Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts

Friday, June 06, 2008

Ignore it, It'll go away.

I'm working on a dream list of eco-exhibitors and speakers for a proposed conference / event, so I'm surfing around chekcing in with the usual suspects and what do I find at the wonderful desmogblog but this:

Sloughing off a court decision which held that a proposed Imperial Oil (i.e. Exxon Canada) oilsands project is an environmental hazard in the waiting, the Conservative Cabinet of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave a green light to the development yesterday.
Canadian Government, Media Officially Unconcerned About Environment | DeSmogBlog

The story can be found in the business section of the globenmail, because really that's where belongs...riiiight...

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Garbage Patch

I've been looking for actual videos and images from the "pacific garbage patch" for a long time. I finally found it at Vice of all places.

Episode 9 is as reasonable a place to start as any. Be warned though, massive massive bummer ahead.


TOXIC - Garbage Island - Part 9 of 12 - VBS.TV

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