– Canada passes 1,000MW of installed wind energy capacity… Newswire
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Capital gains tax removed from donations of ecological gifts… Ontario Nature
– Hinterland Who’s who launches boreal forest PSA… Newswire
– Ontario’s commercial chillers going CFC free… FoE
Canada

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– Harper goverment given failing grade on climate change… CBC
– Tory Kyoto policy spooks federal policy… CBC ON
– Ontario to expand nuclear renewable power generation… CBC ON
– Environmental watchdog slams Ontario for evading nuclear
review… CBC
– Emissions cuts possible without damaging economy: study… CBC

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Claydon, Saskatchewan ? The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) celebrates today the birth of a second generation of Plains Bison at Old Man on His Back Prairie Heritage and Conservation Area in southwest Saskatchewan. The 15 newborn calves are the offspring of a conservation herd of Plains Bison that were reintroduced to their natural prairie habitat at Old Man on His Back in 2003. NCC is also announcing the restoration of homestead buildings and the official opening of an interpretive centre on site, with the support of Western Economic Diversification Canada and The W. Garfield Weston Foundation.

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Energy efficiency and low-impact renewable energy sources have the realistic potential to provide more than double the amount of electricity … Continue reading Only Energy Conservation can solve Electricity Crisis: Nuclear is the problem, not the solution