This week:

• Conservation specialist Nigel Douglas speaks with host Jordan Poppenk about a planned highway expansion in Banff National Park and the competing priorities that are bringing wildlife preservation and economic development into conflict.
• Following up on last week’s episode about problems with municipal sewer overflow into rivers waterways, Riversides spokesperson JP Warren speaks with Jordan about home-made solutions for mitigating storm runoff.

The headlines in brief:

• Ontario has officially joined the Western Climate Initiative;
• Nova Scotia announced new green plan to cut emissions by 10% from 1990 levels. The plan will not include a carbon tax;
• Beaches on Halifax Harbour are re-opening clean after more than three decades of sewage contamination;
• City of Toronto to pay citizens $20 million in grants for projects reducing carbon footprint by 2012;
• Liberal leader Dion suggests that we will go to the polls in the fall, and that his environment plan will be the central issue;
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised $100 million to expand the trans-Canada highway through Banff National Park.

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