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Ottawa Riders Bare it at 4th Annual World Naked Bike Ride
Ottawa area cyclists will be gathering on Saturday, June 7th to protest
oil dependency and promote human-powered vehicles by participating in
the 4th annual World Naked Bike Ride. Many cyclists will be naked to
protest the indecent exposure of people and the planet to cars and the
pollution they create. The ride will begin at 3pm from Confederation
Park, with body painting and other preparations starting at 2pm. The
World Naked Bike Ride is an international event with tens of thousands
of people in 70 cities world-wide.
Oil cos. expect battles over polar bear listing
The lawyers aren't clearing their calendars just yet, but the oil
industry is bracing for some courtroom battles to maintain its stake in
Alaska's oil-rich fields now that the Interior Department has listed
polar bears as a threatened species.
About 15 percent of the
nation's oil is being produced in Alaska, and soaring prices for the
commodity are pushing companies to look farther and farther offshore to
the floors of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, which are frozen much of
the year.
At a news conference Wednesday to announce the listing,
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was armed with slides and charts
showing the dramatic decline in sea ice over the last 30 years and
projections that the melting of ice — a key habitat for the bear —
would continue and may even quicken. He said that means the polar bear
is a species likely to be in danger of extinction in the near future.
