Robert F. Kennedy on water quality:
Winter newsletter
Our winter newsletter is full of important information about Fraser Riverkeeper’s recent and future projects. Find out about how we’re taking part in the judicial inquiry for missing salmon stock, and learn more about our new partnerships.
Ocean acidification rates pose disaster for marine life, major study shows:
Report launched from leading marine scientists at Copenhagen summit shows seas absorbing dangerous levels of CO2
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Skier Karen Percy-Lowe predicts “plethora of medals for Canadian skiers”
Percy-Lowe also supports Waterkeeper Alliance:
Percy Lowe is involved with several charities, most notably the Waterkeeper Alliance, an organization headed by environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that works to fight industrial pollution of rivers and to ensure fish stocks and clean drinking water.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper Calls for Judicial Inquiry into DFO’s Handling of the Fraser Sockeye Crash
After months of silence and highly conflicting and confusing information coming from DFO the Prime Minister has taken a very significant step by announcing this Inquiry. The 2009 Fraser sockeye salmon collapse pattern is remarkably specific with some stocks failing by over 90% and others returning at 4 times what was predicted.
More links:
- Tories names Justice Bruce Cohen as Fraser River sockeye inquiry head
- Canada launches probe into missing salmon stocks
- Inquiry into missing salmon
- Terms of reference for the Commission of Inquiry into decline of sockeye salmon in the Fraser River
- The dawn of a new era in fisheries management in Canada
- Adopt a small fry, save BC’s wild salmon
- Farmed salmon exposed
- Is climate change to blame for BC sockeye collapse?
Propsed Enbridge pipeline is a threat to northern B.C. fish streams
The non-profit Pembina Institute reported that the proposed $4.5-billion pipeline across northern B.C. would be a threat to local salmon and other fish communities.
Pipeline construction, ruptures and leaks all pose serious risks to salmon, making the Enbridge oilsands pipelines a toxic proposal for salmon and the communities that depend on them,” the institute said in releasing a report on the proposed project.
