Items tagged: Barack Obama

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EPA Releases Plan for Great Lakes

February 22, 2010 - 12:42 pm

Over the weekend, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration’s historic efforts to restore the Great Lakes. The action plan lays out the most urgent threats facing the Great Lakes and sets out goals, objectives and key...

Categories: International, News

Interview: Dr. Joe MacInnis

March 30, 2009 - 12:07 pm

"Water has been my life in a different way than for most people. I have lived inside of it." In 1969, Dr. Joe MacInnis, one of the world's foremost underwater explorers, installed Sublimnos—the first underwater habitat under ice—in Lake Huron at a depth of ten metres. The "underwater classroom"...

Categories: Features

ERCB, AE Consider Directive on Water Use in Oil Sands

February 19, 2009 - 8:25 am

The Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) and Alberta Environment are calling for feedback from stakeholders on a draft directive, which proposes new requirements for the measurement, reporting, and use of water in thermal in situ oil sands operations that will save an estimated 220.5 million barrels...

Categories: National, News, Western Canada

US Water Infrastructure Spending Falls: Report

December 12, 2008 - 9:55 am

America's water and wastewater sector looks set to decline further in 2009, as capital expenditure on crucial infrastructure projects is cut back by 12.9 per cent, according to Water Market USA, a new report published Global Water Intelligence. Restraints on borrowing, shrinking tax bases and a drop...

Categories: International, News

Party Leaders Urged to Sign Great Lakes Pledge

October 3, 2008 - 7:52 am

Environmental groups asked the leaders of the federal parties yesterday to put their name to a pledge to make toxic pollution in the Great Lakes region a top priority. The pledge comes in the wake of several actions in the U.S. to address the Great Lakes, including new funds to clean up contaminated...

Categories: International, News, Ontario