Time to start energy debate. The Clean Air Alliance has performed a useful public service by prodding Ontarians to start thinking seriously about Ontario's long-term power needs. [News Source]

Conservatives kill key green projects. The new Conservative government came under attack from all sides yesterday for dropping several federally funded environmental projects. [News Source]

Diversity hotspots face fatal dousing with acid. As countries like Brazil and China industrialise, emissions from cars, power stations and factory farms are dousing biodiversity hotspots in acidic rains that threaten to exterminate thousands of species over the next 50 years. [News Source]

Artist’s oil paintings make medium the message. The quest for oil is having a ruinous effect on people around the world, says artist Janet Essley. [News Source]

In local talk, expert links storms, global warming. Judith Curry said Thursday that she is no hurricane predictor, then suggested that between 17 and 27 tropical storms will reach name status in 2006. [News Source]

Global warming is oil, air pollution and climate problem. Ecologist and author Stephen Pacala spoke Thursday night about a rise in the sea level that may occur by 2056 if nothing is done about global warming. [News Source]

BA’s Walsh says EU must keep emissions trading simple. The European Commission must keep its plans for aviation emissions trading simple and practical, according to Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways PLC. [News Source]

Conference joins business, environmental ideals. Former Vice President Al Gore called for immediate action to avert global warming, which threatens to spread disease, make species extinct and turn tens of millions of coastal dwellers into refugees from rising ocean levels. [News Source]

Gore urges moral crusade against global warming Al Gore brought corporate executives and environmentally minded investors roaring to their feet Thursday with multimedia images of an overheating planet and a call for Americans to reclaim their "moral authority" by tackling global warming. [News Source]

New world order of polluters. Should big countries with a small population be allowed to produce more pollution than smaller ones with more people? Two provocative studies on measuring national "ecological footprints" say they should. [News Source]

Even the Emerald City must learn to conserve water. Even in a city whose name is practically synonymous with "rain" in the American psyche, water conservation is going to have be a part of life. [News Source]