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<title><![CDATA[NTREE &amp; IEA Sound Climate Warnings]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1824</link>
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<![CDATA[An April 27, 2012 report, &quot;Building Business Resilience in a Changing Climate,&quot; from the soon-to-be-defunct National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NTREE) warns that both business and government are woefully unprepared for the inevitable effects of climate change.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[UN Envoy In Winnipeg]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1823</link>
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<![CDATA[The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, arrived in Winnipeg May 11, 2012.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Black Out Speak Out: June 4, 2012]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1822</link>
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<![CDATA[Environmental-Charities say &quot;silence is no longer an option&quot; after much of the 2012 Canadian budget implementation act focuses on weakening environmental laws, environmental assessments, and making it more difficult for environmental charities to participate in the public policy process.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Yinka Dene Freedom Train Challenges Enbridge]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1821</link>
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<![CDATA[The Yinka Dene Alliance (YDA) Freedom Train to stop Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline is in Winnipeg May 3rd to May 6th on its way to Enbridge's AGM on May 9th. The Yinka Dene Alliance group of First Nations traditional lands comprise a full twenty-five percent of the planned path for Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline. YDA has officially banned the Northern Gateway Pipeline in their traditional territory using their traditional laws. Never having given up their sovereign rights as nations, YDA First Nations are using the Freedom Train to raise awareness about their use of their laws to enforce their ban on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Others are boarding the train as it travels across Canada.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Treaty Two Nations Caution on Bipole III]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1820</link>
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<![CDATA[Treaty Two First Nations have written Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger to caution against the use of their territory for Manitoba Hydro's proposed Bipole III project, reminding the Premier of his constitutionally mandated duty to consult with First Nations.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Biofuel Bust: No Plant for Portage la Prairie]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1819</link>
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<![CDATA[Shell Canada has cancelled plans for a cellulose ethanol plant in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. Plans at an Ottawa based Iogen Energy Corporation cellulose ethanol demonstration plant, with Shell Canada as partner, have also been scaled back.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Budget Act Kills Environmental Protection]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1818</link>
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<![CDATA[The Government of Canada introduced &quot;Bill C-38: An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures&quot; April 26, 2012.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Arctic Ocean Changing As Ice Disappears]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1817</link>
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<![CDATA[A recent $40 million all season study, conducted by ten teams from 27 countries was presented at the Polar Year Conference in Montreal in late April 2012. Teams studied open water along breaks in multi-year ice shelves, or what are called flaw leads to determine what effect global warming is having on the Arctic Ocean.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Earth Day 2012 Montreal: Largest Gathering in Canadian History]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1816</link>
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<![CDATA[Approximately one billion people in 192 countries took action for Earth Day 2012! From Cairo to Beijing, Melbourne to Rome, Rio to St. Louis, communities everywhere gathered to celebrate Earth Day.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Water Folly at the Forks - Olywest Remembered]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1815</link>
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<![CDATA[A proposal for building a water park at The Forks, where the rivers meet in downtown Winnipeg has been given the initial green light. More than a few eyebrows have been raised at the idea of squeezing a 50,000 square foot building into the already crowded Forks. While the developers Canalta Development and Waterfun are world-renowned builders of water parks, lots of questions need to be answered.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Slavery And Climate Change Similar Issues]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1814</link>
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<![CDATA[Leading NASA Climate Scientist, Professor Jim Hansen, will be awarded the prestigious Edinburgh Medal for his contributions to science Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. In his acceptance speech he intends to call for a global tax on all carbon emissions.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[David Suzuki Foundation Downgrades Manitoba]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1813</link>
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<![CDATA[The David Suzuki Foundation (DSF) released &quot;All Over the Map 2012: A Comparison of Provincial Climate Change Plans&quot; on April 11, 2012.  This is the fourth time DSF has reviewed provincial climate change plans. Previous assessments were done for 2005, 2006, 2008.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[New Development Strategy Weakens Environmental Protection]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1812</link>
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<![CDATA[The Government of Canada released a &quot;Responsible Resource Development&quot; strategy April 17th, 2012.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Wilderness Committee Appeals Park Road Decision]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1811</link>
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<![CDATA[The Manitoba Wilderness Committee filed notice to appeal a recent Queen's Bench decision, which states a logging road in a provincial park is not prohibited under Manitoba's park logging ban.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Environment Shortchanged in Canada's Budget]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1810</link>
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<![CDATA[The Canadian Federal Government used the 2012 budget, released March 29, 2012, as a means of slashing jobs and funding for environmental laws and programs in Canada.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Suzuki Rates Government on Climate Actions]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1809</link>
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<![CDATA[Analysis emerging from a David Suzuki Foundation report called "All Over the Map 2012." Is saying the federal government is not leading on climate actions and leaving it up to the provinces to try and patch things together.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Manitoba and the World Celebrate Earth Hour]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1808</link>
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<![CDATA[World-wide people will be turning off the lights and non-essential electrical appliances on March 31, 2011 from 8:30pm-9:30 pm (local time) in celebration of Earth Hour.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[New Environment Plan for Manitoba?]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1807</link>
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<![CDATA[Manitoba intends to release an environmental strategy covering everything from climate change to recycling in summer 2012.]]>
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