Everyone agrees with me
September 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
Well, maybe not everyone, but a few people. The Tories and the NDP are tripping over themselves trying to make energy cheaper, thus hurting us economically and environmentally. I’ve already touched on this a couple of times, but it’s worth getting some other voices in on the fun. First, in The Ottawa Citizen, Kate Heartfield [...]
Sunday Evening Links
April 10, 2011 | No Comments
Here’s some other stuff written by some other people at some other sites: Peter Jaworski suggests that some day soon, we’ll look back at the War on Drugs, marveling at the folly (and, really, think back to liquor prohibition, does it seem like it was a good idea?). Frances Woolley offers up a cost effective [...]
Earthquakes, nuclear reactors, and emergency preparedness
March 13, 2011 | No Comments
I have felt an earthquake only once in my lifetime. In the 1980s, I was sitting at home in Orleans. All of a sudden I felt myself swaying, like on a ship or like when you are standing in a bus, and did not have any insight into what was happening. The night-time news [...]
Japan Earthquake.. largest on record..
March 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
As of 10:00 AM GMT the Sendai earthquake in Japan has claimed 26 lives measured at a magnitude 8.4-8.9 on the Richter scale. The tsunami generated has been devastating and has damaged a large part of northern Japan. The images are shocking and there are serious worries about the damage the spread of the tsunami [...]
This is Pretty Freaky
March 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
From The Canadian Press: Close to 650 calls have flooded provincial hotlines in the wake of recent revelations that Agent Orange was used in Ontario for more than three decades. About 292 calls have come in to the government’s Agent Orange information line, while another 354 calls have been logged by the Workplace Safety and [...]
Royal Dutch Shell and the tragedy of Nigeria’s Ogoni region…..
January 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
The red sections on the adjacent map of Nigeria mark the nine states that encompass the Niger Delta, the states are: 1. Abia, 2. Akwa Ibom, 3. Bayelsa, 4. Cross River, 5. Delta, 6. Edo, 7.Imo, 8. Ondo, 9. Rivers. Royal Dutch Shell has been the largest player in the Niger Delta area of southern [...]
The Luxury of Our Complacency
November 17, 2010 | 15 Comments
It feels almost superfluous to point this out, but as a friend noted earlier today regarding the Senate defeat of Bill C-311, I hope that better judgment will prevail and the unelected Senate will play the role that historically it has played, which has been a useful technical role but will not try and interfere [...]
The State of The Catalonian Coast…
October 27, 2010 | No Comments
Having just spent three wonderfully sunny and warm days on the Spanish coast researching coastal processes and development, I’m astounded at the shambolic state of the coast line in this part of Spain. At the risk of this sounding like a Geography essay, I feel it had to be touched upon in order to shine [...]
Getting Some Perspective
September 24, 2010 | No Comments
I’m not feeling very politicky today, as happens from time to time. It occurred to me earlier that I hadn’t really gotten a good grasp of the situation in Newfoundland with regards to Hurricane Igor. It can really easy with these sorts of things to just gloss over the details. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Newfoundland hit [...]
Won’t Someone Please Think of the Plants!
August 24, 2010 | No Comments
At a sibilant intake of breath, blogger and friend of the Commons Milan Ilnyckyj addresses the following argument in the climate change debate: One of the many things that falls into the category of ‘things that climate change deniers say that are true, but deeply misleading’ is the claim that carbon dioxide (C02) is ‘plant [...]