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June 28th, 2011

PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS BEGIN ON BLOODVEIN LAND-MANAGEMENT PLAN

Manitoba Conservation advises the Bloodvein River First Nation’s proposed Pimitotah Management Plan for its 3,482 square kilometre traditional land-use area is going to the public consultation stage. In December 2009, Bloodvein River’s renewed interest in the Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Project was announced.  The project is a partnership of the
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June 28th, 2011

Fisher Bay – Who decides?

Oh. My. Goodness! It’s so wet and windy in Winnipeg that I’m not able to get out on the boat and see Fisher Bay, one of the Seven Small Wonders of Canada, which is too bad, as this is one of the most beautiful and ecologically valuable places in Canada!
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June 25th, 2011

CPAWS Cheers New Park at Manitoba’s Caribbean-blue Lake

Today representatives from the Mosakahiken Cree Nation, the Manitoba government, CPAWS, and Nature Manitoba visited Little Limestone Lake to announce the Caribbean-blue lake and its surrounding landscape as Manitoba’s 85th provincial park. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on site by the Manitoba government and Mosakahiken Cree Nation that includes
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June 25th, 2011

Many-hued lake is now province’s newest park

It’s a lake so blue you would think you were in the Caribbean—until it freezes in the fall.
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June 7th, 2011

Transmission corridor or World Heritage site?

BLOODVEIN RIVER, MANITOBA—Rob Whaley and his friends just discovered something about one of Canada’s most pristine wilderness areas: just when you get away from it all, you can’t, because a provincial premier and 38 other people might drop in. That’s what Whaley, a Huntsville, Ont., family doctor, found out as
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June 1st, 2011

Suzuki slams PC Bipole stand

Canada’s most prominent environmentalist didn’t mince words Friday when he slammed Hugh McFadyen’s Progressive Conservatives for wanting to build the new Bipole hydro transmission line through one of the last intact wilderness areas in North America.
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June 1st, 2011

Bipole III: $11,000 vs $13.68

Here’s a partial transcript of what happened Monday night at the legislative building. It was sent to me by the NDP. The Selinger government sees itself increasingly under pressure from Hugh McFadyen’s Tories on the Bipole III file, and whether the line should be built down the short, and less
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May 27th, 2011

Look, there in the forest – it’s a provincial premier

Imagine their surprise—a crew of grubby diehard wilderness canoeists on the Bloodvein River were welcomed to Manitoba by Premier Greg Selinger Thursday. They also met some 39 conservation scientists, dignitaries and major media from Toronto, Chicago, New York and Winnipeg, also on tour on the Bloodvein River.
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May 18th, 2011

Manitoba Hydro needs clean-energy image

DEAR EDITOR, In his May 6 column, Will Yanks pay for NDP mistake?,  Garland Laliberte gives the false impression that Manitoba Hydro faces no risks and no challenges when it comes to marketing and selling our power as a clean premium product in international export markets.  Nothing could be further
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March 18th, 2011

West-side hydro line right approach: lobby group

U.S. conservationists back NDP strategy A U.S.-based conservation group has weighed into the Manitoba Hydro Bipole III debate, arguing that moving the transmission line down the east side of Lake Winnipeg would harm the boreal forest. The Pew Environment Group’s report, which came out earlier this week, found Canada’s boreal
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February 14th, 2011

Location not the issue

In response to commentary by Canadian Taxpayers Federation (Bipole III boondoggle no longer affordable, Feb. 8), we would like to provide the following perspective. Based on a spreadsheet prepared a number of months ago, recent media reports have indicated that the cost of Manitoba Hydro’s Bipole III project will increase
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January 20th, 2011

Hydro line could run under lake

Study looks at what may come after Bipole III The not-yet built Bipole III will be maxed out once the next generation of dams is constructed, raising the spectre of a fourth mega-power line and reviving the idea of an underwater route. A 200-page report on the viability of a
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