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    The Solution to Pollution is No Longer Dilution

  • Christianne Wilhelmson, spokesperson for B.C.’s Georgia Strait Alliance, speaks with Jordan Poppenk about her group’s campaign to install complete sewage treatment facilities in Victoria. Working under the mantra, “the solution to pollution is dilution”, the city has long sent raw sewage directly into the Pacific ocean. Christiana discusses the arguments for treating city sewage as well as the challenges to be overcome in combating outfall pollution.

    • War on Science

  • In the wake of an editorial in the international science journal Nature describing current Canadian federal policy as “war on science”, Dr. Andrew Weaver, speaks with host Jordan Poppenk about how the fight for message has damaged the field of environmental science – and indeed science more generally – culminating in the muzzling of scientists at Canada’s foremost environmental agency, Environment Canada, the disbanding of Canada’s science advisor to the Prime Minister and termination of climate research funding. Originally aired October 10, 2009.

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