Perhaps it ought to have been named SinCrude given the damage that recovering oil from oil tar sands causes to the environment.
A fascinating insight into the booming Alberta Tar Sands extraction industry from Time Magazine. Canada looks set to become the 'Venezuela of the north', and its all down to those nice chaps from big oil's biggest, ExxonMobil.
Well worth a read.
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
We don't need another hero
At least, and with all due deference to Tina Turner, if this is what is meant: Heroes of the environment
I actually got that from the Guardian, but lost the link. Maybe from the horse's orifice is better.
I was going to post on the CiF 'debate' but it was already below gutter level and seemed worth avoiding.
Suffice to say, I remain pretty sure my feelings about the right messengers for the message were enhanced by the fall out. What do these journalists and editors do to compile such things? Google a few green words and assume those who get the most mentions (in any context) must be doing the most?
And I say as a very reluctantly-named Green 'Hero' in a recent competition.
I actually got that from the Guardian, but lost the link. Maybe from the horse's orifice is better.
I was going to post on the CiF 'debate' but it was already below gutter level and seemed worth avoiding.
Suffice to say, I remain pretty sure my feelings about the right messengers for the message were enhanced by the fall out. What do these journalists and editors do to compile such things? Google a few green words and assume those who get the most mentions (in any context) must be doing the most?
And I say as a very reluctantly-named Green 'Hero' in a recent competition.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Strike a light
No time for British clock changes
"...the move could have saved around 100 lives a year through reducing evening traffic accidents, and around £485 million in energy costs", plus, as a consequence, the greenhouse gasses produced.
I have followed this and thought the debate to be less clear on the benefits, so it is good to find clear safety, scientific, economic and environmental bases in support of it.
Hence the obvious question is, why did it fail as, if ever there was a... rare... no brainer, this would seem to be it.
Perhaps it would the social unpopularity of the move in more Northern counties and indeed countries, whose representation in Parliament is at a remarkably high %age?
"...the move could have saved around 100 lives a year through reducing evening traffic accidents, and around £485 million in energy costs", plus, as a consequence, the greenhouse gasses produced.
I have followed this and thought the debate to be less clear on the benefits, so it is good to find clear safety, scientific, economic and environmental bases in support of it.
Hence the obvious question is, why did it fail as, if ever there was a... rare... no brainer, this would seem to be it.
Perhaps it would the social unpopularity of the move in more Northern counties and indeed countries, whose representation in Parliament is at a remarkably high %age?
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