back – with a victory!
ForestEthics Advocacy’s Karen Tam Wu shares the exciting news that coalbed methane drilling has been banned from British Columbia’s Sacred Headwaters. Thanks to the local communities and 100,000 ForestEthics supporters who helped ‘Get the Shell out!’
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this is heartbreaking to me – have to share
Dear Everyone,
My name is Naomi. I am Canadian. I worked for Environment Canada, our federal environmental department, for several years before our current Conservative leadership (under Stephen Harper) began decimating environmentalism in Canada. I, along with thousands and thousands of federal science employees lost any hope of future work. Their attitude towards the environment is ‘avoid research that contradicts the economic growth, particularly of the oil sands’. They have openly and officially denigrated anyone that supports the environment and opposes big-money oil profit as ‘radicals’ (http://tinyurl.com/7wwf8dp).
Every day in Canada, new information about their vendetta on science and the environment becomes quietly public and keeps piling up. I have been privy to much first-hand information still because I retain friendships with my ex-colleagues (though my blood pressure hates me for it).
While I was working there, scientists were effectively muzzled from speaking to the media without prior confirmation…
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Breakfast With the Gods 