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		<title>New speculation Welsh Government may abolish national park authorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was speculation last night that the Welsh Government may be intending to abolish national park authorities. Planning consultant Evan Owen said sources within the Government had indicated that scrapping the authorities was under active consideration and that a document was likely to be published next year. Last night a spokesman for the Welsh Government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16203&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FRACTURED FUTURE &#8211; Scientific fact vs. public fears on water issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public in New Brunswick should not fear that their water supplies and their air quality will be compromised because of hydro-fracking. There may be other issues worthy of public debate on whether unconventional gas should be part of Canada’s future energy, including the extent to which alternative energy sources plausibly can be used instead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16201&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Marine Conservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past 10-plus years, the California planning process to designate marine protected areas (MPAs) has included the use of professional facilitators, stakeholder-based activities, social and physical scientists with expertise in diverse disciplines, consultants and other advisors, and resources agency personnel. The state process of planning marine reserves has cost tens of millions of dollars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16199&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Canada cover up deadly salmon virus? Report suggests yes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call it Salmongate. The deepening controversy over who knew what and when about a deadly virus that may or may not have been detected in West Coast salmon would be obscure fodder for biologists if there weren&#8217;t so much at stake &#8212; the health of the West&#8217;s dwindling stocks of wild salmon, for one. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16197&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York State Fracking Rules Won’t Protect Water, Opponents Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proposed rules on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in New York state can’t protect reservoirs that supply drinking water to 9 million people in New York City, residents and politicians said. “There is no possible regulation strong enough that you could come up with to prevent that one accident,” State Senator Tony Avella, who has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16195&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stakeholders meet to review progress on action plan to contain nutrients in the Lake Winnipeg Basin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists, policy-makers, researchers, business leaders, government representatives and other stakeholders met in Winnipeg Thursday to update progress on actions being taken to address the stressed condition of Lake Winnipeg and the related social and economic impacts. The International Institute for Sustainable Development hosted the meeting to inform stakeholders about progress made in the development of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16193&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone protects Gola Forest for the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the world’s richest countries once again play brinksmanship at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Durban, Sierra Leone has embraced the vital role tropical forests play in preventing climate change by conserving its most important forest, locking up an estimated 13.6 million tonnes of carbon and protecting one of West Africa’s most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16191&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ring of Fire cumulative effects being ignored: expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project-by-project approach will not address ‘big picture’ issues in the region Academic experts and environmentalists warn that ongoing environmental studies of two proposed Ring of Fire mines will not address the environmental and social effects on the region. Professor Robert Gibson, an environmental assessment expert at the University of Waterloo, said that looking at a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16189&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tsilhqot’in continue court struggle against mining firm Taseko</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tsilhqot’in in British Columbia are back in court trying to stop Taseko Mines from reviving what was supposed to be a dead issue. But, the so-called “New Prosperity” mine is back on the table. This has the Tsilhqot’in warning the company and the provincial government that they are risking a clash. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16187&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental History as Public History &#8211; A Podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental historians have recently been thinking about future directions for their sub-discipline. Last year, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society co-sponsored a workshop held in Washington, D.C. to explore such future directions and published some of the findings here [PDF]. Canadian environmental historians gathered in Burlington, Ontario last spring to ponder similar matters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hdnrm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8161751&amp;post=16185&amp;subd=hdnrm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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