This week:

• Pat Roy Mooney, Director of the food issues think-tank ETC Group, speaks with host Jordan Poppenk about the dynamics between world food production, food technology, and fuel.
• Correspondent Danny Leskiw talks to Rod DeBoice, the Provincial Bark Beetle Coordinator for British Columbia, about the current state of Western Canada’s mountain pine beetle epidemic.

The headlines in brief:

• A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians – even in Alberta – support the idea of a carbon tax;
• Liberal leader Stéphane Dion has announced his party’s support for the carbon tax;
• Canada is under investigation for Kyoto violations, and could be barred from future carbon trading;
• Hydro-Québec has accepted bids to build 2,000 megawatts of wind generators;
• Critics of fish farming in BC will ask the provincial courts to prevent the provincial government from renewing fish farm leases;
• Alberta premier Ed Stelmach refused to launch an independent investigation into Alberta duck deaths;
• The federal government is fighting a US ban on oil from the Albertan tar sands;
• The federal government has extended a regulatory exemption that will allow the use of leaded gasoline in race cars;
• Canada’s interim environment commissioner Ron Thompson has completed his term and has been replaced by Scott Vaughan;

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