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Review: The 11th Hour

Endangered this and sustainable that and catastrophic the other thing: the environmental documentary has become a strange hybrid of hectoring and hope, a sort of good-for-you genre of movie that people go to see because they want to do something about global warming and overpopulation and pollution and the many other problems of our fragile Earth, and seeing a movie that?s going to depress the heck out of them seems like a good first step.

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Get into Nature with WildED

The Wilderness Education Program was initiated in 1996 by Lisa Baile and the late John Clarke (BC’s legendary explorer, mountaineer and wilderness educator) to provide urban youth with the opportunity to experience BC’s wilderness and to develop the next generation of earth stewards. In early 2003, as per the wishes of John Clarke, BC Spaces for Nature adopted the Wilderness Education Program to ensure the continuation of John’s legacy. Today, the WildED Team is made up of dedicated program staff, advisors, educators, and volunteers who are deeply committed to reconnecting young people to wilderness.

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3 Greenpeace members held in Lake Erie stunt

On a breezy Lake Erie yesterday, two young people climbed a rickety scaling ladder up the side of a massive freighter and locked themselves to the conveyer belt device that helps to unload the ship’s cargo.
It was vintage Greenpeace. Three of the activists were arrested as they protested Ontario’s energy policy by trying to stop delivery of 30,000 tonnes of coal to the Nanticoke electricity generating station.

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Environmental groups and local businesses demand investigation into diesel spill near orca habitat

Greenpeace, Living Oceans Society, and whale watching companies today called on the Harper and Campbell governments to investigate a diesel spill that took place inside an ecological reserve, threatening a population of orca whales.
A week ago, a barge was being towed when it listed and spilled its load into the Robson Bight ecological reserve northeast of Vancouver Island. The ship was carrying a fuel truck estimated to hold 10,000 litres of diesel. While some diesel fuel has spilled into the ocean, there is the possibility of over 9000 litres remaining at the bottom of the ocean. Neither the federal nor provincial governments have made any attempt to inspect the wreckage and determine the extent of the clean up required.

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The OPA’s nuclear vision

The multi-billion-dollar overhaul and expansion of the province’s electricity system over the next 20 years may be written on paper, but it’s not etched in stone.
That’s the message Ontario’s power authority was eager to get across yesterday while submitting the final version of an electricity-system plan to the Ontario Energy Board for approval.

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