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 Fri Feb 3
7:30 - 10 pm
West End Cultural Centre
Sat Feb 4
Noon - 5 pm
U of Winnipeg - Lockhart Hall
On Friday, join us as CCC hosts a screening of On the Line. On Saturday, make your selections from an impressive list of quality, provocative environmental documentaries.
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 Tue Feb 28
10 am - 3 pm
Bifrost CC
Arborg, MB
Interact with speakers and panellists addressing the topic of "Agriculture and water in a changing climate: Solutions for Manitoba's Interlake area". Patterns of flooding and drought could accelerate in the years ahead. What will be the challenges? What programs are in place to help farmers adapt? FREE registration. Phone: 204-943-0381 or e-mail Josh@mbeconetwork.org
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There's lots of cheap energy under our feet
Feb 2, 2012 - Winnipeg Free Press
OPINION -
Both Manitoba Hydro and the PUB are missing an obvious alternative. Why not consider using less electricity in the first place?
We can reduce our power consumption in Manitoba by replacing electric furnaces with ground-source heat pumps at a cost of about $2.9 billion, or we can let Manitoba Hydro build more dams and power lines to generate the same amount of power at a cost of $10.75 billion.
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Peat mines OK'd despite expert objections
Feb 2, 2012 - CBC News
WINNIPEG -
Three peat mining companies were given initial authorization to level thousands of hectares of Manitoba's boreal forest, just days after a provincial ban on peat mining leases took effect last summer, and despite objections from the government's own experts.
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Mining peat in lake's watershed opposed
Jan 30, 2012 - Canadian Press
WINNIPEG - COTTAGERS and environmentalists are demanding the province reject applications for licences to mine peat in the Lake Winnipeg watershed. "Let's make sure we're not doing things to make the problems in Lake Winnipeg worse," said Vicki Burns, co-ordinator of the Lake Winnipeg Project, which is privately funded by a few foundations.
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5 reasons shipping oil to Asia is not in the national interest
Jan 30, 2012 - Troy Media
VANCOUVER – One of the most startling assertions contained in Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s controversial open letter, which was released on the eve of public hearings into Enbridge’s tanker and pipeline proposal to B.C.’s West Coast, concerns how he equates shipping oil to Asia as unquestionably being in the “national interest.” There are at least five key reasons why he’s wrong.
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Idle Free Zone signs
