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Canada and US to update Great Lakes Water Pact - Clinton
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by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | June 13, 2009 at 09:36 am
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today that the Canadian and US governments will update the Great Lakes Water Quality agreement.
The announcement was made on the Rainbow Bridge on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Updates to the agreement need to be made to preserve the needs of our shared ego system, Clinton said.
The announcement was made on the ocassion of the 100th anniversary of the Canada-US Boundary Waters Treaty.
During the press conference with her Canadian counterpart Lawrence Cannon, Clinton commented on the election in Iran. Clinton said that the White House was monitoring the results of the Iranian election closely.
Environmental activists have long pushed for changes to the agreement. Closer monitoring of the Great Lakes is needed to account for environment challenges, such as invasive species, climate change and chemical.
History for Dummies of The Boundary Waters Agreement
Clinton also discussed the Buy American Provision in the Obama Stimulus Bill. Read about it here.
The Canadian and U.S. governments will update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement to "preserve the needs of our shared ecosystem," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Saturday during a visit to Niagara Falls.
Clinton made the announcement during a ceremony in which she joined Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon at the Rainbow Bridge to mark the 100th anniversary of the Canada-U.S. Boundary Waters Treaty.
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at 09:51 on June 13th, 2009
This is excellent news as they need to be protected in my opinion.
at 10:54 on June 13th, 2009
This has been long overdue.
at 11:15 on June 13th, 2009
Great news on joint Canada and USA efforts, thanks Albertacowpoke for this piece.
at 11:32 on June 13th, 2009
Revising to include NYC in Lake Eire watershed? I will be happy about this if changes are to get Chicago to stop draining Lake Michigan to flush the polution out of its Chicago river toward St Louis.
at 11:42 on June 13th, 2009
Thank you for your comment. Hopefully all pollution will stop. Water is an essential resource and no longer exists in abundance.
at 16:49 on June 13th, 2009
Yes, great news. Thanks for posting.
at 16:52 on June 13th, 2009
Thank you for commenting and recommending
at 17:01 on June 13th, 2009
This is good news. Thanks for this.
at 17:27 on June 13th, 2009
It is indeed. We.ll see where it goes:) Thank you for your comment.
at 17:36 on June 13th, 2009
The Great Lake Commissions last report on the state of the 5 great lake was an disaster and ironically to the surprise of most the greatest culprit was Canada and not the US.
at 17:47 on June 13th, 2009
It should be noted that Ontario and Quebec are only associate members on this commission. So I would question any report from this commission. Eight states are full members.
Here is about the commission
at 19:11 on June 13th, 2009
The pollution from the US decreased due to clean up programs by 5% from 1996 till 2006, the Ontario pollution to the lakes increased by 21% in the same time, the report was a joint research and data gathering from the University of Guelph in Ontario and the Universities of Michigan as well as the U of NY.
The Study was published by the commission as well as the respective Universities and has been filed with the UN as the Concerning Governments.
The study was commissioned by all Great Lake States and Provinces and sponsored by both Federal Governments.
The CBC did a good documentary about it in 2007 and an update was made with additional data in 2008.
at 19:40 on June 13th, 2009
That makes me smile as an Albertan. Funny how we always get slanted over the oil sands. Maybe we should start digging a little and find out what is happening in Ontario.
In any case, funning aside, when I looked up the Commission, I found it odd that Ontario and Quebec were only Associate Members. It seems to me, for something this important we should have full membership.
at 06:37 on June 14th, 2009
Well, well, well - More buyers for my snake-oil.
The new deal in water will not stop the flushing of the Illinois system, or add anything to the "protected zone" of the North American Continent. It has been, and remains, the policy of the United States of America that North American resources must be a shared commodity, water, air, metals, trees, and oil.
It is all in the toilet, and our mini mulfoonerey in Ottawa has his hand on the lever.
Next stop, Brazil, or China for me.