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Download This Issue Environmental News CITIZEN SCIENCE | DIY BUS | PULP SLUDGERY | KEEP THE PEACE | EDUCATION ISSUE from BC and the World September | October 2017 Newstand Price $4.95 SPERM COUNTS FALL Skeena LNG What the heck still threatens is going on in Venezuela? Books Sentinel presents Released mid October – $20 + shipping. Part memoir, part history, part constitutional analysis and part pure Rafe – on federation, BC’s role, how Canada’s “responsible government” undermines democracy, and what to do about it. SUBSCRIBE OR DONATE September | October 2017 watershedsentinel.ca Sentinel September | October 2017 Vol. 27 No. 4 Features 14 18 ©Ester Strijbos Economic Warfare Reading, Writing, & Resisting Joyce Nelson digs beyond the headlines This feature explores the influence of industrial “outreach” in underfunded education to answer the question, What the heck is systems. We also hear about the good works of front-line educators – from children’s really going on in Venezuela? experience with “eco-music” to the link between food education and social justice. Content 3 Global News 8 Sperm Counts 31 Sludgery Jaguars and salmon are moving Human male infertility is on the Reach for Unbleached posts its around; the Xinca of Guatemala increase. Why? extensive history of work on win victory on Tahoe mines pulp mill sludge disposal 10 Skeena LNG 4 Letters Petronas is gone for now but 32 Gertie Missives from our readers the mouth of the Skeena How Gabriola Island created remains a target. their own community bus 5 Canada News From fish farms, dams, and 12 Peace mines to microbeads Honouring the river, the beauty 36 Wild Times of the valley, the treaties Joe Foy on the Bear Stare 6 Tar Sands The tailings ponds and poten- 29 Citizen Science Cover Credit tial liability just keep growing DIY air pollution monitoring Martin951 Printed on Rolland EnviroPrint, 100% post-consumer Process Chlorine Free recycled fibre, FSC, Ecologo and PCF certified. watershedsentinel.ca | 1 Editorial Sentinel Delores Broten Publisher Watershed Sentinel Educational Society Editor Delores Broten Editorial Assistant Claire Gilmore Graphic Design Ester Strijbos Renewals & Circulation Manager Dawn Christian You’re Invited! 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Next Issue Ad and Copy Deadline: October 2, 2017 Attention Subscribers! The insert in the magazine is to attract new subscribers. You do not need to use it to renew your subscription. When the time comes, you will receive a friendly notice off ering you an early bird discount for your renewal. Your expiry date is printed on the mailing label. 2 | watershedsentinel.ca International News Guatemala suspends mine licenses Jaguars return to the U.S. Siphoning off the headwaters is only per- mitted when the dams have sufficient wa- ter. Spain’s government recently passed Xinca Victory Legal Migrants a law that says that as soon as there is a The Guatemalan Supreme Court has surplus there is an obligation to transfer suspended two of BC mining company it, making it impossible to store water for Tahoe Resources’ licences until a suit for droughts. The law flies in the face of the discrimination and lack of prior consulta- European water directive. tion with indigenous Xinca communities —www.theguardian.com, near the company’s Escobal silver mine August 14, 2017 is resolved. Following the suspension, Tahoe stock value dropped by one-third. Tahoe has consistently denied the pres- Pacific salmon found in Irish rivers ence of Xinca communities in the area, ©Nathan Rupert but responded to the suspension stating Salmon Surprise that it believes the Ministry of Energy Found only in the Americas, jaguars and Mines has carried out a consultation are the world’s third biggest cat. Today Pacific salmon, which are native to the process consistent with indigenous rights. only about 15,000 remain, mainly in the west coast of North America and Russian The Xinca have suffered violence and re- tropics. Jaguars once bred as far north Arctic regions, have been turning up in pression as a result of their peaceful pro- as the Grand Canyon, and from Califor- Irish rivers. Inland Fisheries Ireland said tests against mining in the region. Tahoe nia to Louisiana, until American hunting the appearance of the species is a con- Resources has a track record of coordi- wiped them out. Now the big cats have cern because of the possible impact on nating with local and national security been sighted again roaming north from Ireland’s native Atlantic salmon. A sim- forces and using military counter-intel- Mexican conservation areas, although ilar issue has been reported in Scotland. ligence techniques to repress and under- they would be stopped by Trump’s ex- Some Pacific species may have made mine opposition to its project. panded border wall. One popular site their way south after “straying” from riv- —www.miningwatch.ca, they visit is at a crucial juncture of three ers in northern Norway or Russia. They July 7 and 19, 2017 wildlife corridors in Arizona. It is also the were introduced to Russian fisheries in potential site of America’s third biggest the 1960s and have colonized west along open-pit copper mine, owned by Canadi- Arctic coasts. an companies. —www.independent.ie, “Arctic 30”: Russia to pay damages —Pacific Standard, August 29, 2017 August/September 2017 Justice Served An international tribunal has awarded Microloans for solar in rural Kenya the Netherlands €5.4 million in damages Will Spain’s longest river dry up? over the high-profile Greenpeace “Arctic Grid Freedom 30” dispute with Russia. The award fol- Tagus Collapse lows a lengthy course of arbitration dat- An international social enterprise ing back to the unlawful boarding, seiz- The Tagus river could dry up com- has partnered with a Kenyan micro-cred- ing and detention of the Greenpeace ship, pletely as Spain again faces drought. Its it firm to provide loans for families not Arctic Sunrise, following a peaceful pro- headwaters were dammed in 1979 to connected to the power grid. The loan and test in international waters in September divert water to the Segura river to irri- home solar system provide electricity far 2013. The 30 men and women on board gate farms in the arid southeast, but the more quickly than connecting to the grid, spent two months in prison before being amount of available water was miscal- and the electricity is cheaper than either released on bail and eventually freed. culated and Spain’s cyclical droughts utility bills or kerosene used for lighting. —Greenpeace, weren’t factored in. —Thomson Reuters Foundation News, July 18, 2017 www.newstrust.org, August 15, 2017 watershedsentinel.ca | 3 Letters Leadnow a Favourite at all, but the woodland caribou in gen- Environmental groups must also reinvent I read with great interest Rafe Mair’s ar- eral and caribou in Quebec.
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