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Latest News: “ AHN News Staff Beijing, China (AHN) – The Chinese government agreed to loan Canada zoos two giant pandas. The pandas will stay in zoos in Calgary, Toronto and Quebec for 18 to 24 months. The loan of the two animals is part of the agreement Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice entered into [...]
Latest News: “ AHN News Staff Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (AHN) – An Alberta judge fined Friday energy firm Syncrude Canada $3 million for the death of 1,606 ducks on its tailing ponds in 2008. The penalty is the largest amount of environmental fine in the province’s history. In June Syncrude was found guilty of an [...]
Latest News: “ AHN News Staff San Francisco, CA, United States (AHN) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted at a San Francisco forum that Washington is inclined to allow more oil sands from Canada. She made the statement in response to a question from the audience at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. [...]
Latest News: “ AHN News Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – After listing the chemical bisphenol-A as a harmful substance, Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice over the weekend gave businesses in the country 60 days to draw up plans to limit their releases of BPA to the ecosystem. Prentice said the new measure would address [...]
Latest News: “ AHN News Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – Ottawa has added the compound bisphenol A to a list of toxic substances under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Canada is the first country in the world to ban the compound, also known as BPA. BPA is a man-made compound used in making plastics. [...]
photo credit: aeroSoul Once the areas major agricultural product, hemp is making a comeback in the Altiplano area of Granada, Spain. Until the late nineteen sixties industrial hemp growing formed the backbone of this wholly agricultural area of Spain. Towards the end of the Franco era, with the invention of nylon and the mechanisation of [...]
photo credit: x-eyedblonde In some parts of the Northeast, the skyrocketing cost of oil could cause residential winter heating bills to climb as high as $7,000. Oil reached $145 a barrel in late May, and many analysts are predicting $150-200 per barrel oil within two years. With heating oil averaging $4.71 a gallon, natural gas [...]
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