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Why the plastic bag ban's a sham The other day I went to the cupboard where we keep plastic shopping bagsI needed one for the kitchen garbage bin.

Time: 9:05 AM on Saturday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 83
Poster: kitty

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/660723

Green bins: A wasted effort? Deep flaws mar recycling program as tons of organics end up in landfills or are turned into compost so toxic it kills plants

Time: 9:03 AM on Saturday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 51
Poster: kitty

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/660864

Office occupation did the trick: fisheries union Members of the FishFood and Allied Workers union finished a four-day occupation of the government's fisheries building on Thursday nightThe sit-in was the latest in a series of protests the FFAW has organized to command public attention about this sea

Time: 12:37 PM on Friday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 60
Poster: Scape

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/07/03/ffaw-o

Drought in Prairies after driest weather in 50 years EDMONTON Albertans are crossing their fingers that predicted cloudy patches turn into bouts of rain later this week to wash away what has become a dry spring of sunburnt misery.

Time: 9:54 PM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 80
Poster: Hyack

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2009/07/01/9993406-cp.html

4 Peregrine Falcon Chicks get Banded, and Webcam Time: 8:58 PM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 53
Poster: DrCaleb

http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/2009/07/02/10006356.html

Lawrence Solomon: DuPont’s new game DuPont made a killing in the battle over CFC regulationNow it’s poised to do it all over again with carbon dioxide.

Time: 1:52 PM on Tuesday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 52
Poster: ridenrain

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/06/27/

Hawkesbury solar farm gets green light After several years of debatea company has finally been given the go-ahead to build a solar farm in the eastern Ontario town of Hawkesbury

Time: 3:12 PM on Monday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 58
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/06/29/ottawa-hawkesbury-sol

Black-footed ferret coming to Sask. Grasslands this fall A plan to return the black-footed ferret to its once familiar southwest Saskatchewan habitat has been approvedwith about 40 critters to set up home once they've been pre-conditioned at a Colorado boot camp for ferrets.

Time: 9:28 PM on Friday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 74
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/06/26/black-footed-fe

Garbage a burning issue in Metro Vancouver Metro Vancouver is looking for public input into a plan to build six new waste-to-energy plants around the Lower Mainland to deal with the growing problem of too much garbage and not enough landfill space.

Time: 10:59 AM on Wednesday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 76
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/06/23/bc-garbage-

Firefighters fly in to join wildfire battle Firefighters from Eastern Canada blazed the trail from the Edmonton International Airport to northern Alberta yesterdaywhere they joined the massive fight against Alberta’s hottest problem.

Time: 6:22 AM on Saturday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 83
Poster: QBC

http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1621272

Canada's 'toxic secret' soon to be made public Environmental groups have long called the tailings lakes in the Alberta oilsands Canada's toxic secretbut companies operating there will soon be required to disclose exactly what pollutants are there.

Time: 12:44 PM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 96
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/06/18/edmonton-oilsands-t

Help on the way for firefighters About 180 firefighters from as far away as Mexico are rushing to Alberta to help battle 17 out-of-control wildfires in the northeastern part of the province.

Time: 6:14 AM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 79
Poster: QBC

http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1617370

Endangered whale's feeding grounds gain protected status The federal government is enhancing protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales by adding two important feeding grounds to the Species at Risk Act.

Time: 12:19 AM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 76
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/17/tech-right-whale-species

Fort McMurray could be cut off by wildfires: Province calling for help Alberta called for firefighting reinforcements Tuesday as wildfires sparked by lightning strikes threatened to isolate Fort McMurray Canada’s oilsands capital The province already had more than 600 people fighting 17 out-of-control fires some o

Time: 9:32 PM on Tuesday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 95
Poster: QBC

http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1615480

Osprey nest removed from pole near Inuvik airport Wildlife officials in InuvikN.W.T.have relocated a nest built last week by two ospreys that are making a rare appearance in the Arctic town.

Time: 5:21 PM on Tuesday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 59
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/06/16/nwt-inuvik-ospreys.htm

US eases pressure on China over climate change targets The US said today it would not demand that China commits to binding cuts in its greenhouse gas emissionsmarking an important step towards agreement on a global treaty to fight climate change. The move came at the end of the latest round of UN climate

Time: 12:21 PM on Saturday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 115
Poster: ridenrain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/12/us-eases-climate-pre

Montreal Students Build First Electric Snowmobile! A group of Mcgill students build first electric snowmobile!

Time: 9:31 AM on Saturday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 165
Poster: a2zme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CqMgl8o1JA

PETA crossing line with Olympic anti-sealing campaign: Inuit leader People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals better known as PETA has launched a website called Olympic Shame 2010features the stylized inukshuk that was created as the symbol for the upcoming Vancouver Winter GamesIn the animationthoughthe inu

Time: 3:39 AM on Friday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 112
Poster: commanderkai

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/06/12/peta-i

Rare yellow lobster avoids boiling pot No drawn butter will ever touch Fiona's tailShe's an extremely rareseven-year-old "yellowlobsterIts color scheme makes it a 1 in 30,000,000 rarityand it was caught off the cost of eastern Canada

Time: 3:24 AM on Friday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 87
Poster: commanderkai

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/12/massachusetts.yellow.lobster/index.ht

Expedition to study Canada's deep sea corals by submarine Researchers hope a new study of deep sea corals along Canada's Pacific coast will lead the government to protect the fragile organisms from fishing practices such as bottom trawling.

Time: 11:20 PM on Monday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 71
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/06/08/tech-090608

N.B. naturalists cry foul over impact of Canada geese invasion New Brunswick naturalists are worried about the impact on local wetlands when too many birds of a feather flock together.

Time: 11:14 PM on Monday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 74
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/06/08/nb-canada-gees

Canada accused of playing bully on Kyoto Environmentalists say government documents show Canada's role in international climate-change negotiations includes bullying developing countriesbackpedalling on commitments and attempting to exploit divisions in Europe.

Time: 3:57 AM on Monday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 123
Poster: Canadaka

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/fp/Canada+accused+playing+bully+

Inuit village blames climate change for strange events PANGNIRTUNGNunavut The fish changed colourNew bird species were spottedTwo bridges were wiped out by a once-in-a-lifetime flood that forced villagers to dump sewage into their pristine waters.

Time: 9:53 PM on Saturday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 117
Poster: Hyack

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2009/06/04/9680331-cp.html

Neighbours see red over 'gaudy' blue carts Some Calgary residents are complaining that while they are all for recyclingthe city's new blue carts are trashing the look of their neighbourhoods.

Time: 10:28 AM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 141
Poster: WDHIII

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/06/04/calgary-recycling-bl

Two more wind turbines eyed for Ex Two more wind turbines could sprout at Exhibition Place.

Time: 4:27 AM on Monday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 116
Poster: kitty

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/643414

City eyes 1 minute idling limit If you're waiting for a train in the dead of London winter for longer than a minuteexpect it to get frosty -or costly -if council OKs tough new changes to its anti-idling bylaw.

Time: 10:21 AM on Saturday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 146
Poster: stemmer

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/05/30/9623496-sun.html

'Floatables' flow as Halifax removes sewage screens First a sewage treatment plant failedand now the Halifax Regional Municipality is giving up on attempts to screen out solids from flowing into the harbour

Time: 10:01 PM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 161
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/05/28/novascotia-harbo

Losing out on green energy Canada continues to lag behind the rest of the world in the use of renewable energy and could fall furtherwarns a senior policy and technical analyst with the Pembina Institute in Ottawa.

Time: 5:18 AM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 110
Poster: stemmer

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1124399.html

Critics pan proposed power surcharge The company wants the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board to approve the surcharge for electricity that customers don't use.

Time: 3:13 PM on Tuesday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 104
Poster: stemmer

http://www.news957.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20090526_060020_

DOWN AND DIRTY BATTLE This job used to be about selling oilNow it's about defending oil'

Time: 9:13 AM on Tuesday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 164
Poster: stemmer

http://www.canada.com/Business/DOWN+DIRTY+BATTLE/1620860/story.html

Scientists propose helping wildlife relocate due to climate change Rapid climate change is forcing scientists to consider for the first time whether to help wildlife relocate to places where they are not currently foundsays a group of international researchers who have created a tool for evaluating such relocations

Time: 8:24 PM on Monday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 116
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/25/assistedmigration-wildli

The oceans ain't what they used to be, say researchers Only decades before the factories of the industrial revolution sullied Europe's skies with smog in the 19th Centurycoastal Great Britain teemed with marine wildlife like dolphinsorcas and blue whalesaccording to a new study.

Time: 3:53 PM on Sunday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 176
Poster: Hyack

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090521/ocean_lif

Oil sands' impact on climate change 'overblown' The relative contribution of the oil sands to global climate change is often overblownPeople talk about this as being the make-or-break for climate changeIt's not,Michael Leviof the CFRtold CTV Power Play's Tom Clark on Friday.

Time: 7:40 PM on Friday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 200
Poster: mtbr

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090522/oilsands_

Severe flood risk worries Sundre residents "The danger isthe longer this cold weather goesthe higher the risk of a quickhot spell and a fast melt,"said John Poirierspokesman for the 200-lot Riverside RV Villagethe closest community to the river's edge just south of Sundre.

Time: 8:25 AM on Friday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 100
Poster: mtbr

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/alberta/Severe+flood+risk+worries+Su

Evidence of right whales found off Greenland WASHINGTON U.Sgovernment scientists believe they have some good news about the endangered right whalewhose population in the Atlantic Ocean is struggling to come back.

Time: 7:52 AM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 142
Poster: Hyack

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2009/05/20/9517841-ap.html

Sunken fuel truck recovered from Robson Bight A fuel truck that could contain up to 10,000 of litres of diesel has finally been raised from the waters of Robson Bight Ecological Reserve off the northeast coast of Vancouver Islandaccording to a B.Cenvironmental group.

Time: 7:27 AM on Thursday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 140
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/20/bc-robson-b

Band plans to kill sea otters for their pelts It’s an ‘aboriginal rightto shoot the ‘cuteanimals for ceremonial clothingspokesman says

Time: 5:49 AM on Wednesday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 149
Poster: ridenrain

http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/First+nations+tribe+anticipates

30,000 cormorants destroying lakeside park Dark and swiftflocks of cormorants soar above Lake Ontario before hundreds of them finally dip down to the diamond-flecked waterIt's a stirring sight on a bright spring day.

Time: 4:28 AM on Wednesday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 129
Poster: kitty

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/636703

Crews rescue distressed humpback entangled in fishing gear off B.C. coast VANCOUVERB.CA new Fisheries unit formed to save marine mammals is boasting one of its first successes after rescuing an exhausted and distressed humpback whale in Knight Inlet on the central B.Ccoast.

Time: 8:22 PM on Tuesday
Topic: Environmental
Hits: 132
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/090519/n0519114A.html