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Lawrence Solomon: Newsweek’s retractable article
(June 29, 2010) “Newspapers Retract ‘Climategate’ Claims, but Damage Still Done,” reads the headline in Newsweek this weekend, in a column over the latest controversy in the global warming debate. The headline, and the article beneath it, are so inaccurate that Newsweek should retract them. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: Evidence shows both HST and carbon taxes are regressive
British Columbians instinctively know what the Brits and other Europeans started to discover between 1999 and 2004. That is that value-added and carbon taxes are highly regressive and no government can cost-effectively administer the follow-up programmes whose stated objectives are to mitigate the highly regressive nature of the original income-to-tax shift.
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Avertible catastrophe
How U.S. labour and environmental rules blocked Dutch spill-cleanup technology.
Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality.
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels
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A few Rubber Duckies of my own
(June 27, 2010) Over at the National Post, last week was “Junk Science Week,” during which Post writers like Peter Foster and Lawrence Solomon identify and denounce widely publicized “science” that is, in reality, shoddy nonsense. Continue reading
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Avertible catastrophe
(Jun. 26, 2010) Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality. Continue reading
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Lepreau 2 revived
(June 25, 2010) Fredericton – The New Brunswick government is in discussions with French-owned nuclear giant Areva about construction of a second reactor at Point Lepreau, the Telegraph-Journal has learned. Continue reading
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New Brunswick talks with French firm about building 2nd nuclear reactor (NB-Nuclear)
(Jun. 24, 2010) FREDERICTON _ The New Brunswick government has renewed efforts to see a second nuclear reactor built in the province, but at least one industry observer doesn´t believe it will ever happen. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: BC’s plans for cap and trade
Last week I had some rather enlightening conversations with a few very senior BC government officials. We talked about BC’s evolving GHG offset system (I raised concerns about offset protocols that doubt and triple count reductions) and the developing BC cap and trade regime.
Two disturbing comments were repeated by most of the senior officials I talked to—even though the conversations were independent of each other and I did not prompt the comments:
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Lawrence Solomon: Australia may wait forever on climate change
(June 24, 2010) In her first speech as Austrialia`s new prime minister, Julia Gillard assured her nation that she will not be rushing in any climate change policies, and certainly not carbon taxes, because there is no consensus on the need for carbon taxes. Continue reading
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Transcript of press conference by Julia Gillard, Australia's new Prime Minister
Transcript of press conference by Julia Gillard, Australia’s new Prime Minister
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