The NDP caucus interim leader backs Turmel

NDP MP Nycole Turmel said she was "overwhelmed by the leader Jack Layton on her while he battles cancer in her caucus colleagues support in the population.

A special Congress on Wednesday unanimously rookie rented during the summer in the middle of the Hill to be the leader of their new Democratic Caucus MPs was backed by her peers. The second surprise announcement he has cancer of the meeting Layton in order to fight the fight on Monday was prompted to take the time to.

Layton extraordinary news delivery location is at a press conference he was official opposition leader was advised to take Turmel and he is in the September 19, when the Parliament resumes work will be featured again, he said.

It is now confirmed that Layton's picks of the Caucus, Turmel's approval Thursday of the final decision to the NDP Federal Council goes for.

"I am overwhelmed by the support of the caucus today. I also accept the recommendation of the Federal Reserve is the Caucus, "as long as you're ready to go on." Turmel "We are a strong, powerful leaders in the Caucus, Jack Layton. We want to come back to break in September. "

Did not take questions from reporters, Turmel.

Libby Davies and Thomas Mulcair, tofu leaders, strong feeling, and the party United.

"2 ? hours while we did our leaders to support a wonderful discussion with each other," Davis said.

NDP MP Peter Julian said Wednesday at a meeting of MPs of the party, all 7.103

"I was so impressed with, there is no doubt. We are all to be announced on Monday, and Jack and treatment but also very determined, "he said, the power and politics in the host Evan Solomon, CBC said.

Monday, many of whom Layton, Toronto saw his press conference via Skype from his learned the news of his Mps. Davis hopes her leaders and famous for his optimistic and he again expressed his positive attitude on Wednesday in his latest health challenge when talking.

Layton was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009, and what was not said, but was diagnosed with the disease's second form recently. He also had a hairline fracture in hip surgery this year.

New democratic Mps voiced sadness and surprise at their leader's health setback in the general election the party's historic elections coming just months after rising on May 2, 2009. But Davis is determined to work hard off the caucus but Layton high morale.

"Everyone is very active and very energetic take on it we feel a very committed," she said.

Former NDP leader Ed Broadbent Solomon Caucus home will be as expected in September and again Layton said. Turmel was given and he whole range of the leaders of her and hopes you'll consulting Layton said. Brodsky said she wants the advice he'll be able to use Turmel.

"I know there and then ... a Nycole. It's her phone, "he said.

His voice is strong and messages to convey his appreciation for the thousands of Topp, in the past two days, the President of the party had asked Canada received him, who spoke Wednesday's Caucus, Brian Topp told reporters ahead of Leighton.

Thursday at the end of the day goal of the Federal Council Topp NDP announced by interim leaders. However, there is no doubt left, Turmel Layton's temporary Topp replacement will be named.

Anyone who questions the choice of Layton and the NDP "as a woman who has an impressive" and described a long history and have not heard Turmel said.

Turmel, located across the River from Ottawa – Hull, Aylmer, Quebec for the riding of the MP was "already a well known public figure about a well known country in the painting in Quebec will be," said Topp.

Across the public service union leader is one of the many new MPs in the NDP caucus, but she quickly made a positive impression and Caucus Chair was elected unanimously.

The NDP official opposition Stephen Harper at Leighton in their place if there is not enough good to return to the Commons on September 19, a raft of questions about what would happen beyond Wednesday.

"Right now, today, we are together, our solidarity and our leaders focus on the support page for each says," Deputy leader, Davis said.

If you are ready to come back to this Layton mid leader would continue for the caucus whether Turmel as discussed in pressed to say that you have said that the party "will go through the rest of the summer, we're prepared for the session and then obviously we will show you how to make an assessment of where things are going in."

Davis is concentrating on his health Caucus Layton that he will be back until he and his doctor said.

' Jack Layton's Party, has been a very strong team but he also has produced brands. '-NDP MP Jack Harris

Topp also cannot resume his leadership duties to Leighton, what would happen if and replace the query for the small possibility of Mps. He is ambitious and play a leading role would expect people to a party, he said. But the most popular leaders lauded the NDP Layton, he pointed out, that you want to see all of the MPs for the party with each other to interfere with the goal of Layton do not think adding him.

"I am amazed that it would be absurd or team must admit that I was moved by a member of no one who work in the months to come ... You will probably regret it if he did, "said Topp.

St. John's compassionate and NDP MP Jack Harris, but he and his colleagues see Layton headshot, their leaders stressed that while it has built a solid Caucus.

"Jack Layton's Party, has been a very strong team but he also produced the brand," he said. "It will put an extra effort to ensure continued."

Toronto-Danforth riding of Layton, Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital for an MP is being treated.

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Environmental litigation is difficult business in China. Even as the country enters its 12th Five-Year Plan period, with perhaps the most extensive set of top-down environmental and energy policies?and targets it has ever announced, the space for bottom-up public supervision, particularly through the use of law and the courts, has in recent years been constrained. ?

There has been some progress in the development of tools that create greater transparency and accountability in environmental laws and policies. There have been modest, but important, improvements in government and corporate disclosure of environmental information in recent years. A small cadre of dedicated and increasingly sophisticated Chinese and international environmental groups and journalists continue to highlight China’s environmental problems and search for possible solutions.

But high hopes that lawyers and legal experts could harness the law to bring about positive environmental change have been tempered. As one leading environmental lawyer told me, “we must lower our expectations.”?

This is unfortunate, because a public educated in the law, willing to vigorously press for enforcement of environmental law at the ground-level, can offer a powerful supplement to government environmental-enforcement efforts. It can force polluters to internalise the costs of environmental violations and drive greater compliance with the law. In China, local resistance to central dictates is well recognised: it is hard to avoid the sense that the government is leaving value on the table by not placing a greater emphasis on the role of the judiciary and public supervision in its quest to achieve its environmental and energy goals.

Aside from the potential benefits for the attainment of central government objectives, litigation is about resolving disputes. Many environmental disputes involve regular citizens facing the negative impacts of development and environmental degradation: farmers who have lost crops and livelihoods; villagers facing health problems from pollution; homeowners facing property damage; children poisoned by heavy metals. Fair and predictable judicial proceedings can help to remedy these injustices that have been, and continue to be, the by-products of rapid development.

Last year, the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims (CLAPV) – China’s first environmental legal aid center – celebrated its tenth anniversary.?The All-China Environment Federation (ACEF) – a government-organized NGO under the environmental ministry – established an environmental legal aid centre in 2005.?My organisation, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), has worked with these groups and others to develop an environmental bar in China (a group of lawyers specialising in environmental law) and build the capacity of lawyers, judges and the citizenry. Much has happened in the area of environmental law and litigation over the last decade and it is worth taking stock of where we stand today. I wrote an article for chinadialogue in 2007, expressing hope that environmental litigation could play a greater role in China’s environmental protection. In 2011 that hope, it must be said, has yet to be realised.

Benefits and challenges

Where it has worked, environmental litigation has served a number of important functions, such as providing some level of compensation to those who have been harmed by pollution. But in other critical respects, such as stopping ongoing pollution or forcing the remediation of past environmental harm, environmental litigation has fallen short.

An informal survey of environmental lawyers found that compensation for harms was typically the best that plaintiffs could hope for. One example of a successful “compensation for harm” case is a recent lawsuit brought by a group of mussel farmers in the Tianjin Maritime Court for harm caused by a coastal oil pipeline spill. The plaintiffs received 12 million yuan (US$1.9 million). This outcome is by no means typical though.?Difficulties in causation and evidentiary burdens have made even compensatory relief difficult to obtain, particularly where harm to human health is a claim. In some cases where compensation is ordered, payment is nonetheless very difficult to obtain. This was the case in the Fujian Pingnan case against a chemical factory, which I described in detail in a 2007 article in the Vermont Environmental Law Journal.

Lawsuits can sometimes also put the spotlight on gaps in legislation and drive legal reform. The Tianjin mussel farmers’ case, which involved multiple defendants, was discussed in the course of amending China’s Tort Law. Some lawyers feel the case played a role in the establishment of the new Article 68 of that law, which provides for joint and several liability to third parties (expanding the potential parties from which plaintiffs may collect).

Litigation has in some cases also served as a channel for forcing an administrative response, by pressuring local governments to take action, or by alerting higher-level government officials to problems at the local level. A case supported by ACEF in Chengde, in northern China's?Hebei province, concerning an iron-steel plant affecting more than 1,000 people did not lead to a favourable court decision, but, after mediation, caused the local government to offer payment to harmed locals in an effort to offer some level of relief. Unfortunately, the company did not admit to any wrongdoing.

Generally speaking, though, public confidence in the courts is low. According to one experienced environmental lawyer, many plaintiffs actually have very little hope of winning, but use environmental lawsuits simply as a way to lodge a complaint and have their dissatisfaction formally recorded. All environmental lawyers I spoke with said that it is more difficult than in the past even to get cases accepted by the courts. They also said that it is virtually impossible to stop ongoing pollution or force remediation of historical pollution through the courts. A Chinese judge once told me (speaking of a housing dispute), “you cannot count on the courts to resolve the problem.?Lawsuits can only serve as a tool to get the attention of the appropriate government officials.”

The lack of a reliable formal channel for addressing environmental disputes and holding agencies and polluters accountable can breed public resentment and prevent the resolution of injustices. Often it is the fear of social instability that has made courts reluctant or unwilling to handle sensitive issues or cases with large numbers of plaintiffs.?However, the inability to obtain judicial relief has the tendency to push the public to take matters into its own hands as has happened in numerous incidents across China in recent years. The result in such cases is that neither plaintiffs, nor the government achieve their goals.

A direction forward

Environmental courts are a potentially positive development for environmental litigation.?In recent years, various cities and provinces in China have established at least 39 specialized environmental courts, tribunals, panels, or circuit courts. Many of these courts have promulgated local rules allowing additional stakeholders, including local prosecutors, environmental agencies, NGOs and citizens, to bring “public interest” environmental suits (ones in which the parties might not traditionally have standing).?

A greater diversity of channels for relief is in principle a good thing, but the verdict on these courts is still out. The most successful environmental court to date (in the city of Guiyang, south-west China) has shown a greater willingness to accept difficult cases and a greater degree of innovation in crafting solutions to environmental problems. ACEF has brought a number of demonstration cases in the environmental courts that provide a glimpse at the positive potential of environmental public interest litigation. These “public interest” cases are focused on stopping environmental problems, rather than individual compensation, and deserve much greater recognition and use. Critics have said that the environmental courts still do not fundamentally resolve problems of local protectionism and lack of independence that have made environmental enforcement so problematic in China.

Lawyers have also cited the Maritime Courts as a potential bright spot in environmental litigation. The Supreme People’s Court has been considering granting these cross-jurisdictional courts jurisdiction over regional water pollution cases. The higher quality of the judges, greater financial resources and relative independence from local influence make these courts an attractive venue for specialisation in environmental cases. China’s Intellectual Property Courts are a model for how such specialised courts can make improvements on current weaknesses in China’s court system.?

Apart from these specialised courts, many experts in Chinese government, academia and civil society have been pressing for national legislation to establish environmental public interest litigation in China on the basic idea that additional channels of supervision and enforcement are needed to supplement resource-constrained government enforcement efforts. There has been robust discussion on this topic in relation to the upcoming amendments to China’s Civil Procedure Law and Environmental Protection Law, and these legislative amendments provide a once-in-a-decade (or two) opportunity to incorporate public interest litigation into the law.

China has a long history of taking successful local experiments to scale at the national level. The environmental courts have already served as an important forum for testing out environmental public interest litigation on a smaller scale, and have played a substantial role in forwarding the national discussion around public interest litigation. They have also provided empirical evidence that prior concerns about frivolous lawsuits and problems of coordination among the various stakeholders were overblown. China’s new environmental courts should continue to be given wide latitude to demonstrate the value of environmental litigation in furthering China’s environmental protection objectives and providing justice to Chinese citizens around the country. Legislators will hopefully take the opportunity to build public interest litigation into Chinese law in the coming year or two, so that the successful experiences in the environmental courts can be expanded nationwide.

Perhaps most importantly, China has a small, but dedicated, cadre of lawyers, citizens, and environmental groups willing to use legal tools for environmental protection and to promote the development of rule of law in China (one example can be seen in the documentary, The Warriors of Qiugang).?In our work over the years in China, a remarkable number of lawyers have expressed a desire and willingness to use their skills to help the environment and prevent injustice.?Much work can be done to help these lawyers play a bigger role in China’s environmental protection.

In China, there is often discussion of “Chinese characteristics”. In the environmental realm, China has forged its own unique path to addressing some of the most urgent environmental and energy problems the world has ever seen. As China has shown with its current and recent Five-Year Plans, its approach is characterised by the ability to move quickly when necessary; a strong sense of pragmatism; comfort with drawing experience from a wide range of domestic and international stakeholders; and most importantly a willingness to experiment and make decisive adjustments when problems are discovered.?We have seen this in China’s adjustments to address inefficient allocations of environmental and energy targets, and in efforts to prevent the power outages that many local officials resorted to in 2010 to meet their energy intensity targets.?

China’s current approach, for better or worse, also reflects a much greater comfort with top-down administrative measures. The government has already announced that this was an error of the 11th Five-Year Plan and that market measures will assume a greater role in the future. However, legal channels and greater public involvement and supervision are equally important and deserve much greater focus as well.?China will only hamper itself if it takes these critical tools off the table.

Alex Wang was previously senior attorney and director at the China Environmental Law & Governance Project for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Beijing.?He teaches Chinese and environmental law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

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United States debt fixes stalled by partisan split

Apart from the potentially calamitous Government primary, Republican John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House for six days and cut federal spending by $ 1 trillion is a borrowing of the United States Wednesday around the United States would increase the business plan progress seems to be a merge.

Senate Democrats proposed a non-starter, but letting the economy on shaky footing Republican — in the short term solution that would leave.

Have put financial markets on the edge of both sides of the standoff in an attempt was made to claim moral high ground.

In the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates, Boehner, analyst said it would cut ad spending than his offer after his plan launched a retool-1.2 trillion more than 850 billion dollars promised for the first time for over ten years.

The following is the modified plan of the House Republican leaders planned to vote Thursday.

"We are moving in his direction in a big way today," said Republican Representative Mike Rogers, Boehner's plans.

Rogers and other changes in the Bill exceeds the spending cuts will soon vote on balanced budget plan House additional lending institutions and the fact that the cited OK will make.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, but Bonner's plan "manner, without raising taxes and cut spending budget gimmicks to avoid default." said he would resolve the crisis

But Democrat Senator Charles Schumer said Boehner's proposed "non-starter in the Senate, the President will sign it never remains."

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid would offer proposals to the competition provided by little more than $ 2 trillion in savings, but there is still more than half a trillion less commitment, under the plan of Boehner. budget analyst report

Reed said Boehner's original plan is so weak that it "had no Republican support in their Chambers even."

United States Senate majority leader Harry Reid walks to his office Wednesday to keep the debt ceiling confrontation on Capitol Hill. Harry Hamburg/a p press

"Short-term solutions and solutions for our economy," said Reid. "It's not a long-term solution to the question of the Democratic Party. It's the economy. The economy needs it. "

House Democrats, looking for a fallback plan, both sides focused on their part, the Government lending institutions before running out of next week's failure to raise the debt ceiling.

Representative James Clyburn, democratic leadership must be a member of the Republican party, he was a fellow Democrat, Obama and the debt ceiling for short-term expansion plans to veto the House of the nation's public debt of the validity of the Constitution, "shall not be questioned." says said 14 amendment calls

The White House questioned the legality of the adoption of this tactic. But the Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson left before the expiration of the lending institutions only, the Treasury said, "we have a failsafe mechanism."

The fact that both sides had reduced the differences among all the heated rhetoric that was easy to miss.

Bonner's plan represents an important Bill to the House last week, demanding a long-term spending cuts less exercise, this one had the Democrats balk.

The lead is no longer a tax increase, Republican, cut the deficit to claim that and some planning as part of the curse.

However, there is a need to do better than the pump up the Bill Boehner. He is the Conservative Government's borrowing cap in the tea party backup is almost $ 1 trillion increase in demand and his accompanying deep spending cuts in the West Sea. There are many Conservatives oppose it.

Even among the conservative Republican representative Alan West said Boehner's Bill picking up support.

"Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama is going to be playing tomorrow night," he said. "I'll bet my retirement cheque. I complement. I'll support this. "

Obama and the Democrats in control of the situation, unless he managed to get his opponent in the Senate to leverage you can risk losing Boehner wrestling.

The lead fails in the Senate, and it threatened a veto the White House was destined originally planned. But it's nonetheless how long-term debt ceiling height in order to reduce the deficit while the frame the debate.

Said Tuesday it would cut the deficit of the CBO Analysis of the Republican measure approximately 850 billion not 1.2 trillion over 10 years by the original promise. Even more embarrassing billion deficit in the country's borrowing next year to cut more than 900 billion dollars to generate cap, CBO, measure would provide increased.

Bonner's plan is to increase the total budget of the Government loan for two-track plan to a maximum of 10 years of Agency budget kerb to 2.7 trillion dollars will be obtained by some. First, the effects of an increase of 900 billion dollars immediately; It would take the recommendations of the Panel, the second increase in special bipartisan Congress enacted can be awarded after.

The White House has said it will back a measure of the endless political pressure, Boehner is the delicate and important in the market during the risk discussions next year's campaign debt and more uncertainty.

Lead again that poor reviews on release, such as the Kentucky Republican, McConnell of his vote on the measure on Monday to force the competition is held.

The lead promised on the 2.7 trillion in spending cuts and hope the debt limit would be enough to keep the Government afloat, his past 2012 elections will increase even though the measure last viable option, and you can modify the type in the Republican party can emerge.

Those same Republicans calls Reid's Bill in the war-related savings are fake predicted a trillion dollar blamed for.

One area of potential compromise, especially the additional deficit reduction is a major health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid bipartisan Congressional Commission to identify how to handle the results. Reed and the increase in the future I want to support the idea, even though Boehner Boehner that the proposed cuts in the debt limit and law contingent.

Meanwhile, the Government's borrowing ability to continue to watch United States loans and obligations, such as the default start date of 3 worth $ 23 billion to prevent possible social security due next Tuesday deadline ticking down.

Capitol had urged in a speech Monday night Obama call their representatives after revealing to connect.

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'' People are dying here, '' Norway teen character Mama

When the shooting started in the youth camp near Oslo killing people on the island Utoya is a political man, Julie Nord Wei, who scrambled for cover Bremnes, 16, was among the youth. She hides behind a rock, she and her mother, Marianne urged the police report.

Marian Bremnes told CNN that Julie said, "MOM, don't panic, but here is a loose, you must call around and shoot the sniper and that the police could not reach them because I have tried."

July 22nd, unemployed Norwegian, Anders Bering Breivik was in court in the attack. A total of 68 people died in the camp, teens, and many other bombing outside Government Headquarters in Oslo on the same day at 8.

Was one of those who survived without injury Bremnes. The newspaper Verdens gang that Julie and her mother was Norwegian, Wei, the text message exchange between:

Julie: MOM, you should be able to tell police fast. People are dying here!

MOM: I'm working on it, Julie. The police are on their way. How dare you call me?

Julie: crazy people run around and people saying police.

MOM: police know and they had a lot of calls. It is going well, Julie. Police are calling us now. , The symbol of life in the us every five minutes?

Julie: we fear for our lives.

MOM: I understand very well, my dear. Qu, don't go anywhere! They are already on their way to the police if you have not already! You people are injured or killed?

Julie: we are hiding in the rocks along the coast.

MA: great! You should ask your grandfather is the safe pick up again when you come off? Option.

Julie: Yeah.

MA: we will contact you as soon as the grandfather.

Julie: I love you if you are still often rude.

Julie: and I shit scared if I am not embarrassed to.

MOM: I know my love. We love you very much too. You still have to shoot them?

MOM: you have heard from others from Tromso anything? Grandfather was on his way down.

MOM: you will be taken to a police uniform. Be careful! How to you now?

MOM: you can talk now?

Julie: number, he is still shooting!

MOM: Joergen has swum the coast. Just spoke to the father. This is where I have all the attention in national news now, now, Utoya. Be careful! Get a chance to come to the mainland when you're grandfather and Hamar.

MA: and thanks for the compliments.

Julie: we are waiting to be picked up by police. We heard the shots so we dare not just now.

MA: great! OK, well done. shelter is now in progress, they have to say on TV.

Julie: I hope soon we will be picked up by someone else. They are not able to catch him soon?!

MOM: anti-terrorism units are there, and they are working on that are catching on.

MA: we should try to get one home tomorrow?

Julie: I don't have time to think about it now.

MOM: I understand.

Julie: do you know if they managed to catch him?

Posted by: Mama, I love continues. We are following everything on television.

Julie: Yeah, helicopters circling above us.

Julie: that they are looking for is not in the water, yet we have people!

Julie: they say the news?

MOM: police also arrive by boat, otherwise nothing new Utoya. It is not clear what happened to the killer, so still keep. Waits for someone to pick you.

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The plight of the public (2)

Four cases described in the first part of this article, three ended up in the hope of resolution: projects that may have gone to pollute the environment was delayed, ordered perform environmental impact assessments and changes or forced to move.

But it is more common in China for the public to participate in environmental impact assessments to be frustrated. For example, project of ethylene 2008 Sinopec in Pengzhou, Sichuan, was ignored the desire of many residents of Chengdu to take part in the process. Even cases where the public has managed to have something to say still show the challenges to participatory democracy in matters of environment environmental in China.

First, the successful cases are always produced after questionable activity. The public does not have to buy full and complete information about the process of approval and construction - occur only know that the project is in some illegal way or problematic, by which point the scheme went ahead illegally without an environmental impact assessment or the assessment has concluded without full public participation. No exposure in the media, the public do not even know about such activities, and much less involved in dealing with them.

Secondly, the Government does not provide active participation. In four cases that we have discussed here, it was after "walking" protests or extensive exposure in line or coverage in the mainstream media that the environmental authorities and the local governments were forced to hold hearings. The Government does not actively invite citizenship to participate in the drafting and adoption of the evaluations.

Thirdly, the regulations on public participation processes is insufficient and does not allow the public fully to express their views. One reason for local skepticism about environmental impact assessments for high voltage in Xishangliu and incineration in Liulitun plant line were very few people had participated in the process and those who were chosen to participate were not representative of the people affected.

2006 "Temporary method for public participation in environmental assessment impact" includes certain regulations on the ways in which the public can participate in the evaluation of construction projects. But in practice, the results have been poor. In particular, until three years ago, there was legislation on the publication of Government information, which is a prerequisite and the basis of public participation. This changed in 2008, but the results of such legislation have been something just to show off: the public is often unable to acquire complete and accurate, making it impossible for their participation in the process of formulation of policies of the Government of a prepared and rational manner.

We have seen some progress. The Ministry of environmental protection is working on national standards for the protection of the environment, and their "environmental impact assessment technical guidelines: public participation" was made available for public comment in January 2011. This document sets out regulations on the process of public participation: the definition of public, times and methods for the publication of the information necessary for the participation of the public and the conditions for the holding of hearings and discussion sessions.

But there is a fourth obstacle: such participation has no teeth in the courts. The grant of administrative licences and environmental impact assessment laws give the public the right to participate, but without the possibility of repair if that right is violated, which means that that right exists not only name: as lawyers often say, without reparation, there are no rights.

The law on environmental impact assessment is only a simple and abstract article on public participation: "The State encourages relevant work units, experts and members of the public to participate in the evaluation of environmental impact through a proper method". Do not specify the legal responsibilities in charge if they do not seek public opinions. Therefore, public participation in these assessments often missing or fails to measure when the system was designed.

If ask members of the public and environmental groups to participate in the decision-making of environmental policy and their application it is rejected by the Government, current legislation does not allow such a decision to be challenged in the courts. The existing law on administrative licensing only allows those who have a direct interest to sue. If, for example, Zhang Zhengchun, the first person to identify the problems in the old Summer Palace: or environmental campaign group friends of nature were satisfied with the administrative decisions taken by the Agency of environmental protection of the State in this case, none of the parties would be able to take the matter to the courts, as they have no direct relationship of interests with the party responsible for, the Office of management of old Summer Palace. The lack of guarantees of this right is an obstacle to the participation of citizens or organizations in the environmental decision-making of the Government.

May 1, 2008, the Council of State "standards on publication of Government information" and the Ministry of environmental protection of the "trial methods of publication of environmental information" came into force: stirring great hopes among environmental groups and the public, who believed that they marked a new dawn for participatory democracy in the field of the environment. But three years later, the situation just described as acceptable. Open environmental information is a prerequisite for public participation: If this essential ingredient is only in an acceptable state, it is easy to imagine the condition of participation on the ground. Nationally influential cases of public participation, such as the relationship with the old Summer Palace, not repeated.

These obstacles seem to have soaked the public enthusiasm for participating in environmental policy formulation. But the nature of modern society means that the authorities really need public participation so that the decisions made are correct. Increasingly, technological development is bringing new risks to society and should be the objective of public policies prevent and manage these risks. Public participation can help the nation to avoid social conflicts arising from errors of Government policy and help to maintain social harmony and stability.

What changes, then we would like to see? We hope that the words "temporary" or "test" removed from rules that are intended to promote the participation of the public: as the "temporary method of environment protection licences administrative hearings", the "temporary method for public participation in environmental assessment impact" and the "test methods for the publication of environmental information". We hope to see information under the control of the Government shared with the public. And we hope to open the doors of the Court to the citizens and environmental groups. Only then China can limit the dangers posed by environmental problems to the society.

Zhang Jingjing is Deputy Director of China in PILnet country: the global network of public interest law.

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War crimes suspect, the Prosecutor uncertain

There are online with the help of the suspected war criminals are all recently nabbed "wanted" list, will face justice in their home country actually is.

The Federal Minister to make their alleged crimes simply Canada Wednesday inadmissible because he wanted to get rid of the men, he said.

Human rights advocates at the federal responsibility to prosecute suspects deported-not-say avoid that.

"Here are our concern is to make a long-established practice in Canada overwhelmingly furthering this sort of deal with our criminal justice system rather than the use of our immigration system," by Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada.

"Some even turning it into an excuse to criminal justice system, or if there is no doubt that people in this list to be established, in place of some measures does not seem to be putting a damn actually face."

On Wednesday, immigration Minister Jason kenney, Minister Vic Toews, public safety Canada, with the help of the people to see many of the foreign suspected war crimes, the second capture of holding press conferences.

Henry was found in Toronto of Peru Pantoja Carbonel will be the subject of deportation. He gets caught up in the second national campaign in Peru.

But other former military and people in Peru, many of whom have the same rigorous trials as citizens in some cases can be spotty in the former war criminals prosecuted were police personnel has been recorded. Government Decree on behalf of the fares, 3 years of age or older, and human resources was laid by the Court to try former soldier if private military "part of" not guilty "of ordered.

Typically, Canada has the potential to capital punishment, torture or a country, even if the suspect does not banish is that there are no similar verification of whether the prosecution launched Toews indicated.

"These individuals from Canada who is inadmissible, the focus will eliminate," Toews said.

"We are not making a finding of guilt or innocence in terms of actual crime rates."

The Minister said there are no plans to prosecute the men in Canada. The Government has accused both Rwanda, war crimes and crimes against humanity Canada, under the law to prosecute all war crimes only.

"In General, committed the crime is prosecuted where they are the most appropriate jurisdiction, the United Nations, the country or he-through" Toews said.

"Where private elsewhere, but that's criminal prosecution in this country for certain rare cases, the general rule. It's not a particularly effective way of that evidence and charged in other countries. "

Where offences committed there is the possibility of capital punishment, torture or a fair trial, and when you can Neve said the trial is the best choice. But what if you simply impossible.

So the highest order, such as the State atrocities or disappearance of the crime of "universal jurisdiction" are collectively recognized the principle of, he added.

"We simply have to ensure that our people here, or somewhere in the preceding step away without taking meaningful steps to clean up when you return to our immigration system, and we they will face the justice he fails to live up to the responsibility."

In the United States, the United Kingdom's entry into the false passports suspected torturer. Tuesday convicted Peru United Kingdom Government, yet he could see a new indictment in accordance with the laws of his alleged war crimes has been investigated.

There is no information on the exact nature of war crimes or crimes against humanity perpetrated by men of Canada alleges.

Fabiola Bazo, Vancouver-based writer and consultant to many of the problems that Peru Peru fugitive former officers, between 1980 and 1992, the Government's brutal crackdown on leftist rebels. Peru President Alberto Fujimori's regime, former members also damaged have been trying to keep track of.

In the United States extradited former officer dubbed the "Andean butcher" Peru two weeks ago were victims of the massacre that was within the United States., 1985, a civil trial brought by.

Bazo in Peru, leftist government justice system because she was a new change in the human rights abusers, the new President will bring and Ollanta Humala, despite the fact that the process for prosecuting former military officers were cautiously optimistic their own.

"The new President is a very promising new Minister appointments by the Minister of Justice is a good man and respect for human rights. All I can say the same of Foreign Ministers, "said Bazo. "They have always been former officers in the [NULL] toward amnesty."

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Read the button

A small brown box I mentioned earlier became common knowledge, post now. The number of viewers who dip into this almost every meeting, but many still missing out. SPL, currently treat solid testing ASPL and manage now are talented and how it works.

One Scout was a little confused at the meeting, but the riders. Other viewers had complained that he was not wearing the official shorts-green pants like a BSA TERROR CAMPAIGN a BSA TERROR CAMPAIGN. He believed that his official but did and showed her and sat down. Since he felt his full uniform, he asked me about it at the end of the meeting.
I told my pants sure didn't look much like other BSA TERROR CAMPAIGN saw trousers, but there is a simple way to prove it. He was looking at the button above the zipper, tell me what he said. Indeed, "the Boy Scouts of America" stamped plastic button. These are convertible canvas pants and we saw them before.

So, I told him he might go to tell the SPL "my read" button, and then open the dialog box. Easy to jump to conclusions when something is not exactly as we expect it to be. Be observant, flexibility and openness helps us improve, if that detects new version of trousers or improve skill a BSA TERROR CAMPAIGN or get a better way to do things than what it has always been done here.

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4 arrested in war crimes suspects Toronto area

The fourth man living in Canada illegally and that war crimes and suspected by the Federal Government have been arrested in the greater Toronto area is identified.

Pantoja was arrested in Peru, from public safety Minister Vic Toews and Henry Carbonel Jason kenney, Minister of immigration in Ottawa Canada border services agency at a press conference to reporters Wednesday by taken into custody.

Henry was taken from the original in order to remove Canada border Peru Pantoja Carbonel service agencies into custody. (CBSA)

Carbonel, 53, was arrested on Tuesday, a spokesman for the CBSA Pantoja. Others already identified by the Federal Government has been taken into custody suspected war criminals Ottawa 30 since last week when it released the name of the country, called for three illegal.

"Canada are involved in war crimes or crimes against humanity will not be a refuge for the people," Toews said. "With the help of the citizens, and they may be, the suspect will face consequences."

Toews was inadmissible in Canada, the focus of the Government is determined to be the latest person to say removing the arrestee allegations would not provide additional information.

The Government has previously faced no criminal charges abroad, 30 people on the list. But they are considered by the immigration and Refugee Board, was inadmissible, "reasonable grounds" to believe they are based on war crimes or crimes against humanity.

Why doesn't personal prosecution in Canada, only the removal orders enforced and origin or asking the United Nations is responsible for the operation of the country they are prosecuting. Toews

"We are not making a finding of guilt or innocence," the Minister said.

Canada's criminal acts of humanity and war crimes for people accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity if they are in Canada can be prosecuted here.

Toews acknowledged "certain rare cases" where individuals have been indicted for crimes committed elsewhere, such as in Canada, but it adds to the general rule.

"It is a particularly effective way of prosecution evidence is given in other countries," the Minister said.

Numerous former President Alberto Fujimori in 1990 and 2000, Peru is a serious human rights violations, assassinations, torture and forced sterilizations between including the use of getting Government faced charges stemming from alleged. Also, the accusation in the 1980s and early 1990s through 70,000 people died or disappeared in the 12-year insurgency in the manifestations of the practice of the shining path militants fought.

But Peru charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity, and there are considerable difficulties facing deportation trial guarantee Pantoja Carbonel.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, Minister Vic Toews, left, and public safety Canada and cannot be a safe haven for war criminals. (Sean Patrick/Canada press release)

Media reports last week, the Federal Government, Canada border services agency when you are prompted by the website name and date of birth, post photos of the suspects and their whereabouts can lead to a call for all information.

CBC News ' published by the crime charged, and therefore, in practice, not with the full list of the names and pictures at this time is not who is not a suspect in the name.

Kenney said Canada immigration law "is probably a strong" war criminals or those guilty of crimes against humanity in 2nd_exchangeserver12. But he mentions immigration and refugee system, seeking to exploit the many fake identity.

"We are very tight screen but ... We want it to avoid this natural criminals sneaking into Canada's immigration Minister said "we cannot guarantee 100%.

You cannot say for sure that he is the most recent Toews also arrested "solely" was based on the result of tipping, or information, whether or not to continue, he said.

CBSA is "privacy will not be able to divulge certain information in accordance with the law." individuals had suspicions about human or international rights agency, but they are a crime against humanity and war crimes act or in violation of international law has been determined.

To confront that CBSA and criminal Toews other foreigners charged abroad and the possibility of expanding the initiative website exile, to discuss, or convicted of crimes in Canada kenney will continue to add and arrange removal.

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Vitamin "R"

Summer camp can really wear out. Fresh air, exercise swatting insects, hard to sleep on the ground and no air means you ?????? to get the vitamin R (rest) whenever you can.

The first three days of camp set heat index records, wiped out the viewers and adults. Although they drank water, slowed down, and ate meals, some were effected sufficient need quick trip lodge.
As the volunteer adults on her, it is necessary to keep the entire audience to ensure that they treat themselves. Training Scouts to look at each other is important. Even if it seems everyone is being careful, remain cautious for signs of heat or cold, depending on your environment. Someone doing the right things still be ill.

Especially for a week or more, lack of sleep camping, can become a safety concern. Poor tired people make choices not able physically like, tend to get injured more-apart from that, they just do not like much fun. Safe sign of ' htiron ' or an experienced outdoorsman, is someone that stays up talking to the night.

It takes time for rest, having decent lights and good ideas. We are fortunate to older viewers as Bugler is not afraid to enforce the silence after the lights turn off.

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Somali refugees face grim prospects camp Kenya

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In March 2007, the United Kingdom took the landmark step of putting the issue of climate change as a priority security risk to the United Nations Security Council. Four years on, Germany, which currently holds the presidency of the body, has reignited the debate, placing global warming and security back on the council’s agenda at a meeting yesterday. After a fierce discussion?on the question of whether or not climate change poses a direct threat to international peace and security, the council issued a statement expressing concern over the “possible adverse effects”.?

With the negative impacts of climate change already being felt around the world – most strongly in already poor and unstable states – why in four years has the debate stood still on this pressing security issue? What steps need to be taken to regain some of the political momentum behind the idea that climate change has an impact on security?

The nature of the relationship between climate change and conflict is interlinked and complex. Sectors such as water, agriculture, energy, health and trade will be highly affected by climate change and this could have a destabilising impact on a state’s ability to provide people with basic services. As climate change impacts interact with features of the social, economic and political landscape, countries with weak governance systems will become overwhelmed, and face a high risk of falling into political instability and violent conflict. The risk of instability both adds to the burdens faced by vulnerable communities, and makes it harder for them to adapt to climate change.

In southern Nepal, for example, when the Koshi River burst its banks in the summer of 2008, 240 people were killed, crops and infrastructure destroyed and 60,000 people displaced in the worst flooding in five decades.These people were resettled amongst communities who were themselves struggling to survive. Tensions between the host communities and flood victims quickly escalated and were further fuelled by political groups who used flood-victims’ unmet expectations for clean water and shelter to feed anti-government sentiments. The situation became violent and 200 policemen were called in to maintain order in the camps.

Clearly, climate change is not a climatic issue alone. Furthermore, it is evident that the security implications of climate change are first felt at the local level, and this is where they need to be understood.

In order to peacefully respond to climate change, we must not only consider the immediate natural impacts of climate change, but also the broader dimensions of resilience such as political power, livelihoods and access to justice. It is the interaction between the physical consequences of climate change and the social and political realities of people’s lives that will determine how effectively and peacefully they can adapt to climate change.

This is even more important in fragile contexts. Fragile states are characterised by very limited governance capacity where the government is barely capable of performing key functions, such as protecting citizens and property rights, enabling a functioning market, and providing social services, particularly education, health and sanitation. States which have recently emerged from conflict, as well as those facing economic instability or political unrest are also particularly vulnerable.

The uncertainties surrounding the impacts of climate change also hinder effective action; particularly in the third pole region, with the vagaries of Himalayan glacial melt flows and unpredictable feedback loops. Given the political contestation that accompanies uncertainty, and the complex social landscapes within which these impacts will play out, the most productive way of addressing the issue is to focus on “resilience”: that is, the capacity of a system to withstand shocks and respond to change – including unexpected change.

“Resilience” is a broader, more flexible, and therefore a more useful approach to climate change than “adaptation’. The latter tends to focus on specific anticipated climate effects, while resilience focuses on the capacity of people to act; for example their education, family networks, or access to markets.

Resilience, however, is most difficult to achieve where it is most needed –in places where states fail to meet people’s basic needs. States recovering from conflict such as Nepal, politically unstable countries like Pakistan, or environmentally vulnerable areas like Bangladesh may lack the capacity to adequately respond to environment shocks. Furthermore, where governance is already weak and the relations between citizens and the authorities are stretched, inappropriate responses to climate change may inadvertently cause further harm.

For example in Tajikistan, a multilateral donor-funded project aimed at providing local communities with a predictable water supply in the face of diminishing river flows, has caused conflict between two local ethnic groups. Tensions are grounded in the belief that the project is benefitting one community at the expense of the other; a situation which may or may not be true, but the perceptions of which are sufficient to fuel unrest.

Policy discussions about the consequences of climate change are beginning to acknowledge the conflict, security and governance implications. These concerns however focus on trans-boundary and international security implications, rather than local-level realities. They neglect the strong linkages between vulnerability to climate change, poverty and conflict. They pay scant attention to the complex vulnerabilities of households and communities. And they fail to acknowledge that the first trembles of climate-related insecurity will manifest at the local level before they threaten to escalate to the national or transnational level. It is at the local level that these vulnerabilities can most effectively be addressed.

In fragile contexts more than anywhere else, it is essential to realise how climate impacts – such as changing rainfall patterns, increased natural disasters and constraints to carbon-based economic growth – will have knock-on consequences on the national economy, trade, development, equity, governance andpolitical stability. For example, the rapid growth in use of crops for biofuels to ensure energy security in the face of soaring petrol prices, not only reduced food availability, but also drove millions of people off the land and contributed to food riots in 30 countries around the world. Such consequences affect the ability of people and governments to respond constructively to the challenges of climate change. The devastating floods that ravaged Pakistan last year fuelled widespread political unrest due to the perceived inability of the national government to adequately respond to people’s needs.

One characteristic of both understanding the problems and proposing solutions in this context is to focus on the linkages between development, peace, and climate resilience. For example, it would be impossible to address food insecurity without also thinking about land degradation and biodiversity, water management and biofuel production. It is not possible to address any one issue in isolation without understanding how they interact with each other, and how they interact will uniquely depend on the particular local dynamics at play.?

Whilst there is increasing acknowledgement of the links between climate change, development and security within policy circles, beyond the rhetoric, practical measures to address these linked goals remain superficial, off-target and isolated. Most of the energy devoted to discussing climate-change adaptation focuses on responding to the direct environmental risks of climate change, for example by switching crops, building flood defences, moving homes and building dwellings differently. Important as it is to address the direct impacts, it is the knock-on social consequences – such as conflicts between displaced flood victims and host communities – that ultimately require more attention and resources. These knock-on consequences will be the most far reaching, yet remain the least understood. ?

So with Germany reigniting the debate on climate change and security on the UN stage this week, a window of opportunity opens to consider the complex and interlinked risks posed by climate change to local-level security. Policy responses to climate change and security must take account of the broad dimensions of resilience – not just drought-resistant crops and embankments to protect people from floods, but also: access to early warning information and the capacity to interpret and act on it; relationships of trust between citizens and authorities; viable livelihoods options, rule of law and efforts to combat corruption.

If these issues are taken on board, there is a good chance that adaptation efforts could yield a double dividend: increasing resilience to climate change and developing new approaches to poverty reduction. Failure to take account of the linkages however will result in widespread mal-adaptation and a monumental wasted opportunity.

Janani Vivekananda is senior climate change and security adviser in International Alert’s Security and Peacebuilding Programme and co-author of “A Climate of Conflict: The links between climate change, peace and war”, published by International Alert in 2007, and “Climate Change, Conflict and Fragility: Understanding the linkages, shaping effective responses”, published by International Alert in 2009.

Homepage image from Abdul Majeed Goraya / IRIN?shows displaced people fleeing Sindh during the Pakistan floods.

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The soaring loonie hurts cross-border tourism

Canada relies on the United States dollar is rising visitor, tourist village is impacting the business owner in the BC Interior.

Between 25 and 40 in business is probably down to the Americans "somewhere. I mean, it's a considerable number "Clive Jackson, restaurant and pub owned by Nelson, he said.

Companies that rely on American tourists say rising loonie is hurting their bottom line. Adrian W l y d/Canada press

"... You can see your way and you do not see the Washington State [License] plates. A few years ago, were all second or third car plate Washington. "

Tom Thompson, who runs the United States plunged the Center visit Nelson visitor centre.

"You look at the numbers, we are coming to this Visitor Center, approximately 10% down," he said. "But if you just look at the Americans, we have about 25% in 2009 and 2010 down 40% down on."

The economic turmoil in the United States border, business rules, and passport to soft cuts has deteriorated and now rising $ Canada has. Canada is the largest segment in the international visitor spending, Americans whose first three months of this year declined 3.5 percent last month, Statistics Canada said.

Many Canadians are taking advantage of the United States by the strong loonie title also. Margaret and Ken for their upcoming Alaska vacation Wonko already stocked.

"I was very excited," said Margaret Wonko. "The United States only got $ 500, but pay $ 484 Canada. I was very excited, actually. "

"The United States money and time to think about how the pre-buying would be," said Ken Wonko.

Through the United States Government's debt ceiling, analysts say the deadlock, driving the value of the loonie. How about a deal that country legislation to cut spending fast approaching, and at the end of August 2 to raise taxes soar higher loonie deadlock is maintained and how much.

On Tuesday, the United States dollar $ 1.06 buoyant Canada rose and got about five cents against the dollar last month, the United States.

"The dollar can move very quickly in a short period of time — 1 cent, 2 cents, 3 cents in one day," said Helmut Pastrick, Chief Economist for the Central 1 Credit Union, together with a trade association and Ontario credit unions in BC.

"We've witnessed in the recent past. If this remains unresolved debt ceiling crisis before it could pass easily. "

In 2007, rising oil prices push higher in the United States in modern times for over $ 1.10 Canada dollars, its $ 1.08 a day before it was closed from the inside.

In recent months, was up to the debt crisis was brewing, the United States — its strong loonie back more than three years from the shut down.

The more you give, but it's no longer a United States debt deadlock, their largest market purchase in Canada exports more it will cost you about whose products:

"Our economy is almost half of the United States trade, as it is about 3/4, so that there would be a significant impact," said CIBC World markets Chief Economist, Peter Buchanan.

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Five or six years ago, “public participation” became a buzzword in environmental circles: the attempt to allow citizens and green groups a role in public decision-making was symbolised by the first ever state-level public environmental hearing on the laying of an impermeable membrane in the Old Summer Palace lake, organised by the State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA).

Half a decade later, however, the buzz has faded. Now, “public interest litigation” is the hot topic – not just in the environmental field, but in defending the rights of consumers, women and migrant workers. These lawsuits reflect a China in an era of transformation, with social conflicts presenting a challenge for the traditional litigation system.

These buzzwords represent an emerging awareness of public participation in social management and government policy-making. And the two are intimately linked. Without public participation and representation of social groups, public-interest litigation will struggle to correct government errors or address illegal administrative actions and thus meet its objective of protecting the public interest. And, without public-interest litigation, public participation lacks any means of legal redress – and risks becoming mere window-dressing.

However, when we examine actual environmental incidents and lawsuits, we often find that “the public” has only a token role, while the “public interest” may not really mean the interests of the public at all. Prosecutors, the government and government departments all rush to represent the “public interest”, but citizens and environmental groups are not allowed to bring litigation on behalf of the public or the environment.

Looking back at cases of public participation in the environmental field over the last few years will help us reach a clearer understanding of how the public participates in the Chinese environmental movement. Here are four important examples:

1. Hearing on electromagnetic pollution from Beijing Electric Power Company’s Xishangliu high-voltage transmission line, 2004

This hearing, held by the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) may not have been had as big an impact on the public consciousness as the Old Summer Palace case, but it was the first hearing on environmental impact assessments (EIAs) after the “Administrative License Law and Temporary Method for Environmental Protection Administrative Licensing Hearings” came into effect on July 1, 2004. The approval of EIA reports for construction projects is a type of administrative licensing, and falls under the scope of this law.

After the hearing, members of the public in attendance brought a lawsuit contesting Beijing Environmental Bureau’s approval of the project. In terms of breakthroughs in public participation, and breadth of methods of participation, this case is of no less significance than the Old Summer Palace hearing.

Construction of the high-voltage power line in question was started illegally by Beijing Electric Power Company before an EIA had been carried out. Not only did the line interfere with views of the nearby Summer Palace – a World Heritage site – but more than 10 residential communities and educational institutions along its route were in range of electromagnetic radiation.

On August 13, 2004, the Beijing EPB held a hearing on an environmental impact assessment, completed retrospectively by the power company, on the question of whether or not the power line would create electromagnetic pollution. The bureau approved the report – carried out by an environmental assessment agency chosen and paid for by Beijing Electric Power Company – which expressed complete confidence that the line would not create electromagnetic pollution: “The effect on the surrounding public is small, and public safety is assured. The project is viable,” it said.

Six home-owners from the neighbourhood of Baiwang filed a formal request with the State Environmental Protection Agency that the decision on this rushed and obviously flawed report be reconsidered. That request was denied. In April 2005, they brought a lawsuit in Haidian district court, demanding that Beijing EPB’s approval of the report be rescinded. The case lasted four years, until a second appeal was rejected by Beijing First Intermediate Peoples’ Court on December 15, 2009. By that time, the illegally-built Xishangliu high-voltage power line had been up and running for four years.

2. Hearing on the Old Summer Palace lake, 2005.

On March 22, 2005, academic Zhang Zhengchun found while visiting the Old Summer Palace that workers were laying an impermeable plastic lining in the lake. He published an article on People.com.cn describing this as a “devastating ecological disaster”, prompting a media flurry and widespread public concern. On April 1, the State Environmental Protection Agency (now the Ministry of Environmental Protection) ordered the Old Summer Palace management office to halt work and commission an environmental impact assessment – and specifically said that a hearing would be held on the report. In fact, the hearing was held shortly after this announcement, on April 13, before the environmental impact assessment had been completed.

Like the Xishanglu high-voltage line, this project was started illegally, before any environmental impact assessment had been carried out. But in neither case were the project owners – the Old Summer Palace Management Office and Beijing Electric Power Company – punished or held legally responsible in any way. Article 31 of the law on environmental impact assessments states only that, in such cases, an assessment must be carried out when the problem is identified. That kind of “soft” regulation allows these cases to multiply and destroys the value of an EIA system – which lies in prevention. This article must be revised, or there is no point in having the assessment system at all.

This was the first hearing called by the State Environmental Protection Agency, and the most influential. In the six years since, no public hearing has had as big an impact. Deputy director of SEPA at the time, Pan Yue, said: “Environmental affairs are closely tied to the interests of all social groups, and so a public consensus is easy to reach. Widespread public participation in environmental policy decision-making is the social foundation of environmental protection, and an important symbol of the progress of the socialist democratic legal system.”

What happened next? The public presented their opinions at the hearing, and the government “heard” them. And the story appeared to have a reasonably happy ending: Tsinghua University was commissioned to produce an environmental impact assessment and, on July 5 that year, SEPA accepted the report and ordered the Old Summer Palace management to make changes accordingly.

This case was a primer for Chinese public participation in environmental protection. Although the way in which the hearing was convened and held, and the subsequent handling of the case by SEPA, were not perfect, the outcome was better than could have been expected: the highest environmental protection authority in the land had held a public hearing.

In February 2006, the year after that hearing, SEPA released its “Temporary Measures for Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessments”.

3. Protest against Xiamen PX petrochemical project, 2007

Xiamen Haicang PX (paraxylene) plant, planned by the Xiamen government and Taiwanese investors, was meant to be Xiamen’s biggest ever industrial project. But during the Liang Hui – China’s annual parliamentary session – in March 2007, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) member and Xiamen University professor Zhao Yufang put forward a motion, signed by 105 other CPPCC members, that the project was too close to residential areas and that a leak or explosion at the site would put one million local lives in danger.

Far from taking any notice of this, the Xiamen government actually accelerated construction work. The case became a central issue at the Liang Hui and attracted intense media and public attention, peaking in late May. On June 1, tens of thousands of angry Xiamen citizens attended a “walking” protest – organised online and via text messages – to show their discontent. On June 7, Xiamen government announced that the fate of the project would be decided in line with a regional environmental planning assessment. The same day, SEPA announced it would carry out that assessment itself and that heavy chemical projects such as the PX plant would be reconsidered in its light.?

In December 2007, Xiamen completed its environmental impact assessment, and confirmed that the area was not suitable for a large chemical plant. The Xiamen government organised a hearing on the environmental impact assessment. On December 17, the provincial and city governments jointly announced that the project would be relocated.

This was described as a “victory for public opinion” in the media, but it is almost impossible that we will see that type of “walking” protest again in environmental cases, particularly today when the Party places social stability above all else. The Xiamen government was forced to accept public participation under unique circumstances – and did so by a unique method. This type of participation was not included in SEPA’s regulations on public participation, and the processes and methods that are provided for in the document have met challenges on the ground.

4. Opposition to the Liulitun waste-incineration project, 2007

4. Another incident worth noting is the 2007 request by residents of Liulitun that SEPA re-examine and revoke Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau’s approval of the environmental impact assessment for a waste-incineration plant near their homes, on the basis that the location was unsuitable and the amount and scope of public participation inadequate.

SEPA reached a decision in June 2007: “The project should be delayed for further discussion, and that process should be entirely open and opinions sought from a wider population. The findings of that process should be submitted to Beijing Environmental Protection Agency for approval and made public, then submitted to SEPA. Construction must not start before this has been completed.

Zhang Jingjing is deputy country director for China at PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law.

NEXT: The ongoing battle

Homepage image from Danion?shows the 2007 protest against the Xiamen PX petrochemical project.

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Web Manager at PTC (Massachusetts)

The Web Manager will become part of an experienced Interactive team and in house
agency, and will support PTCs websites. The Web Manager facilitates the technical
and content objectives for web projects. The Web Manager is responsible for scoping projects, communicating with the requestor and the development teams, and managing projects from inception through completion. The Web Manager directs the execution of new creative ideas, troubleshoots a variety of issues relating to content management tools/processes, tracking tools, pre-production and test servers and systems, and general Web site issues. The Web Manager participates in, and directs long-term projects related to the PTC websites.

Responsibilities:
Oversee staff of web developers, both in the U.S. and Shanghai, China
Maintain and enhance Web content (both static and dynamic pages)
Assist in QA for new and existing web pages
Project manage multiple concurrent projects across multiple internal customers; prioritize those projects and oversee their entire project lifecycle
Interface with internal customers and offer guidance and a strategy to best execute their web projects on PTCs websites
Develop, maintain and advocate for Web design standards and practices on PTC.com
Work with an ever-present localization and translation mindset, always keeping in mind the PTC.com global audience
Write technical specifications and communicate technical ideas to IT staff, internal customers, team members and senior management
Work with internal (homegrown) content management system. Identify needs within that system, develop requirements for enhancements, and provide support to Web Development team based on those
enhancements.
Uphold and maintain domain strategy for the company
Maintain and enhance supporting technologies, including but not limited to: CMS, Adobe SiteCatalyst, FinalCut Server, Flowplayer, WordPress, and more
Coordinate, monitor and oversee robust site statistics and deploy strategies for improvement and optimization based on those statistics
Execute split testing and multivariate testing across campaign assets when appropriate
Conduct usability testing with a global audience
Evolve the websites with an eye toward adding social tools for content sharing
Review and edit web content keeping a content marketing approach in mind
Maintain, adapt and evolve a global SEO strategy, including content marketing approaches to maintain and boost SEO results
Work as part of a large internal agency while also working closely with outside
agencies

Requirements:
BA or BS Degree
Minimum of 6-8 years of professional experience, preferably in B2B
2-4 years experience as a people manager
Comfortable working in Windows, UNIX, Mac development environments
Strong customer service and problem-solving skills
Strong communication and listening skills
Strengths in web design, user experience and information architecture
Ability to work under pressure in a deadline-driven environment
Ability to work within a team environment and learn quickly
Experience in developing interactive strategies
Strong knowledge of interactive best practices
Experience managing interactive direct response projects such as email, microsites,
banners, SEM, and social applications
Proven project management skills
Experience executing test plans across mixed platforms and browsers
Understanding of HTML, HTML5, Flash, Java, JavaScript, XML
Excellent time management, interpersonal and negotiation skills
Ability to identify and implement process improvements
Excellent oral and written communication skills
International Travel required

Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor Degree
2 years of people management experience

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Account Director (General Mills) at Imagination Publishing (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

IMAGINATION ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

The Account Director is located at General Mills in Minneapolis, MN and reports to the General Mills leadership at Imagination in Chicago. This person will be the primary point of contact for five brands social presences, responsible for the strategic oversight and integration of the social spaces, including but not limited to integration and execution strategy development, brand and product integration, execution and reporting team communication.

This role is responsible for building and maintaining strong support infrastructures, identifying and testing growth opportunities and channels and expanding the impact and reach of the brands in the social space.

The Account Director will also work closely with the Chicago team, requiring experience managing timelines and deadlines, project management skills, the ability to multi-task, problem solve, a positive attitude, and a proven ability to work in a team environment.

Specific responsibilities include:

Client Support

Communicate and iterate processes and governance for the brands social spaces. This includes identifying trends, shifts, new technologies and opportunities and their impact on the team processes and infrastructure.

Support and contribute to channel synchronization for consumer consistency across touchpoints, including planning, consumer connectivity, and supporting and bolstering the brand voice and extracting and sharing learnings for the organization.

Client Strategy

Collaborate with clients and partner agencies to uncover and articulate business needs and objectives, craft appropriate strategies and identify/implement programs to achieve client business goals.

Work with team to integrate social planning and testing into strategies and planning, linking and connecting business objectives with executional excellence and metrics.

Partner with teams on special projects, leverage content, design, digital media and engagement marketing groups to identify and, create and support new solutions and opportunities for consumers and Brand teams.

Act as a strategic advisor based on deep knowledge and understanding of the clients business objectives, while always keeping the Consumers needs and expectations at the forefront.

Client Growth

Work with the Relationship Marketing team and the Imagination team to craft ideas and plans for social outreach beyond the current branded borders, including participation in non-branded spaces as relevant and valuable.

Support and influence external influencer relationships, support the core platforms with external conversations and driving innovation.

Client Management

Develop and foster account relationships, including understanding of each brands goals, markets, needs and expectations. Create/maintain both vertical and horizontal client contact relationships, working toward deeper penetration at senior management level.

Attend and lead client meetings on an ongoing basis, interface as needed with executive level and middle management level on client side and at Imagination during meetings and presentations.

Create and deliver strong and compelling communications providing context and rationale to the client behind recommendations, proposals and new ideas.

Facilitate strong relationships and open communication between client leadership and Imaginations Chicago-based creative team.

** This position is based at General Mills HQ in Minneapolis, MN. We will offer complete relocation assistance to the hired candidate.

Imagination is an EOE.

Learn more about Imagination at www.imaginepub.com

Please send resume, cover letter and salary history to Andrea Scott, VP of Talent at ascott@imaginepub.com.

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Digital Group Director at OMD (Los Angeles, California)

Group Digital Director

Omnicom Media Group is the largest full service media group in the world, with 80 cities in 55 countries, and over 7000 employees worldwide. Omnicom Media Group, is a leader in all regions and maintains more top market positions than any global competitor and is a part of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com).

Omnicom is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

OMD Los Angeles is looking for a Digital Group Director as well as a Global Account Director (same duties as posting below, but with more extensive Global Account experience).
The person in this role acts as a senior media management representative for his/her respective businesses.

The person will manage a digital staff and educate the traditional teams on the state of the digital industry. The person will actively manage solid client relationships, providing key strategic initiatives/thinking. This person will also have the opportunity to also help out with new business.

Required Background, Competencies and Skills:

* Agency experience OR MAJOR ACCOUNT experience on the client side or full-service agency side with a SOLID grasp of Media principle and strategy
* Thorough knowledge of the dynamics of media. How each media element performs alone, how they perform together and how they are constantly changing
* A strong understanding of the clients industries and environments within which they operate

Leadership

* Ability to foster a strong, cohesive working team
* Thorough knowledge of the principles of marketing and advertising as well as an understanding of media concepts and terms, creative and budget requirements
*Ability to use alternative analytical approaches to solve media problems
*Ability to think in a non-linear fashion
*Ability to effectively handle personnel issues
*Ability to write clearly and concisely and present orally in an articulate and confident manner
*Ability to effectively and comfortably communicate and interact with clients and negotiate on the clients behalf
*Ability to articulate objectives, opportunities and techniques

Interested candidates should email their resume to:

peter.movesian@omnicommediagroup.com

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Director, Technology, Web & Digital Media at Mount Vernon Ladies Association (Mount Vernon, Virginia)

Position: Director, Technology, Web & Digital Media

The Mount Vernon Estate, George Washingtons historic home seeks an Information Technology professional for the Estate and the future National Library for the Study of George Washington. The purpose of the position is to lead both workplace information technology (IT) and new media initiatives for the Estate and Library.

In 2013 Mount Vernon will open a new facility to foster scholarship on George Washington. The state-of-the-art National Library will be located adjacent to the historic Mount Vernon Estate. The incumbent will be responsible for creating an overall IT and new media vision and program for the Library. The incumbent will be an expert in the entire gamut of research technologies, Web and new media, exhibition audio/visual, knowledge management, and computer support activities. Mount Vernon and the National Library have a user-focused/mission-focused IT philosophy, and as such IT should both enable the traditional work of scholarship and public outreach, and facilitate new kinds of research, discovery, and community. Creative and effective dissemination of Library initiatives to various constituencies is a critical focus of the position.

Major Responsibilities include:

- Planning and Policy

- Web and New Media

- IT and Knowledge Management

- Supervision of staff and projects

- Budgeting

Qualifications include:
Skill in program management, administration, and staff supervision in a distributed computing environment involving multiple facilities and varying disciplinary requirements

Fluency with current social media and expert awareness of other electronic outlets for content delivery

Knowledge of the development, use, integration and support of Internet applications and software

Knowledge of communications standards and protocols such as TCP/IP and network architecture; Knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as the "C" family of languages, Java, PERL, Basic

Experience with Drupal content management system and Unix shell environment

Demonstrated communications skills in order to determine, negotiate and coordinate technology requirements and solutions; must be able to adapt and respond to users with different levels of computer literacy

Ability to manage conflicting demands and provide a high level of customer service

Ability to effectively allocate resources under tight budget constraints

Please forward a resume, cover letter and salary history/requirement by email to either to hrmail@mountvernon.org, by fax to 703.780.8320 or by US Mail to POB 110, Mount Vernon, VA 22121.

Mount Vernon is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Public Outreach and Community Manager at SeeYourImpact.org (Seattle, Washington)

SeeYourImpact.org is a revolutionary new social enterprise based in Seattle. Were making philanthropy more transparent, contagious and joyful by showing donors the direct impact of their donations. We're looking for a rock star Marketer to join our team of social entrepreneurs.

Are you a communications-savvy individual who dreams of using their Marketing Communications and Social Media skills to change the world? If so, we'd like to meet you.

About you

- You have 2+ years experience in Marketing Communications and you know how to leverage Social Media to tell compelling stories. You'd give anything to join the marketing arm of a trail-blazing organization that is transforming the charitable giving experience.
- You drive measurable web traffic.
- You craft unforgettable pitches. You know how to find or create the hook in every story.
Keywords? SEO? You're hooked on increasing clicks to your natural keywords.
- You write great blog posts, awesome status updates, and compelling marketing copy in your sleep.
- You have a casual, engaging voice. You tell a good joke (we like to make people laugh).
- You tell uplifting stories (we like to inspire).
- You know your way around an Excel spreadsheet. You have an eye for details and are keen on building quality marketing reports. You'll be accountable for tracking data and reporting on your results.
- You've cultivated a fan base of Twitter followers and you float between social media channels out of obsession, er, appreciation for the medium.

What youll do

- Craft pitches and land stories on major media news outlets.
- Write copy for our website. Write newsletters.
- Edit photos and create videos for social feeds.
- Manage our Facebook community engagement and Twitter stream. You'll manage contests and give-aways, and find ways to educate, engage and grow our community online.
- Contribute to the management of high-profile relationships. Contribute to projects that turn the energy of pop culture into acts
of greater good.
- Write and deliver email campaigns from start to finish.
- You may find yourself starting an SEM campaign, coordinating a fundraising event, or one of any other last-minute, fun activities we dream up to engage our community of supporters.
- Take complex programs and distill them into simple messages.

Cultural fit

- You're passionate about solving poverty around the world and right here at home.
- You are motivated by contributing to a team, but your work-style is independent.
- Startup experience is preferred. Understanding of a fast-pace, do-it-yourself culture is critical.
- A jack and jill of all trades will thrive in this position, but a specialist will struggle. If you have a variety of skills, and a hunger to learn more, youll fit right in.
- Friends and colleagues would describe you as outgoing. Youre enthusiastic and you use offline and online media naturally to engage others in your latest passions.

Bonus Attributes

- Experience managing or contributing to partnerships with celebrities
- Experience engaging women, especially moms, ages 30-50 via online media

How to apply

Send the following:

- 5+ links to your most viewed online content
- Links to advertisements, campaigns, videos, and photos youve created and edited from scratch. Be specific about what and how you built it.
- Twitter feed along with any online communities you have managed (Facebook, etc.)
- Resume and an email introduction
- Expected compensation. This is a full-time position at a non-profit startup. Were looking for an individual whose primary motivation is changing the world. You'll work with a team of other like-minded individuals, all of whom started as volunteers before joining the team full-time.

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Social Media at Confidential (Chicago, Illinois)

We are a Chicago-based marketing agency looking to add junior social media talent to our team. The ideal candidate will have a content background (research, content creation and management) and be extremely familiar with social media as a marketing tool.

We are looking for ambitious candidates who are passionate about content and social media and thrive in a client-facing environment.

Specific responsibilities include:

Work directly with external client to understand their business, marketing and reporting requirements, and translate those into effective strategies and solutions.

Collaborate with Account Director to create, maintain and update editorial calendar.

Client liaison on multiple accounts; lead weekly status calls, communicate with client via email, telephone and in-person.

Create and execute social media strategies across various platforms (communities, Facebook, twitter, etc).

Collaborate with metrics and analytics teams to gather and analyze data; make appropriate recommendations to the client based on metrics information.

Manage media buys; work with account leadership and metrics team to create content and assist with reporting and analysis.

Work with Account Director to ensure campaign deliverables and ROI are in line with business objectives and client expectations; look for growth opportunities growth and identify potential risks to the business.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

Proven success in utilizing social networking and collaboration technologies; prior experience in social media execution is required

Excellent verbal and written communication skills; content creation and management is a must (blogs, social media, print, digital and broadcast content, etc).

Outstanding analytical and critical thinking skills

Excellent attention to detail; strong organization and time management skills

Interest/passion for social media and digital technology

To apply, email resume and cover letter (detailing social media experience)to our HR team at media.social100@gmail.com.

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