This week:

• As the BC 2009 provincial elections draw near, our panel of experts reviews the major green issues shaping the campaign and contemplates the fate of the province’s much maligned carbon tax. The panel features national news experts Chris Berube and Daryn Caister, green pundit Kevin Farmer and host Jordan Poppenk.
• Gwen Barlee, Policy Director of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, speaks with Jordan about Run-of-River Hydro, a massive hydroelectric power development project and the largest power privatization plan in the province’s history.

The headlines in brief:

• A major Ecojustice court victor will end the mining industry’s exemption from divulging pollution information;
• An independent reviewer has declared the BC carbon tax policy as the most effective climate change mitigation policy in Canada;
• The Green party of Saskatchewan has chosen a new leader, 27 year old Larissa Shasko.
• The federal government spent more than $15.7 million in the last five years on bottled water;
• The federal government has been accused of withholding evidence that may impact charges against members of a controversial environmental group;
• Six in 10 U.S residents live in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution;
• A new report indicates that if the world’s depleted fishing stocks are to recover, a third of the world’s oceans must be completely closed to fishing.

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-Image depicts proposed BC hydroelectric dam sites as red dots. Image credit: IPP Watch-