Grist.org scribe David Roberts observes the GOP is beginning to wobble on climate change. He says this may be the time to ramp up the pressure on the Right. In the following passages, I’ve replaced Roberts’ references to GOP or Republicans with “Conservative” or “Tory.” It still seems to make
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The Disaffected Lib: Gazette Calls Out Harper on Climate Change
It’s one of the grand old English-language papers in Canada, the Montreal Gazette, and its editorial board has had enough of waiting for the Harper regime to act on the threats Canada faces from climate change. Many of the arguments the government employed in favour of sending war planes to northern
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig discusses the radical difference between how Canadians want to see public resources used (based on the example set by governments elsewhere), and the determination of the Cons and their corporate allies to instead fritter away every dime of fiscal capacity the
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: What transnational climate litigation might mean for fossil fuel companies and their investors
Thursday, October 9, 2014 I’m pleased to announce the release of a major new report – Payback Time? – What the internationalization of climate litigation could mean for Canadian oil and gas companies. While we, and others, have written about climate damages litigation in Canada, Payback Time emphasizes that what
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Clean Energy is Actually the $Trillion Sector, Not LNG
According to Analytica Advisors, the global demand for clean energy technology was estimated at $1.1 trillion in 2012 and projected to grow to $2.5 trillion by 2022. It also estimates that the cleantech industry in Canada grew nine per cent in 2012. In the same period, the mining, oil and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pay No Attention To This Video
Please regard this only as a rare anomaly of nature, totally unrelated to the propaganda about climate change being promulgated by enemies of your goverment.– The Harper Regime. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Who Do You Trust?
My money is on environment watchdog Julie Gelfand. Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq’s parliamentary assistant, Colin Carrie? Not so much: H/t Press Progress Recommend this Post
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Eugene Lang discusses the importance of fiscal choice in the lead up to the 2015 federal election. And Don Cayo reminds us that the Cons’ determination to hand free money to the wealthy – most recently through income-splitting and increased TFSA limits –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I Just Don’t Know What To Say – Opposition to Climate Change – #Burn Noticed
People are so terribly ignorant when it comes to climate change, in the face of this seemingly unconquerable monolith of stupidity Jon Stewart finds a way to get his point across. We’re in trouble if the people in charge of Science and Technology are this ignorant. (wilfully or otherwise) Filed
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Wadena Derailment Crisis: Early Lesson
http://t.co/rSh4hfhlbN Let’s move to the post-carbon energy infrastructure NOW! Publicly-owned wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, hydro is our future. No tarsands. No pipelines. No tankers. No coal. No LNG. No fracking. No climate change by rail either. http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/saskatchewan/major-train-derailment-and-fire-near-wadena-sask-1.2791337 June 16, 2014 Hey, BC: Want More Jobs? Dump the LNG and Pipelines!
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Trouble with Old Men: Coal
Most know that coal contributes to climate change and coal dust is an environmental problem. But old men skew far higher in supporting a coal terminal anyway. Are old men just stupid, or are economic benefits just more important to them? via Your Insights on Coal Exports in Metro Vancouver
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: About That Man Behind The Curtain
While some of the electorate gets all primed to receive the bauble of tax breaks next year, responding as intended to the carefully orchestrated neo-liberal siren call to worry only about oneself and one’s own, others who can see beyond the the next paycheck and their own backyard are concerned
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #DontLookAtTheSun it’s now #PostModernMedia
Now Sun News is owned by the National Post now [soon]. The National Post, AKA the Financial Post has made it clear they’ll do lewd things in a washroom with Big Oil for money and power. Sun has made it clear they do do lewd things on TV for Big
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On consensus-breaking
Having earlier dealt with Stephen Harper’s attempt to justify war by building up hatred and hype toward ISIS, I’ll note the other main rationale on offer from the Cons – which can generally be described as government by wrong answer to a rhetorical question: If Canada wants to keep its
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Charlie Smith discusses – and then follows up on – Donald Gutstein’s work in tracing the connections between the Harper Cons and the shadowy, U.S.-based network of right-wing propaganda mills: In Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Political Eh-conomy Radio: Kshama Sawant
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/podcast-141001-kshama-sawant.mp3 Last year, Kshama Sawant shocked the continent by winning a seat on Seattle’s City Council. She defeated an incumbent Democrat to become the first openly socialist city councillor in Seattle in a century. Sawant, an immigrant from India with a background as a software engineer and an economics professor,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: SaskPower Carbon Capture and Storage Goes Online Late, Over Budget
I must print a “correction” to my piece in April when I reported that the SaskPower CCS plant was on time and online. The plant went online late last month, two seasons after it was scheduled, to deal with an apparently surprise asbestos attack. While the final costs are still
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Environmentalists, civil society must unite, adopt stronger tactics to fight climate change
The 311,000 protestors who took part in the exhilarating Climate Summit march through Manhattan and those who blocked some entrances to Wall Street have returned to their homes. The leaders of the more than 120 nation states that made pie-in-the-sky, non-binding promises for reductions in carbon emissions at the UN
Continue readingNational Post climate change deniers "paranoid"—so says their own editor
The prattling of climate change sceptics/deniers in the National Post has been ridiculed by one of its own editors. In recent comments on the CBC’s The National, Jonathan Kay repeated observations he made in a column some years ago in which he accused deniers of being “a liability to the
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