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Monday, 8 March 2010
First Nations people pack courtroom

More than 50 First Nations people, many of them elders, are packing a downtown federal courtroom this morning, hoping to persuade a judge to make public more than 250 documents that could prove Ottawa culpable for the hydro-dam flooding that devastated three northern reserves.

The elders, from Grand Rapids, Chemawawin and Opaskwayak, will argue that Ottawa doesn't have the right to keep the documents confidential under provisions of lawyer-client priviledge.

Monday, 8 March 2010
Environment Canada Recognizes Local Bird Enthusiast

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA--(Marketwire - March 1, 2010) - Environment Canada recognized Manitoba resident Peter Taylor for his long-term contributions over the years as a volunteer for the Breeding Bird Survey (BBS).

Monday, 8 March 2010
MINISTER WELCOMES U.S. FEDERAL COURT RULING IN MANITOBA'S FAVOUR ON NORTHWEST AREA WATER SUPPLY PROJECT

The U.S. District Court has again ruled in favour of Manitoba in its case against the Northwest Area Water Supply (NAWS) project, Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick announced today.
 
Judge Rosemary Collyer, in her decision issued Friday, March 5, ordered the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to take a "hard look" at the consequences of biota transfer into the Hudson Bay drainage basin and refused to lift her injunction on completion of the project.
 

Thursday, 4 March 2010
Tiny bats give hope to proposal for park

BACKERS of a proposed provincial park at Fisher Bay think little brown bats could be the big hook that gets the province to designate the area as Manitoba's newest wilderness getaway.

Fisher River Cree Nation Chief David Crate and a local bat expert said the area near Lake Winnipeg is home to huge colonies of little brown bats that hibernate in remote limestone caves and spend the summer gobbling up moths, beetles, and other insects by the kilo.

Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Spare the caribou

About a month ago I covered a newser at Fort Whyte Centre featuring the University of Manitoba’s David Barber and his work in Canada’s north documenting global warming. Here’s the story.

Since then I’ve ended up on a couple of email lists decrying the work of Barber and other scientists who fear the impact of climate change is a lot more rapid than first thought.

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