Previously I posted this.

Now it looks like Rona Ambrose, Canada’s Environment Minister, is facing even more possible legal action. This is regarding logging in the habitats of the spotted owl. Rona Ambrose says the owl “does not currently face imminent threats to its survival or recovery.” So only having seventeen owls left is not a threat to its survival or recovery? Does the number have to be a single digit before it becomes an actual threat in the eyes of Mrs. Ambrose?

So only having seventeen owls left is not a threat to its survival or recovery? Does the number have to be a single digit before it becomes an actual threat in the eyes of Mrs. Ambrose?

The Minister of the Environment is supposed to be taking care of our environment. She obviously has more important interests than the environment and she should resign if she doesn’t make her top priority the environment. I suggest everyone to write a letter about this matter to the Prime Minister and Rona Ambrose. This is an urgent matter and the minister should be protecting the environment and not the people who want to exploit the environment.

She has the power to force the provinces to act (Through the Species At Risk Act), but she isn’t using it. Demand that she uses it or resigns.

The Sierra Legal Defence Fund had asked federal Environment Minister Rona Ambrose to use the legislation to override the provincial government, and to stop logging in the owl’s habitat in the the southwest corner of the province.
However, Ambrose wrote a letter to the group rejecting that course of action, saying the owl “does not currently face imminent threats to its survival or recovery.”
Sierra Legal Defence spokesman Devon Page says he is disappointed but not surprised at the minister’s decision.
“They never entrench on provincial jurisdiction. And we’ve had laws in Canada for over 35 years that have empowered the federal government to act in the provinces to protect the environment, and not once have they ever been applied.”
He adds that with only 17 spotted owls left, time is running out. Ten years ago, there were 100 breeding pairs, and there is concern that the birds will be extinct by 2010 if logging in their habitats isn’t stopped.

From CBC News:

The United Church of Canada may ask its members to stop buying bottled water.

The request is part of a resolution against the privatization of water supplies that has been put before delegates at the church’s general council this week in Thunder Bay.

Richard Chambers, the social policy co-ordinator with the national office of the church, said that water is a human right, and no one should profit from it.

Let’s hear it for Richard Chambers! Water is a human right! Why should anyone have control over our water besides the people? It belongs to the people. And when corporations sink their hands into it, people will suffer.

And the privatization of water is a real threat.