best of 2018: USA forbidden words

The Trump admin's 7 deadly sins banned words at the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) are:
vulnerable
diversity
entitlement
transgender
fetus
evidence-based

science-based

HONOURABLE MENTION: A Republican dead pimp is elected in Nevada! Roger Stone called Dennis Hof the Trump of Pahrump. Trump's grandfather made a family nest egg peddling booze, food and women in Bennett BC. Very inspirational!

Dennis Hof in 2013

In other news, a Snopes report on the dentist (that shot Cecil a rare black-maned lion in 2015) and  Trump's newly-formed wildlife conservation council. In 2017, Cecil's son Xanda also was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe.

bad news - (bears145)(wolves296)

In 2011, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development says Fish and Wildlife conservation officers killed 145 bears and 68 were in the Fort McMurray bitumen sands region - habituated to food and garbage.

sustainable... conservation... conservation... sustainable...

Alrighty. That's 3x more than 2010 and the "highest in recent history." Moreover, no individual or company was charged for "lax garbage management," even after the Conklin dump incident in '09. source

Wolves in Idaho, not good either. Read more: savewolves.org

nestlé, plastic, water, uranium

And fuggetabout estrogenic agents like Bisphenol A (BPA) or chickmen, chickfrogs, and chickfish. It's true: “Everyone is aware of the role Nestlé plays in privatization of water and baby formula, and it will reflect back on the university,” he told the Journal.

So that's why an honorary degree for Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman and former CEO of the Nestlé corporation, from the University of Alberta kinda... stinks, especially after the dean of medicine's plagiarism scandal last year.

Grand Canyon National Park

On an up note, uranium mining was banned around Grand Canyon National Park, for 20 years, and the park is banning the sale of plastic water bottles, after a year reviewing objections by Coca Cola/Dasani.

The new restrictions take effect within 30 days, and follow the example of Utah's Zion National Park,... Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which offers water stations...  (Feb 8, 2012: USA Today)

Whitebark pines

Oh, federal budget, entire endangered species program gets less money than the cost of a single F-14. (Feb 19, 2012: Summit County Citizens Voice, Colorado)

Update: April 30, 2013. "Grand Canyon uranium mining set to go ahead despite ban from Obama" Canadian Energy Fuels Resources has been given federal approval to reopen its old Canyon Mine, located six miles south of the canyon's popular South Rim entrance, that attracts nearly 5 million visitors a year.

jasper: wat-cha-ching! glacier melt

It was controversial. No matter. The private observation deck in a public national park was approved by the federal government. It's being built. The Icefields TangleMeltWay Ridge Viewpoint Centre Parkway will be staffed by Brewster's, not Parks Canada.

Artist rendering of a proposed Glacier Discovery Walk at
Tangle Ridge Viewpoint on the Icefields Parkway.
Photograph by: Handout photo, Brewster Travel

The facility will be knocked into the cliff with explosives, and a 42 year lease, disappointing lichen and bighorn sheep. Brewster Travel Canada  is now owned by VIAD of Arizona ("The Business Behind Leading Businesses"). Admission to this GDW skywalker is expected to be $15-$30 per person.

Peter Kent joked about the high-volume form letter complaints (180,000 signatures + 1000s of letters & postcards)(dictionary.com "petition"), as if people have time to write these ministers of industry borg personal fucking letters, every week.

More info here.

green elephant: republicans for environmental protection (rep)

This is an interesting interview: David Jenkins from REP talks about the Texas drought (yet, floods the other day, 'Texas floods force drivers to abandon cars, flee for their lives'), climate change, Al Gore, conservation and environmental protection, Jon Huntsman's withdrawal from the Republican race and more.

podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00mwzc6/One_Planet_The_Dry_Lands_of_Texas/

(3:10) 'agricultural sector lost over $5.3 billion in 2011...'
 'in april 2011, governor rick perry called for a statewide weekend of prayer for rain... what texas got was a summer of record-breaking heat, virtually no rain - and wildfires.'
'4 million acres burned, 1600 homes, half billion trees died of thirst'

(9:00) 'i lay a lot of this at the feet of right wing talk radio, the people like rush limbaugh and those folks. Also some of the big industries, the coal industry, who has a vested interest in trying to prevent curbs on greenhouse gas pollution.'

'the party is being lead around the nose by a relatively small group of people'

bronco goes to dc, little black lies & the castle

Well, Gary Mar came back from the Alberta Embassy in Washington for the provincial Progressive Conservative (PC) leadership race, which he lost, so now he's being shipped to China Hong Kong. Asia. The U.S. vacancy will be filled, as was Mar's position, i.e. without due process, by former Calgary mayor Dave 'Bronco' Bronconnier for about nine months. Hopefully, Ambadassador Gordon Campbell in the UK, Bronco in Washington and Mar in Asia can birth their many bouncing baby pipelines, mines, logging inroads.

Lettuce earnestly hope that no mention will be made by these 3distinguished gentlemens of an Alberta grizzly bear expert, who lives in self-imposed exile (Missoula, Montana). Anyway... a new book by Jeff Gailus is upcoming. 'Little Black Lies: The War on Truth in the Battle for the Tar Sands' will be published by Rocky Mountain Books in Fall 2012.

Of the Castle Special Management Area, he says:

It was ostensibly “protected” as part of the Alberta government’s Special Places Program in 1998, but unlike other candidate parks, it wasn’t protected by legislation; it was simply managed as one under government policy, which has been ineffective to say the least. Logging and energy development continue to this day.

In 'Legislation, not policy, foundation of environmental protection,' Fast Forward Weekly, Nov 3, 2011.

A provincial park is still waiting: Andy Russell - I'tai sah kòp Wildland Park was proposed in 2005 for the Castle and/or Castle-Crown Wilderness. See the media release, notes and letter.

gory update on bears

See: gud year 4bearies (Sept 29) 4sum strange, primitive, so-called wildlife management, or so it seams.

Compare:

http://www.canmore.ca/About-Canmore/Wildlife/

The Bow Valley WildSmart program is a proactive conservation strategy that encourages efforts by communities to reduce negative human - wildlife interactions.

coyote paws, SK $20 bounty '10 & custer

Alberta: "The carcasses were found with their paws cut off near Cypress Hills Provincial Park, which straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan border and is about 80 kilometres southeast of Medicine Hat, Alta." source

The Cypress Hills are where Sitting Bull went, after The Battle of Little Bighorn (Battle of the Greasy Grass), June 25-26, 1876.

http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Saskatchewan/sitting_bull.htm

As a medicine man, he was shot in a double cross December 15, 1890, which was followed by Wounded Knee on December 28.

rhinos, desmond tutu 2/2, china & a no tibetan b-day party guest

China put some pressure on the South African government of Jacob Zuma. Desmond Tutu invited His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to his 80th birthday party.The Dalai Lama had to cancel, no entry visa. Desmond Tutu about it: video.

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe tried to tamp down the dispute, telling The Star newspaper that South Africa was ready to grant the Dalai Lama a visa when the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader decided to cancel the trip. source

Also, recently, South African 'Groenewald Gang' expected in court tomorrow (Sept 29, 2011) from Rhino Horn is Not Medicine and more about illegal trade:

http://www.rhinoconservation.org/2011/08/03/cookies-crafts-and-cocktails-fresh-ideas-for-world-rhino-day-2011/

gud year 4bearies

Alberta oil camp invaded by bears:

http://www.calgarysun.com/2011/09/15/alberta-oil-camp-invaded-by-bears

Update1: Bears shot after invading camp.

Update2: 4 bears killed at oil camp: "Workers at a northern Alberta oil site are outraged after a wildlife officer shot and killed a mother black bear and her three cubs for entering their camp's living area. They claim camp managers are negligent for allowing garbage and food to be stored outside and refusing to build a fence around the compound." Daily Herald-Tribune, Grande Prairie

Youtube: Aramark camp bear shootings, Aramark camp bear shootings pt2

A mom and her 3 cubs were destroyed at an Aramark camp just outside Conklin, Alberta. The camp does not have a fence around the camp and didn't store their garbage properly. The camp workers let the bears come and go and didn't notify the wildlife people about the problem until it was too late! This is wrong and this "American Company" should pay for what is happening out here. These poor bears did not deserve this at all!

Note: Suncor shareholders own 60 per cent of the merged company. (Petro-Canada)