RadioActive 7/15/10

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: EPA formulates Clean Water Act Permits required for pesticide applications;  Calais LNG is granted postponement of BEP permitting hearings

What are some of the concerns of Canada concerning LNG tankers in Passamaquoddy Bay?  What is Calais LNG’s connection to Goldman Sachs?  What are some of the areas EPA is still solidifying in it’s NPDES permitting requirements for pesticide applicators?

Guests: Sylvia Broude, Toxics Action Center; Elizabeth Martin-Craig, Pesticides Watch;  Bob Godfrey, Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/15/10

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Identity technology is moving very fast these days, and a bunch of
new technologies are emerging that are going to have a profound
impact on our lives before long. Whether use of these technologies
turns out to be positive or otherwise remains to be seen, and we’d be wise to follow their development and decide how we might choose
to use them, or not.