Category: News from Watershed Sentinel
Shift News – Food Security, Our Seed to Survival
Editor’s Note: The Watershed Sentinel’s Susan MacVittie is here this morning to share a provocative article on making sure that our food sources are safe and healthy. This piece was originally published in the Sept./Oct. edition of the Watershed Sentinel With supermarket aisles filled with a colourful array of foods and accessibility to farmers’ markets [...]
Quinsam Watershed Shows High Arsenic Levels
Editor’s Note: Good morning. Dolores Broten, publisher of the Watershed Sentinel – Western Canada’s only environmental magazine – is here this morning to raise awareness about a recent study released about findings in watersheds that lead into the Campbell River water system. Whether you are keeping track of ongoing concerns over the proposed coal mine [...]
Shift News – Uranium Mining in Canada (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: This series of articles, “The Yellowcake Trail,” tracks all aspects of uranium in Canada from the mining and milling, to processing and use, throughout its eighty-year history. The series begins with the history of uranium in Canada, from its initial discovery to the rapid development of mines that placed Canada as the prominent [...]
SHIFT News – Make BC Pesticide-Free
Editor’s Note: Good Morning. As Spring slowly creeps up on us, it means we’ll be heading out into the garden, preening the lawn and looking for greener days. It also means it’s time to think about what we’re putting on out plants and take a stand. Susan MacVittie from the Comox Valley’s own Watershed Sentinel [...]
SHIFT News – The Yellowcake Trail, Uranium Mining In Canada
Editor’s Note: This series of articles, “The Yellowcake Trail,” tracks all aspects of uranium in Canada from the mining and milling, to processing and use, throughout its eighty-year history. The series begins with the history of uranium in Canada, from its initial discovery to the rapid development of mines that placed Canada as the prominent [...]
SHIFT News – Climate Change and Rethinking Electronics
Editor’s Note: If you missed our morning post today, be sure to check out the new format of our BUMPS column as the first of many birth stories is shared HERE. Now, as the United Nations Climate Change Conference continues in Copenhagen, Susan MacVittie from the Comox Valley’s own Watershed Sentinel is here today to [...]
