Water Justice News
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Energy East company looks at new pipelines in Mexico
December 18, 2013 – 8:26am The Council of Canadians is fighting against two TransCanada Corp. pipelines – the Keystone XL pipeline and the Energy East pipeline. This morning, the Canadian Press reports, “The CEO of TransCanada Corp. sees opportunities …
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Jury trial on HudBay in Guatemala to take place in Ontario
December 17, 2013 – 10:20pm The Canadian Press reports, “A civil trial in Ontario involving a Canadian mining company being sued over alleged shootings and gang rapes at a project in Guatemala will proceed with a jury, the law firm representing the pla…
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Fracking threatens right to water for Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana
December 17, 2013 – 4:59pm Survival International tells us, “Large parts of Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) – home to Africa’s last hunting Bushmen – have been opened up to international companies for the controversial practice …
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Professors note impact of Skouries mine on hydrological cycle
December 17, 2013 – 3:18pm Three university professors in Greece, who teach forestry, mountain water settlement, and forest soil, write about ‘the role of forest vegetation in the watersheds of streams and the supply of land and resources with clean dr…
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Is Canada opposing the European directive against fracking?
December 16, 2013 – 8:34am The Telegraph reports, “(British prime minister) David Cameron’s plan for a new fossil fuel bonanza from ‘fracking’ underground gas reserves is under threat from draconian environmental laws being drafted in Brussels. The E…
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Flooding in the Gaza Strip renews call for end to blockade
December 15, 2013 – 10:28am The Associated Press reports, “Flooding from heavy rains forced some 40,000 Gaza Strip residents from their homes… In the low-lying areas of Gaza, water has been rising since heavy rains began late Wednesday, flooding stre…
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Chile’s new president vows public control over water in constitution
December 15, 2013 – 8:32am Aljazeera reports, “Michelle Bachelet has won a presidential runoff vote, returning a coalition of centre-left parties to power by promising profound social changes in response to years of street protests. Bachelet won 62 per…
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SYRIZA government in Greece would veto CETA
December 14, 2013 – 5:20pm BBC reports, “The EU-Canada deal, clinched in October after more than four years of hard bargaining, still has to be ratified by the parliaments of all 28 member states, each government and Canada’s 10 provinces. So the deal …
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Controversial energy law passes in Mexico
December 12, 2013 – 4:02pm Bloomberg reports this hour, “Mexico will end 75 years of government control of its vast oil reserves after Congress approved the nation’s most significant economic reform since the North American Free Trade Agreement.” The…
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OTPP-owned water utility fined by Chilean regulator
December 12, 2013 – 1:41pm Business News Americas reports, “Chile’s sanitation services regulator SISS is bringing sanctions against water utility Aguas del Valle for a norovirus outbreak that occurred in Coquimbo region’s city of Ovalle during the fir…