"Stephen Harper’s Illusions
I think –and I do not intend to offend anyone- that this is how the Prime
Minister of Canada is called. I deduced it from a statement published on
“Holy Wednesday” by a spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry of that
country. " -Fidel Castro

“BP still hasn’t fulfilled its commitment to fund the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico, but they pocketed $26 billion of profits last year, thanks in part to these government contracts, and that’s not right,” Jeremy Symons, senior vice president at the National Wildlife Federation in Reston, Virginia, said in an interview.

"The New York Times did what I was not allowed to do - tell you there has been a second diagnosis of Infectious Salmon Anemia virus in wild BC salmon, this time in the Fraser River itself, the biggest wild salmon river in the world."-A.Morton

-i am against the pipeline in the first place, and, it certainly is on the wrong side of Nebraska as well.

WTF?

"The Serengeti, once gone, will never return. The potential for collapse of the entire ecosystem exists, should the Serengeti Highway ever become a reality. "

"How can you keep a straight face while describing the raw panic that gripped our fair town to someone from, say, Calgary, where last weekend they sold out an outdoor football game in minus-25 weather? Or Edmonton, which had the (unconfirmed) distinction of being the second coldest place on the planet, after the South Pole?"

“I find a lot of junk in the river, too, the last few years,” added Thacker, four years older than his vessel and a resident of “Fort Chip” since birth. “Pipes, timbers. Last weekend, I was at the dock [at Fort McKay], watching an oil slick go by like someone was sitting up-current with a pail of oil, just dumping it slowly. An hour we watched it. With all these new oil plants along the river, obviously it’s coming from their places.” But even these are not the most distressing changes he has witnessed the past few years."

"He said he didn't talk to environmentalists or aboriginal people who live downstream from the oilsands"-nice to hear that he spoke to all involved not just the business interests so that he could form a well-rounded opinion!-;)

"More than 800 wildfires had been reported by the end of the week. Most were in western and central parts of the country, which is in its worst heat wave since record-keeping began here more than 130 years ago."

"A rich area for marine biodiversity, the Mediterranean is extremely sensitive to pollution. Almost a lake, its waters take up to 90 years to mix with the Atlantic through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar.The effects of oil pollution are felt high up in the food chain. Plankton store and concentrate hydrocarbons from the surface and pass them on all the way to top predators. Whales and dolphins were found to have accumulated high levels of oil-derived compounds in their blubber two years after the Haven oil tanker exploded off Italy in 1991, spilling 140,000 tonnes of oil."

"Vancouver city council, scientists, oil-tanker experts, and NGOs meet today (July 5) at city hall to discuss oil tankers in Burrard Inlet in light of the BP oil spill catastrophe. In Vancouver, the clearest first step is to stop any further expansion of oil travelling through Burrard Inlet, and then take the steps necessary to reduce and eliminate the more than 100 oil tankers that navigate these waters annually. "

"Nigera is Africa’s main crude oil producer. It is also the country which counts the most oil spills in the world. The Niger Delta, once an ecological sanctuary, has become a no-fishing zone because of the slicks that permanently poison its waters. "

"the federal government says it will protect a 3,500-square-kilometre area covering the waters and seabed surrounding the archipelago formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands."

"Louisiana hasn't yet figured out how we're going to survive. But how it warms our hearts, Tony, to know that you're going to be OK."

"The Krewe of Dead Pelicans, an informal Carnival-style krewe, second-lines down St. Charles Avenue in the Warehouse District to protest the BP oil spill and its response."

"Mr. Hayward and the company have repeatedly played down the size of the spill, the company’s own role in the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, and the environmental damage that has occurred. At the same time, they have projected a tone of unrelenting optimism despite repeated failures to plug the well."-assholes the lot!

-which should ease the minds of those affected since the government did such a good job dealing with the effects of Katrina!-right!;)

"The administration was for the first time held to account by Congress for the rigour of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), its regulatory body for offshore drilling."-as well they should be!

"Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, The New York Times reported late Saturday."

"WASHINGTON—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency called a press conference Monday to publicly denounce the environment for blatantly refusing to pull its weight in mankind's ongoing efforts at ecological conservation."

"Our message is crystal clear and simple," said Don Staniford of the Pure Salmon Campaign, an international group dedicated to improving fish-farming practices. "We want to the government to get the open-net cages out of the water, on to land, into closed-containment systems and save wild salmon stocks."

"VENICE, Louisiana (AFP) – The son of an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman, Minh Ly found freedom on the fishing boats of Louisiana where nobody judged him for his broken English or mixed heritage."

"The oil slick could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez in scope. It imperils hundreds of species of fish, birds and other wildlife along the Gulf Coast, one of the world's richest seafood grounds, teeming with shrimp, oysters and other marine life."

-don't do it!-just don't!

"More than 38 million sharks are killed each a year just for their fins,"

"There is now evidence Asian carp may have slipped into Lake Michigan, a development that could dramatically transform all of the Great Lakes because the large fish are known for dominating the waters they inhabit."

"Several hundred people have been evacuated from their homes, as a volcano erupted in southern Iceland."

"The journalistic exposure of police tactics came amid a widening wave of heavy metal scandals. Since the first cases last summer, more than 3,000 children nationwide have been found to have unsafe levels of lead in their blood, forcing the closure of dozens of factories."

"Environmental groups say Ottawa is failing to stimulate the development and adoption of the technologies that are needed if Canada is to meet its emission targets."

-save the condors!!!!

-and i am one of them!!

Dozens of Humboldt squid have washed up on Tofino, B.C., beaches, where an environmental group is warning people to stay away from the creatures during feeding frenzies.

"By approving this pipeline, we are committing to another generation of dependence not only on fossil fuels but on the dirtiest, most greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels," said Sarah Burt, an attorney for Earthjustice. "We thought that the Obama administration would walk the walk on this, but it appears that that's not happening."

"Clearing tropical forests for agriculture is estimated to produce 17% of the world's carbon emissions – more than the global transport system. Cattle farming is now the biggest threat to the remaining Amazon rainforest, a fifth of which has been lost since 1970. "I'd say that 65-75% of deforestation is linked to the growth of ranching"

"Larivière's goal is to teach the public about the sprawling boreal forests that exist in Canada, their carbon-neutralizing effect on the environment, their beauty, the people that live within them and the paramount need to preserve them. Canada has 290 million of the world's 1.7 billion hectares of boreal forest, which accounts for a quarter of the world's closed-canopy forest."

"The world's first floating wind turbine is to be towed out to sea this weekend."

"After reading the headline article in the Echo (Feb. 10) about the Fanny Bay Oysters plant turning over the reigns to the Vancouver Island University for the installation of a new shellfish research station I became concerned about what this new facility would be doing in our region."-christ, just quit messin' with genetics already!! causes more problems than it fixes!!

"The coastal waters of the Great Bear Rainforest in Northern British Columbia, home to hundreds of salmon spawning rivers, grey whale migratory routes, the feeding grounds for orca and humpback whales. It is an area teaming with life and steeped in the culture of BC's coastal First Nations. For over 35 years these waters have been protected from the threat of oil spills by a ban on oil tanker traffic. This ban on tankers is now under threat. Plans to build pipelines and a supertanker port in Kitimat by Enbridge are moving forward with support from the BC and Canadian governments. But there is still time to save our coast."

-brilliant!