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According to Environmental Minister Peter Kent, the Canadian government is entering into the shale gas debate by launching two simultaneous studies of fr…
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Impolitical: Environment Canada cuts expand beyond ozone monitoring
Good reporting at iPolitics this afternoon, following the trail of the government’s Environment Canada cuts: “Oilsands monitoring plan threatened by cuts: experts.” The looming job cuts at Environment Canada spell trouble for the federal government’s…
Continue readingImpolitical: Ozone monitoring cuts backlash
Let’s check in on how it’s going since government cuts to Canada’s long time ozone monitoring program made news and the international scientific community took note. Karen Dodds, the assistant deputy minister in the Environment department is claiming t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Next year country, Year 5
Yes, we should be due for the Cons’ annual declaration that they’ll get around to regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the tar sands, just not this year….right about now.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Permit to Pollute: Dodging New Law, Agency Approves Alberta Coal Plant
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In Alberta, coal was first mined near Edmonton as early as 1850, and commercial coal operations took off in 1874. After the coal rush where hundreds of mines popped up across the pr…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Sorry Ezra. He’s Not Just a Man in a Suit
While Ezra Levant and Sun Media “protest too much”, the links between the Harper government, the English Defense League and the international patriot movement, which includes the Tea Party Express, continue to mount.In the following Sun TV segment, Lev…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
An environmental monitoring plan explicitly designed to improve the reputation of the industry involved is a thoroughly useless environmental monitoring plan.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Henry Farrell points out why supposedly progressive ideas which don’t do anything to counter corporate power are doomed to failure:Neo-liberals tend to favor a combination of market mechanisms and technocratic …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: How Minister For The Environment Peter Kent Got Hacked: He Clicked On The Ass!
An explanation of the Peter Kent Facebook hack:Actually, that’s thanks to a well-known weakness in the FB apps API. It ends up allowing people to post a link to an external website, and then have that link automatically share that link on the person’s …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Peter Kent’s Facebook Page Hacked!
…link posted to porn site:At least I am assuming it was hacked. But not by me, I would hasten to add.Source.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On public values
Look everybody, it’s yet more evidence that Stephen Harper has moved Canada in a conservative direction!Environment Canada staff advised incoming cabinet minister Peter Kent that Canadians believe Ottawa is too soft on businesses and individuals that h…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- With health care once again receiving plenty of attention on the U.S. political scene thanks to the Republicans’ plan to dismantle publicly-funded Medicare, the differences between Canada and the U.S. are once a…
Continue readingImpolitical: Worst ever carbon emissions in 2010
Reported on Sunday in the Guardian:
Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, putting hopes of holding global warming to safe levels all but out of reach, according to unpublished estimat…
Carbon49 - a blog on sustainability for Canadian businesses: Environment Minister Sets Canada’s Carbon Policy
Environment Minister Peter Kent sets the tone of Canada’s carbon policy for the next four years in his first interview after the federal election that resulted in a Conservative majority. Instead of cap-and-trade or carbon tax regime, Canada will introduce sector based regulations, starting with the transportation, coal, and oilsands sectors.
Continue readingUPDATED…Guess What Folks? Our Oil is Ethical!
No, I don’t believe the malarkey that our oil is ethical. The only thing this argument does is compare our bad practices to the worse practices of other nations. Our oil is good because we aren’t Sudanese and killing our own people, or our oil is g…
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