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Showing posts with label 500 Ducks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 500 Ducks. Show all posts

Saturday, January 10, 2009

500 Drowned Ducks Still Haunt Syncrude and Governments


Update on the private prosecution against Syncrude over the 500 migrating ducks who drowned in their tailings pond. Shaun Fluker of the University of Calgary Faculty of Law is blogging on it at the faculty's blog cleverly called ABlawg.ca
According to Professor Fluker the action is founded on an alleged breach of Section 5.1 of the Migratory Birds Convention Act of 1994. I understand there is a Canada US treaty protecting migratory bird habitat too. That brings an international persepective to the issues and Obama may be on it too.
This is federal legislation so both Alberta and Canada will be interested. The first Court appearance is anticipated sometime in February.


PHOTO CREDIT: /Sheryl McAuley in Flickr