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<title><![CDATA[Obama Says No to Keystone XL Pipieline]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1780</link>
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<![CDATA[President Obama has stopped the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline would have stretched 1700 miles from the Tar Sands in Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. After Congressional Republicans forced a decision upon the U.S. State Department, President Obama denied a permit for the contentious pipeline. In a statement the President cited the forced deicison on the permit failed to provide enough time for a proper assessment of the impacts the Keystone XL Pipeline could and would have on the environment, job creation and issues of security.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Environmental Charity Threatened]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1779</link>
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<![CDATA[On January 23 former ForestEthics employee Andrew Frank went public with an affidavit outlining allegations that the Prime Minister's office in Canada threatened the funding of ForestEthics. The affidavit alleges that the Prime Minister's Office had repeated contact with Tides Canada, a main funder of ForestEthics, in an effort to end funding for Forest Ethics.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Bloodvein Pimitotah Land Management Plan]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1778</link>
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<![CDATA[Regulations required to establish Bloodvein First Nation Pimitotah Lands Management Plan and planning area were established December 10, 2011 and amended December 24, 2011.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[East Side UNESCO Bid Submitted]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1777</link>
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<![CDATA[Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger announced January 18, 2012 that the nomination package to have a vast boreal area east of Lake Winnipeg designated a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site (WHS) is complete.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Minister Calls Citizens and First Nations &quot;Radicals&quot;]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1776</link>
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<![CDATA[The Canadian joint review panel (JRP) hearings, on whether to approve the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, which would deliver crude from Alberta's oilsands to Kitimat, British Columbia (B.C.), for shipment to Asia, began January 10, 2012.  More than 4,300 people signed up to address the joint review panel regarding the proposed pipeline.  The hearing process is expected to take 18 months.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Manitoba Pressured Over Peat Mining]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1775</link>
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<![CDATA[Public Pressure is building for the Manitoba Government to honour the spirit of its own laws and stop the rapid expansion of the peat industry, following the outcry over a proposed peat extraction project inside a provincial park.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Peat Mine Comments Deadline Extended]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1774</link>
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<![CDATA[The comments deadline for an environmental proposal to mine peat inside Hecla / Grindstone Provincial Park has been extended till February 3, 2012.  The previous deadline, as reported December 30, 2011 by Manitoba Wildlands, was January 16, 2011.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Wahgoshig Win Injunction]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1773</link>
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<![CDATA[A northeastern Ontario First Nation, Wahgoshig First Nation, has won an injunction to temporarily prevent junior mining company Solid Gold Resources from drilling on their traditional lands.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Polar Bear Submission Filed With CEC]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1772</link>
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<![CDATA[The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) under NAFTA received a citizen submission from Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) November 30, 2011. The CBD asserts that Canada is failing to effectively enforce Canada's <em>Species at Risk Act</em> (SARA) and "denying the [Polar] bear any substantive legal protections under SARA."]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Public Safety Risk Increasing]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1771</link>
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<![CDATA[The public safety of Canadians is increasingly at risk because the government is failing to monitor and enforce its regulations on dangerous goods and decades-old oil and gas pipelines. Worse yet the Canadian Government refuses to accept its environmental enforcement is inadequate and poorly managed, warns Canada's Environmental Commissioner Scott Vaughn in a December 13, 2011 annual report.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Manitoba Ombudsman Scolds Manitoba Water Stewardship]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1770</link>
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<![CDATA[Manitoba Ombudsman has released an investigative report and recommendations regarding Manitoba Water Stewardship’s failure to comply with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA).]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Peat Mines Proposed Despite New Law]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1769</link>
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<![CDATA[On November 1, 2011 Manitoba Conservation Environmental Assessment &amp; Licensing Branch (EALB) received a new proposal from Sun Gro Horticulture Canada Ltd. for an <em>Environment Act</em> license to harvest peat inside Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park.  The approximately 531 ha targeted peatland is located approximately 21 km northeast of Riverton, MB.  Public comments will be accepted until January 16, 2012.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Happy Holidays from Manitoba Wildlands]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1768</link>
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<![CDATA[Wishing you every hapiness this holiday season and prosperity in the new year]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Bipole III Comments Deadline Announced]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1767</link>
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<![CDATA[Comments on Manitoba Hydro's Bipole III Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) are due by March 16, 2012.  Following the public comments period, an updated EIS maybe filed.  The Clean Environment Commission will then hold hearings during 2012.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Caribou Action Plan Open for Comment]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1766</link>
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<![CDATA[Feedback and input on draft "Action Plans for Boreal Woodland Caribou Ranges in Manitoba" intended to protect boreal woodland caribou populations in the eastern side of Manitoba can now be provided.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Time for a Tobin Tax?]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1765</link>
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<![CDATA[Support for a financial transaction tax (FTT) that could raise several hundred billion in revenue to fight poverty and climate change is gaining momentum.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Durban Ends With Agreement After All]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1764</link>
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<![CDATA[Climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa went almost 24 hours overtime and surprisingly ended with several important decisions centred on adaption, green climate fund, technology and strategies to support developing countries, being adopted.]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Canada Withdraws From Kyoto: Faces International Criticism]]></title>
<link>http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1763</link>
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<![CDATA[A day after returning home from United Nations Framework on Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in Durban, South Africa, Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent announced: "We are invoking Canada's legal right to formally withdraw from Kyoto." Under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol countries must give one-year's notice to withdraw.]]>
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