewater into marine waters of the state.

October 11, 2005 [U.S.]

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Iqaluit proposes to build Canada's first deep-water arcti...

Iqaluit wants to build Canada's first deep-water arctic seaport, a facility that proponents say would boost both economic development and efforts to enforce northern sovereignty.

October 10, 2005 [Canada]

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Cruise Ship Squeeze: The New Pirates of the Seven Seas

Cruise Ship Squeeze is hard-hitting, engrossing and impeccably documented. It is a compelling and comprehensive history of the cruise ship industry. Cruise Ship Squeeze provides the reader with a deep understanding of the economics, laws/loopholes and public relations strategies that support this wealthy rogue industry.

October 4, 2005 [Canada]

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Intrawest plans big gondola at Whistler

What purpose will it serve? The resort has fallen on hard times of late, or at least is less flush than what it had come to expect. The Peak to Peak Gondola, as it is being called, will set three records.

October 4, 2005 [B.C.]

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Minnesota Law Boosts Use of 'Green' Fuels in US

Minnesota on Thursday became the first US state to require that diesel contain a portion of biodiesel, a clean-burning fuel made largely from soybeans, part of a worldwide drive to encourage use of "green" fuels.

September 30, 2005 [U.S.]

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Roads, towns threaten grizzly bears in Canada, U.S.: stud...

Canadian highways and towns could be a roadblock to helping grizzly bear populations in the U.S. to recover, biologists say.

September 30, 2005 [International]

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