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  • "Flood of Anger"

    A proposed dam on the Similkameen River close to the border between Washington and British Columbia raises thorny trans-border water issues.

    Toronto Globe & Mail, 06/01/2009
  • "CN Rail Pleads Guilty for Massive Oil Spills"

    "Canadian National Railway pleaded guilty on Monday to polluting Canada's wilderness in two train derailments, one of them resulting in the largest inland oil spill in Canada's history."

    AFP, 05/26/2009
  • "Wind Power Gets Urban Friendly"

    From a design award-winner to a model that uses the updraft on a roof,
    small residential wind turbines are getting smarter and sexier.

    Globe & Mail, 05/25/2009
  • "Food Inspectors Leave Some Problems With Bottled Water Unreported"

    "The Canadian Food Inspection Agency often finds problems with bottled water, but doesn't tell the public about them. Canada's federal food watchdog issued 29 recall notices for bottled water products between 2000 and early 2008, citing deficiencies such as contamination by bacteria, moulds, glass chips and trace amounts of arsenic. Of the recalls, affecting 49 different products, it issued a public warning in only seven cases, two of which came after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made public its recall orders.

    , 03/25/2009

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