Year: 2008

Plans for Massive Water Diversions Make Alberta Province to Watch as Canadian Water Resources Diminish

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 22, 2008
8:58 AM

 CONTACT: Ecojustice
Randy Christensen, Ecojustice (formerly Sierra Legal): (604)328-1633, (604) 685-5618 ext. 234
Danielle Droitsch, Bow Riverkeeper: (403) 678-7964
 
 
Plans for Massive Water Diversions Make Alberta Province to Watch as Canadian Water Resources Diminish – Earth Day Report
 
CALGARY – April 22 – Proposals to move massive volumes of water between river basins in Alberta and to allow its Irrigation Districts to sell water for non-agricultural uses indicate the province may soon be critically short of water, and should serve as a warning to the rest of the country, according to an authoritative report published on Earth Day, April 22.
“Despite what people may think, Canada has just seven per cent of the world’s renewable water supply, and in provinces like Alberta growing water scarcity is testing provincial administrations like never before,” said Randy Christensen, co-author of the report, and a lawyer with the environmental law firm Ecojustice (formerly Sierra Legal Defence Fund).

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Reducing Deforestation Is Key to Addressing Climate Change, WWF Official Tells Congress

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 22, 2008
12:00 PM

 CONTACT: World Wildlife Fund
Joe Pouliot
joe.pouliot@wwfus.org
202-778-9730
 
 
Reducing Deforestation Is Key to Addressing Climate Change, WWF Official Tells Congress
 
WASHINGTON, DC – April 22 – National and international plans to combat climate change must address the root causes of deforestation, which is responsible for nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) official said in testimony before the U.S. Senate today.
David Hayes, a senior fellow at WWF and former Deputy Secretary of the Interior in the Clinton Administration, testified at a hearing on “International Deforestation and Climate Change,” convened by the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and International Environmental Protection.

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Asheville Rising Tide confronts Bank of America shareholders

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April 23 Charlotte, NC Today activists with Asheville Rising Tide, Rainforest Action Network, and Croatan Earth First! hit the streets of Charlotte, NC to protest Bank of America’s annual shareholders meeting. Bank of America has seen an escalating level of protest in the past year for its funding of the coal industry. Bank of America has provided billions of dollars in loans to companies including Massey Energy, Arch Coal, and Alpha Natural Resources which are responsible for the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining in southern Appalachia. In addition Bank of America is funding a number of new coal plants including Duke Energy’s Cliffside power plant in Western North Carolina. Continue reading