Environment News

by Rady Ananda

Global Research, January 3, 2010

In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize.

All three varieties of GM corn, Mon 810, Mon 863 and NK 603, were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities. Made public by European authorities in 2005, Monsanto’s confidential raw data of its 2002 feeding trials on rats that these researchers analyzed is the same data, ironically, that was used to approve them in different parts of the world.

From the mainstream press we read, “As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. It will be a very cold winter of discontent for the warm-mongers. The climate show-and-tell in Copenhagen next month will be nothing more than a meaningless carbon-emitting jaunt, unable to decide just whom to blame or how to divvy up the profitable spoils of climate change hysteria. ^[1]

Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the leading Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee said, “Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked. Today I have been vindicated.”

The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) has essentially been rendered inactive, yet many of its key priorities such as energy integration were part of the agenda at the recent North American Leaders’ Summit held in Guadalajara, Mexico on Aug 9-10.  Environmental concerns are being used to further advance North American integration and the U.S., Canada and Mexico have committed to a more continental approach in combating climate change.

Bill Gates Patents a Device Aimed at Halting Hurricanes

The applications made public by the U.S. Patent Office last week describe floating devices that could reduce the strength of hurricanes by drawing warm water from the ocean’s surface and channeling it down to the depths through a long tube. A second tube would reverse the process and bring deep, cold water up to the surface.

Canada has fallen to last place in the latest G8 Climate Scorecard, after the United States moved up in the annual rankings based on recent climate initiatives announced by the Obama administration.

Reducing the cost of the most expensive component of any high-priced product seems the obvious way to increase its consumer demand.

Since 2000, the Colorado River - which provides water for seven US states in the region - has carried less water than at any time in recorded history.

And while the drought is worsening, the demand for water in this booming part of the country is increasing.

The states dependent on the Colorado River for their water are seeking solutions to their water shortage, with some suggesting that importing water from far-flung states - or even towing icebergs down from the Arctic - could solve the problems.

Lawns are buried in Ottawa at this time of year. But can the same be said of a potential NAFTA lawsuit over lawn pesticides?

A few months ago, Embassy revealed details of a legal threat made by Dow chemical company. The U.S. firm warned that a Quebec ban on the use of lawn-care pesticides could breach protections contained in the North American Free Trade Agreement.

A multi-million dollar lawsuit against the federal government appeared to be in the offing—with Dow prepared to accuse Canada of "unfair" and "expropriative" treatment of its long-standing investments in the pesticides market.

Environmental advocates pilloried Dow for having the temerity to demand financial compensation for future lost profits in the pesticides market.

Under NAFTA rules, Dow had to notify Canada of its intent to launch a claim under Chapter 11 of NAFTA, and then wait 90 days before moving forward with that lawsuit.

There is a youtube video, which can be viewed in the forum, which shows how small amounts of mercury affect the brain. There is footage from a study done at the University of Calgary , it details some of the sources of mercury in the body, and exactly what goes on at the cellular level. The article following the video gives more details on sources of mercury.

The NDP says it has obtained a copy of a government memo that suggests the Conservatives want to gut the federal role in environmental-impact assessments.

The leaked e-mail from a federal bureaucrat suggests the Tories could kill the assessment process for any project worth less than $10-million, or for any project where a provincial government is already performing that role.

Engagement with the local community over those plans led to a certain amount of difficulty, with one concern being the site's proximity to Lac Cardinal and the Grimshaw Gravels Aquifer.

Bruce Power spokesman John Peevers told World Nuclear News that there are "no dealbreakers" with the original site, but that the company would be "taking a look at an alternative to see if it is more appropriate and to see if it's one the community is more comfortable with." The other site, acquired by Bruce Power in November 2008, is about 30 kilometres north of Peace River.

 

More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims

Scientists Continue to Debunk “Consensus” in 2008

  
Over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernemnt

Toronto's Zenn Motors has laid out its plans for a freeway-legal car, and on paper it looks pretty good.

Europe's secret plan to boost GM crop production
Gordon Brown and other EU leaders in campaign to promote modified foods
By Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 26 October 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/europes-secret-plan-to-boost-gm-crop-production-973834.html

(GM corn growing in France, which has since suspended cultivation of modified crops)

Gordon Brown and other European leaders are secretly preparing an unprecedented campaign to spread GM crops and foods in Britain and throughout the continent, confidential documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal.

The documents