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Change for Children Association and
Parkland Institute are cosponsoring:
An Earth Out of Water
A conference to launch the Second United Nations Decade of Water
Local and Global Perspectives on the Water Crisis
March 18 and 19, 2005
Main Floor ETLC, University of Alberta
Registration is $25 or $15 (without lunch)
Download the registration form at www.changeforchildren.org or www.ualberta.ca/parkland
Conference Program and speakers below.
The state of water in Alberta remains a critical and contested key issue and this symposium is a challenge to all Albertans to respond to and understand the dirty business of clean water in Alberta. The health and well being of all Albertans depends on the health of our water. Water as a public good is increasingly coming into conflict with the goals and decisions being made by government, and industry.
Speakers will address various themes related to water from the legal battles being waged in the province to the depth of privatization and what that means to our social and economic well being.
For more information contact Change for Children at (780)448-1505 , or Parkland Institute at (780) 492-8558. Conference posters can be printed off of the Change for Children website. Read more »
The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) has posted the final draft of the "Technical Report on the Management of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) in Waste" to its website for review and comment. The deadline for comments is April 18, 2005.
To view the report and for further details on how to provide comments, please visit:
http://www.eub.gov.ab.ca/BBS/requirements/gbs/bulletin-2005-07.htm Read more »
The March 11 issue of the Canadian Environmental Network's Weekly e-Bulletin is now available at the CEN website.
Contents
- Call For Delegates
- Reference Group On Metal Mining Effluent Regulations
- Consultation Meeting on proposed regulation on VOCs in Architectural and Industrial Maintenance (AIM)
Coatings
- Fifth Session Of United Nations Forum On Forests (UNFF5)
Read more »
Alberta Wilderness Association
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Edmonton Chapter
News Release: March 10, 2005
Alberta conservation groups have received
information from Canadian Forest Products
(Canfor) that they will defer logging activities
in the Little Smoky caribou herd range located
north west of Hinton. Alberta Wildernesses
Association (AWA) and The Canadian Parks
and Wilderness Society- Edmonton Chapter
(CPAWS) are very encouraged by this decision. Read more »
Join Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society
in the excitement of our 3rd Annual outdoor event!
Sunday, May 15th, 2005
Fish Creek Provincial Park, Glennfield Area, Calgary
- Bring family and friends to enjoy the 5km or 10km route through the beautiful Fish Creek Provincial Park.
- Collect pledges to earn exciting incentive prizes.
- Participate in our education stations and learn more about what you can do to help our wilderness in Southern Alberta.
Early Bird Registration until April 15th!!! Read more »
The March issue of Activist Agenda is now available for download
Download file (pdf, 96 KB). Read more »
Presented by: ECOS and Biofreedom
Andrew Rushmere, Alberta Youth Advisory Committee member of the National Farmers Union.
Lorelei Hanson, assistant professor of environmental studies and human geography at
Athabasca University.
Lucero Mariani, Biofreedom member.
Thursday, March 10, 12 pm, University OF Alberta, in South Education Building, room
165 (For a map: http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/) Read more »
Alberta Wilderness Association
News Release: March 3, 2005
One of the world's most spectacular wetlands will be destroyed
if PetroCanada and UTS Energy Corp. go ahead with their plans
for oilsands development in the Fort Hills Area. AWA strongly
believes that the McClelland Lake Wetland Complex (MLWC)
is a priceless part of Canada's natural heritage and must be
protected.
"The proposed destruction of this internationally significant site
is totally unacceptable," says Dr. Richard Thomas, AWA's
representative for the area. Read more »
The March 3 issue of the Canadian Environmental Network's Weekly e-Bulletin is now available at the CEN website.
Contents
- Call For Delegates
- Reference Group On Metal Mining Effluent Regulations
- Consultation Meeting on proposed regulation on VOCs in Architectural and Industrial Maintenance (AIM) Coatings
- Fifth Session Of United Nations Forum On Forests (UNFF5)
Read more »
Alberta Wilderness Association
News Release: February 28, 2005
They come with original names like "The Bearly There Painters"
and "Three Crazy Painters." They come with a sizzling pallet
of colours and designs inspired by the wild landscapes of Alberta.
Each year Albertans come to the stairwells of the Calgary Tower
keen to express what Alberta's wilderness and wildlife mean to
them through the medium of painting. This year marks the third
year of Alberta Wilderness Association's Mural Competition,
the forerunner to the Climb for Wilderness fundraiser held in April. Read more »
