Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free March Queens address focuses on environmental threats London up the Queen added her voice today to the growing International focus on environmental in her annual message marking Commonwealth the Queen said the commonwealths 48 member coun tries form a distinctive element in a world which grows More and More perhaps nothing during the past year has under lined this interdependence More forcefully than the dramatic growth in our awareness of the serious dangers to the environment posed by mans own she said in the message televised in Britain and its former colonies around the she said the threat to the environment takes Many of which some Are so far reaching that it is difficult to grasp she cited As an example the so called greenhouse effect of global the Commonwealth has a particular part to play in facing up to such issues As the Queens message is the third occasion in the last two weeks on which members of the Royal family have spoken out on environmental last Prince Charles called for the total and immediate elimination of chlorofluorocarbon gases which scientists say Are destroying the Ozone the previous Prince Philip spoke about the pressures facing Farmers having to produce increasing amounts of food to meet growing populations and the Strain that Effort places on the earths the Queens message came Only one Day after Canada and 23 other countries signed an agreement in the Hague calling for tougher International action to combat the greenhouse effect and the destruction of the Ozone the Queen said concern to safeguard the Lon term prospects for future generations does not conflict at All with the pressing need to come to grips with the problems of the present like Dis unemployment and Commonwealth Day is celebrated annually on the second monday in the Queen today will join what is traditionally a capacity congregation of people for the annual Multi Faith Commonwealth Day Observance in West Minster the service brings together the major religions of the Commonwealth Judaism and there is expected to be one prominent Absentee at the afternoon prime minister who is in London for three will be visiting the Telegraph newspaper at the same tree people Campaign at British prime ministers residence four solar flares follow largest Ever blast hot t Oman Aid a in pal in Hie Clin in a Umro an Holloman air Force base a four More Large solar each with the potential to disrupt radio transmissions and trigger Aurora have erupt Canada urged to Rescue forests Montreal up Canada should do More to prevent the destruction of Amazon rain a leading brazilian environmentalist told a conference Fabio Feldman said Canada has an important role to play in persuading the world Bank to Stop financing highways and min ing projects that menace the for but Canada has so far never taken More than a timid approach to the environmental crisis facing a member of his country House of told a convention of the american association of he added on the rare occasions Canadian diplomats have taken an interest in brazils disappearing for ests Treyve appeared More concerned with the interests of Canad an corporations that have extensive mining operations in the Canada refuses to reveal whether it supports or opposes world Bank Loans for projects that threaten the Amazon rain said Peggy a representative of the Toronto based environmentalist group probe Canada is a member of the world it votes on the Banks Loans and helps control its Hallward but the Canadian Public has no Way of knowing How Canada votes because finance minister Michael Wilson wont Tell rain forests regulate the global filter Carbon dioxide out of the air and contain rare plants that can be used to manufacture lifesaving for pure spa enjoyment relaxation reduce chemical costs maintenance time by up to 95 Kravco pools spas 550 Century 7866957 25 Lucky families will each win 4 tickets to see by Robert Munsch uhf to 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Kirkegard its a very disturbed area probably two to three earths in i said Tom a tech Nical specialist and Telescope opera Tor at Kitt Peak National Observatory near thursdays solar flare extended some Kilometres into said researchers at Sacramento just East of Holloman and the report i got from Sacramento Peak is its the largest one Treyve seen said Astron Omer Tom Duvall at Kitt this is pretty exciting for us up air Force James com Mander of Hollomand solar Observatory in the Sacramento Moun said Friday the flare was the size of 36 the violent eruptions created the potential to disrupt Long Range communications on Earth As shortwave transmissions and Satel Lite researchers Folkers said ultraviolet radiation and rays hit the earths upper atmosphere at noon just eight minutes after the solar such radiation travels at the Speed of he slower moving particles Are expected to Pelt the outer atmosphere Days As a result of thursdays he what happens when you have a solar flare is that the 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