Given the opportunity, I would support a move back to two councils and a shared services agreement.
Les Routledge
Cox on Urban Sprawl
Creating Satellite Towns to Accommodate Growth Makes Sense.
Precautionary Principle Push Back
News from the UK dealing with over reach in advice to pregnant women.
Keystone in the News
One more element has been put in place with the release of a Draft State Department Assessment of the impacts of the pipeline. In my mind, the assessment is correct that the pipeline will have limited impact on the future development of the oil sands. Already higher...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
National Empty Chair Day
Personally, I like the empty chair metaphor and I think it puts focus on what is missing with the current POTUS.
Food Versus Fuel in Germany
Intentionally dedicating land to produce bio-gas is offensive.
Apocalypse Not
I really hope the media is getting tired of constant dooms day scenarios.
Stranded Oil and Emergency Reserves
Obama needs to adopt an all hands on deck approach of getting stranded North American energy to global markets now!
Trick Questions on Climate Change
I wish the media was much more careful about how they report this type of junk political science.
Thinking About Utility Corridors
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/09/canada-on-cusp-of-new-oil-era-as-heavy-crude-discounting-nears-end-canadian-naturals-laut/ If all goes according to plan, the pipeline to the west will not be required within 10 years. Instead, the need to feed...
Ethanol and Drought
would it not make sense to lift the ethanol blending mandate in the USA?
Oil Sand News
Imperial Oil has reduced production costs and reduced carbon emissions to being on par with conventional oil. What are the environmentalists going to complain about now?
Markets Delivery Declining CO2 levels
It is amazing how the private sector economy works. A bit of private sector innovation has solved the problem that avoids massive taxation and government regulation. Meanwhile, several European countries are continuing to block the development of Shale Gas while...