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Canada axes entire marine pollution program
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Canada axes entire marine pollution program
The country with nearly 60% of the world’s coastlines boarding 3 oceans has defunded its entire ocean pollutant program.

Quote:Canada is dismantling the nation's entire ocean contaminants program as part of massive layoffs at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Among the scientists terminated are ones who have conducted landmark research about global pollutants for decades: Peter Ross, who is among the world’s leading experts on marine mammals and contaminants, Gary Stern, a mercury expert whose work focuses on the Arctic, Michel Lebeuf, who studies the highly contaminated St. Lawrence belugas and Michael Ikonomou, who researches flame retardants and other endocrine-disrupting contaminants in salmon and other ocean life. Ross told EHN that his main concern is the "wholesale axing of pollution research" that will leave Canada, and much of the world, without the scientific knowledge to protect whales, seals, fish and other marine life -- as well as the indigenous peoples who rely on them for their traditional foods. Many scientists say the purpose of the move by the Canadian government is not just cost-cutting but to eliminate environmental rules and protect the oil and gas industry.

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/e...scientists
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WTF!?! Angry

Will read (but that is the knee jerk reaction mate! )
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Maybe there all fundies who think we're living in the end times anyway.



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(May 26, 2012 at 10:31 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Maybe there all fundies who think we're living in the end times anyway.

Not funny DBP...Canada has been instrumental in key research and Australia has benefited form it! This is outrageous!!

Is it just me or are we seeing a closing down of ALL key research that does not comply with govt policies??

Just saying Tongue
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(May 26, 2012 at 10:34 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Is it just me or are we seeing a closing down of ALL key research that does not comply with govt policies??

That seems to be the trend on this side of the pond for the last couple of decades.


From the article.

Quote:This is knowledge that informs policies, regulations, and practices that enable us to protect the ocean and its resources, both for today’s users, and for future generations.

When knowledge causes problems for the special interest groups that fund the political machine, that machine does what it deems necessary to repress the dissemination of said knowledge.
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(May 26, 2012 at 10:38 am)popeyespappy Wrote:
(May 26, 2012 at 10:34 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Is it just me or are we seeing a closing down of ALL key research that does not comply with govt policies??

That seems to be the trend on this side of the pond for the last couple of decades.

Similar here mate..if it isn't supporting GHG or AGW then it isn't research?? Bizarre. yet we have had son good bits of news... (*shit goes orf to find linky)
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content...511005.htm
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