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• Today in shoddy journalism

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 512
  With the federal government doing everything in its power to prevent any global agreement on climate change and Albertas provincial government trying to claim even that course of action doesnt do enough to favour the tar sands, it takes a remarkable amount of confusion and spin to pretend that one or both is somehow ...
  3 days ago

• Copenhagen Blame Game and Wrap-up - Dec 23

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 594
  -Ed Miliband: China tried to hijack Copenhagen climate deal -Carbon Supplicants on the Copenhagen Pilgrimage -Review of the Year 2009: Climate change -How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room -Theres No Negotiating With Nature -BC Fossil of the Decade Awards -Copenhagens failure belongs to ...
  4 days ago

• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  1 week ago

• Monsanto Refuses Angry Mermaid Award in DC

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 659
  The seas are swirling with mermaids’ fury against Monsanto and the corporate criminals who sabotaged the Copenhagen climate process. Mermaids know no borders. They swam it all the way to DC Wednesday to share their anger with the 3 winners of the “ Angry Mermaid Awards “. We at the DC Climate Action Factory ...
  1 week ago

• Canada - U.S. Post 2008 Elections

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  See also New rules for U.S.-Canada border crossing ; NAFTA ; Blueprint for Canada-US Engagement under a New Administration ; Canada – US Relations in the Obama Age ; Shifting sands: Canada, the world and the tar sands ; and for entertainment, Stephen Colbert on Canada WASHINGTON: GOVERNORS, PREMIERS TO ...
  1 week ago

• On selective imperatives

  
  Accidental Deliberations — Authority: 512
  Im not quite sure who replaced the Star-Phoenix editorial boards coffee with BT Crystals this week (50% more wingnutty goodness with none of the shame!). But Mondays easily-debunked column on the HST has been followed up with two more pieces which are at best poorly reasoned on their own, and positively ...
  1 week ago

• Tar Sands – Progress or Stupidity?

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 122
  “With just 5% of the world’s population, the United States now burns up to 20.6 million barrels of oil a day, or 25% of the worlds current output.” The insatiable demand for oil means that US ports must accept on supertanker every four hours, just to keep the country running. From America’s perspective, the ...
  1 week ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  1 week ago

• Tar Sands Christmas Cards

  
  the old bill — Authority: 103
  I did not think that anything could make me embarrassed to be Canadian, but Harpers stance at Copenhagen has done at least that.  To say that we will not agree to any limitations what will impede our economy is well simply an abomination.  Herods spirit lives on this Christmas. I created a few Christmas Cards from ...
  1 week ago

• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
  1 week ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  1 week ago

• Making forest preservation worth more than forest destruction

  
  Runesmith's Canadian Content — Authority: 423
  In amongst the stories of pessimism , pranks , and angry mobs of frost-bitten delegates , there was a little ray of hope in the news from Copenhagen today. An agreement has very nearly been reached on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), a mechanism by which developing nations would be ...
  1 week ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  1 week ago

• Canada, not Iran or China, the major threat to a peaceful, stable World?

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 501
  According to George Monbiot in the Guardian:Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayaquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these ...
  1 week ago

• Throwing our energy at impossible dreams...

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 594
  "as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold" read more
  1 week ago

• Making forest preservation worth more than forest destruction

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 425
  Syncrude Mildred Lake plant, from Wikimedia Commons In amongst the stories of pessimism , pranks , and angry mobs of frost-bitten delegates , there was a little ray of hope in the news from Copenhagen today. An agreement has very nearly been reached on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation ...
  1 week ago

• Whats It Going to Take To Make Iggy a Liberal Leader?

  
  The Disaffected Lib — Authority: 438
  This mans political instincts are - abysmal. With the Copenhagen summit underway, Iggy managed to come out with another ringing endorsement of the Athabasca Tar Sands. If there was ever a Liberal Party leader on the wrong side of an issue, this is it. Perhaps a Liberal Party leader who recklessly plunged Canada ...
  1 week ago

• Look Alberta, Its Your Oil But Its Not Your Atmosphere!

  
  The Disaffected Lib — Authority: 438
  Even before the cramped, shaking hand of Stephen Harper inks the next climate change agreement his EnviroStooge Jim Prentice has let the cat out of the bag. When Harper does get around to announcing this countrys GHG emissions reductions targets, the Tar Sands are going to be let off the hook. The CBC got its ...
  1 week ago

• Oil firms attacked for tar sands pollution

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Oil companies have come under pressure at Copenhagen to scale back investment in production from tar sands, as Royal Dutch Shell was branded the worlds second worst corporate lobbyist for its support of the industry.
  1 week ago

• China, energy & economy

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  Nuclear Power Expansion in China Stirs Concerns China’s aggressive expansion of nuclear plants could cut carbon emissions, but the pace could lead to shortcuts. China is preparing to build three times as many nuclear power plants in the coming decade as the rest of the world combined, a breakneck pace with the ...
  1 week ago

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