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Planet Haliburton
by Terry Moore | Canoe FM
Terry Moore investigates sustainable solutions to the ecological issues of today with interviews from innovators in construction, conservation, legislation and more! Big ideas for the whole planet, from Haliburton County!
Episodes
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Carney’s Climate Contradictions
Carney’s Climate Contradictions with Mitchell Beer, Sept 24, 2026 Mark Carney rose to power as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister in the midst of both external and internal threats to Canadian sovereignty. Prior to becoming PM, Carney garnered a reputation as a champion of aggressive public and private...
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Can We Afford Ford’s Costly Nuclear Buildout?
This episode of Planet Haliburton takes a hard look at Premier Doug Ford’s massive new $300 - $400 billion expansion of nuclear power while tax and ratepayers are still paying off the debt from the last one. That 1980s-1990s nuclear build-out came close to bankrupting Ontario Hydro, resulting in...
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‘Metabolic Rifts’ with Ian Angus,
Animated by advances in Earth System Science, ecosocialist researchers have been rediscovering important insights from an older ecological framework called ‘metabolic rift theory’. This theory emphasizes that all life on earth lives in a dynamic two- way relationship with the earth’s biosphere -...
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Adaptation, Health and Safety and the Climate Emergency
This episode looks at the growing calls for urgent Climate Change Adaptation action as the climate emergency deepens. The failure to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions has come home to roost in the form of more frequent and intense extreme weather events including increased flooding,...
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The Right To Repair with Dr. Natasha Tusikov.
Virtually everyone these days has a story about being forced to throw away an otherwise perfectly serviceable appliance, tool or device simply because one small part has failed. You know the line … “it’s more ‘cost-effective’ to waste it and buy new than repair it. Few of us, though, are aware of...
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“Cobalt: The Making of a Mining Superpower”
This week on Planet Haliburton, Charlie Angus, the NDP Member of Parliament for the current Federal Riding of Timmins, James Bay, which covers an area greater than a quarter of Ontario’s entire land mass is our guest. In addition to that “day job”, the Honourable Member is a practicing musician –...
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Energy Poverty
Abhilash Kantamneni (Abhi) is an Efficiency Canada research manager specializing in energy poverty and low-income energy efficiency. His community-based approach to energy efficiency, civic engagement and capacity building has earned him wide recognition including being named a ‘40 Under 40…
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Wasted: Getting Ourselves Out From Under
This episode features a conversation about approaches to dealing the mountains of garbage being generated by our linear “Take, Make, and Waste” economy with Dr. Calvin Lakhan, Director of the “Waste Wiki Project” at York University. As calls for a “circular” economy that views “garbage” as a…
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“COP28” Post-Mortem – The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The 28th annual UN-sponsored Climate Summit or COP28 is now history. These annual spectacles are chocked full of contradictions and there’s no shortage of controversy about was – or wasn’t - accomplished by thousands of conference delegates from close to 200 countries between November 30th and...
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“Climate Summits and the Climate Crisis: A Heads-Up on COP28”
2023 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record with all the consequences that holds for all life on the planet. With the 28th annual UN-sponsored “Conference of the Parties” or COP28 under the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), delegations from the 197 countries will be...
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"The Climate Emergency, Human Health and the Need for Urgent Climate Action"
2023 is on pace to be the hottest year in Earth’s climate record and the list of climate-driven extreme weather events and other disasters is growing by the day. The human toll has been astonishing and promises to only get much worse as warming, driven by the highest concentration of greenhouse...
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Saving the Greenbelt From Doug Ford and Friends
Few issues have galvanized opposition to the Doug Ford government’s climate and environmental policies as his messing with the boundaries of the Greenbelt - despite his repeated promises not to do so. This episode of Planet Haliburton challenges Ford’s affordable housing rationale for withdrawing...
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From Environmental Commissioner to Toronto City Councilor
This episode features a conversation with Dianne Saxe, an environmental lawyer for over 50 years, who became Ontario’s 3rd (and last) independent Environmental Commissioner in 2015 with the unanimous support of all members of the Legislative Assembly. Before being fired by Premier Doug Ford in...
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Short Takes-CEWF-Bruce McClennan
On this episode of PH we look at the impact of climate change on the Trent Severn Waterway, the risks posed by increased extreme weather events, less predictable water levels and what can be done to minimize the associated risks. Bruce McClennan, the vice chair of the Coalition for Equitable…
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Short Take-CEWF-Ted Spence TSW Reservoir Lakes
On this episode of PH we look at the impact of climate change on the Trent Severn Waterway, the risks posed by increased extreme weather events, less predictable water levels and what can be done to minimize the associated risks. Ted Spence , the chair of the Coalition for Equitable Water Flow,...
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Adapting to Climate Change on TSW Reservoir Lakes
On this episode of PH we look at the impact of climate change on the Trent Severn Waterway, the risks posed by increased extreme weather events, less predictable water levels and what can be done to minimize the associated risks. Ted Spence and Bruce McClennan, the chair and vice chair of the...
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Industrial Logging, Carbon Accounting and The Climate Emergency
Canadians have been told time and again by government and industry reps that the country’s vast crown-held forests have huge surplus carbon storage capacity for sequestering the country’s ever-growing volumes of extracted, transported, burned and/or exported oil and gas production. Michael…
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Big Foreign Oil’s Canadian Political Meddling
Big Foreign Oil’s Canadian Political Meddling The political fallout surrounding China’s alleged interference in Canadian elections has taken up a lot of media airtime recently. But there is a one very powerful source of foreign political interference that has so far escaped any significant…
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Safeguarding Birds Against Buildings
BirdLife's State of the World's Birds 2022 report documents that “nearly half of the world's birds are on the decline, and the National Audubon Society warns that two-thirds of the over 600 North American species it recently assessed are, and will continue to be, threatened by the climate we are…
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The Highlands Corridor Campaign
This episode features an update on the Highlands Corridor Project, an ambitious local undertaking to create and protect a continuous wetland and wildlife corridor across the southern part of Haliburton County and beyond. Canada has committed to increasing its protected spaces and intact…
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Still Hopeful: Lessons From Lifetime of Activism’. With Maude Barlow
In this episode of Planet Haliburton we take a close look at hope - what it is, where it comes from and the central role it can play in challenging the devastating impact human extractive practices can have on a vulnerable biosphere that supports all life on the planet. And we do that with one of...
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Why Green Burials
This week,Terry Moore speaks with Elizabeth Fournier author of f The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial. In many respects the only real certainty in life is death. All living things die and human beings are not exceptional in that...
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Energy Poverty in the Highlands
This episode of Planet Haliburton, features a conversation about “energy poverty” with Tina Jackson, the Executive Director of the Central Food Hub and co-founder of Heat Bank Haliburton County. It’s no secret that Haliburton County has one of the highest rates of poverty in Ontario, if not the...
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Adapting to the Human Impact of Climate Change
Overshadowed by the February 24th Russian invasion of the Ukraine, the release of latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report on Monday February 28th, came with renewed calls for urgent climate action. UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, says that the evidence contained…
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Ford's Bogus Climate Plan
This episode of Planet Haliburton takes stock of Premier Doug Ford’s climate change record with David Robertson from “Seniors for Climate Action Now” (SCAN) in February 2022 - less than four months before the June 2nd Ontario Provincial Election. Premier Ford has, from the day he was elected,...
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Posing As Canadian
“Posing As Canadian – How Big Foreign Oil Captures Canadian Energy and Climate Policy” with Professor Gordon Laxer, January 27/29 2022 After winning the 2018 provincial election, Premier Jason Kenney set up a 3-year, $3.5 million “Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns”, AKA the “Allen...
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Local Climate Change Planning
This week's episode features an update on the status of the County’s Climate Change Planning initiatives with Korey McKay, the County of Haliburton’s Climate Change Co-Ordinator. Climate scientists, UN Climate Reports and Summits, like the recently concluded 26th Conference of the Parties or COP…
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The Highlands Corridor, Protected Spaces and the Climate Emergency
This episode features a conversation about the “Highlands Corridor Project” for reducing carbon emissions at the root of the climate emergency as well as enhancing the local ecological resiliency essential to adapting to the warming already in the pipeline. Canada has committed to increasing the...
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Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
This episode of Planet Haliburton features an interview with Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and communicator extraordinaire as well as author of a recent book entitled “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World” By the time this interview first aired on...
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Ecological Sustainability and Community Based Research
This episode features a conversation about the Woodland and Waterways EcoWatch project co-ordinated by Haliburton’s own Ulinks Community-Based Research group. Provincial government environmental research has been in decline for many years as the Ministries of Natural Resources and the Environment...
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Dangerous Distractions and Canada’s “Net Zero” Emission Targets
“Dangerous Distractions and Canada’s “Net Zero” Emission Targets” with Marc Lee This week this program looks at the “Net Zero” greenhouse gas emissions reduction pledges that have come to occupy a central place in Canada’s federal climate action plans as well as international discussions taking...
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Ecological Overshoot
This week, William Rees, on “Ecological Overshoot: The Existential Issue of Our Time?, September 2021 There’s been much discussion in recent years about the climate emergency being the existential issue of our time. And, to be sure, there’s no scientific doubt that human extraction and burning of...
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The Road to COP 26, Climate Science Confronts Fossil Power
Join Terry Moore, for a discussion with Eddy Pérez, the Climate Action Network’s International Climate Diplomacy Manager, about what climate science tells us needs to be done as the UN and world leaders prepare for the next big Climate Summit, COP 26, this fall in Scotland. Eddy Pérez…
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Planet haliburton-Regime of Obstruction
“Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy”, July 29, 2021 In this episode of Planet Haliburton, we examine the power of fossil capital in Canada, its role in creating the climate emergency and blocking effective action to address it, as well as what can be done to…
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Car Wars
In this episode we look at the not so intense battle between gas-powered SUVs and battery-powered electric vehicles in the fight against global heating. The greenhouse gas emissions from this country’s transportation sector are no small matter amounting to about 25% of our total emissions. We…
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The Liberal Climate Action Formula
**“The Liberal Climate Action Formula: The Missing Renewables and Fatal Fission Attraction” with Paul McKay, June 10, 2021 In this episode we take a look at the absence of renewable energy in the federal Liberal Climate Action Formula as well as the government’s continuing attraction to nuclear...
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Climate Activists and Land Defenders
“More Powerful Together: Conversation with Climate Activists and Land Defenders” Jen Gobby. On this episode we discuss Settler Climate Activist Support for Indigenous Climate Action with Jen Gobby, a white settler climate justice activist with a PHD from McGill. Dr. Gobby is the author of the new...
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Vaccines
This episode of Planet Haliburton features a conversation with local Haliburton family physician, Dr. Nell Thomas, about Covid-19 vaccines and how their record-breaking development and widespread use might influence our future “new normal”. Covid-19 has taken the lives of 3.2 million people…
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The Liberal Climate Action Formula
“The Federal Liberal Climate Action Formula: A Recipe for Failure”, Thursday March 25, 2021, with David Robertson from “Seniors for Climate Action Now” (SCAN!) On this episode we take a look at the recent flurry of activity by the federal Liberal government on the climate change policy front. In...
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Lakeshore Capacity Program
On this episode of Planet Haliburton we take a look at the challenges, possibilities and limitations of protecting Cottage Country lake water quality and shoreline health via municipal by-laws and other planning tools with Dr. Neil Hutchinson, of Hutchinson Environmental Sciences Ltd. in...
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Eco-Socialism and the Green Party of Canada
This episode of Planet Haliburton features a conversation about Eco-Socialism, the Covid-19 and Climate Emergencies and the Green Party of Canada. Two of the eight candidates to replace Elizabeth May as Green Party leader in the fall of 2020 campaigned as “Eco-Socialists”. One of those…
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Planet Haliburton and Blue Green Algae
“Blue-Green Algae: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” with Dr. Elizabeth Favot “This episode of Planet Haliburton focuses on the causes and consequences of the increased incidence of blue-green algae blooms across Ontario and, more recently, here in Haliburton County in the fall of 2020. Blue-green...
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Planet Haliburton Short Take Episode 7-Draft Shoreline By-law: Separating Fact From Fiction
Terry Moore talks with Paul McInness about the Draft Shoreline Preservation Bylaw. This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm
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Building Back Better from the Pandemic and Climate Emergencies
“Building Back Better from the Pandemic and Climate Emergencies”, with Annamie Paul, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, December 10, 2020 This episode features a conversation with Annamie Paul, the newly-elected leader of the Green Party of Canada about “Building Back Better From the Covid-19…
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Doug Ford Environmental Impact Assessment with Dianne Saxe
On this episode we continue our environmental impact assessment of the Doug Ford government. From the immediate hollowing out of Ontario’s Climate Change laws and his cancellation of 752 green energy projects, within weeks of becoming Premier in June of 2018, to his more recent efforts to…
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A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency” With Seth Klein.
“A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency” With Seth Klein. All mainstream Canadian political parties say they accept what climate scientists are saying about the seriousness of climate emergency and the need to urgently cut GHG emissions. At the same time, however, they allow…
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“Pension Fund Capitalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic”
“Pension Fund Capitalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic” Program Description On this episode of Planet Haliburton we take a look at the relationship between the Covid-19 Pandemic, the incredible rate of infection and death in our Long Term Facilities and the investment practices of large public sector...
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Climate Changing Planning in Haliburton County with Korey McKay
This week Tery Moore and Korey McKay cover Climate Change Planning in Haliburton County. Links mentioned in this episode: 1. Korey McKay Biographical Information: • https://ca.linkedin.com/in/korey-mckay-57257513b • https://haliburtonecho.ca/climate-change-co-ordinator-plans-to-lead-the-way/ 2....
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Planet Haliburton and Climate Action Muskoka
“On this PH episode we explore local climate change planning activism with two representatives of Climate Action Muskoka (CAM), Linda Mathers and Tamsen Tillson, who explain their efforts to build build wide-spread community support for a climate emergency declaration in the District of Muskoka.…
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Planet Haliburton and Short Term Rentals
This week, Terry Moore, and Mayor of Algonquin Highlands Carol Moffatt cover short term rentals. This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm
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Terry Moore investigates sustainable solutions to the ecological issues of today with interviews from innovators in construction, conservation, legislation and more! Big ideas for the whole planet, from Haliburton County!
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