Latest Waterkeeper Podcast Episodes

Free: Petitcodiac River flows again (Show 16 – 2010)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper » Podcasts - May 11, 2010 18:43 -
In our final full-length episode of the Winter 2010 broadcast season, Waterkeeper takes you to Moncton, New Brunswick. We celebrate the opening of the causeway gates on the famed Petitcodiac Riverkeeper with our friends. The show is packed full of interviews, sounds, speeches, and audio from the ...

Workshop: Waterkeeper and law students team up (Show 15 – 2010)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper » Podcasts - May 02, 2010 21:08 -
To mark the end of the Clean Water Workshop, the Waterkeeper staff chat with our Toronto law students about their work during the 2009-2010 school year. In partnership with Pro Bono Students Canada, U of T, Osgoode, and Queen’s law students work on files for Waterkeeper throughout the school year...

Antiquated: Ontario’s “modern” law means dark ages for environment (Show 14 – 2010)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper » Podcasts - April 22, 2010 03:06
Ontario’s new “modernization” law will amend the province’s most important environmental legislation. And, in the process, it will send the province back to the Dark Ages of environmental regulation. Mark and Krystyn review the Ontario government’s proposal and talk about what it means for the fu...

Edwards v DTE: Case Closed (Show 13 – 2010)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper » Podcasts - April 13, 2010 18:22
Edwards vs. DTE Energy was one of the most groundbreaking private prosecutions in environmental law. The case against one American coal-fired power plant operator is now closed. We helped to investigate the charges. We tell you how it ended. What it means. Mark and Krystyn speak with Scott Edward...

The taking of the Clearwater River (Show 12 – 2010)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper » Podcasts - April 06, 2010 18:42
The Clearwater River is one of Canada’s remaining pristine wilderness rivers. Few places on earth have such historical, cultural, navigable, and ecological value. So why is a Canadian oil company trying to take 17,000 cubic metres of water a day from this precious river? Mark and Krystyn learn mo...

Wind Re-Wind (Show 11 – 2010)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper » Podcasts - March 29, 2010 14:41
It is the year 2040. You are in the middle of Lake Ontario, floating towards the Thousand Islands. What do you see? Miles and miles of uninterrupted shoreline? Or row upon row of white wind turbines? We will know the answer to that question before this year is out. It is 2010. The face of […]

Stalled: The Hamilton Harbour Cleanup (Show 10 – 2010)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper » Podcasts - March 22, 2010 17:46
Deep at the bottom of Hamilton Harbour, there is a creeping menace. It is a “spill in slow motion”, a toxic cocktail of coal tar, metals, and man-made chemicals. Formally known as “Randle Reef”, this slowly spreading stew of pollution has been a blight on Hamilton Harbour for a generation. Clean-...

Environmental Prosecutions (Show 9 – 2010)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper » Podcasts - March 15, 2010 14:53
Environmental prosecutions are making headlines again as Syncrude finds itself in court in Alberta. The company has contaminated ponds at its tar sands site in Alberta and is facing charges from both the provincial and federal governments after 1600 migratory birds died there in 2008. We talk abo...

Sewage Mistreatment (Episode 8 – 2010)

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper » Podcasts - March 08, 2010 15:10
Wet weather means massive amounts of sewage pouring into Lake Ontario. Fraser Riverkeeper still seeks an end to sewage pollution in Vancouver. The feds are forging new rules for wastewater treatment plants in Canada. We talk about Kingston’s ongoing sewage problems, prosecutions in Vancouver, and...