Adrian Dix On Trans Mountain (Kinder Morgan) Pipeline
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…
Anthropogenic Global Warming
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
T.O. Weather, Circa 2040
Thanks to AGW. From here.
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…
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.…
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 , like so many others, was granted against local wishes. The project…
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…
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…
Chris Of Arabia
Climate change denier Christopher Monckton, adding to the gaiety of nations.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…