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August 2007
These are news articles that we have featured on our home page in the month of August 2007:
(This was before we went live with our new website. We put them up for ourselves as we were building the site)
Sockeye salmon running on empty
Aug 31, 2007 — Abbotsford News
ABBOTSFORD, BC -- The worst sockeye salmon run in decades is now swishing its way upstream toward the spawning beds. With less than 30 per cent of the expected number of salmon showing up in the Fraser River, it’s a disaster for commercial fishermen, aboriginals and sports anglers alike.
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Activists chain selves to ship toting coal
Aug 30, 2007 — CTV
NANTICOKE, Ont. -- Several Greenpeace activists who boarded a coal-toting bulk ore carrier on Lake Erie en route to the Nanticoke power plant have now chained themselves to the ship.
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U.S.: Humans 'primarily' to blame for hot 2006
Aug 29, 2007 — MSNBC
WASHINGTON - "We have met the enemy, and he is us," the comic-strip character Pogo said decades ago. A new analysis of last year's near-record temperatures in the United States suggests he was right.
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Climate talks start with calls for new global deal
Aug 27, 2007 — Reuters
VIENNA - Climate negotiators from more than 150 nations assembled in Vienna on Monday with calls for a global deal beyond 2012 to replace the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and include outsiders such as the United States and China.
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Canada report defends saying no to Kyoto target
Aug 22, 2007 — Reuters
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An attempt to force Canada to say how it will meet its Kyoto Protocol targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions has produced a government report warning that doing that will damage the economy and drive up energy costs.
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Tuesday marks deadline for new Kyoto law
Aug 21 , 2007 — CBC News
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Tuesday is the deadline for the Conservative government to outline how Canada will lower greenhouse gas emissions under a new law requiring it to meet its Kyoto commitments.
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New Flyer Awarded BC Transit Fuel Cell Bus Order
Aug 3 , 2007 — New Flyer Press Release
WINNIPEG -- New Flyer Industries, the leading manufacturer of heavy-duty transit vehicles in Canada and the United States, has been awarded a contract by BC Transit to build the world’s first fleet of hydrogen fuel cell buses. These buses will be 40-foot, low-floor vehicles.
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