This week:

• While TGM’s show correspondants get some much needed R&R, we feature a selection of interviews from the past eight months, including:
• Darryl McMahon, author of The Emperor’s New Hydrogen Economy, who discusses the future of hydrogen as a fuel source in Canada (originally broadcast on December 29, 2006).
• 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 (originally broadcast on Janurary 26, 2007).

The headlines in brief:

• A new study shows dropping water levels in Lakes Huron and Michigan is being caused by man-made erosion from dredging and other activities in the St. Clair River
• Hamilton is getting the $30-million Ontario share of funding for the cleanup of Randle Reef in Hamilton Harbour;
• B.C. government and The Land Conservancy of British Columbia have reached an agreement to acquire Gerald Island near Nanoose Bay for future designation as a provincial marine park;
• Environment Canada revealed that Eurocan, a pulp and paper mill in Kitimat, B.C., was responsible for an effluent pipeline break this summer that dumped approximately 1.9 million gallons of mill waste into an oxbow of the Kitimat River;
• Former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed has warned that Canada is facing a bitter constitutional clash over the environment and Alberta’s oil industry that will threaten national unity and eventually end up in the Supreme Court of Canada;
• Former Canadian mining executive Steve McIntyre found an error in the math used by A Calgary study shows that the Halifax area’s ecological footprint is higher than that of nearly every other Canadian city;
• NASA has determine historic temperatures that was slightly inflating recent record temperatures;
• Environment Minister Mark Parent has rejected a request to stop the spraying of the herbicide Vision in two Nova Scotia counties. In a letter to Pictou County.

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