Canada's Top Ten Weather Stories for 2005

David Phillips, Senior Climatologist at Environment Canada never has trouble finding Canadian weather tales at the end of each year. Canada is a country of weather extremes. And so we again bring you this year's top ten weather stories of heat, floods, storms and snow from coast to coast.

Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Basin: A Freshwater Giant
The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence water system is one of the world's largest. From the heartland of North America, freshwater travels 3000 kilometres through the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Approximately 15 million Canadians and 30 million Americans call the basin home.

The Power of Methane Gas
Canada's experien-ce with imple-menting methane emissions reducing technologies and practices have shown that reducing this potent greenhouse gas makes both environmental and economic sense.

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