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Sea Shepherd, Pamela Anderson Team Up to Investigate Salmon Farming Industry

Sea Shepherd, Pamela Anderson Team Up to Investigate Salmon Farming Industry

Farmed salmon is an industry shrouded in secrecy, producing more questions than answers and threatening the native salmon population, according to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s Operation Virus Hunter. Sea Shepherd along with biologist Alexandra Morton and actor/activist Pamela Anderson—Sea Shepherd’s board chairman—are behind the new campaign to investigate the lawfulness of salmon farming. Morton, as […]

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    Canada Focuses on Food Security With Seed Diversity Initiative

    Canada Focuses on Food Security With Seed Diversity Initiative

    The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security aims to fortify Canada against the negative impacts of climate change on food security by developing a stronger domestic seed industry. Canadian Seed Security initiative will help Canada achieve food security. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock The five-year, US$5 million initiative began in February 2013 and is hosted […]

    Enbridge to Double Carrying Capacity of Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline

    Enbridge to Double Carrying Capacity of Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline

    By Heather Libby In its largest capital project in history, Enbridge plans to do what Transcanada so far can’t—ship more than half a million barrels of heavy oil across the U.S. border without President Barack Obama’s direct approval. Graphic courtesy of Enbridge Late Monday evening, Enbridge announced plans for its largest capital project in history— a $7 billion […]

    Neil Young Stands With First Nations on Anti-Tar Sands Tour

    Neil Young Stands With First Nations on Anti-Tar Sands Tour

    By Emily Saari Rock legend Neil Young launched a week long concert tour in Canada this week in solidarity with First Nations fighting against oil sands development in their territories.  Neil Young’s latest tour, Honor the Treaties and also featuring Diana Krall, is a music tour with a political message. [youtube //www.youtube.com/embed/h5wueetIZn0?rel=0 expand=1] Young is using his […]

    Did Canada Just Have the Largest Coal Slurry Spill in Its History?

    Did Canada Just Have the Largest Coal Slurry Spill in Its History?

    A scary thing happened on Halloween near Hinton, Alberta. Canada had what may be the largest coal slurry spill in its history when a dam failed at the Obed Mountain coal mine and 264 million gallons (1 billion litres) of waste water contaminated at least 25 kilometers of the Athabasca river. Ten municipalities located downstream […]

    Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Squash Renewable Energy Age

    Fossil Fuel Industry Continues to Squash Renewable Energy Age

    TomDispatch By Michael T. Klare When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems. Most of us believe (or want to believe) that the second carbon era, the Age of Oil, will soon be superseded by the Age of Renewables, just as oil had long since superseded the […]

    The Tar Sands Oil Spill That Can’t Be Stopped

    The Tar Sands Oil Spill That Can’t Be Stopped

    Oil Change International By Andy Rowell This disaster has been years in the making, but finally the reality of tar sands mining may be hitting home. According to an article in the Canadian Star, underground tar sands operations have resulted in four separate oil spills that have been leaking over the last six weeks. The […]