This week:

• Correspondent Danny Leskiw speaks with Dr. Gordon Edwards, a top nuclear expert, about the by-products of nuclear power generation;
• Green Life reporter Peter Stock speaks with Chris Turner, author of The Geography of Hope: a tour of the world we need. The text focuses on good news environmental stories around the globe. It is available online and at good bookstores everywhere (first broadcast November 2, 2007).
• Host Jordan Poppenk and pundit Kevin Farmer discuss recent changes at Environment Canada.

The headlines in brief:

• Environment Canada has muzzled its scientists by ordering them to refer all media queries to Ottawa;
• Federal Environment Minister John Baird has come under scrutiny regarding possible interference with an Ottawa municipal election;
• A number of tar sands companies have joined forces to fund a large-scale test of a carbon capture technology that could help to limit Alberta’s greenhouse gas contributions;
• With $40.6 billion in profit, Exxon Mobil Corporation has again posted the highest annual profit of any company, anywhere, ever before.
• Scientists in Britain, Germany and the United States have produced a report that warns of “tipping points” that could bring about rapid, damaging climate shifts.
• Three Wall Street banks have said they will set environmental standards that factor in carbon-emissions when they lend money to power companies that plan on building coal-fired power plants.
• In his annual state of the nation address, Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbayev has urged his country to go green.
• Britain has announced that its greenhouse gas emissions dropped in 2006 by half a percent.

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