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The small town of Keno City YK has a history of minig but new mining activities now threaten the towns fledgling tourism businesses and residential community. The YK government promoted new businesses then permitted a major mining enterprise surrounding the town - driving away residents and businesses. The mining was kick started by federal grants under the presumption of rehabilitating the area from past mining abuses.

This has been reported in the Yukon media but little in the national media, though even Corporate Knights gave the issues with the project a nod - noting the government had weakened environmental conditions recommended by the Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board.

I wonder why Canadians and or Canadian Governments aren't already using this technology to reduce pollution, reduce resource depletion and create millions of jobs in the process out of the "Consumer Savings" it would produce....This is the website which explains how simple it is; http://wecando101.tripod.com/(click here) ... This is the kind of difference it could make; BC Ferries could save $35 to $52,000,000 a year on fuel and create thousands of jobs doing it ...http://youtu.be/Ypw64yuWSFs

From Buries Idleknowmore Rainwater on Facebook:

 In just four days the Government of Canada will close its environmental assessment into the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. Surprised you haven’t heard about it? Harper knows that if the assessment doesn’t find significant environmental impacts, they can just skip producing a draft report altogether and move to the final report, so he's done everything he can to keep this bad deal out of the press.
 This deal is just another in a list of predatory trade deals the Harper government is trying to ram through to protect tar sands development and safeguard corporate profits at the expense of the rest of us. Harper thinks he can sneak this deal past us, but if we flood the process with comments, we can show we’re paying attention.
 Right now corporate lawyers are busy drafting a treaty that Canadians and our own MPs can't even read! The Harper government is hoping to be able to point to this public consultation as proof the process has been transparent -- he will argue that no one is worried about environmental impacts of the TPP and just move forward with no more opportunities for public comment.
 The TPP trade deal contains at least 26 chapters that would have a fundamental impact on the environment, the economy, jobs, access to affordable medicines, and much more. The deal will give corporations the right to acquire land, natural resources, and factories without government review, and will allow corporations to be compensated for environmental laws that damage profits. 
  What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Who is participating?
The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership is a multilateral free trade agreement that aims to further liberalize the economies of the Asia-Pacific region. Currently, 13 countries are party to the negotiations including the Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. 
  What provisions are in the treaty?
Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) "free trade" agreement, corporations would gain an array of privileges:
• Rights to acquire land, natural resources, factories without government review
• Elimination of risks and costs of off-shoring to low wage countries 
• Compensation for loss of “expected future profits” from environmental laws
• Right to move capital without limits
  The TPP will impose a set of extreme foreign investor privileges and rights and their private enforcement through the notorious “investor-state” system. Under this regime, foreign investors can skirt domestic courts and laws, and sue governments directly before tribunals of three private sector lawyers operating under World Bank and UN rules to demand taxpayer compensation for any domestic law that investors believe will diminish their "expected future profits”.

Interesting piece in the Washington Post pointing to a blogger using math to predict coups. Several of the ones marked in red on his map look to be places with intense western (and Canadian) mining interests. The article is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/22/map-the-countries-most-at-risk-for-a-coup-in-2013/.

Would be interesting for someone to look at the ties between Western mining/nat resources exploitation and coups.

via facebook:

Laurie Cook - The challenge of creating a whole human being - a counter story to http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/17/the-new-underclass-readers-respond/

suggested via facebook by George Lessard with the comment "I can provide leads and contacts for coverage... just ask," so leave a reply below if you're interested in reporting on the story and we'll put you in touch.

As with most publicly funded Aboriginal organizations, The Native Communications Society of the NWT relies heavily on both Federal and Territorial government funding to deliver our Radio and Television programming to the people we serve. As of December 21, 2012 we have received neither a contribution agreement nor the funding we were for the 2012 fiscal year, a full nine months overdue.

Because of this, we have no choice but discontinue our Broadcasting service.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, CKLB RADIO WILL BE OFF THE AIR UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

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