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A US$13-billion business
(May 14, 2010) Is it any wonder that the BP calamity occurred? Here’s what has been preoccupying its environmental regulator, the Minerals Management Service, ever since MMS was established in 1982. Continue reading
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La dolce vita: green and unemployed
Question: Would you pay more than a million dollars for a job? Probably not. Let’s rephrase that question: would you spend more than a million dollars of someone else’s money for a job? If you’re a politician in Italy, the answer is a resounding yes.
According to researchers Carlo Stagnaro and Luciano Lavecchia from the Italian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni, subsidies for wind and solar power projects in Italy will cost Italian consumers €566,000 (CAD 716,000) to €1.26 million (CAD 1.62 million) per green job.
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U.S. law disaster
Washington laid the groundwork for the Gulf oil spill by letting the offshore oil industry dodge its liabilities.
BP deserves to be excoriated for contaminating the Gulf of Mexico. Preoccupied with phony multi-million-dollar PR campaigns to cast itself as green and “Beyond Petroleum,” it failed to focus on the actual multi-billion-dollar environmental catastrophe that could come of a worst-case blow-out.
But BP’s bad conduct is as nothing compared to that of the real villain in this piece: the U.S. federal government.
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U.S. law disaster
(May 8, 2010) Washington laid the groundwork for the Gulf oil spill by letting the offshore oil industry dodge its liabilities. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: My carbon emission reductions are better than yours
I agree that climate change and national greenhouse gas emission reduction targets should be on the table for discussion at the G8 and G20 meetings.
I am appalled that the EU27’s current commitment is to reduce GHGs only 2.7% from 2005 levels by 2020. By comparison, Canada and the US have committed to cut GHGs 17% from 2005 levels by 2020.
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Lawrence Solomon: Virginia Launches Investigation into Climategate’s Michael Mann
(May 5, 2010) The State of Virginia has decided to investigate possible wrong doing by Michael Mann of Climategate fame. Michael Mann is best known as the scientist, associated with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who came up with the controversial Hockey Stick Graph that became the icon of the global warming movement. Continue reading
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Green jobs are the new cash for clunkers
We simply have to produce green jobs at any cost. Or at least it appears that way, judging by amount of government money earmarked for “green” jobs. Let’s take a quick look at some of the results in other countries that have implemented green-oriented policies.
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Aldyen Donnelly: Carbon taxes and Canada’s true carbon-emissions ranking
A recent article in the Toronto Star, “Time to revisit the dreaded carbon tax” is riddled with some highly inaccurate reporting.
To start, the article says: "Last month, three of the world’s biggest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases—America, Australia and Canada—put their key environmental pledges on hold until further notice…"
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Lawrence Solomon: Arctic ice sets records in April, could augur global cooling
(May 3, 2010) The Arctic ice set 30 records in April, one for each day. According to satellite data received by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Arctic was more ice bound each day of April than it had been any other corresponding day in April since its sensors began tracking the extent of Arctic Ice in mid 2002. Continue reading
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Saving money will be up to you
(Apr. 29, 2010) When Ontario’s new time-of-use electricity pricing starts in Owen Sound in the coming weeks, most residential customers’ hydro bills likely won’t increase. Continue reading
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