This week:

• We feature a lecture by John Bacher, author of PetroTyranny and researcher of the Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society, about the fossil fuel industry, public transportation, and energy efficiency.
• Jordan Poppenk speaks with Billy Parish, Coordinator of the Energy Action Coalition, a group which has united students on 584 campuses across North America.
• Kevin Farmer and Jordan Poppenk discuss the coming IPCC report, Climate Action Week, and the dismissal of Johanne Gélinas as Commissioner of the Environment in the Auditor General’s office.

The headlines in brief:

• Canada’s environment ombudsman, Johanne Gélinas, was fired on Tuesday amid reports she had irritated the Auditor General by demanding action on climate change;
• The federal and Nova Scotia governments have put forth a plan to bury the Sydney tar ponds;
• The caribou population in Canada’s Northwest Territories has fallen by between 40 and 86 percent over the last 10 years;
• 93 per cent of Canadians polled said they were willing to make some kind of sacrifice to solve global warming;
• Two NAFTA international investigations into Canada’s enforcement of its environmental laws have not been made public because, according to Sierra Legal, they would be embarrassing for the Canadian government;
• Natural Resources Canada has ordered a group of audits after its bureaucrats botched a $32-million climate-change program for the trucking industry;
• Federal liberals dug up a letter written by PM Stephen Harper while in the Canadian Alliance Party, in which Harper calls for support to defeat the Kyoto accord and expresses strong skepticism about global warming science.
• US Democrats’ first investigative hearing since they took control of Congress heard overwhelming evidence that the Bush administration has been censoring government scientists’ work on climate change;
• The State of Queensland has stated that they now have no choice but to begin drinking recycled sewage water due to severe drought in Australia;
• People around the world turned their lights off for five minutes in a symbolic gesture aimed at raising awareness about climate change.

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