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Monday, April 22, 2013
Calgary Hook & Hackle Club - Auction Wed April 24, 2013
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Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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Bow River fisherman & Canada Goose. May 2012
Sunday, April 21, 2013
McKinnon Flats Boat Launch Update - April 19 2013
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We did our first 2013 shuttle to McKinnon Flats on Friday April 19. Our shuttle client had an aluminum boat that he was able to drag across what remains of the ice shelf at the upstream end of the gravel bar that fronts the parking lot.
View more photos (total 6, all larger 1024X size) HERE
Canada quietly pulls out of UN anti-droughts convention
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| Photo: The federal cabinet last week ordered the unannounced withdrawal of a United Nations convention that fights droughts in Africa and elsewhere on the recommendation of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, ahead of a major scientific meeting on the convention next month. (Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press) |
A few weeks ago, Canada announced that it was withdrawing its support of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. In doing so, we become the only country in the world that is not part of this agreement. Here is a column on that subject that appeared in the Calgary Herald.
The grim human toll of desertification
By Craig & Marc Kielburger, Calgary Herald April 8, 2013
Nora Busienei closed her eyes and smiled as she remembered years past when her small farmhouse burst at the seams with sacks of maize, beans, millet and pumpkins.
"I would stare at our harvest. I was so happy, so confident in my children's future," she said, before her smile faded. "That feels like another world now."
Today, her mud hut in Pimbiniet, Kenya, is full of nothing but choking smoke from the cooking fire.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/17GIBxi
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Today along the Bow River - April 2013
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The weather forecast for today (Saturday) deterred most, but not all, Bow River drifters.
Although the snow flurries showed up around lunch time, just as predicted, they were strangely interspersed with short (very short) periods of sunshine, every now and then.
High 3 °C, light snow, wind avg 18 max 50.
B.C. group fights for Peace, lower Fraser and Elk Rivers
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Fishing guides on the Elk River near Fernie. Photograph
by: GLENN BAGLO, PNG
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B.C. group fights for Peace, lower Fraser and Elk Rivers
By Mark Hume, VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail, Monday,
Apr. 08 2013
When the Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia
first came out with a list of the province’s most endangered rivers, the idea
was to spark government action to save threatened watersheds.
Publication of the most recent list, to be released
Monday, makes it clear that 21 years later, B.C. still has a lot to learn about
managing its watersheds. Some of the most beautiful and environmentally
productive rivers on the planet are being terribly abused, or threatened.
This year, instead of naming the top 10 endangered
rivers, as it usually does, ORC has tightened the focus to just three: the
Peace, lower Fraser and Elk.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/14RZQyB
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Today along the Bow River - April 2013
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Looks like today was THE day to be out on the Bow River this week!
High 11 °C, partly cloudy, wind avg 15 max 32.
Environment Canada asks industry to come clean on hydraulic fracking
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| A Nexen contractor Kerne Kennedy makes his way through this maze of pipes at the site on Nexen's 18 well shale gas pad b-77-H, where fracking is underway. Photograph by: Handout/ Nexen, Postmedia News |
Environment Canada asks industry to come clean on hydraulic fracking
By Mike De Souza, Ottawa Citizen/Calgary Herald/Postmedia News April 11, 2013
- “There is potential for water contamination from the use and disposal of drilling muds and fracturing fluids,” Paul Boothe, [the former deputy minister] , wrote in a memo to [Environment Minister Peter] Kent dated March 8, 2011. “There is also a risk of natural gas or saltwater from the formation leaking into surface water, water wells or water aquifers.”
Read more: http://bit.ly/17ujws0
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Searchlight Winner - New Canadian Music
Searchlight - New Canadian Music
The people have chosen their winner in CBC Music's Searchlight competition to determine the best new musical act in the country...from Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case has won the grand prize! Jian spoke to Sherman Downey, and Nolan Ackert, lead singer of runner-up band, The Good Ol' Goats from Cranbrook, BC.
Read & Listen here: http://bit.ly/11jvktM
Also, listen here: Thick as Thieves by Sherman Downey and The Ambiguous Case: http://r3.ca/0YlF
And, listen here: Kiss the Cactus by The Good Ol' Goats http://r3.ca/0T5H
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
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