Environment Group at NewsCloud.com http://www.newscloud.com/groups/Environment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:55:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us Canada: This is the dirtiest oil in the world http://www.newscloud.com/read/Canada_This_is_the_dirtiest_oil_in_the_world The Guardian: What happens when the world's biggest oil companies target a northern wilderness?

]]> The Brick Works - nature in the heart of the city http://www.newscloud.com/read/The_Brick_Works_nature_in_the_heart_of_the_city The old Toronto Brick Works factory has been turned into a nature preserve. It\\\\\\'s a great place to spend a few hours hiking the trails and looking at scenery. Here\\\\\\'s some photos and information about our recent visit.

]]> Weyerhauser: Logging and landslides - What went wrong? http://www.newscloud.com/read/Weyerhauser_Logging_and_landslides_What_went_wrong Those fears came true last December when a monster storm barreled in from the Pacific, drenching the mountains around the Chehalis River basin and touching off hundreds of landslides. Little Mill Creek, filled with mud and debris, turned dark like chocolate syrup. More than three months passed before nearly 3,000 valley residents could drink from their taps again.

]]> Local Nestlé water plant? Not in our town, Enumclaw says http://www.newscloud.com/read/Local_Nestl_water_plant_Not_in_our_town_Enumclaw_says For now, Nestle has taken its show down the road to Orting. There, Mayor Cheryl Temple is keeping an open mind. In her humble opinion, Enumclaw jumped the gun. "I always believe that if someone comes to town to do business, we should at least give them the respect of letting them pitch to us, and see where we go from there," she said. Her town of 6,000 needs all the jobs it can get. As for Nestle sucking it dry, and staining its landscape, Temple is not having any of that. There are laws in place to prevent that from happening. And what's this resistance to the idea of a big corporation, as if the very word were dirty to say? "Multinational?" she said. "Starbucks is multinational."

]]> Boeing, SkyHook to build 'blimp on steroids' - for remote resource extraction http://www.newscloud.com/read/Boeing_SkyHook_to_build_blimp_on_steroids__for_remote_resource_extraction Under the plan announced Tuesday by Boeing, based in Chicago, and Skyhook, a privately held business in Calgary, the Jess Heavy Lifter, or JHL-40, a helium-filled dirigible powered by four large helicopter-style rotors, would be designed to carry up to 40 metric tons of steel, trucks and other goods nearly 200 miles without refueling. Earth-moving equipment, steel and other cargo would be slung from the belly of the blimp-like device, intended for use in roadless areas such as northern Canada for use in petroleum, gas, diamond and metal exploration and development.

]]> Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution http://www.newscloud.com/read/Ecuador_Constitutional_Assembly_Votes_to_Approve_Rights_of_Nature_In_New_Constitution On July 7, 2008, the Ecuador Constitutional Assembly - composed of one hundred and thirty (130) delegates elected countrywide to rewrite the country's Constitution - voted to approve articles for the new constitution recognizing rights for nature and ecosystems. "If adopted in the final constitution by the people, Ecuador would become the first country in the world to codify a new system of environmental protection based on rights," stated Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.

]]> Utah is going to a 4-day workweek to save energy http://www.newscloud.com/read/Utah_is_going_to_a_4day_workweek_to_save_energy Shorter workweeks save energy.

]]> Beijing Turns Green Before the Olympics http://www.newscloud.com/read/Beijing_Turns_Green_Before_the_Olympics From shopping to driving to eating, Beijing residents are rearranging their lives to help save the environment just in time for the Olympics Games this August.

]]> Chinese Pollution = Increase in Cancer http://www.newscloud.com/read/Chinese_Pollution_Increase_in_Cancer In attempting to increase its economic development, the Chinese regime has managed to increase its mortality rates. China is one of the most polluted countries in the world, if not the most polluted.

Statistics furnished by the World Bank are astonishing: 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are located in China; 90% of urban groundwater in China is contaminated; it is estimated that circa 900,000 people die every year from air and water pollution.

Highly toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury contaminate cultivable terrain thus poisoning the food, while the number of Chinese citizens who die due to lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases is constantly increasing....


]]> HeraldTribune.com - News - News stories about Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties in Florida, http://www.newscloud.com/read/HeraldTribunecom_News_News_stories_about_Sarasota_Manatee_and_Charlotte_counties_in_Florida A courthouse in Manatee Florida was over-run with pest birds, so they decided to install the Bird Chase Super Sonic from Bird-B-Gone, Inc, a weatherproof sound deterrent that can cover between 1-5 acres.

]]> McCain energy bombshell: More oil + dirty coal. That’s Bush-li http://www.newscloud.com/read/McCain_energy_bombshell_More_oil_dirty_coal_Thats_Bushli From Climate Progress, John McCain actually criticizes Obama for failing to "support more traditional use of coal..."]]> Chews Wise: Supermarkets Fail Greenpeace Test on Fish http://www.newscloud.com/read/Chews_Wise_Supermarkets_Fail_Greenpeace_Test_on_Fish Via Samuel Fromartz:

Greenpeace rated supermarkets for the sustainability of the fish they sell.

All failed.

]]> Dems Slam Mccain on Off-shore Drilling http://www.newscloud.com/read/DEMS_SLAM_MCCAIN_ON_OFFSHORE_DRILLING New satellite photos show Amazon deforestation exploding http://www.newscloud.com/read/New_satellite_photos_show_Amazon_deforestation_exploding Brazil's DETER real-time monitoring system found that more than 430 square miles of forest, an area a bit smaller than the city of Los Angeles, vanished in the month of April, while about 2,300 square miles, larger than the state of Delaware, were destroyed between last August and April.

]]> Energy Probe - The Deniers: Our spotless sun http://www.newscloud.com/read/Energy_Probe_The_Deniers_Our_spotless_sun The battle over who has control of the thermostat in your house could become even greater.

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