TGM #142: Water in peril (June 19, 2009)
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- In the wake of a report from the Ontario Drinking Water Advisory Council advocating far more stringent requirements for tritium levels in drinking water, Gordon Edwards, President of the nuclear watchdog group Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, speaks with Jordan Poppenk about setting permissible levels of radiation.
- Alanna Mitchell, author and former science journalist for the Globe and Mail, speaks with Danny Leskiw about the state of the oceans about her book, Sea Sick. She describes issues contributing to the general decline of life in earth’s oceans. Most significant among these, she explains, is ocean acidification, a change in the very chemistry of earth’s water as a result of rising atmospheric CO2 concentration.
The Science and Politics of Radioactivity in Drinking Water
Alanna Mitchell: Sea Sick
Headlines:
- Boundary Water Treaty turns 100, Canada and the US to amend Water Quality Agreement
- Increased traffic in the Northwest Passage raises the political pressure on the Arctic
- Ottawa spends $1-billion on “green lifesaver” for the pulp and paper industry
- Ottawa inches forward on a national cap-and-trade system
- The ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to grow to become one of the largest ever documented
- A grocery store has opened in Europe which makes use of ‘kinetic road plates’ to provide power
- Wind may be dying down as a result of climate change
- More headlines…