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Free: Petitcodiac River flows again (Show 16 – 2010) May 11, 2010

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In our final full-length episode of the Winter 2010 broadcast season, Waterkeeper takes you to Moncton, New Brunswick. We celebrate the opening of the causeway gates on the famed Petitcodiac Riverkeeper with our friends. The show is packed full of interviews, sounds, speeches, and audio from the causeway celebration.

Music in this show
Drumming and chanting recorded live at the river ceremony
Petit Codiac by Zachary Richard, from the Petitcodiac Riverkeeper benefit CD
Moncton Hellraisers by Dave Bidini & The Scribbled Out Man, from the Swim Drink Fish Music Club

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Workshop: Waterkeeper and law students team up (Show 15 – 2010) May 02, 2010

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To mark the end of the Clean Water Workshop, the Waterkeeper staff chat with our Toronto law students about their work during the 2009-2010 school year. In partnership with Pro Bono Students Canada, U of T, Osgoode, and Queen’s law students work on files for Waterkeeper throughout the school year. Our Toronto students talk about their review of the way the Ontario government regulates (and sometimes fails to regulate) the nuclear industry. Our Queen’s students worked on a top secret project that we hope to be able to share with you very soon.

Music in this show
Uranium by Emily Grogan
Uranium Rock by The Cramps
Playing with Uranium by Duran Duran

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Antiquated: Ontario’s “modern” law means dark ages for environment (Show 14 – 2010) Apr 22, 2010

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Ontario’s new “modernization” law will amend the province’s most important environmental legislation. And, in the process, it will send the province back to the Dark Ages of environmental regulation. Mark and Krystyn review the Ontario government’s proposal and talk about what it means for the future of clean air and water in our province.

More information
Click here to read Waterkeeper’s formal comment.

Music in this show
Modern Guilt by Beck
Modern Mafia by Athlete
Modern Symptoms by John Jerome and the Great 88 (from the benefit CD “Petitcodiac”)
Modern Sleaze by Portishead

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Edwards v DTE: Case Closed (Show 13 – 2010) Apr 13, 2010

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Edwards vs. DTE Energy was one of the most groundbreaking private prosecutions in environmental law. The case against one American coal-fired power plant operator is now closed. We helped to investigate the charges. We tell you how it ended. What it means. Mark and Krystyn speak with Scott Edwards and Doug Martz.

Music in this Show
It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over – Lenny Kravitz
Get Over It – OK Go
Over the Hills and Far Away – Led Zeppelin
Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House

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The taking of the Clearwater River (Show 12 – 2010) Apr 06, 2010

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The Clearwater River is one of Canada’s remaining pristine wilderness rivers. Few places on earth have such historical, cultural, navigable, and ecological value. So why is a Canadian oil company trying to take 17,000 cubic metres of water a day from this precious river? Mark and Krystyn learn more about the taking of the Clearwater River today, with guests Andrew Nikiforuk and Ruth Kleinbub.

Music in this Show
I Want to Take You Higher by Sly and the Family Stone
Give a Little, Take a Little by Jimmy Cliff
Take Me to the River by Al Green
Take Me Home Country Roads by Toots and the Maytals

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Wind Re-Wind (Show 11 – 2010) Mar 29, 2010

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It is the year 2040. You are in the middle of Lake Ontario, floating towards the Thousand Islands. What do you see? Miles and miles of uninterrupted shoreline? Or row upon row of white wind turbines? We will know the answer to that question before this year is out. It is 2010. The face of Lake Ontario is changing. We find out how and where and why, today on the show about water and democracy. Mark and Krystyn speak with Shawn Doyle and Barrie Gilbert on this episode of Living at the Barricades.

Music in this Show
Clunk-Rewind-Clunk-Play-Clunk by Los Campesinos
Rewind by the Stereophonics
Rewind Rewind Rewind by Joel Plaskett

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Stalled: The Hamilton Harbour Cleanup (Show 10 – 2010) Mar 22, 2010

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Deep at the bottom of Hamilton Harbour, there is a creeping menace. It is a “spill in slow motion”, a toxic cocktail of coal tar, metals, and man-made chemicals. Formally known as “Randle Reef”, this slowly spreading stew of pollution has been a blight on Hamilton Harbour for a generation. Clean-up should have started in 2008, but it did not. Now residents, environmentalists, and reporters are asking questions. Mark and Krystyn speak with Lynda Lukasik and Mark Sproule-Jones on this episode of Living at the Barricades.

Music in this Show
Dirty Old Town by The Pogues
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground by The White Stripes
Goo Goo Muck by The Cramps
Dirty and True by Hawksley Workman

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Environmental Prosecutions (Show 9 – 2010) Mar 15, 2010

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Environmental prosecutions are making headlines again as Syncrude finds itself in court in Alberta. The company has contaminated ponds at its tar sands site in Alberta and is facing charges from both the provincial and federal governments after 1600 migratory birds died there in 2008. We talk about public and private environmental prosecutions today. Our guests are Adam Driedzic of the Alberta Environmental Law Centre and Fraser Riverkeeper Doug Chapman.

More information
http://environmentallawcentre.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/syncrude-muddies-the- waters/

Music in this Show
I Fought the Law – The Clash
Fulsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
Jailhouse Rock – Elvis

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Sewage Mistreatment (Episode 8 – 2010) Mar 08, 2010

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Wet weather means massive amounts of sewage pouring into Lake Ontario. Fraser Riverkeeper still seeks an end to sewage pollution in Vancouver. The feds are forging new rules for wastewater treatment plants in Canada. We talk about Kingston’s ongoing sewage problems, prosecutions in Vancouver, and new regulations under the Fisheries Act. Our guests are Colin Mosier and Doug Chapman.

Music in this Show
Rain, Rain, Rain by The Rheostatics
I Can’t Stand the Rain by Seal
Kiss the Rain by Billie Myers
Cold Rain by Vangel, from Swim Drink Fish Music

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Signs (Episode 7 – 2010 feat. Fraser Riverkeeper) Feb 21, 2010

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Last December, Fraser Riverkeeper discovered toxic sediment in Vancouver’s False Creek. With the Olympic Games just a few weeks away, and False Creek running right past the Athlete’s Village, the group had to make some tough decisions: Should they go public? If so, what what should they say? Mark and Krystyn talk about the dilemma on this episode of Living at the Barricades. Riverkeeper and lawyer Doug Chapman is our guest.

More information
Fraser Riverkeeper’s backgrounder on False Creek
Prime Minister’s full speech

Music in this Show
Signs of Life by Our Lady Peace
Signs by Five Man Electrical Band
Signs by Bloc Party

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