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19 Nov 2018

Canada’s approval of pollinator-killing pesticide violates federal law

Posted By: Friends of the Earth Canada Comments Off on Canada’s approval of pollinator-killing pesticide violates federal law

Groups in court over neonicotinoid pesticide linked to declining pollinator populations   TORONTO — Environmental groups are in Federal Court today to protect pollinators from a harmful neonicotinoid pesticide, Thiamethoxam, by challenging the lax oversight of Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA). Lawyers from Ecojustice representing the David Suzuki Foundation, Friends of the Earth

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08 Nov 2018

Clean Fuel

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Friends of the Earth asks: Is clean fuel a climate solution or environmental disaster? In 2016, Environment and Climate Change Canada proposed a Clean Fuel Standard, intended to be a technology-neutral performance-based standard to incentivize the deployment of low-carbon fuels and technologies and aims to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 million tonnes

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21 Aug 2018

First Nations, NGOs condemn federal plans for defunct nuclear reactors

Posted By: Friends of the Earth Canada Comments Off on First Nations, NGOs condemn federal plans for defunct nuclear reactors

Ottawa, August 21, 2018 — Forty First Nations, citizen groups and NGOs have asked Canada’s Auditor General to hold an inquiry into spending by Natural Resources Canada, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) on nuclear reactor decommissioning. “The plan to entomb and abandon radioactive carcasses of nuclear reactors next to

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15 Aug 2018

Health Canada to End Outdoor Use of Two Bee Killing Neonicotinoids

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 “It’s about time,” says Friends of the Earth Canada August 15, 2018 (Ottawa) – Friends of the Earth Canada welcomes the proposed decision by Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency to end outdoor use of Clothianidin and Thiamethoxam, two of the most widely used neonicotinoid pesticides in the world. Neonicotinoids (neonics) are systemic chemical insecticides

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25 May 2018

236 International Organizations Call on Prime Minister Trudeau to Quit Support for the Kinder Morgan Pipeline

Posted By: Friends of the Earth Canada Comments Off on 236 International Organizations Call on Prime Minister Trudeau to Quit Support for the Kinder Morgan Pipeline

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2018 Contact: David Turnbull, Oil Change International, david [at] priceofoil [dot] org Dani Heffernan, 350.org, dani [at] 350 [dot] org Today, an open letter signed by 236 international civil society organizations in 44 countries called on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stop backing the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline project and begin

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02 May 2018

Tell the Feds you want strong environmental laws

Posted By: Friends of the Earth Canada Comments Off on Tell the Feds you want strong environmental laws

Friends of the Earth has joined with other environmental groups across the country to insist that the government fulfill its promise for strong environmental laws.  Here’s the situation. Bill C-69 — the omnibus bill covering EA (now called Impact Assessment), the Canadian Energy Regulator Act and the Navigable Waters Act — has gone to committee and witnesses

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25 Apr 2018

When I go yard saling this spring, I’ll be looking for Friends of the Earth Bee Cause signs!

Posted By: Friends of the Earth Canada Comments Off on When I go yard saling this spring, I’ll be looking for Friends of the Earth Bee Cause signs!

Spring has sprung and, in my home town, Chatham, Ontario, that means the yard sale circuit gets underway. I have wonderful memories of taking my mother and father out for a drive in the spring. Whether heading out to Lake Erie or just around town, Mom always checked out how the trees had survived the

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19 Apr 2018

BREAKING NEWS: Toxics in my garden!

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Today, Friends of the Earth Canada filed evidence (from our 2017 flower testing results) to the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario to begin investigation of RONA, Canadian Tire and Home Depot for selling gardeners plants containing harmful, banned cosmetic pesticides, namely boscalid, imidacloprid, pyraclostrobin napropamide, and spinosad. These corporations and their directors could be fined millions of dollars. Here’s

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