June 2004 Edition
Who are the real eco-warriors?
Mobile drinking
water treatment facilities
unquestionably saved
thousands of
lives in WWI.
But few know of the
remarkable
Canadian chemist
Lt. Colonel Naismith,
a real eco-warrior.
History, it is said, is written by
the victorious. While it was
the environmental scientists
and chemists that won most
of the major victories in the fight
against water-borne diseases, the news
media repeatedly, and erroneously, still
writes that 1970 was the ‘birth of the
environmental movement’.
Media chronology and public
awareness are out of whack by a century
and a half. With some notable
exceptions, I think environmental
reporting has concentrated on the
colourful protesters and imaginative
stunts, while the real environmentalists
were virtually ignored.
See Tom's full commentary
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$400 million committed for Nova Scotia tar ponds clean-up
Stephen Owen, Minister of
Public Works and Government
Services Canada, David
Anderson, Minister of the
Environment and John Hamm,
Premier of Nova Scotia, announced up
to $400 million in funding for the
clean-up of the Sydney Tar Ponds and
Coke Ovens. The province will provide
$120 million and the Government of
Canada will contribute up to $280 million. Minister Anderson lost the environmental Ministry in a July Cabinet reshuffle.
The minister and the premier signed
a memorandum of agreement in May
committing their governments to a
clean-up that will use proven, effective
technologies to safely destroy the
worst contaminants and treat the
remaining material before encapsulating
both sites with an engineered containment
system.
The sites will be restored and landscaped
in a manner consistent with
their natural surroundings and future
use. Upon completion of the clean-up,
the province will assume ownership of
the properties.
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