This week:

  • Danny Leskiw speaks with Ontario Environment Commissioner Gord Miller about a report on his annual audit, released Tuesday. Discussed are:
    • the need to reduce road salt use through efficient machinery;
    • combating urban sprawl;
    • exaggerated energy-use projections in Ontario;
    • governing development in the North.
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The headlines in brief:
  • Canada’s position at UN talks in Bali over a successor to the Kyoto Protocol is being internationally condemned as targeted at derailing the negotiations;
  • Ontario’s environment commissioner Gord Miller called on Ontario Liberals to reduce use of road salt by municipalities, cut back on urban sprawl and provide better governance development in the North;
  • Dishwashing detergents with more than 0.5 per cent phosphates have been banned in Quebec starting in 2010;
  • Another tar sands fire ignited in a Syncrude corker near Fort McMurray, Albera, and burned for 11 hours before being extinguished;
  • According to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, some corals may survive rising ocean temperatures;
  • Indian police broke up a major tiger poaching ring;
  • After massive protests, the Chinese city of Xiamen is soliciting public comments on a completed environmental assessment via the web.

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