PROVINCIAL FLOOD MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP . . . STATE OF RAW MILK FARMERS IN MASSACHUSETTS . . . NL SHOULD TAKE HARD LOOK AT NS REPORT ON AQUACULTURE  . . . UPM BEGINS COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF WOOD-BASED DIESEL . . .OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST...

PROVINCIAL FLOOD MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
Source: Ecology Action Centre
On February 3rd Nova Scotia Environment’s climate unit is hosting a workshop about flooding in Atlantic Canada aimed at helping municipalities and community agencies share information and knowledge gained from flood reduction and flood management projects. This knowledge sharing is a key part of adapting to climate change - we need to learn from each other and work together to address the complex impacts of climate change, and that includes our provincial and municipal governments.(Read more)

STATE OF RAW MILK FARMERS IN MASSACHUSETTS
Source: Northeast Organic Farming Association
The raw milk economy is an exciting one in Massachusetts, and around the country. In Massachusetts we have 29 raw milk dairy farms that are licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture and Resources (MDAR) to sell milk to the public. These farms are inspected monthly by an MDAR inspector, who takes a milk sample for testing. The results of this test must show that the bacterial counts in the milk are below the permitted counts that pasteurized milk must have, after pasteurization. (Read more)

NL SHOULD TAKE HARD LOOK AT NS REPORT ON AQUACULTURE
Source: ASF
The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) and the Salmonid Council of Newfoundland and Labrador (SCNL) are expressing deep concern over the province’s five-year aquaculture strategy and the process that led to it. Both ASF and SCNL agree that the plan is based on a faulty, biased process that should instead have been modeled after the comprehensive independent process that took place in Nova Scotia.(Read more)

UPM BEGINS COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF WOOD-BASED DIESEL
Source: Pulp & Paper Canada
The world’s first wood-based renewable diesel biorefinery has started commercial production in Lappeenranta, Finland. UPM Lappeenranta Biorefinery is based on a hydrotreatment process developed by UPM, and produces approximately 120 million liters of renewable UPM BioVerno diesel yearly. (Read more)