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  1. Alien Invasion
    How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
  2. Appalachia Rising
    Which Side Are You On?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    On January 9, 2014, a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. This is a story too often told in Appalachia.
  3. Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You
    Would You Like Sugar With That?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the earth.
  4. Bakken Business
    The price of North Dakota's fracking boom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Manning the widespread fracking in the Bakken formation (North Dakota), and the environmental and social repercussions it causes.
  5. Blue Betrayal
    The Harper government's assault on Canada's freshwater
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Canadians have long taken their water heritage for granted. This is largely due to the myth that there is an abundance of water. While it is true that compared to many other parts of the world Canada is blessed with water, it is false that there is water to waste or sell.
  6. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
  7. Boreal Forests in Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1992
    Canada's assault on the Boreal forest rivals Brazil's exploitation of the Amazon. In both countries governments and multinational corporations are scheming to clear-cut forests for short-term profit. They treat rivers as sewers, poison the fish and drive aboriginal peoples from their ancestral lands.
  8. The Canada Centre for Inland Waters
    Resource Type: Website
    Information on water research and the Great Lakes.
  9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  10. Canadian News Synthesis Project - November 1976
    Volume IV Number 8
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
  11. Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
  12. Coalition Eau Secours quebecoise pour une gestion responsable de l'eau
    Resource Type: Website
  13. Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    It has now been revealed that California regulators with DOGGR permitted hundreds of wastewater injection wells and thousands more wells injecting fluids for 'enhanced oil recovery" into aquifers protected under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
  14. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  15. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  16. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  17. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  18. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  19. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  20. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  22. Connexions Library: Environment Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
  23. Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
  24. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  25. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  26. Filthy, deadly mayhem in India
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Along with the choking fumes and piles of putrid waste, sound systems and a constant bombardment of honking horns from cars, lorries and screaming buses assault residents and the unprepared in towns and cities throughout India.
  27. FLOW 
    For Love of Water
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2008
    A critical expose of the privatization of water infrastructure. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
  28. Gasland
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2010
    Today, communities in the United States are being more and more affected by natural gas drilling and, specifically, hydraulic fracturing.
  29. Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israel's war on Gaza has seen the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for human survival. This represents an apparently deliberate 'cutting off of life support' to those that survive the bombardment now under way.
  30. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
  31. Lack of regulation behind West Virginia water disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A chemical spill at the Etowah River Terminal, near Charleston, West Virginia, resulted in nearly 300,000 people in the state losing access to drinkable water. Since then, several reports have been released detailing the decades-long lack of regulation by state or federal agencies of the site responsible.
  32. Mercury Poisoning
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
  33. Mountaintop Removal: Environmental And Human Destruction For Profit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) is an initiative "to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal, to improve the quality of life in our area, and to help rebuild sustainable communities."
  34. Muddying the waters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
  35. 150 years of dirty water
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    Toronto's water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded - but that doesn't mean we should put up with it.
  36. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
    Public Safety
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
  37. Poor West Virginia? Think Again
    Resistance in the Valley of Death
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia has once again put Appalachia on the map. This is what it usually takes. People have to not just die at the hands of the coal and chemical industry, they have to die dramatically. The long slow death spiral West Virginia has been in for over a hundred years is not news unless they do.
  38. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
    Resource Type: Book
  39. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
  40. Six Nations and Dundalk Fight Corporate Crap
    Why We Should All Support Their Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Dundalk is situated at the highest elevation in Ontario, the headwaters of both the Grand and Saugeen rivers, and sits on land deeded to the Six Nations through the Haldimand Proclamation of 1763. Despite the ecological importance of the region and the outstanding land claim, the municipal council and a corporation are attempting to force through a plan to build a “bio-solids” processing facility just a stone’s throw from the town.
  41. Slick Water
    Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
  42. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
    Volume V Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
    January 1977 issue.
  43. Tar Sands
    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    To extract the energy from the Alberta tar sands, the world's ugliest, most expensive hydrocrabon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast areas of boreal forest, and undermining democracy.
  44. Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever. In April, 2014, the state-appointed emergency manager, in order to save money, ordered that the city's water source be changed from Lake Huron to the notoriously polluted Flint River.
  45. When oil is more important than life
    Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.

Experts on Pollution de l'eau in the Sources Directory

  1. International Atomic Energy Agency
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