Dr John Parry
Institute of Education
University of Sussex
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BN1 9RG
Telephone: (01273) 877312
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> From: Alan Reid <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:10:55 +0000
> Subject: Re: McGill University Book on Environment and Economics
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Reply-To: Environmental Education Research <[log in to unmask]>
> Comments: To: David Uzzell <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
>
> David
>
> The list is an open list and allows members to post to it without the
> adminstrator's control. I would prefer to keep it that way. However,
> before I get another avalanche of messages about the posting of the
> newsletter to env-ed-research, please note that this particular message
> is being copied directly to Gary Gallon, and should be read by Mr Gallon
> as representing both a polite request from the env-ed-research listowner
> reminding him that the list and its members still do not wish to receive
> the Gallon newsletter via env-ed-research, with the additional note that
> should list members wish to receive it, they subscribe directly to the
> newsletter c/o [log in to unmask]
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> Yours, in good faith,
>
> Alan Reid
>
> David Uzzell wrote:
>
> > Not again
> >
> > I thought it had been decided that we would not receive the Gary
> > Gallon Letter through this mailing list. It was the view that if
> > people wanted this document they could subscribe directly.
> >
> > David Uzzell
> >
> > At 17:05 20/03/2001 , Gary Gallon wrote:
> >
> >> THE GALLON ENVIRONMENT LETTER
> >> 506 Victoria Ave., Montreal, Quebec H3Y
> >> 2R5
> >> Ph. (514) 369-0230, Fax (514)
> >> 369-3282
> >> Email [log in to unmask]
> >> Vol. 5, No. 7, February 12,
> >> 2001
> >>
> >> To be removed hit "reply" and type in "remove now".
> >>
> >> *************************************************************************
> >>
> >> CANADA CANADA CANADA CANADA
> >>
> >> *************************************************************************
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> NEW BOOK ON ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY,
> >> MCGILL UNIVERSITY
> >>
> >> The book is entitled, "Ethics, Economics and International
> >> Relations: Transparent Sovereignty in the Commonwealth of Life". It
> >> is written by Dr. Peter G. Brown, Director of the McGill School of
> >> Environmental Studies, McGill University, Montreal, published by
> >> Edinburgh University Press. Peter Brown tries to get us beyond
> >> traditional economics, even beyond incrementalism where we try to
> >> piecemeal traditional economics with green taxes and other economic
> >> instruments. Brown develops what he calls "Stewardship Economics",
> >> an economics that makes humans one part of the resource base and the
> >> web of life. It takes humans out of the centre where resources and
> >> all other life forms are made for the use and abuse of humans. Here
> >> is what Brown says: "Stewardship economics extends, and may hope to
> >> complete, the quest for a general theory by explicitly locating the
> >> human economy in the earth's biophysical systems. It requires
> >> therefore both an accurate description of the economy in those
> >> systems and a normative structure that will allow us to say how
> >> these systems should function. Stewardship economics recognizes the
> >> finitude of the earth and its systems." Brown warns that, "the most
> >> pervasive scientific error made by mainstream economics is that it
> >> carries forward, as an unexamined background assumption that humans
> >> are not significant actors in the earth's biophysical systems. In
> >> more economic texts there is no description of any kind of
> >> nature.....it is as if the rest of the physical world did not exist
> >> or that humans could not affect it."
> >>
> >> Brown reminds us that, "our concern is with the commonwealth of
> >> life: for its flourishing, including its own, and its restoration."
> >> He adds that, "the thrust of this book is the depiction of a
> >> contract between all persons to respect each other's basic rights,
> >> and to extend the contract to all life." To achieve a stewardship
> >> economy that operates within the commonwealth of life (e.g, the
> >> resource rich life-supporting, economy-supporting ecosystem), Brown
> >> states that society has fiduciary responsibilities that include
> >> operating an economy within a "Common Pool Resource" (CPR). The
> >> concept was first developed by Elinor Ostrom and reported in her
> >> book "Governing the Commons". Brown writes, "a common pool resource
> >> can be a fishery, a forest, the Internet, the air, the oceans, the
> >> ecological health of a stream, and so on. In all these cases, and
> >> many, many more resources units can be appropriated by individuals
> >> without regard to the health of the system," and states that,
> >> "Ostrom has identified eight characteristics of institutions that
> >> are successful in protecting common pool resources. Markets, private
> >> property, and government may all have roles to play in a successful
> >> system." For more information contact Dr. Peter G. Brown, Director,
> >> McGill School of Environment, 3534 University Ave., Montreal, Quebec
> >> H3A 2A7, ph. (514) 398-2827, email [log in to unmask] . Visit their
> >> website at http://www.mcgill.ca/mse/
> >>
> >> ******************************************************************
> >>
> >> GALLON TO GIVE TALK ON THE HISTORY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
> >> MOVEMENT IN CANADA, PIMLOTT LECTURE
> >>
> >> Gary Gallon, President of the Canadian Institute for Business and
> >> the Environment (CIBE), will give a talk on "The History and
> >> Economics of Environmentalism in Canada", at the University of
> >> Toronto Lecture Series. The lecture series is held annually by Innis
> >> College in honour of Dr. Douglas Pimlott, the famous Canadian
> >> scientist who specialized in demystifying wolves, their families and
> >> their habits. Co-hosted by Dr. Beth Savan, Director Environmental
> >> Studies at Innis College and Monte Hummel, head of the World
> >> Wildlife Fund Canada, the Pimlott Memorial Lecture will be held
> >> Thursday, February 15, 2001, 6:00 pm, at the Town Hall, Innis
> >> College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto, ph. (416)
> >> 978-3424, email [log in to unmask] .
> >>
> >> ******************************************************************
> >> CONCERN EXPRESSED IN EUROPE ABOUT CANADA'S
> >> ENVIRONMENTAL DECLINE
> >>
> >> Environment officials in the United States and Europe have been
> >> watching in disbelief as Canada, particularly its Provinces, fall
> >> behind on environmental protection and greenhouse gas emissions
> >> reduction. Where Canada was a leader in the 1970's and the 1980's,
> >> it has failed to keep up with world environmental progress in the
> >> 1990's. Much of this came from the massive budget cuts and senior
> >> science and engineering staff cuts in Environment Canada and the
> >> provinces in the mid-1990's. At least Environment Canada has been
> >> turned around with new cash and some staff infusions from the
> >> Government of Canada. But Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario continue to
> >> treat environment as an obstacle to economic development and have
> >> relegated environmental protection to the back of the Cabinet Bus.
> >> This environmental backslide in Canada has not gone unseen by the
> >> rest of the world. The Center for International Climate and
> >> Environmental Research (CICERO), based in Oslo, Norway, has just
> >> published an article entitled, "Canada on the Brink: From
> >> Frontrunner to Laggard?, and written by researchers, Jonas Vevatne
> >> and Santiago Olmos. They wrote that, "Canada was lambasted as
> >> "Fossil of the Week" at the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP 6)
> >> in The Hague by environmental activists and was accused of
> >> attempting to water down the Kyoto Protocol. At the same time, the
> >> election campaigns were underway in Canada where climate issues were
> >> hardly mentioned. What is happening to one of the most active
> >> environmental frontrunners of the 1980's when its Minister of
> >> Environment doesn't even show up to COP 6 ?"
> >>
> >> CICERO said that, "Canada was named Fossil of the Week for its
> >> efforts to include existing forests and agriculture in the category
> >> of carbon sinks (absorption of carbon dioxide n forests and land).
> >> Canada was criticized particularly strongly for its demand that
> >> export of nuclear energy technology should be covered by the Clean
> >> Development Mechanism (CDM), so that it could export nuclear power
> >> plants to developing countries as a greenhouse gas reduction
> >> measure.", adding that even, "David Runnalls believes that the
> >> criticism was well deserved." The article cites as one of the
> >> reasons for Canada's decline is the decline in environmental
> >> interest by the two large opposition parties. The Canadian Alliance,
> >> the official opposition, and the Block Quebecois are both more
> >> interested in expanding regional powers, not environmental powers.
> >> CICERO quoted David Runnalls, President of Canada's International
> >> Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) based in Winnipeg,
> >> saying that, "the main opposition party, the Canadian Alliance
> >> dedicated only one sentence to environmental protection in its
> >> 23-page program, and has not formulated any climate policy or
> >> position on the Kyoto Protocol. The Liberal strongly emphasized the
> >> possible economic benefits of climate measures but have nevertheless
> >> failed to make the environment an issue in the campaign." The report
> >> stated that, "the strong polarization of the election race has
> >> dampened the parties' willingness to enter into a debate on the
> >> environment, and there is little to indicate that there will be any
> >> change in the short run." For more information contact the Center
> >> for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO), Pb.
> >> 1129, Blindem, Sognsvelen 68, 0318 Oslo, Norway, ph. 47.22.85.87.50,
> >> email [log in to unmask] , or [log in to unmask] . To
> >> download the full paper go to
> >> http://www.cicero.uio.no/cicerone/00/6/Eng/cic6santiago.pdf . Also
> >> see the GCSI article on politics and GHG in Canada
> >> http://www.gcsi.ca/risingheat.html . And see the West Coast
> >> Environmental Law Centre's report card on GHG and Canada at
> >> http://www.wcel.org/wcelpub/2000/13244.pdf .
> >>
> >> **
> >> ********************************************************************
> >>
> >> SEMINAR ON MEETING CANADA'S COMMITMENTS TO
> >> KYOTO PROTOCOL, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
> >>
> >> The School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University's
> >> and the McGill School of Environment will host an evening panel on
> >> "Climate Change: Meeting Canada's Commitments" Wednesday, 14
> >> February 2001, from 6 to 8 pm at the Concordia University Faculty
> >> Club Lounge, 1455 de Maisonneuve, Hall Building Blvd., Room H767,
> >> Montreal, Quebec. The panel will be chaired by Desiree McGraw of the
> >> McGill School of Environment and will include: Jean Charest, leader
> >> of the Quebec Liberal Party and former Environment Minister
> >> (Canada); Ted Ferguson from Canada's Clean Development Mechanism and
> >> Joint Implementation Office; Elizabeth May, Executive Director of
> >> the Sierra Club of Canada; and, Frank Muller, Professor of
> >> Environmental Economics, Concordia University and Visiting
> >> Professor, McGill School of Environment . For more information,
> >> contact the Concordia University at ph. 514-848-2575.
> >>
> >> *****************************************************
> >> ***************
> >>
> >> VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TO HOST
> >> UNEP INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S CONFERENCE IN 2002
> >>
> >> Victoria, British Columbia, has been selected as the venue for the
> >> fourth UNEP International Children's Conference on the Environment
> >> which will take place from 22 to 24 May 2002. The Conference will be
> >> held at the University of Victoria and is expected to bring together
> >> 800 children (10 to 12 years old) from over 115 countries, providing
> >> them with an opportunity to learn about and voice their concerns on
> >> the state of the environment as well as to showcase environmental
> >> initiatives by schools. The Conference is also expected to produce a
> >> statement from children to the world leaders who will meet in the
> >> summer of 2002 in Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable
> >> Development. Among the issues the Conference will focus on are:
> >> resource conservation, climate change and water. "I am very pleased
> >> that Canada will host this important event", said David Anderson,
> >> Minister of the Environment for Canada and current President of
> >> UNEP's Governing Council. "There are natural links between a healthy
> >> environment and healthy children. The various experiences,
> >> observations and ideas of the children around the world really bring
> >> home to us their desire for concrete actions to address
> >> environmental issues in a tangible manner." For more information
> >> contact Theodore Oben, Programme Officer, Children Youth and Sport
> >> Programmes, UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya, tel: 254-2-623262, fax: 623692,
> >> e-mail: [log in to unmask]; or Tore J. Brevik, UNEP
> >> Spokesman/Director, Communications and Public Information, tel:
> >> 254-2-623292, fax: 623927, e-mail: [log in to unmask] See also
> >> www.unep.org/children_youth/ . For Canada, please contact: Anne L.
> >> Mathewson, Chair, ICC Canada 2002, Corporate & Environmental
> >> Communications Manager, Tetra Pak Canada Inc., Markham, Ontario,
> >> tel: 1-905-305-9777, e-mail [log in to unmask] . For
> >> Connecticut, please contact: Mr. Tim Love/Joanne Tawfilis,
> >> Coalition for Justice and Community Understanding, Ledyard,
> >> Connecticut, tel: 1-860-464-2999, fax: 1-860-464-2368, e-mail
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> **************************************************************
> >>
> >> MINING OPERATIONS IN CANADA RELEASED 2.3 MILLION
> >> POUNDS OF HEAVY METALS IN 1998
> >>
> >> The Canadian Environmental Defence Fund (CEDF) in Toronto, said
> >> mining smelters in Canada released more than 2.3 million pounds of
> >> heavy metals in 1998, including arsenic, mercury, lead and nickel
> >> compounds. These have all highly poisonous and harmful to people's
> >> health and the environment. The fund said the worst polluter was
> >> Inco Ltd., the western world's largest nickel miner, which released
> >> 1.1 million pounds of heavy metal into the environment from its
> >> facilities in Ontario and Manitoba. "Overall, Inco released almost
> >> two billion pounds of sulfur dioxide which causes acid rain," CEDF
> >> said. Their report listed Noranda Inc., Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting
> >> Co., a unit of Anglo American Plc, Falconbridge Ltd. and Cominco
> >> Ltd., as major polluters. Mausberg said the information for the
> >> report came from information provided by the mining groups to a
> >> consultant for Environment Canada. Ranked by facility, the fund's
> >> report said Inco's Copper Cliff operation in Sudbury, Ontario, was a
> >> major polluter, followed by Noranda's Horne smelter in Quebec, then
> >> Hudson Bay's Flin Flon smelter in Manitoba, Inco's Thompson
> >> operation in Manitoba, Falconbridge's Kidd Creek facility in Ontario
> >> and Cominco's Trail zinc operation in British Columbia. "We
> >> certainly have a strategy in place to spend considerable money to
> >> make considerably more progress in the Sudbury area and out in
> >> Thomson, to address both the sulfur dioxide and the metal
> >> emissions," Inco spokesman Jerry Rogers said. Noranda said it was
> >> trying to reduce toxins from Horne by more than 50 percent. The
> >> smelter processed 720,000 tonnes of copper concentrates in 1999. "We
> >> are currently working on a program, and have already spent C$60
> >> million, to reduce those emissions by another 50 percent within the
> >> next two, two and a half years," Noranda spokesman Denis Couture
> >> told Reuters. Story by Lesley Wroughton, Reuters News Service. See
> >> the Mining Association of Canada website at http://www.mining.ca/ .
> >> Visit the Canadian Environmental Defense Fund website at
> >> http://www.cedf.net/ .
> >>
> >> ********************************************************************
> >>
> >> AMERICANA ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE AND TRADE SHOW IN MONTREAL, MARCH
> >> 28 TO 30, 2001
> >>
> >> AMERICANA 2001 is a Pan-American Environmental Technology Trade Show
> >> and Conference that will be held March 28-29-30, 2001 in Montreal
> >> Convention Centre (Quebec) Canada. For its 4th edition, with the
> >> theme "Evolving solutions for a changing world", AMERICANA keeps
> >> growing in 2001 expecting 10 000 participants, 400 exhibitors for
> >> the Trade Show, 300 guest speakers in different tracks (Air, Climate
> >> Change, Water, Contaminated Sites, Solid Wastes, Environmental
> >> Management, etc.) and 600 business meetings that will be organized
> >> for the International Business Matchmaking Program. AMERICANA 2001
> >> is organized by RESEAU environnement, the Quebec's largest business
> >> association in the Environmental Industry. For more information
> >> contact Americana 2001, 911 Jean-Talon East, # 220, Montreal, Quebec
> >> H2R 1V5, Ph. (514) 270-7110, Fax (514) 270-7154. Email
> >> [log in to unmask] . Visit their website at
> >> http://www.americana.org .
> >>
> >> **
> >> *********************************************************************
> >>
> >> GORD MILLER, ONTARIO'S ENVIRONMENT COMMISSIONER TO SPEAK
> >> AT CEIA ONTARIO BUSINESS BREAKFAST
> >>
> >> Gordon Miller the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario will speak
> >> Thursday, February 15, 2001, 7:30 am at an environment business
> >> opportunities breakfast (EBOB) hosted by the Canadian Environment
> >> Industry Association, Ontario Chapter at the International Plaza
> >> Hotel, Ballroom C, 655 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ontario. A hot breakfast
> >> will be served. Expect to join up to 100 environment business
> >> representatives at the breakfast. Cost of the breakfast is $55. To
> >> register contact CEIA Ontario, 2175 Sheppard Ave., E., Suite 310,
> >> Toronto, Ontario M2J 1W8, ph. (416) 491-1670, fax (416) 491-1670
> >> email [log in to unmask] . Visit their website at http://www.ceia.on.ca
> >> .
> >>
> >> *
> >> **********************************************************************
> >>
> >> AWMA CONFERENCE ON IMPLEMENTING CANADA-WIDE STANDARDS
> >>
> >> The Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) will sponsor a the
> >> "Implementation of Canada-Wide Standards Conference" March 7 and 8,
> >> 2001, at the Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre. It is cosponsored by
> >> Environment Canada and chaired by Dr. Jane Pagel, Vice-President,
> >> Corporate and Government Affairs, Jacques Whitford Environment Ltd.
> >> The keynote speaker will be Barry Stemshorn, Assistant Deputy
> >> Minister, Environmental Protection Service, Environment Canada. It
> >> will deal with ozone and small diameter particulate, mercury and
> >> petroleum hydrocarbons in soil standards, and dioxins, furans and
> >> benzene. The Canada-Wide Standards are an attempt by the provinces
> >> and the Canadian Council of the Ministers of the Environment (CCME)
> >> to take over the standard-setting role of the federal government. So
> >> far the Canada-Wide Standards are late and have delayed what would
> >> have come out of the federal government under the Canadian
> >> Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). The Canada-Wide standards are
> >> weak and don't meet standards that are required in the United
> >> States, plus they are unenforceable at the national level since the
> >> provinces have been mandated to enforce each of the Canada-Wide
> >> Standards within their own jurisdiction. Quebec, Ontario and Alberta
> >> have so far stripped their environment ministries of resources and
> >> staff that they are not in a position to enforce new standards. In
> >> essence, the provinces would be operating with an unfunded mandate -
> >> - they are required to do it, but don't have the resources to do it.
> >> The cost of participation for non-members is $625.00. For more
> >> information contact AWMA, One Gateway Center, Third Floor,
> >> Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222, ph. 1-800-270-3444, or ph. (412)
> >> 232-3444, fax (412) 232-3450. Visit the website at
> >> http://www.awma.org .
> >>
> >> **
> >> **********************************************************************
> >>
> >> SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON GREEN TAXES IN
> >> VANCOUVER, B.C., APRIL 2001
> >>
> >> The Second Annual Global Conference on "Environmental Taxation
> >> Issues: Experience and Potential," will be hosted by the Pembina
> >> Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia from April 1st to 3rd,
> >> 2001. It is co-sponsored by Cleveland State University, the BC
> >> Institute of Technology, and the Government of British Columbia. The
> >> objective of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange
> >> of ideas, information and research findings among scholars,
> >> executives, tax professionals, non- governmental organizations and
> >> policy makers focussed on environmental taxation issues, experience
> >> and potential throughout the world. Participants will include
> >> professors of taxation, accounting, and finance from major
> >> universities worldwide, tax and accounting professionals from
> >> leading CPA and law firms, executives from industry, members of
> >> non-governmental organizations and officials from governmental
> >> bodies throughout the world. The registration cost is $250 + GST.
> >> Contact Aida Burgos, BCIT Venture Development Centre, 3700
> >> Willingdon Ave., Burnaby, B.C. V5G 3H2, ph. (604) 453-4018, fax
> >> (604) 436-0286, email [log in to unmask] . Download conference
> >> brochure, registration form and call for papers from the website
> >> http://www.piad.ab.ca/ , and click on "What's New".
> >>
> >> *****************************
> >> ***********************************************
> >>
> >> Letter to the Editor, Dear Gallon Environment Letter:
> >>
> >> The article on Birdwatching as a $25 billion dollar "industry" tells
> >> me how out of touch the urban environmental movement is in America.
> >> I too enjoy birdwatching. I have been a compiler for 25 years and
> >> have several feeders at my home, but to equate birdwatching with
> >> the steel industry or the chemical industry, strains the
> >> imagination. Explain to me exactly what birdwatching produces?
> >> Could we even exist without the steel industry and chemical
> >> industry. I am disappointed in your shortsighted logic. Without
> >> the agricultural industry the minerals industry and the other basic
> >> raw materials industries that make our country great and allow us
> >> the standard of living we enjoy... there wouldn't be any time for
> >> bird watching. We would be spending 90% of our time seeking shelter
> >> and finding food to survive. Let's put a little more thought into
> >> your articles. We can enjoy birdwatching and have both a viable
> >> steel industry and chemical industry without trashing them.
> >> Sincerely, Michael Noel, Farmer/Rancher, email
> >>
> >> *****************************************************************
> >> Dear Editor,
> >>
> >> Instead of just harping on the "What if we had less democracy" vein
> >> of thinking, how about the following, also from USA Today, on the
> >> topic of "What if we had more democracy"?? Thanks, by the way, for
> >> including the letters to the editor in this issue of your
> >> newsletter. And you do an incredible job of pulling together lots
> >> of useful environmental news, and I do appreciate that. (You don't
> >> need to add this email address to your mailing list -- Sincerely,
> >> Craig Harvey, email [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> *************************************************************
> >>
> >> WICKES STORE IN BANGOR, MAINE BLOCKADED FOR SELLING
> >> INTERFOR, B.C. WOOD PRODUCTS
> >>
> >> Members of the Student Environmental Action Coalition in Bangor,
> >> Maine, protested in front of the do-it-yourself store hardware store
> >> "WICKES" in Bangor, demanding that the company stop selling
> >> old-growth word products from International Forest Products
> >> (Interfor) out of British Columbia. Student perched atop three tall
> >> metal tripods, whiles others chained themselves to the bases,
> >> blocking entrances to the store. Eleven students from College of the
> >> Atlantic and the University of New Hampshire were arrested. "WICKES
> >> knows the history of Interfor Forest Products in the ancient
> >> temperate rainforest in British Columbia, Canada and yet the company
> >> still carries Interfor's products," said Mike Roselle, Forests
> >> Campaigner for Greenpeace, who supported the student action.
> >> "Today's protest is part of a national grass roots uprising across
> >> the United States. Concerned citizens are doing everything in their
> >> power to expose both Interfor's highly destructive practices and the
> >> stores that refuse to stop selling their products," said Roselle.
> >> The students maintain that forest products must come from
> >> well-managed forests that have been certified to Forest Stewardship
> >> Council (FSC) standards or better. Many retailers, including home
> >> furnishing giant IKEA, have already pledged to use only forest
> >> products that have been FSC- certified. Although many forestry
> >> companies operating in the Great Bear Rainforest are working with
> >> environmental organizations in British Columbia to protect highly
> >> contentious areas within the rainforest, Interfor walked away from
> >> negotiations and has resumed its logging plans, says Greenpeace.
> >> Since then, environmentalists have exposed the company's plans to
> >> log 18 pristine valleys and critically important areas of the Great
> >> Bear Rainforest in the next five years. Contact Rob Fish, Student
> >> Environmental Action Coalition, Bangor, Maine, email
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >>
> >> **************************************************************************
> >>
> >> MAPLE LEAF PACKING FACTORY POLLUTES MANITOBA RIVER
> >>
> >> A Maple Leaf Pork plant was built in Brandon, Manitoba, once it
> >> promised to help build and pay for the maintenance of a new Brandon
> >> municipal sewage treatment plant that the Maple Leak Pork plant
> >> could use to discharge its slaughterhouse waste. The u.v. treatment
> >> system broke down and a new computer system installed to run the
> >> waste water operations was found to be incompatible with the rest of
> >> the new sewage treatment plant operations. As a result, the Maple
> >> Leaf-assisted sewage plant began discharge large amounts of
> >> improperly treated pork and human waste into the Assiniboine River
> >> during a long period in the Summer of 2000. Downstream water users
> >> were not notified of the pollution. Their drinking water and
> >> recreation water were harmed by it, according to Bill Paton, a
> >> Brandon University biologist. He said that farmers who irrigate
> >> strawberries and lettuce with river water should have been told to
> >> take precautions. In June, the amount of fecal coliform discharged
> >> into the river from Maple Leaf waste exceeded the limit in the
> >> treatment plant's licence from Manitoba Conservation. By July, the
> >> mean reading was more than six times the licence limit. Fecal
> >> coliforms are bacteria found in the guts of warm- blooded animals.
> >> They are used as an indicator for other disease-causing organisms
> >> that are harder to detect. Swimming is not recommended when fecal
> >> coliform levels are above 200 per 100 millilitres of water. The mean
> >> reading for July 2000 at the end of the Maple Leaf pipe was 1,255,
> >> but that would have been diluted in the river. The strain of E.
> >> coli that killed seven people in Walkerton, Ont., last summer is
> >> rarely found in pigs, but Paton sees parallels to Walkerton in the
> >> lack of checks and balances when something goes wrong. The
> >> $12-million sewage treatment plant was built by the City of Brandon
> >> as an incentive for the new slaughterhouse. City staff run the
> >> treatment facility, although Maple Leaf pays the operating expenses.
> >> Source, "Downstream warning urged in wake of pollution surge", By
> >> Helen Fallding, Winnipeg Free Press, Mon, Jan 8, 2001.
> >>
> >> *******************************************************
> >> ***************
> >>
> >> NORTH AMERICAN FISHERIES ECONOMICS FORUM, TO BE HELD IN
> >> NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 2001
> >>
> >> The first North American Fisheries Economics Forum will be held on
> >> April 1 to 4, 2001 at the Pontchartrain Hotel in New Orleans,
> >> Louisiana. The goals of the Forum are to strengthen communication
> >> between North American fisheries economists in industry, government
> >> and academia, and to provide opportunities to discuss research
> >> results, research in process and future research needs and plans.
> >> The keynote theme for the Forum is "The State of North American
> >> Fisheries Economics." Sessions relating to this keynote theme will
> >> include discussions on the future of North American fisheries
> >> economics, fisheries economics data, teaching fisheries economics,
> >> and publishing in the area of fisheries economics. Other special
> >> sessions will be held on topics including seafood trade and the
> >> internet, economics of fishing cooperatives under the American
> >> Fisheries Act, bio-economic models and fishery management, measuring
> >> efficiency and capacity in fisheries, economic assessments of marine
> >> reserves, catfish economics, and economics and conflicts between
> >> commercial and sport fisheries. Additional sessions on other topics
> >> are under development. The Forum will serve as the inaugural meeting
> >> of the North American Association of Fisheries Economists. This
> >> Association will be affiliated with International Institute of
> >> Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), an international organization
> >> of fisheries economists which meets in even-numbered years in
> >> different countries around the world. The most recent IIFET meeting
> >> was held in Corvallis, Oregon in July 2000, and the next meeting
> >> will be in Brisbane, Australia in July 2002. North American
> >> Fisheries Economics Forums will be held in odd-numbered years in
> >> different coastal areas of North America. For additional
> >> information, contact Gunnar Knapp, Program Chair, University of
> >> Alaska Anchorage (telephone 907-786-7717; e-mail
> >> [log in to unmask]). The deadline for submitting abstracts is
> >> February 2, 2001. Additional information about the First North
> >> American Fisheries Economics Forum, including lists of sessions and
> >> participants and procedures for submitting abstracts, registering
> >> for the Forum and making hotel reservations, may be found at the
> >> website http://www.naafe.uaa.alaska.edu .
> >>
> >> **
> >> **********************************************************************
> >>
> >> U.S. EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES CONTINUE TO INCREASE:
> >> COAL, OIL AND NATURAL GAS LARGEST SOURCES
> >>
> >> Total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the six main greenhouse
> >> gases (weighted to reflect equivalent emissions of carbon dioxide
> >> (CO2)), in the United States rose from 6,689 to 6,748 million metric
> >> tons. These gases include CO2, methane, nitrous oxide,
> >> hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. The
> >> CO2 from fossil fuel combustion at power plants and factories is the
> >> largest source of all greenhouse gases, accounting for 80 percent of
> >> all emissions in 1999. Fossil fuel combustion was responsible for 88
> >> percent of total greenhouse emission growth from 1990 to 1999. The
> >> study also shows that from 1990 - 1999, GHG emissions from cars,
> >> trucks and buses rose 21 percent, while total highway miles traveled
> >> climbed 13 percent. A Federal Register notice announcing a 40-day
> >> public comment period on the report was published Jan. 9, 2001. To
> >> receive a hard copy of this document, fax a request to the Agency at
> >> 202-260-6405, or write to the following address: U.S. EPA, Office of
> >> Atmospheric Programs, Market Policy Branch (MC: 2175), 1200
> >> Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. For technical
> >> information, call Wiley Barbour of EPA's Office of Air and Radiation
> >> at ph. (202) 260-6972. The report is available at
> >> http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/publications/emissions.
> >>
> >> *
> >> *************************************************************************
> >>
> >> U.S. EPA REGION 10 ISSUES RFP ON PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP AND
> >> RECYCLING
> >>
> >> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 is soliciting
> >> proposals for projects that address product stewardship, recycling,
> >> source reduction, reuse, market development, or green purchasing.
> >> The amount of the contracts could range from US$10,000 to $20,000.
> >> Grants or cooperative agreements will be awarded though Solid Waste
> >> Assistance Funds (SWAF) under the authority of Section 8001 of the
> >> Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976. Goals EPA Region 10
> >> seeks to fund proposals that fit into one or more of the following
> >> categories: Promote education and outreach on source reduction,
> >> product stewardship, reuse, recycling, composting, and/or buying
> >> recycled products Identify and test strategies that lead to improved
> >> environmental performance by Region 10 business organizations.
> >> Provide technical assistance or spur innovative technology
> >> development to promote source reduction, product stewardship, reuse,
> >> recycling, composting, and/or buying recycled products. Stimulate
> >> market development for materials that are difficult to recycle, such
> >> as construction and demolition debris, electronics, tires, etc.
> >> Incorporate EPA initiatives (e.g., community-based environmental
> >> protection, environmental justice, extended product responsibility,
> >> sustainability, protecting children's health from environmental
> >> threats) with source reduction, product stewardship, reuse,
> >> recycling, composting, and/or recycled product procurement projects.
> >> EPA Region 10 includes the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon,
> >> Washington and the lands in Indian country belonging to federally
> >> recognized tribes in those states. Matching funds are not required
> >> under this solicitation. All matching funds or other contributions
> >> provided by the grantee are subject to audits and all federal
> >> regulations. Written proposals should be submitted on double-sided
> >> recycled paper with a minimum of 30% post-consumer content. The
> >> proposal process relies extensively on direct communication (in
> >> person or by phone, fax or electronic mail) with the EPA Region 10
> >> contact. For this solicitation please contact Domenic Calabro at ph.
> >> (206) 553-6640 or by e-mail at [log in to unmask] The deadline
> >> for application is February 15, 2001, when a two-page pre-proposals
> >> should be received by the EPA. Applicants are encouraged to contact
> >> an EPA Region 10 representative prior to submitting their
> >> pre-proposal. Contact Domenic Calabro at ph. 206-553- 6640 or email
> >> [log in to unmask] This solicitation and additional EPA Region
> >> 10 Solid Waste Program funding information are available on the
> >> Internet at the website
> >> http://www.epa.gov/r10earth/productstewardship.htm :
> >>
> >> **
> >> *********************************************************************
> >>
> >> GREENING INDUSTRY CONFERENCE ON GLOBALIZATION AND
> >> COMPETITIVENESS WAS HELD IN BANGKOK, JANUARY 2001
> >>
> >> The Greening of Industry Network (GIN) held its annual conference
> >> on "Sustainablity at the Millennium: Globalization, Competitiveness,
> >> and the Public Trust", January 21-24, 2001, in Bangkok, Thailand. It
> >> was the 9th International Conference of the Greening of Industry
> >> Network The Honorary Conference Chair was Dr. Supachai
> >> Panitchapakdi, Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Director-General
> >> Designate of the World Trade Organization. The co-chair was Jan
> >> Pronk, Minister of Environment of the Netherlands. The four-day
> >> conference featured more than 150 presentations in plenary sessions,
> >> workshops, exhibitions, posters, discussion and debate, delegates
> >> from business, government and research will explore that latest
> >> research, business strategies, policies and case studies on
> >> cross-cutting issues of industrial development, environment and
> >> society. They pursued the issue of transition "From Environment to
> >> Sustainability". The conference started with sessions on Fair
> >> Globalization Policy, Doctoral Research Workshops, and a meeting of
> >> the Environmental Management Accounting Network.
> >>
> >> This convening marks the first international GIN conference in Asia,
> >> and we will use the occasion to launch the Second Decade of the
> >> Greening of Industry Network. The conference program is posted at
> >> http://www.eric.chula.ac.th/GIN-Asia/. Conference sponsors include
> >> Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Ministry of Science, Technology
> >> and Environment, United States-Asia Environmental Partnership,
> >> Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the
> >> Environment, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Environment
> >> Programme, European Community, Regional Institute of Environment
> >> Technology - Singapore, Ford Motor Company, Kenan Institute Asia,
> >> International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change -
> >> Industrial Transformation, New Jersey Institute of Technology. See
> >> http://www.eric.chula.ac.th/GIN-Asia/sponsors.html .
> >>
> >>
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> >> Copyright (c) 2001
> >> Canadian Institute for Business and the
> >> Environment, Montreal & Toronto
> >> All rights reserved.
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> >>
> >>
> >
> > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+David
> > UzzellProfessor of Environmental PsychologyDepartment of
> > PsychologyUniversity of SurreyGuildford, GU2 7XH, UKTel: +44 1483
> > 259430Fax: +44 1483
> >
> 259512http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Psychology/msc-environmental.htmlhttp://www.bwk.tue.nl/iaps-+-+-+-+-
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