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Andrew Reeves is the Editor-in-Chief of Alternatives Journal. Overrun, his book about Asian carp in North America, will be published in Spring 2019 by ECW Press. His work has also appeared in the Globe & Mail, Spacing and Corporate Knights. Follow him on Twitter.

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Ontario MPP Peter Tabuns (NDP) tables climate damages legislation
The Toronto MPP and former Greenpeace head introduced Bill 21 Monday at Queen’s Park, legislation that would  pave the way for individuals, governments and businesses to sue fossil fuel companies...
Algal bloom on Lake Erie

Attack of the Killer Algae
A roving pack of journalists shake off the rain in a squat, one-story federal building in Oak Harbor, Ohio. Hosting us journalists is a troop from the US Department of Agriculture....
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An Ominous Fog
The blooms returned in 2002. Many hoped the toxic sludge of algae that blanketed the western and central basins of Lake Erie was gone for good, yet the volume of...
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The Election Climate
Banking heavily on a belief that you and I are preoccupied with fighting climate change, the front-runners in the federal election have anchored their environmental platforms to the way in...
Plastic particle counts in the Great Lakes

Beads Befoul Great Lakes
CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR Sherri Mason made a splash in 2012 when she and a crew of 20 graduate students from the State University of New York at Fredonia set sail on...
Plastic pop bottle on a beach in Costa Rica

Research Digest: Focus on Ocean Plastic
Pointing to PollutersUSA After a three-and-a-half-year study, researchers at the University of Georgia determined that between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic trash flowed into the world’s oceans in 2010...
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13 Essential Questions for Election Candidates
This page is available as a shareable, printable PDFIt’s election year in Canada! Get ready for media ads, plastic lawn signs, telephone polls and door knockers! But before those party...
Invasive silver carp in Chain Lake

Carpocalypse Now
This is an excerpt of the cover story from A\J's Water issue. Subscribe or order the issue now for this and more great stories on fresh- and salt-water initiatives that are making waves and...

Authors Blog

Colorado lodgepole pine forest destroyed by mountain pine beetle.
Ontario’s Proposed Invasive Species Act Has Teeth
Ontario is attempting to clear away some of the regulatory red tape and overlap that keeps Ministry of Natural Resources officials from moving quickly to combat invasive species with a...
Juvenile silver carp, an invasive species in North American waterways.
Fishing for Ways to Keep Asian Carp out of the Great Lakes
Background reading: Asian Carp Alive and Breeding in Lake Erie TributaryA recent study led by the University of Notre Dame and the US Forest Service confirmed that hydrologically separating the...
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Federal Court Finds Canada Has Failed to Uphold Endangered Species Act – Ontario Could Be Next
Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller is warning Queen’s Park could face sharp reprimands by the courts for its failure to uphold wildlife protections under the Endangered Species Act. Ontario’s Environmental...
Pipeline oil spill.
Indirect Impacts of Pipelines Should Be Included in Assessments
If oil and gas pipeline proponents can talk about indirect economic benefits stemming from new pipeline infrastructure, opponents should be able to consider the environmental impacts of those indirect actions...
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Green Neighbours Collide over Wind Power Project
It’s dispiriting when newly rival factions of the environmental movement clash over what has become a touchy subject in green circles. Worse when disagreements end up in the justice system.Yet...
coal smokestacks A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
Is Coal Making a Comeback?
One year after The Economist declared an "unwelcomed coal renaissance," Bloomberg News reported in early January that Europe’s lust for lower energy prices was reviving lignite mining for coal-fired generation in...
Tom Rand says Buy Your Green Bonds in A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
Green Bonds to Roll Out in Ontario in 2014
Graphic by nik harronOntario made a small splash in the financial world at the end of October when Premier Kathleen Wynne and two top cabinet ministers announced the province was...
falcon chick endangered species act A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
Ontario Government “Failed Miserably” to Protect Endangered Species
The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has shown a “shocking disregard” for its legal obligation to consult with the public on numerous changes to how species at risk and their...
Asian Carp Alive and Breeding in Lake Erie Tributary
Anyone doubting whether Asian carp could successfully breed in the Great Lakes watershed got their answer Monday as researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey and Bowling Green State University in...
bicycle in Toronto cycling strategy A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
Ontario Cycling Strategy Has Vision, Lacks Details
Two decades was a long time for cycling advocates in the province to wait for an overhaul of the Ontario Cycling Strategy, and the draft report released August 30 has...