This week:

• Frank Zechner, Executive Director of the Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association, speaks to host Jordan Poppenk about how the City of Ottawa’s sewer system came to spill into the Ottawa River for 15 consecutive days.
• Political correspondent Danny Leskiw speaks with Ontario Natural Resource Minister Donna Cansfield about the future of wind power in the province.

The headlines in brief:

• An ice sheet spanning seven square miles broke off from the Canadian section of the Arctic ice shelf;
• Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty drew praise for introducing a plan to permanently protect half of Ontario’s vast boreal forest region from mining and other resource development;
• Ecojustice and Earthroots released a report illustrating years of mismanagement in Ontario’s sensitive Oak Ridges Moraine watershed;
• Ottawa is facing environmental litigation for a 15-day sewage spill into the Ottawa River in 2006;
• 48 municipal and regional governments filed a letter of complaint over BC’s decision to deregulate 20,000 hectares of logging on Vancouver Island;
• Environment Canada blames nitrates from nearby farms for the deaths of five thousand fish in the Cardigan River last week;
• Nova Scotia’s fisheries minister Ron Chisholm has increased the province’s seal hunt quota in response to a proposed EU ban;
• UK-based Co-operative Financial Services warns that proposed tar sands developments could increase Canadian CO2 emissions by 15% by 2015.

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