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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 live at the river ceremony
Petit Codiac by Zachary Richard, from the Petitcodiac Riverkeeper benefit CD
Moncton Hellraisers by Dave Bidini & The Scribbled Out Man, from the Swim Drink Fish Music Club

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 their review of the way the Ontario government regulates (and sometimes fails to regulate) the nuclear industry. Our Queen’s students worked on a top secret project that we hope to be able to share with you very soon.

Music in this show
Uranium by Emily Grogan
Uranium Rock by The Cramps
Playing with Uranium by Duran Duran

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.

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 Ain’t Over Till It’s Over – Lenny Kravitz
Get Over It – OK Go
Over the Hills and Far Away – Led Zeppelin
Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House

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 River today, with guests Andrew Nikiforuk and Ruth Kleinbub.

Music in this Show
I Want to Take You Higher by Sly and the Family Stone
Give a Little, Take a Little by Jimmy Cliff
Take Me to the River by Al Green
Take Me Home Country Roads by Toots and the Maytals