Here is one of what will be many stories. So, start with some facts and probabilities. Northern Gateway is dead. That’s a piece of good news. Line 3 nobody heard of until today, so who knows? Also, who knows about Keystone. That decision is not really in Canadian hands.
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: On Those Pipeline Decisions
Here is one of what will be many stories. So, start with some facts and probabilities. Northern Gateway is dead. That’s a piece of good news. Line 3 nobody heard of until today, so who knows? Also, who knows about Keystone. That decision is not really in Canadian hands.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Energy East, Once Again
DeSmog Blog has a guest post on the Energy East pipeline. I am a huge fan of DeSmog, but I think this post is wrong-headed and ultimately counterproductive. Because it is, at bottom, an a priori rejection of the project before it even …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Give Alberta Energy East
Sure they’re loud-mouthed cowboys. Sure their cities are crap-holes where the streets all go one-way… to nowhere. Sure their hockey teams have done fuck all for the nation over the last couple of decades. Sure they boast about all t…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Keystone XL: Don’t Build It For Canada
A new poll, basically confirming what a lot of older polls suggested: Canadians are more likely to oppose (44%) than support (36%) the Keystone XL energy pipeline, while 20% have a neutral opinion. The opposite is true on the other side of the border: the figures are 34%, 52% and
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