http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/general/canada-environment en http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/top-10-environmental-issues-canadas-next-election <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h1 style="marcolor:#000; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 22pt"> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" src="https://www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/media/newarkandsherwood/imagesandfiles/environmentalhealth/pollution/Pollution banner.jpg" style="width: 444px; height: 228px;" /></span></span></h1> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 22pt;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Nikita Lopoukhine, former general director of Parks Canada, wrote in The Hill Times Thursday that, as Canada readies itself for an election in 2015, there are 10 Top environmental issues that need to be taken up by an environmentally responsible party. They are:</span></span></p> <div class="content"> <ul><li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. <strong>Climate Change</strong>:</span></span></li> <li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">2. <strong>Oil and Gas:</strong> </span></span></li> <li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3. <strong>Water</strong>: </span></span></li> <li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">4. <strong>Conservation</strong>: </span></span></li> <li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">5. <strong>Parks</strong>: </span></span></li> <li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">6. <strong>Connection to Nature</strong>:</span></span></li> <li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">7. <strong>Environmental Assessment</strong>:</span></span></li> <li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">8. <strong>Environmental Science</strong>:</span></span></li> <li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">9. <strong>Pollution Abatement</strong>:</span></span></li> <li> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">10. <strong>International Commitments</strong>:</span></span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><a href="https://www.hilltimes.com/opinion-piece/2015/01/21/top-10-issues-an-environmentally-responsible-party-needs-to-address-in-next/40801"><span style="font-size: 14px;">SEE FULL STORY HERE:</span></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><em>Nikita (Nik) Lopoukhine retired in 2005 from Parks Canada as director general national parks. He is the former member of the Council of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and chair of World Commission on Protected Areas. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Harkin Award, the 2013 Canadian Council on Ecological Areas Gold Leaf Award and in 2014 a medal from the U.S.-based Brandwein Institute.<br /><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br /> The Hill Times</em></span></span></p> </div> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="service-links"><a href="https://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/top-10-environmental-issues-canadas-next-election&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=&amp;text=Top 10 environmental issues for Canada's next election&amp;counturl=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/top-10-environmental-issues-canadas-next-election" class="twitter-share-button service-links-twitter-widget" title="Tweet This" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Tweet Widget</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/top-10-environmental-issues-canadas-next-election&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=100&amp;height=21&amp;font=&amp;locale=" title="I Like it" class="service-links-facebook-like" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Facebook Like</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php" title="Share this post on Facebook" class="service-links-facebook-widget" rel="http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/top-10-environmental-issues-canadas-next-election" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/canada-environment" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">canada environment</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/stephen-harper" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">stephen harper</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/conservative-party" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">conservative party</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/ndp" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ndp</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/liberal-party" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Liberal Party</a></div></div></div> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:20:52 +0000 Timothy Gillespie 3544 at http://www.southcoasttoday.ca http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/top-10-environmental-issues-canadas-next-election#comments