we’ve forgotten that floods, storms and heat waves occur even without climate change
Les Routledge
Shale Gas – Creating Hope in the Rust Belt
Shale Gas spurs manufacturing in the Rust Belt.
Streamline Pipeline Assessment Processes
The federal government should take a lead role in assuring secure title to the land required for utility corridors.
Pipelines and Upgraders
I lean towards thinking that Jack is on a productive path.
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Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
Light Bulb Ban is Dim Idea
Starting in 2012, the Government of Canada proposes to start the process that will effectively ban the sale of incandescent light bulbs.
In general, it is believed that compact fluorescent bulbs and LED bulbs are more efficient than incandescent bulb. While that is true in most cases, there can be exceptions to the rule.
More Competition – More Choice
Financial Post reports on the Clement's testimony at a HoC Committee hearing. ...since 2006 his policy aims for the sector have been but two — more competition and more choice. “I don’t think anything can be clearer,” he said. Hopefully, the minister also has a...
Wireless Competition News
The rules applying to the next auction of spectrum will be an important indicator of how committed the government is to stimulating competition in telecom sector.
Broadband – The Australian Way
Now that the government is building a national fibre network, the question comes up how to operate it
A “Peak” at an Example of a Smart Grid System
Smart Grids for electrical utilities offer the potential to transform how electricity is produced, transmitted and consumed. In some respects, it represents a comparable type of change to what the Internet introduced into traditional switched circuit voice networks and point-to-point host-terminal computing systems. By linking users, producers and transmission operators into a dynamic and interactive network, Smart Grids offer the potential to increase the utilization of generating assets and create a platform that can introduce real-time competition into all parts of the energy markets.
The Globe and Mail has published an article that provides one illustrative example of how a Smart Grid application can and does work to improve the operations of power networks.
Reinventing Suburbs
Where is that seven acre warehouse going to move to?
Global Warming Hype – Who Wins
Recently, the Frontier Centre was the target of a slur that asserted our commentators are in the pockets of big money oil interests. Somehow I doubt that my blogging about the need to stimulate more open and vigorous competition in the economy qualifies me to gain access to monetary support from that source.
On the other hand, there are some established big money links in the global warming camp. Why I wonder are ties with those big money interests, whether they are big corporate, big government, or big environment fund raising machines, are not mentioned when reporting on the lasted scare tactic?
Are environmentalists bad for the planet?
Last year, the BBC broadcast a documentary that takes the listener into the green watermelon mindset. A printed transcript is also available.
I find the topic is enlightening for how it illuminates underlying values within the green movement. The discussion also helps one to understand why facts and rational discussion a futile tactics when dealing with a true believer.
Long Wait Times – High Unemployment
Can the problems of our publicly run health care system be better illustrated than having a bizarre situation of long wait list times for orthopedic surgery while new surgeons cannot find employment? Lou Halpern has been waiting almost four years to have deformities...