This week:

• We build on last week’s topic of wildlife conservation with Linda Stephenson, Atlantic VP of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, who discusses strategies her group is using to protect key widlife habitat from development.
• Political correspondent Danny Leskiw speaks with NDP leader Jack Layton about his party’s environmental platform and position on the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI).

The headlines in brief:

• A number of dramatic fuel accidents have shaken the country this week, including a massive propane explosion in Toronto and two highway fuel spills;
• The Canadian Medical Association has predicted that the number of air pollution deaths in Canada between today and 2031 will roughly equal the population of Edmonton;
• The government’s nuclear energy provider AECL may be dismantled if it does not win two contracts for nuclear reactors in Ontario, according to government sources;
• Coordinators of the Cache Creek Regional Landfill say they will triple the landfill’s size to keep up with Vancouver’s growing garbage crisis;
• BC Transport announced this week it is planning to build its refuelling station for its fleet of transcontinental hydrogen buses on endangered forest wetlands in Whistler;
• Toronto broke its all-time summer rainfall record with over three weeks left in the season;
• African companies are taking an active stance against global warming as its emerging markets are overlooked in the rush toward sustainable development;
• In Great Britain, peach-potato aphids are appearing as much as four weeks ahead of the 42 year average as a possible consequence of global warming.

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