Announcing his environmental platform, Dix said he does “not expect Vancouver to become a major export oil port” as he said appears to be contemplated in the Kinder Morgan proposal.Dix would not definitively rule out the project, saying the company has yet to submit a formal proposal.But he said he
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Oppose Keystone XL and You Can Screw Both Alberta And Communist China
HONG KONG – State-owned CNOOC, which made China’s biggest-ever overseas energy acquisition last year, said Friday that annual profit fell 9.3 per cent because of higher costs for exploration and for operating in Canada’s oil sands. […] Foreign operating expenses, in particular, jumped by a quarter because a higher proportion
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Germans Think We Are Bad For Their Rep
EXCLUSIVE / Germany’s largest and most prestigious research institute has pulled out of a Canadian government-funded CAN$25 million research project into sustainable solutions to tar sands pollution, citing fears for its environmental reputation. […] “As an environmental research centre we have an independent role as an honest broker and doing
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Feds Ask: How Do We Extract Resources From A Melting Arctic?
From MERX, where governments post their RFPs and Qs: The Department of Transport, Strategic Policy and Innovation Directorate, is responsible for ensuring a safe, efficient and reliable transportation system in Canada’s northern regions. TheDirectorate is responsible for managing the Northern Transportation Adaptation Initiative to support research and development activities to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: You Don’t Get Credit For Choices Forced Upon You
And therefore Peter Kent gets no credit for announcing, for about the third time now, that Canada will follow U.S. emissions standards for heavy duty vehicles made in this country. Because Canada’s demand for such vehicles is too small that makers of them could not survive if shut out of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Jonathon Kay On Junk Science
Jonathon laments: On Jan. 29, Windsor city council voted 8 to 3 to end the addition of fluoride to the city’s water supply. Local dentists are appalled. And with good reason: Water fluoridation (typically at the rate of 0.5 to 1.0 mg/L) is a safe and cost-effective practice that is
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: More On Obama Delaying Keystone
This story has not had much pickup, esp. in the Canuck Media. But the Omaha World-Herald seems convinced of its provenance: An Obama administration official indicated Friday that no decision will be made on the [Keystone XL Gateway] pipeline until at least June. If true, its probably the most important
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Obama Delays Keystone XL Decision
“We’re talking the beginning of summer at the earliest,” said the source, who did not want to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the TransCanada Corp project, which has been pending for more than four and a half years. “It’s not weeks until the final decision. It’s months.”
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: T.O. Weather, Circa 2040
Thanks to AGW. From here.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Emissions From Northern Gateway And Kinder Morgan
I think these graphs speak for themselves: But if they don’t. Simon Donner of UBC says: …the pipeline expansion would completely undermine not just B.C.’s emissions reduction policy, but the entire country’s emissions reduction policy. The second graph shows the estimated gap (i.e. necessary reductions) between the most recent national
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Omnibus Bills, Pipelines, First Nations
Chief Justin George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation connects a few of the dots leading from omnibus budget bills C38 and C45 to Kinder Morgan’s expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Most interesting bit from the news release: [Trans Mountain] is a brand new pipeline following a new route; the existing pipeline was built without First
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: More On Birds, Turtles, And Wind Farms
From Today’s London Free Press: As Conservative Senator Bob Runciman pointed out in a news release, that approval [for a complex at Ostrander Point], like so many others, was granted against local wishes. The project also “threatens migratory birds and bats and it makes no sense from an energy standpoint,”
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Pfizer Abandons Heartland Institute
From one of the very few media outlets that has bothered to pick up the story, an early Xmas gift: A major pharmaceutical company has opted to sever ties with a libertarian think tank that provides arguments critical of global warming and the effects of tobacco smoking. Pfizer Inc., a
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Study In Place Of Action
From MERX: The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses (LFZ) has developed preliminary predictive modelling tools to quantify the public health impacts to Canadian residents from biological hazards with emphasis on the expected direct and indirect impacts of climate change. LFZ requires a Contractor with expertise
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Chris Of Arabia
Climate change denier Christopher Monckton, adding to the gaiety of nations.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Keystone XL: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Not just because the U.S. ambassador says not too. But because deciding on the “safest route” in an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) is just a matter of counting how many streams must be crossed, properties expropriated, and etc, an…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Suck On It Mark Steyn
Climate scientist Michael Mann has finally filed his lawsuit: Today, the case of Dr. Michael E. Mann vs. The National Review and The Competitive Enterprise Institute was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Dr. Mann, a Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Center at
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The New Head Of Environment Canada On What Causes Global Warming
“Wow. Umm. They didn’t tell me I’d have to answer questions like that when I took this job. I think that it’s – I don’t know the total answer to that –,” Wow indeed.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Refuting Lorne Gunter On AGW
Not really something worth doing, because its only The Sun, but since it won’t take very long… In his commentary on the much ballyhooed David Rose story in the weekend Daily Mail (UK), Gunter writes: One problem with determining whether the Earth is warming is that it’s hard to measure. The Met
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Climate Change In Our Own Backyards
When global warming impacts come up, it’s often focused on vanishing Arctic Ocean ice or retreating glaciers or tropical islands inundated by sea level rise. But global warming at home? Not so much. Yet there are windows into what’s happening in our own backyards in the temperate zone. The Boston
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