[open-government] Stories about environmental data access?

Fri Dec 17 17:27:02 UTC 2010

All;

There have been 3 big science and environmental data access issues in Canada
recently.  Are any of you tracking any stories or court challenges related
to access to environment, science or public health related data?  Here are 3
recent ones in Canada.

The third story was more about the sale of a data collection Radar system
produced in Canada and to be sold to an arms manufacturer, the issue with
this one was the invocation of the patriot act and access to the data
for sovereignty issues, the public do not have access to these data however
due to the regressive data procurement deal between the federal government
and the manufacturers of Radarsat - which btw was built with public dollars
then given to the private sector company who built it.

1.
http://datalibre.ca/2010/12/17/ottawa-kept-data-on-abnormal-fish-found-in-oil-sands-rivers-not-shared/

2.
http://datalibre.ca/2009/04/27/canadian-federal-court-orders-the-release-of-mine-pollutant-data/

3. Radarsat
http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/for-sale-arctic-sovereignty/
,
http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/03/31/radarsat-2-and-the-investment-act/
<http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/03/31/radarsat-2-and-the-investment-act/>
http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/04/10/radarsat-2-i-am-not-obsessed-just/
http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/04/07/radarsat-2-saga-continues/

Cheers
Tracey

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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
civicaccess.ca
datalibre.ca
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