TGM #140: Great Lakes on film (June 5, 2009)
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This week:
- Documentary filmmaker Kevin MacMahon discusses his new film WaterLife with host Jordan Poppenk. The film explores the Great Lakes ecosystem, as well as current issues affecting the lakes, using creative cinematography and perspective-taking and premiers this week.
- Dr. Lawrence Packer, a Professor of Biology at York University and an expert on Canadian bees, speaks with Jordan about bee myths, the good things bees do for an ecosystem and the collapse in bee colonies (originally aired May 23, 2008).
The headlines:
- 20,000 litres of diesel fuel spilled into the Ottawa River in a CP train derailment.
- Environment Minister Jim Prentice will defend against charges of stonewalling protections for the sage-grouse.
- Secret documents compromised by Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt reveal large cost overruns at the Chalk River nuclear facility.
- Nova Scotia has designated Hetford and Ciboux Islands as a provincial wildlife management area.
- U.N. climate talks underway in Bonn
- Global green energy investment tops fossil fuels: UN Report
- More headlines…