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Community Wind Plans Move Ahead A Step

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Standing in the breeze just east of Forrest, Dan Mazier watches as a two-man crew prepares to raise a 60-foot tower in a canola field. Atop the tower will be a device for minute-by-minute measuring local wind speed, sending the data wirelessly via cellular phone signal to a computer. At the end of two years,
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New Regs Upset Ethanol Applecart

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The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on May 5 announced proposed regulations regarding implementation of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). Despite the legislation’s namesake, there isn’t much security for the growth of traditional corn ethanol. EISA was landmark legislation for the biofuels industry because it set a national goal of producing
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Funding Flows To Help Reduce GHGs

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Wiser use of water, more recycling and less idling are all activities Virden’s mayor hopes local residents will adopt in coming months. Theirs is one of 14 rural and urban centres chosen to take part in the Community Led Emissions Reduction pilot program, an initiative aimed at helping more Manitobans contribute to a 20 per
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Celebrating Ongoing Progress In Soil Conservation

soil conservation council of canada release Most Canadians have seen severe soil erosion. It might be the dramatic images of the dust bowl of the Canadian Prairies replayed as a reminder of the “Dirty Thirties.” Or it might be images of water erosion of severely flooded lands in Eastern Canada. Other than the odd reference
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EU Calls On Farmers To Start Adapting To Climate

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Europe’s farmers must think how to adapt to climate change in coming decades, altering their practices to cut greenhouse gas emissions, make agriculture more resilient and keep land in use, a European Commission paper said. The uneven effects of climatic change were likely to widen regional differences across the European Union’s farmland and increase economic
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Four Degrees Either Way Is A Big Deal, Says Expert

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Climate change skeptics like to point out that if the weatherman can’t predict the weather with much accuracy, how can scientists be sure that global warming is actually happening? The answer is that putting together a weather forecast involves many often conflicting short-term variables. Analyzing climate trends over the long term is much easier, because
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Red Meat Boosts Cancer Risk: Study

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“I don’t think it paints a picture of what is generally happening with consumers’ dietary habits.” – RON GLASER, BIC Battered by low incomes, trade challenges and other woes, Canadian livestock producers’ latest problem is a new study which says eating red meat can shorten your life. The U. S. study tracked half a million
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Tool Measures Bad Gas

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Scientists claim that in 2006, agriculture accounted for roughly nine per cent of Canada’s total greenhouse gas emissions. But just how much any particular farm produces of the bad gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, has been difficult to determine – up until now. A new project featuring an Internet-based tool offers
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy Cows Belch, Farmers Cash In

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“This is the gold standard model.” – CEDRIC MACLEOD Canada’s milk producers will soon have a new tool to reduce the carbon footprint of their dairy farms and perhaps make money in the process. A computer package developed in Atlantic Canada allows dairy farmers to calculate greenhouse gas emissions from their operations and estimate ways
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Grazing Clubs Run Out Of Grass

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“I guess the feds have decided they could spend their money better somewhere else.” – MICHAEL THIELE, DUC Manitoba’s 30 grazing clubs could be scrambl ing for an alternate source of funding this spring as the federal government pulls the plug on Greencover Canada. As the sun sets on the five-year program, up to two-thirds

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