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Lake Ontario Waterkeeper is working with communities all along the Lake Ontario watershed to win back your right to swim, drink and fish in safe clean water. Part of the Waterkeeper Alliance. Primary Format : Environment Language : en Also Listed as: City : Toronto State/Province : Ontario User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Living at the Barricades Podcasts Methings.com listings of Living at the Barricades Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Free: Petitcodiac River flows again (Show 16 – 2010) 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 causeway celebration. Music in this show Drumming and chanting recorded [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Workshop: Waterkeeper and law students team up (Show 15 – 2010) 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. Our Toronto students talk about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Antiquated: Ontario’s “modern” law means dark ages for environment (Show 14 – 2010) 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 future of clean air and water in our province. More information Click [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edwards v DTE: Case Closed (Show 13 – 2010) 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 Edwards and Doug Martz. Music in this Show It [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The taking of the Clearwater River (Show 12 – 2010) 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 more about the taking of the Clearwater [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Re-Wind (Show 11 – 2010) 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stalled: The Hamilton Harbour Cleanup (Show 10 – 2010) 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-up should have started in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Environmental Prosecutions (Show 9 – 2010) 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 about public and private environmental prosecutions today. Our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sewage Mistreatment (Episode 8 – 2010) 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 new regulations under the Fisheries Act. Our guests are Colin [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Signs (Episode 7 – 2010 feat. Fraser Riverkeeper) Last December, Fraser Riverkeeper discovered toxic sediment in Vancouver’s False Creek. With the Olympic Games just a few weeks away, and False Creek running right past the Athlete’s Village, the group had to make some tough decisions: Should they go public? If so, what what should they say? Mark and Krystyn talk about the dilemma [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Tier Environmentalism (Episode 6 – 2010) Mark and Krystyn discuss two-tier environmental protection today – the idea that there are different rules for different people, usually based on who you know, how much money you have, or where you are. We look at federal and provincial examples of two-tier environmental law. Olympian Karen Percy Lowe joins us at the end of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red Tape is People Red Tape. What it is. Why the phrase is so popular with politicians and lobbyists. And why you should cringe every time you hear the words “red tape”. Our guests today are Jamie Kneen of Mining Watch Canada and Vern Edwards of the Ontario Federation of Labour. We also pay tribute to a lost friend, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert F. Kennedy Jr speaks out about contamination in our fish In January, Waterkeeper Alliance with Lake Ontario Waterkeeper headed to Alberta to raise money for this global grassroots movement. Our President Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke, and boy did the media react! Our special guest on this episode of Living at the Barricades is Robert F. Kennedy Jr, talking about mercury contamination and fish in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Birds, bats, and the Wolfe Island Wind Project How do you know if a wind turbine is killing birds and bats? Answer: Somebody has to count the bodies. We do just that, today, on our to visit Wolfe Island. Mark and Krystyn chat with Stacey Haskins and Bill Evans. Music in this Show You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive Spin [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heart of the Moose River: Part II of II In Part II of this two-part episode, Mark and Krystyn talk to legendary Cree guide and Riverkeeper Wililam Tozer. Author Joseph Boyden gives a reading from the Moose River, live from the Charles Sauriol dinner in November 2009. Music in this Show Lost River by Mickey Hart Lost Cause by Beck Lost in a Crowd by Rusted Root Lost Together [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heart of the Moose River: Part I of II In Part I of this two-part episode, Mark and Krystyn go back to June 2009 when Northern Ontario’s first Riverkeeper joined the Waterkeeper movement. They talk about the Moose River with counsel Joanna Bull and about what it means to be a “Waterkeeper”. Author Joseph Boyden gives a reading from the Moose River, live from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Pipe, Big Headaches (December 7, 2009) The Big Pipe is a half-a-billion dollar sewage pipeline. Stretching across the north-eastern Greater Toronto Area, the Big Pipe will funnel more than 1 billion litres of sewage from York Region to Durham Region every single day. That’s 95% one region’s sewage dumped on the doorstep of another on a daily basis. Many residents [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Invasion of the Asian Carp (December 1, 2009) Giant, leaping, face-slapping food-guzzling fifty-pound fish have escaped and are headed this way! Alien invaders, the asian carp, have likely breached the last barrier before the Great Lakes and are set to slip into our sweetwater seas near Chicago. How it happened. Why it’s scary. And what’s to be done. Georgian Baykeeper Mary Muter joins [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heart of a Lake: Live from the Charles Sauriol dinner This very special episode of Living at the Barricades features three of the six performers in Heart of a Lake: Gord Downie, Tanis Rideout, and your Waterkeeper, Mark Mattson. You will hear author Joseph Boyden’s readings on the Moose River during an upcoming episode of Living at the Barricades. Two of our performers, Andrea Nann [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lafarge fuels case comes to an end (November 16, 2009) Back in 2006, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper started researching the environmental effects of burning tires at cement kilns. Not long after, Bath area residents, including our good friend and Trustee for Lake Ontario, Gord Downie, raised alarm bells about one tire burning proposal in particular. The Lafarge Alternative Fuels project, as it was known, was a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hesitating experiments that change our world (November 4, 2009) The Government of Canada is poised to build a massive low-level radioactive waste site in Port Hope, Ontario. The environmental assessment is done. The licence has been issued. The Port Hope radioactive waste site — a hesitating experiment that will change the future of our waterfront. We talk about such experiments on this episode, including [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canada & U.S. clash over new environmental rules for ships on the Great Lakes The United States Environmental Protection Agency is pushing a set of new rules for ships operating in or near the United States. These rules, under the Clean Air Act, would affect all ships on the Great Lakes. The EPA is telling ship owners to start burning cleaner fuel in an effort to reduce sulphur and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protest! Environmentalists and global demonstrations (October 21, 2009) Placard-waving, slogan-chanting, headline grabbing demonstrators are the environmental movement’s trademark. Over the last thirty years, we’ve seen mass demonstrations in the U.S., China, Europe, and South America. Lately, we are seeing more actions taking place in Canada - including Alberta’s Tar Sands. Today on Living at the Barricades, we’ll tell you why. This episode features [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mountains: The artists who fight for the Niagara Escarpment (October 19 2009) One of the busiest organizations on Lake Ontario right now is a volunteer group that goes by the name of PERL - Protecting Escarpment Rural Land. PERL is the leading voice for the protection of the Niagara Escarpment from the Nelson quarry expansion near Burlington, Ontario. In the last month, PERL has thrown a fundraising [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind power and the new rules for radicals (October 7, 2009) Few development proposals are more controversial in Ontario right now than wind projects. When Canadian Hydro Developers, SkyPower, Toronto Hydro, Trillium and their ilk decide to build turbines, controversy always follows. Wind development is an important issue. The Ontario government is relying heavily on the what it calls the “Green Economy” to rebuild the province’s economy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome to Ontario. What a dump. On today’s show: success at Dump Site 41. The plan to bury waste on the shores of Georgian Bay is scuttled. The next issue on the horizon is the long-term struggle for a safe, fair plan for dealing with garbage in Ontario. We get an update on Site 41 from Mark Calzavara of Council of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Activist filmmakers take over Toronto (Oct 1 2009) From October 1-4, the Royal Theatre on College Street in Toronto becomes home to the MUCK Film Festival and Forum. “Movies of Uncommon Knowledge” examine creative solutions to social issues such as war and global warming. On today’s show, Krystyn speaks with Dr. Stuart Samuels, the MUCK Festival’s creative director. We also team up with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dumping ground- port hope’s radioactive waste stigma (September 16, 2009) In late August, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper was one of 100 intervenors that took part in a licencing hearing for a massive low-level radioactive waste project in Port Hope, Ontario. Waterkeeper, other intervenors, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and journalists all seemed to struggle with the same question: how do you criticize the specific details of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bad Harvest - the troubled Great Lakes fishery (Sept. 8, 2009) As environmental advocates, we encourage people to get to know Lake Ontario. But some parts of the lake are so polluted that touching the water or eating the fish that lived there can be a health risk. We do not want to overemphasize the risk, because it scares people away. And where communities are afraid [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dirty Little Secret (Aug. 4, 2009) The sewage systems for communities on the Great Lakes are actually designed to dump 15 billion litres of sewage into local waterways every year. To get a better sense of what sewage pollution is being reported, Living at the Barricades called Elaine McDonald. Elaine is the senior scientist at Ecojustice, formerly known as Sierra [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dump Site 41 (July 22, 2009) Dump Site 41, a proposed dump on the pristine Alliston Aquifer, has become one of the most contentious environmental issues in Ontario today. This week, Living at the Barricades speaks with Mark Calzavara of The Council of Canadians, and Ray Millar, a resident of Tiny Township in anticipation of a major rally set for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nuclear disaster averted? (July 21, 2009) claim-my-podcast-in-podbean{scid-bGl2aW5nYXR0aGViYXJyaWNhZGVz-ecid} What’s the fallout from the decision to shelve plans for a new nuclear plant on the shores of Lake Ontario? We’ll speak with Greenpeace Canada energy expert Shawn Patrick Stensil about a future without nuclear technology. Music on this week’s show: Common Disaster - Cowboy Junkies Natural Disaster - Joel Plaskett Nautical Disaster (Live) - The Tragically Hip Listen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clinton and Kennedy speak up for Waterkeepers (July 14, 2009) Krystyn and Mark and check in with the global movement that is the Waterkeeper Alliance. We’ll hear from Waterkeepers from all around the world, and recount the keynote speech by former US President Bill Clinton. We’ll also hear from Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who spoke at the Swim Drink Fish [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Road Trip (June 29, 2009) This week we take the show on the road to Ottawa (again!). We’ll hear about Krystyn’s presentation to the Canadian River Heritage Conference on the Navigable Waters Protection Act, and party with Ottawa Riverkeeper as we celebrate the launch the Swim Drink Fish Music Club. Sarah Harmer was on hand to perform, along [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heart of a river (June 15, 2009) From Artpark with the Tragically Hip, to Moosenee, Ontario, to New York City with the Waterkeeper Alliance. Lake Ontario Waterkeeper staff hit the road this week in the fight for swimmable, fishable, drinkable water. We’ll also celebrate the approval of Canada’s newest Waterkeeper, the Moose Riverkeeper. Author and Moose Riverkeeper founding member Joseph Boyden [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nuclear Stories (June 15, 2009) From secret documents to the selling of AECL to private companies, Greenpeace’s Shawn-Patrick Stensil joins Mark and Krystyn to try to sort it all out. Show Notes: Read the letter to Premier McGuinty here Music on this week’s show: Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics Finlayson/Maize - You Win Again The Black Crowes- Twice as Hard Bonnie Raitt - Something to Talk About Listen to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Port Storm (June 10, 2009) Mark and Krystyn talk about Minister John Baird’s decision to establish a Port Authority in the City of Oshawa. The decision overrides the City’s vision for a clean, green, public waterfront. We interview Larry Ladd of the Oshawa Marina Users Group. Music on this week’s show: Corruption by Fantan Mojah Give a Man a Fish (Live) by Arrested Development Fat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Port Storm (June 10, 2009) Mark and Krystyn talk about Minister John Baird’s decision to establish a Port Authority in the City of Oshawa. The decision overrides the City’s vision for a clean, green, public waterfront. We interview Larry Ladd of the Oshawa Marina Users Group. Music on this week’s show: Corruption by Fantan Mojah Give a Man a Fish (Live) by Arrested Development Fat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earth Mamas and Water Babies (June 1, 2009) Mark and Krystyn talk about the founding of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and the impact of mothers on the environmental movement. We interview Mark’s mom, Jackie Mattson, and Krystyn’s mom, Sandra Tully, as well as the newest mother in the Waterkeeper movement, Lauren Brown from Fraser Riverkeeper. Music on this week’s show: LL Cool J - Mamma Said [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music is our heartbeat - The Swim Drink Fish Music Club (May 25, 2009) Today on Living at the Barricades, we are excited announce the launch of The Swim Drink Fish Music Club. We’ll hear from some of the artists who have donated exclusive tracks to the charity, led by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Fraser Riverkeeper and Ottawa Riverkeeper, to bring music to the fight for swimmable, drinkable, fishable [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Senate road trip (Navigable Waters) This is our third trip to the Canadian Senate to speak on the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Living at the Barricades’ hosts Krystyn and Mark hit the road to discuss our concerns with the changes to the Act that were ushered through as part of the 2009 Budget. Along the way, we’ll hear from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploring the Green Energy Act (May 12, 2009) The Ontario government’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act is now on the table. Mark and Krystyn are joined by Scarborough blogger and activist John Laforet as we explore how the changes in the proposed Green Energy Act will affect much more than the development of energy projects in Ontario. Music on this week’s show: Around [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website