Water quality

Environment Minister Mark Parent announced plans to develop an expanded water resources strategy for the province on Friday. (Peter Parsons / Staff)

Nova Scotia will spend the next three years examining the quantity and quality of its water.
"Especially in this era of climate change, it is important to all of us — farmers, industry, business, governments and citizens — to be aware of the importance of well-managed water resources," Environment Minister Mark Parent said Friday at the MicMac Aquatic Club in Dartmouth.
"It affects us all."
He said the strategy, which will receive $200,000 this year and about $400,000 in 2008, will start this spring with public consultations.
"We need . . . to begin talking and learning about the best ways to best manage this most precious resource."
The province will also begin publicly reporting the quality of drinking water, extend watershed mapping to include coastal areas, expand water monitoring networks and release groundwater and surface water monitoring data.
Liberal environment critic Leo Glavine said earlier this week the government should start collecting royalties on bottled water extracted from Nova Scotia sources.
Mr. Parent said the province will look at licence fees and royalties by Year 2 of the strategy.
He said the three companies that bottle water in the province use about 1.7 million litres a day, about one per cent of the three billion litres extracted daily.
"How do you separate out one industry from other industrial users and where do you start charging?" the minister said.
The second year of the strategy will also include the launch of an education program.
In the final year, a draft of the strategy will be released and the public will get another chance to comment before it is submitted for cabinet approval.
The minister said his department and nine others — agriculture, health promotion and protection, natural resources, Service Nova Scotia and municipal relations, tourism, culture and heritage, economic development, fisheries, agriculture and energy — will be involved in the strategy.
He said it will build on the 2002 drinking water strategy.
Marilyn More, New Democrat MLA for Dartmouth South-Portland Valley, said the strategy announced Friday is too slow and its budget is too small.
"I’m disappointed," she said. "I think we are going to miss a lot of opportunities around this province."
Tamara Lorincz, executive director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network, said she hopes the strategy will include funding for community and environmental groups that are already working on protecting water resources.
"It’s going to require the commitment and the participation of all Nova Scotians," she said.
Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s deputy chief medical officer of health, said Nova Scotians only have to look at the deaths and illness caused by the tainted water tragedy in Walkerton, Ont., as a stark reminder of how devastating waterborne disease can be.
"Water is an abundant resource and we just assume that it’s safe, but as we place agriculture and industry and human use close to drinking water sources, you learn that you can’t take it for granted," he said.

http://www.herald.ns.ca/NovaScotia/567808.html

Fishermen worried about licenses

The owner of Inshore Fisheries Ltd. in West Pubnico, Claude d’Entremont offers input while Wood Harbour fisherman, Sandy Stoddard listens closely behind him March 6 at the NDP fisheries session in Shelburne. Mark Roberts Photo

THE COAST GUARD NovaNewsNow.com Shelburne Co. fishermen, as they are elsewhere in the province are worried their licenses will be worthless if the federal government’s proposed new Fisheries Act (Bill C-45) is passed.
Fishermen, and other stakeholders, spoke March 6 at a Shelburne information gathering session hosted by the provincial New Democratic Party. About a dozen showed up. Shelburne Co. MLA, Sterling Belliveau, who is the party’s fisheries critic, led the session. “They want to know it’s (license) a nest egg and they want to pass it on.” South Shore-St. Margarets MP Gerald Keddy said the wording for the license aspect of the Bill is basically unchanged from the present act; therefore, licenses will retain their value, he said. (See Keddy article and letter.) The owner of Inshore Fisheries Ltd. in West Pubnico, Claude d’Entremont agreed. Fishermen also stated at the NDP meeting the federal government should take as much time as necessary to directly consult fishermen and ensure the Act is written correctly. Woods Harbour fisherman, Sandy Stoddard said the Act has been in place for 139 years. He said another six months or even two or three years won’t matter if it means getting it right. Also attending was NDP leader Darrell Dexter, federal NDP candidate Gordon Earle and Pictou West MLA Charlie Parker. The party is holding meetings across the province for an upcoming discussion paper that will be used to make recommendations to both the federal and provincial government. Belliveau said another huge concern is the wording of Bill C-45 is “open for interpretation. People want to be reassured.” Dexter said Belliveau initiated the public process because he is concerned coastal communities, in general, are not thriving, and that a sustainable fishing industry that includes related manufacturing jobs could play an essential role in maintaining these communities. He said the NDP meetings are being held not just to discuss the Fisheries Act but also to ascertain, “ideas and ways to support the industry and make improvements when that is possible.” He also criticized the Act’s consultation process, which was either non-existent in his opinion or fishermen and fishermen’s groups didn’t know a new Act was coming during past discussions. Other concerns involved financing license and boat and gear transfers, especially from parent to son or daughter, and the resulting taxes that must be paid. One fisherman said he has to mortgage his house to help his son. He added most fishermen from the baby boomer generation are preparing to retire and many don’t have the ability to help their children. Belliveau said he has entered legislation through Bill 27 to deal with access to financing but doesn’t know if it will pass. The other choice, the fisherman said is to sell licenses to large corporations. This led to criticisms that some of these corporations often process fish elsewhere in the world, where labour is cheap, instead of benefiting communities near the harvest site. d’Entremont said with groundfish, all sizes of businesses are needed from the owner-operator to small and large processors. He said the lobster fishery is different. He added all sectors should cooperate. Conservation methods were debated, as was Canada’s refusal to sign onto an international agreement to stop bottom trawling. Other topics included the timing and cost of education programs, the make-up of a proposed tribunal that would hand out penalties for infractions, the growing seal population, and the increasing numbers of regulations, including those involved with stability regulations. Wilfred Smith, a Port LaTour fisherman and co-chair of LFA 33 added the average fisherman is more worried about surviving than politics. “Everything depends on the lobster fishing; that could go just as quickly as the groundfishery.”

http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-83592-Fishermen-worried-about-licenses.html

This article was taken from a newspaper "The Coast Guard" that is for local news in my home town and surrounding areas. Fishing is a huge industry there as it has been for hundreds of years due to living on the coast line. Shelburne actually has one of the largest natural harbours in the world.

Underwater Photography

The following site has some pretty beautiful images of underwater excursions that John Petrak has gone on. The images depict marine life and vegetation that live and grow within many bodies of water throughout the world.

http://www.oceanphotos.com/index.html

Flooded river basins in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Rising rivers in three rain-soaked Argentine provinces have forced some 38,000 people to flee their homes as police reported seven deaths from the flooding Saturday.
Civil defence officials said Santa Fe province in Argentina’s northeast remained the hardest-hit area, with about 30,000 of the evacuees in and around the provincial capital Santa Fe and the cities Rosario and Canada de Gomez.
Among newly reported victims Saturday, coast guard officials said a woman’s body was recovered from the rain-swollen Parana River near Rosario, a city of one million people, 280 kilometres northwest of the capital.
That brought to three the number dead after a house tumbled into the river Friday, sweeping the woman and two men to their deaths. The bodies of the two men were recovered Friday by coast guard boats in the swollen river.
“It’s so unusual, I’ve never seen so much rain,” said Eduardo Wagner, a civil defence official in Santa Fe as five days of rain lashed the region.
Thousands began evacuating recently from their homes in the provincial capital Santa Fe, 390 kilometres northwest of Buenos Aires.
Evacuees carrying laundry baskets with only a few possessions struggled through waist-deep waters. Some tried to load refrigerators and TV sets on trucks and escape to higher ground. Still others tried to cross flooded highways in small boats.
Residents cried as they recalled severe flooding in April 2005 that claimed 30 lives in Santa Fe city. That year floodwaters reached the rooftops of some low-lying homes.
On Saturday, authorities reported the latest victims included a 70-year-old farmer who was swept away by the Gualeguay River in Entre Rios province, when he tried to rescue some of his livestock from floodwaters.
That brought to seven the dead over two days, including a man killed Friday trying to save a dog from a stream and an elderly man with Alzheimer’s disease who was alone when he drowned in his flooded home, authorities said.
Jose Salim Jodor, mayor of the Entre Rios city Gualeguay, said about 8,000 people had to leave their water-filled homes in that low-lying province on Argentina’s eastern border with Uruguay.
Meanwhile, some 400 flood victims were reported in central Cordoba province on the border with Santa Fe province.
President Nestor Kirchner pledged federal assistance for the victims and residents of Buenos Aires have begun organizing charity drives of food and other emergency assistance for the hardest-hit areas.
Uruguayan authorities, meanwhile, reported some 380 people had to be evacuated from regions near the Argentine border because of flooding of small rivers and streams.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=5a02901e-677c-4e2e-bfa4-f48d7cd2ab1e&k=93081

This flooding is simply a preview of the future which is incredibly saddening as climate change is occurring so rapidly that floods like this one are occurring more often.

Highway extinction due to climate change

WASHINGTON — A key element of the second major report on climate change being released Friday in Belgium is a chart that maps out the effects of global warming with every degree of temperature rise, most of them bad.
There’s one bright spot: a minimal heat rise means more food production in northern regions of the world.
However, the number of species going extinct rises with the heat, as does the number of people who may starve, or face water shortages, or floods, projections in the draft report show.
Some scientists are calling this degree-by-degree projection a “highway to extinction.”
It’s likely to be the source of sharp closed-door debate, some scientists say, along with a multitude of other issues in the 20-chapter draft report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. While the wording in the draft is almost guaranteed to change at this week’s meeting in Brussels, several scientists said the focus won’t.
The final document will be the product of a United Nations network of 2,000 scientists as authors and reviewers, along with representatives of more than 120 governments as last-minute editors. It will be the second of a four-volume authoritative assessment of Earth’s climate released this year. The last such effort was in 2001.
University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver said the chart of results from various temperature levels is “a highway to extinction but on this highway there are many turnoffs.”
“This is showing you where the road is heading. The road is heading toward extinction.”
Weaver is one of the lead authors of the first report, issued in February.
While humanity will survive, hundreds of millions, maybe billions of people may not, the chart shows — if the worst scenarios happen.
The report said global warming has already degraded conditions for many species, coastal areas and poor people. With a more than 90-per-cent level of confidence, the scientists in the draft report said man-made global warming “over the last three decades has had a discernible influence on many physical and biological systems.”
But as the world’s average temperature warms from 1990 levels, the projections become more dire. Add one degree Celsius and between 400 million and 1.7 billion extra people can’t have enough water, some infectious diseases and allergenic pollens rise and some amphibians go extinct. But the world’s food supply, especially in northern areas, could increase. That’s the likely outcome around 2020, the draft said.
Add another one degree and as many as two billion people could be without water and about 20 per cent to 30 per cent of the world’s species near extinction. Also, more people start dying because of malnutrition, disease, heat waves, floods and droughts — all caused by global warming. That would happen around 2050, depending on the level of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels.
At the extreme end of the projections, a four- to five-degree average temperature increase, the chart predicts: “Up to one-fifth of the world population affected by increased flood events...1.1 to 3.2 billion people with increased water scarcity...major extinctions around the globe.”
Despite that dire outlook, several scientists involved in the process said they are optimistic such a drastic temperature rise won’t happen because people will reduce carbon-dioxide emissions that cause global warming.
“The worst stuff is not going to happen because we can’t be that stupid,” said Harvard University oceanographer James McCarthy, who was a top author of the 2001 version of the report.
“Not that I think the projections aren’t that good but because we can’t be that stupid.”

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=871ec75a-e59b-4b29-9e02-eb4b0b9001a2&k=73537

This article is very true, serious and interesting to think about all of the aspects of the world that global warming is effecting.

Industry leaders nervous about new clean air bill

OTTAWA - A newly drafted version of the minority Conservative government's clean air legislation has produced an unrealistic plan that would cost billions of dollars to the Canadian economy, industry leaders said Friday.
The changes, forced through a Commons committee by the three opposition parties, propose tough pollution-reduction targets in the legislation, Bill C-30, along with penalties or fines for industries that don't comply.
"It is unachievable, and nothing other than a tax on economic activity in Canada," said Pierre Alvarez, the president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. "The impact on every single industrial sector would be very, very significant. How much and how many? Clearly, we don't know at this point in time. But if this goes through, it will affect the investment decisions of whether companies choose to do activities that are energy intensive in Canada (versus) having it done somewhere else."
Auto-industry representatives also expressed doubts about changes in the legislation that would set new fuel-efficiency standards, which would be benchmarked against leading jurisdictions in the world, instead of on the North American average.
Mark Nantais, president of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association, said such changes would hurt the local industry, which has been integrated with the U.S. market since 1965. "That (revised bill) could end up having some perverse impacts, in terms of fleet turnover, and the ability of people to afford these vehicles," he said, noting the more efficient cars perform better in foreign markets with higher fuel prices.
Conservatives on the committee voted against the majority of the changes to the legislation.
As well, the government has not yet decided whether it will allow the bill to move through the Commons with new measures, which include Canada's short-term international commitments under the Kyoto protocol to cut the pollution that causes global warming by more than 35 per cent.
Environment Minister John Baird said the government would soon introduce its own set of regulations for industry, but he refused to say whether he would allow the revised legislation to turn into a matter of confidence that could force an election. "Listen, I'm not going to go there," he said Friday after question period.
But environmental groups said the government should accept the bill, while praising the work of the Liberals, the Bloc Quebecois and the New Democrats who rewrote the legislation in the past few weeks and renamed it the Clean Air and Climate Change Act.
"The committee has squeezed the hot air out of the Clean Air Act bill and has replaced it with a real bill - with the real deal," said Stephen Hazell, executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada. "We now have fixed caps on greenhouse gas emissions, rather than the fake caps or the emissions intensity targets that the (Conservative) government has proposed."
But Liberal environment critic David McGuinty said Baird seems to be more interested in "buffoonery" than he is in cleaning up the air and fighting climate change.
"Every answer I hear to every question put to him is a bobbing and weaving and huffing and puffing and trying to blow the house down," said McGuinty. "I have not heard a single substantive comment from this minister on C-30 since this process began."

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=01cc1a4c-573b-432b-b1dc-92b1a14e3df6&k=77405

Al Gore in Toronto for 'An Inconvenient Truth

TORONTO - The current superstar of environmentalism - former U.S. vice-president Al Gore - has added another Toronto visit to his schedule.
He will present his Oscar-winning documentary `An Inconvenient Truth' at the Green Living Show in Toronto from April 27 to 29. The Green Living Show, at Toronto's Exhibition Place, features imaginative approaches to helping the environment with more than 200 exhibitors.
Tickets for Gore's appearance, at 10:30 a.m. April 28, cost $95 and go on sale Saturday.
Gore's next visit to Canada will be March 22-23 in Toronto, where he will be the keynote speaker at the 2007 Top Employer Summit. The conference provides a forum for leading employers to meet with organizers of Canada's Top 100 Employers competition.
Gore visited Toronto and Montreal in late February to discuss his environmental documentary. His appearance at the University of Toronto sold out in just minutes.

http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=24d65222-fab7-467b-b94

Al Gore has been travelling around to promote yet again a popular topic on my blog, pertaining to Global Warming. I feel asthough Gore has been promoting this topic very well as such a recognized individual by the American and Canadian public.

New species - Octapus

This article is from a Beijing website that broadcasts news with a added link at the bottom.

178 new species of fish and hundreds more new species of plants and other animals have been discovered by marine scientists during the past year, bringing the total number of life-forms found in the world's oceans to about 230,000, according to an AP report.

Those in charge of the Census of Marine Life, now four years into a planned 10-year count, say the rate of discovery shows no sign of slowing, even in European and other waters heavily studied in the past.

Some 1,000 scientists in 70 countries are participating, up from 300 scientists in 53 countries just a year earlier. The part of the census dealing with microbes, the smallest organisms, is just starting.

Once that part is done, scientists believe they will find that the oceans extending across 70 percent of the earth's surface hold 20,000 species of fish and up to 1.98 million species of animals and plants, many of them small, basic life-forms like worms and jellyfish.

So far, scientists have described 15,482 marine fish species, up from 15,304 a year ago. The number of animals and plants is up to about 214,500, several hundred more than last year.

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Polar Bears

Thin Ice -Saattuq 7pm March 17, 2007 (This is when the entire show will be on) Polar bears, walrus, muskox and caribou are all part of a delicate ecosystem now threatened by climate change. Saattuq means thin ice in Inuktitut, and the Inuit are experiencing this first hand, forever changing their traditional way of life of hunting on the ice for food and clothing. The thinning of the ice is opening up new areas for resource exploitation and now the rest of the world wants a piece of Canada's Arctic; the planet's final frontier. Thin Ice takes us from the headlines and political speeches to the frontlines of Canada's Arctic - where global warming is not just a distant threat, its impact is now.

http://www.canada.com/globaltv/globalshows/globalcurrents/Thin_Ice/index2.html

There are numerous photos and videos about this event that is occurring way too quickly as we've heard many times, yet this is such a serious issue.

CBC.ca News - Canada

CBC.ca News - Canada

There are three great videos in dealing with three interesting cities (Sudbury, Halifax, and Toronto) in Canada going "Green" through recycling, planting trees and so on.

Deep ocean fish farms

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration wants to allow ocean farming for shellfish, salmon and saltwater species in federal waters for the first time, hoping to grab a greater share of the $70 billion aquaculture market.
A plan announced Monday by Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez would let companies operate fish farms three miles to 200 miles offshore, but without some of the rules on size, season and harvest methods that apply to other commercial fishermen.
Fish farms already operate on inland and coastal waters as far as three miles into the ocean, which fall under state jurisdiction.

Environmental concerns have arisen about wastewater generated by such operations. Gutierrez, however, said the administration’s proposal had safeguards and would permit states to ban fish farming up to 12 miles off their coast.
’We believe we can do it in a way that is environmentally sound, that makes sense for our economy. And given that we are importing so much farm-raised fish, we might as well do it ourselves,” Gutierrez told The Associated Press.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17581105/

Defective pumps used to protect New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS - The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President Bush’s promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from its own expert that the equipment would fail during a storm, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The 2006 hurricane season turned out to be mild, and the new pumps were never pressed into action. But the Corps and the politically connected manufacturer of the equipment are still struggling to get the 34 heavy-duty pumps working properly.
The pumps are now being pulled out and overhauled because of excessive vibration, Corps officials said. Other problems have included overheated engines, broken hoses and blown gaskets, according to the documents obtained by the AP. Col. Jeffrey Bedey, who is overseeing levee reconstruction, insisted the pumps would have worked last year and the city was never in danger. Bedey gave assurances that the pumps should be ready for the coming hurricane season, which begins June 1.
The Corps said it decided to press ahead with installation, and then fix the machinery while it was in place, on the theory that some pumping capacity was better than none. And it defended the manufacturer, which was under time pressure.
“Let me give you the scenario: You have four months to build something that nobody has ever built before, and if you don’t, the city floods and the Corps, which already has a black eye, could basically be dissolved. How many people would put up with a second flooding?” said Randy Persica, the Corps’ resident engineer for New Orleans’ three major drainage canals.
The 34 pumps — installed in the drainage canals that take water from this bowl-shaped, below-sea-level city and deposit it in Lake Pontchartrain — represented a new ring of protection that was added to New Orleans’ flood defenses after Katrina. The city also relies on miles of levees and hundreds of other pumps in various locations.
The drainage-canal pumps were custom-designed and built under a $26.6 million contract awarded after competitive bidding to Moving Water Industries Corp. of Deerfield Beach, Fla. It was founded in 1926 and supplies flood-control and irrigation pumps all over the world.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17597392/displaymode/1176/rstry/17597203/

Global Warming

Arctic ice break raises global warming fears 30/12/2006

Researchers have confirmed that an enormous ice shelf broke away from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic last year and they warn it could be another symptom of global warming.The 66 square kilometre ice island tore away from Ellesmere, a huge strip of land in the Canadian Arctic close to Greenland.The break occurred in August 2005 and was so violent that it caused tremors that were detected by Canadian seismographs 250 kilometres away. At the time no one was able to pinpoint what had happened.The Canadian Ice Service contacted geographer Luke Copland of the University of Ottawa, who reconstructed the chain of events by piecing together data from the seismic readings and satellite images provided by Canada and the United States."This loss is the biggest in 25 years but it continues the loss that occurred within the last century," Mr Copland said.He says 90 per cent of the ice cover has been lost since the area was discovered in 1906."What is important and interesting is that it is sudden, quite large even," he said."In the past, we looked to climate change [and] thought perhaps ice shelves would just melt apart by losing a little piece day by day, but it now seems that when you reach some kind of threshold, when you reach that level, the whole thing just breaks apart."Scientific director Louis Fortier of Canadian Artic research network ArcticNet says the massive break-off signals a rise in Arctic warming."This Ellesmere ice shelf was sheltering unique ecosystems on the planet; there are freshwater lakes which were forming above and under the ice shelf," he said."The break-up of the ice cover on Ellesmere Island has been going on for 12,000 years, but it seems to have accelerated in recent years which is another indicator, among many others, of warming of the entire Arctic cryosphere."Biologist Warwick Vincent of Laval University in Quebec visited the icy waters of the Arctic to view the new island and says he has seen nothing like it in the past decade."It really is incredible," he said."People talk of endangered animals, well, these are endangered landscape features and we are losing them," he said.

http://origin.abc.net.au/nature/news/NatureNews_1819606.htm

Nuclear Power in Australia

Dr Switkowski believes Labor will lift policy bans on expanding uranium mining and exports. (Getty Images)

Australians will accept nuclear power: Switkowski

The head of the Prime Minister's nuclear task force, Dr Ziggy Switkowski, has predicted that Australians will accept uranium enrichment and nuclear power generation as part of action to curb greenhouse emissions.
He has told a Sydney business lunch that he believes the Labor Party will take the first step by lifting policy bans on expanding uranium mining and exports.
"When the ALP have their national convention in April this year, the leadership have foreshadowed for some time that they will be revisiting the ALP objections to this with a view to reversing their position on this," he said.
"It may well be that this is the first aspect of the nuclear fuel cycle which sees bipartisan support for lifting restrictions on uranium mining in Australia."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1865904.htm

I figured that this website was really interesting and contradicting. There is global warming issues on the site for the Northern Arctic Ocean in Canada, yet Australia in the South accepting the use of Nuclear Power.

New marine life and plant species in Australia

Studies uncover new marine life, plant species
A three-year study by a team of scientists has discovered several new species of marine life off Western Australia's south coast.
Two volumes of the research, due to be launched in Perth today, provide extensive documentation on the underwater plants and animals found near Esperance.
Department of Fisheries researcher and co-editor Fred Wells says the information will be invaluable for future planning.
However, Dr Wells says there are still many new species to discover and more research needs to be done.
"One of the basic tools of modern science is, in fact, conserving bio-diversity and Western Australia is a hotspot of terrestrial biodiversity in the south-west," he said.
"We also have a world-class hotspot of coral reef biodiversity and in understanding what that biodiversity is, is the first step in conserving and looking after it.
Meanwhile, an environmental survey of the Pilbara, in the state's north-west, has uncovered seven new species of wattle, one of which will be named after a Karratha botanist.
Stephen Van Leeuwen has worked in the Pilbara for 20 years and did a lot of the groundwork for the three-year study which identified the new species.
The wattle to be named after him, acacia leeuweniana grows on granite outcrops in only two places in the Pilbara.
However, Dr Leeuwen says he never expected such an honour.
"We never expect to get something named after us, but it's a reward for the effort, I guess ... a great accolade, I guess, and privilege to have that happen, and [I'm] pretty chuffed," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1566992.htm