Echoes of Walkerton in Environment Canada cuts

Prof. Thomas Duck writes:

The cost of the Walkerton tragedy was estimated at the commission to be between $64.5 million and $155 million. It remains to be seen what the cuts to Environment Canada will ultimately cost us — both financially and in human terms.

Read the full piece in the Toronto Star to appreciate the damage the Harper government is doing to the public by their attack on environmental science.

Echoes of Walkerton in Environment Canada cuts | Toronto Star

Duck sets the Record Straight on Canadian Arctic Science

Disturbing words from Canada’s Enviroment Minister Peter Kent. This past week he wrote a letter to the Victoria Times-Colonist mis-representing several important facts about the Harper Government’s brutal, targeted cuts on Arctic science. Prof. T. Duck (Dalhousie University) replies to Kent’s misrepresentation of the facts in a letter to iPolitics.ca, concluding:

… point-by-point Kent’s claims about PEARL are factually incorrect. Many other claims in the Times-Colonist letter have been so profoundly discredited that it is no small wonder he had the gall to utter them. This past week, in response to criticism he had “misled Canadians”, Kent told an opposition MP that she should talk to “better informed scientists”. What we really need is a better-informed Minister.

I encourage you to read the rest of Prof. Duck’s letter on iPolitics.ca. 

Canadian Environmental Day of Protest

Anti-budget protest will see websites go dark - Politics - CBC News

If you’ve from not from Canada you may not be aware our Government is cutting multiple arms of environmental research off, including atmospheric ozone measurements.