This week:

• Science correspondent Sapna Sharma interviews Dr. Harold Harvey, Professor Emeritus and Director of the Bait Association of Ontario, about how a new aquatic virus in Lake Ontario is shutting down the Ontario bait business.
• Out-of-range correspondant Ryan Wiseman talks about green social bookmarking.
• Kevin Farmer and Jordan Poppenk discuss a set of large funding announcements for federal environment initiatives.

The headlines in brief:

• A 150,000-litre fuel spill was caused by a broken fuel line on Brevoort Island;
• Durham’s city council decided this week to drop the identification of five parcels of environmentally sensitive land for a future growth study;
• Oneida Nation of the Thames has started court action over the proposed sale and expansion of the Green Lane landfill site to the City of Toronto;
• Nova Scotia government plans to generate close to 20 per cent of the province’s electricity from renewable sources by 2013;
• Canada’s federal Conservatives have announced billions in plans for revived environmental spending;
• Stephen Harper indicated that Canada won’t follow the US in setting hard targets for reducing oil consumption, as it intends to become a world energy superpower;
• Ten executives rwwepresenting major US companies urge Bush to create a cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions;
• Bush’s State of the Union Address mentions climate change but shies away from serious commitments;
• The Canadian Navy will continue to train with sonar for two years, even though marine mammals may be negatively affected;
• An oil spill caused by last summer’s conflict in Lebanon has been successfully contained by a UN task force;
• Stinging Portuguese Man-O’-War threaten Australian beachgoers more and more as oceans warm;
• Nearly half of the world’s waterbirds are in decline.

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