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Category Archives: Natural Resources
NAFTA greens us up
(December 11, 2002) It’s NAFTA’s 10th anniversary and what a great decade for the environment it’s been. Sulphur dioxide emissions are down, ground level ozone levels are down, inhalable airborne particle levels are down and energy efficiency is up. Our air is clearer, our water is cleaner and, as a by-product, we’re healthier, too. Continue reading
Watershed decision
(December 18, 2001) CUPE, the public service labour union, recently issued a dire prediction to its members. “A waste water treatment system in the coastal city of Halifax … could well be a watershed in the Canadian struggle against privatization,” it warned in exhorting its troops nationwide to join its anti-privatization campaign. Continue reading
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CUPE-funded water report gets an F for objectivity
(January 30, 2001) Because the private sector has proven to be so successful in improving water quality while lowering costs to taxpayers, water utility privatizations have been sweeping the world. Europe, Asia, South America and North America are all increasingly turning to private operators to remedy decades of government neglect and compromised regulation. Continue reading
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No water regulation without privatization
(January 23, 2001) The Mike Harris government, regaining its feet after reeling from the Walkerton tragedy, is considering various types of privatization to fund the improvements needed to set Ontario’s water system aright. Continue reading
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Dr. William Rees interviewed by Dr. Michael Gismondi
(November 30, 2000) Bill Rees “is a nice fellow with a strong message – if the world cannot safely expand its way to sustainability we will have to discover other ways of relieving the material impoverishment of half of humanity.” Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 