Source: Boing Boing
The closure of some of the world's finest environmental libraries by the Harper government has destroyed irreplaceable collections of intellectual legacy. This fits a larger pattern that includes the gutting of the Fisheries Act, the muzzling of scientists, the abandonment of climate change research and the dismantling of countless research programs, including the world famous Experimental Lakes Area. All these examples indicate that the Harper government strongly regards environmental science as a threat to resource exploitation.
The Harper government has, since 2006, moved to control and prevent free flow of scientific information in Canada, particularly when that information reflects undesirable consequences from industrial development.
Many in the scientific community in Canada have compared the destruction of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) research libraries across Canada and the attacks on environmental scientists to the book burnings of 1930s Nazi Germany.
Dalhousie University biologist Jeff Hutchings calls the closures "an assault on civil society."
View January 29, 2014 The Argus article
View January 13, 2014 The Star article
View January 7, 2014 Bones for War article
View January 4, 2014 Boing Boing article
View January 3, 2014 Huffington Post article
View December 27, 2013 Climate Science Watch article
View December 23, 2013 The Tyee article
View May 2013 Academic Matters article
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