We have been following the situation with the Colorado River for years. It is the water source for 30 million people; 30% of the American agricultural output (food, fruits and vegetables that Canadians also import) is from fields irrigated by the River. The Americans will be looking to take water from Canada if (when) the [more]
PAUL EHRLICH is controversial. He wrote The Population Bomb in 1968. Some of his dire predictions have not come to pass. Others argue that it is because of his warnings that the global community made adjustments and delayed the day of reckoning. Ehrlich (below) is joined with other scientists. “More than 3,000 experts concluded humanity [more]
Aug 022012
Important video / film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LSUyrF3p-s Allison writes on Facebook: pay attention, Canada… this is a sovereignty issue, too. the US has, the US wants & the US has agreed that water ‘is a human right’… which is USian for ‘you’re squatting on what is ours, on our continent’. This shocking investigation into the world’s water [more]
Please contact me if you are interested in attending. I am going, most likely to the Calgary or Medicine Hat meeting. In case people do not understand the significance/seriousness, please find an appended list of postings that put water in Canada into context. There is a looming spectre of environmental refugees from the southwestern U.S.A., [more]
YEEEAy! Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and Andrew Nikiforuk – – thank-you, thank-you! (Update, June 18, 2011 At the bottom I added the CBC Report on this Wikileaks story (WikiLeaks reveal Alta. power export plans, NDP says). BACKGROUND, PUBLICLY-FUNDED HIGH-POWER TRANSMISSION LINES TO THE U.S. BORDER: Note: - The article below by Andrew Nikiforuk uncovers the Alberta connection. It is [more]
2010-10-26 Letter: Ban nuclear dump, new Bruce Power web site, Hanley on unconventional fossil fuels
Oct 262010
There is good information in the following. It is from a community-based group of people who share information, organize to prevent bad things from happening, and do solid work on finding a new path forward, for us to follow. An important contribution is to expose manipulative language (propaganda). Find ways to re-state it, so the [more]
(Note to myself: find the email that is referred to. Definition of corporatocracy.) Item #1 below: a very good interview that speaks beyond what is wrong (and how to make it right) in the U.S. systems of governance and economics (Wall Street). AND THEN (item #2) an email: I thought I should tell Bill Moyers, [more]
Jun 172009
Why do we need the “largest on the planet” movement of electricity and oil into the U.S.? And just how sustainable is that? (Brad Wall’s (Premier of Saskatchewan’s) Canada-U.S. Western Energy Corridor as reported in the Star Phoenix and Calgary Herald, June 15th, 2009) CONTENTS (-2) CONDITIONING FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL IN SASKATCHEWAN (-1) MEETING [more]
Thanks to Herman who writes: Today’s Star Phoenix page D8, nicely buried on the back of the Classifieds section. – – – – – – – - I guess they can at least say they published it! Note, keep in mind when reading: this is cross-border energy export, Canada to U.S. The American Southwest is [more]
Continuation … From CONTENTS: 6. PROTEST. LOCKHEED MARTIN CONTRIBUTION TO DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY. THROUGH THE TERMS OF a CONTRACT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA, LOCKHEED MARTIN IS REQUIRED TO INVEST IN CANADA. The American military-industrial complex seeps across Canada. We soon have an economy that is dependent upon going to war, as is the American economy. [more]
