This week:

• P. Douglas Petrie, an environmental lawyer with Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP, speaks with Law Correspondent Naomi Jehlicka to bring us insight into new federal legislation intended to create harsher penalties for environmental crime.
• Joanna Dafoe makes her first contribution as a correspondent with The Green Majority as she speaks with environmental lawyer, Dean and distinguished American environmentalist James Gustave Speth about his book, Bridge at the Edge of the World.

The headlines in brief:

• Ontario announced a plan to pay a fixed rate to all suppliers of ‘renewable energy’ using subsidies.
• Over 15 million hectares of longpole pine trees have been decimated by the mountain pine beetle infestation in British Colombia, leaving BC companies and government scrambling to deal with the dead trees.
• A report reveals that spending on nuclear power in Canada has more than tripled since the Conservative government came to power.
• Australia’s Northeast Coast has been polluted by a spill from a cargo ship holding fertilizers and oil.
• In recognition of National Tree-Planting Day, 3 million people planted three trees each in China yesterday.

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