This week:

  • We produce our first fully live-to-air episode.
  • Jordan Poppenk and Scott Hansen declare 2006 to be “The Year of Global Warming” in a review of the year’s top environmental stories.
  • Darryl McMahon, author of The Emperor’s New Hydrogen Economy, discusses the future of hydrogen as a fuel source in Canada.

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The headlines in brief:

  • The province had indicated it won’t necessarily buy its new nuclear reactors from Crown-owned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. or a global company;
  • Stelco is offering land it owns in Nanticoke, Ont., as the site of one of the province’s new nuclear power plants;
  • The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has recommended to the federal government that the proposal for a nuclear-waste dump near Lake Huron be reviewed by a full panel of experts;
  • 500,000 yuletide evergreens will be disposed of across the province in the two weeks following Christmas;
  • A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields and one of the last six remaining has broken free from Canada’s artic;
  • The Bush administration has proposed listing polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, which could have ramifications on US climate change policy;
  • Rockhopper penguins have suffered a dramatic and mysterious decline.

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