To me, the message that has to be learned by the PC brain trust is that they have to offer an option for people to vote for instead of voting against.
Les Routledge
Commentary from the Progressive Front
Why we need more Pipelines in North America.
Why I Like to be a Country Boy #2
The good news from this report is that the job gains are starting to spread beyond the oil and gas country to other rural areas.
Fixing Flooding in Manitoba
All the Manitoba gov has to do is pick up the reports of the Souris Valley Commission reports that were prepared in the mid to late 1970’s at a significant cost to government
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COVID-19 Emergency Powers Nearly Limitless
The war against the invisible enemy of COVID-19 has unfortunately made normal rights and freedoms invisible as well. Another example manifested on September 13 when Saskatchewan’s premier renewed emergency orders for his province. The list of powers he claimed were so...
I Miss Global Warming
While walking to the barn today, it was a bit of a challenge to push through the 3 foot snow drifts along the way. This year I am glad that I did not follow the experts who suggested a few years ago that farmers in Manitoba should start to plan on encountering longer...
Grid Regulating Services
– A video presentation by the Chair of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Smart Grids.
Enough Already
Winnipeg city should be provided the means through taxation power to raise the funds required to build local roads and bridges.
Government Control and Dependency
What other wine jurisdiction in the world has their whole market controlled by a government monopoly?”
Cherry Picking Works Both Ways
Over at Watts up With that, Anthony posted a satirical post that parodies how some climate alarmists use short term noise in environmental observations to imply evidence of global warming. In this case, he uses past statements that the break up date of river ice is a good proxy for demonstrating the existence of global warming. This year, that proxy suggests that climate is cooling because the ice break up is later than 1940.
On a more serious note another post at Watts up with That notes that there is a new journal called Nature Climate Change that is now being published. It is nice to see this type of comment published in a peer reviewed climate science journal.
Climate change is the norm. If you want something to worry about, it would be if the climate were static. It would be like a person being dead.
Data Centres in Manitoba – What’s Missing?
Both Manitoba Hydro and the Manitoba Government promote the fact that Manitoba offers the lowest cost of electricity in North America. As an additional benefit, virtually all of that power is produced from renewable hydro instead of coal, natural gas or nuclear.
According to this post, the major criteria for site selection of large data centres includes low cost power, ability to use or dissipate heat, and low-cost real estate. An obvious additional category would be very high capacity, low cost and multiple path multi-gigabit fibre links to major Internet nodes across North America.
As we go into a fall election, the political parties should be challenged to identify why Manitoba is not already attracting this type of investment in data centres and what changes in government policy will enable our province to become a home to this type of business enterprise.
Google Renewable Energy News
Google has entered into a power purchase agreement with a wind farm
Solar News In NYC
Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveils green initiatives, including new solar power plants and an energy efficiency corporation, as part of update of his PlaNYC sustainability plan.
Livable Communities
There is an interesting post at the Grist today about urban development.
the major evidence of the demand for walkable urban places, both center city and in the suburbs, is that the market demands a premium for walkable urban houses, apartments, and office space. These high prices are perversely used by the skeptics to somehow prove this is a small niche market. To the contrary, high prices demonstrate the severe shortage of supply, leading to significant pent-up demand.
I wonder if one could identify examples of affordable and walkable communities that can meet the housing needs of a full spectrum of the population instead of selected demographics? For example, where are there affordable examples of walkable neighborhoods that offer attractive living conditions for young families, young adults, and empty nesters?