A new business venture between a private oil junior and a Metis settlement in northern Alberta represents the first Aboriginal-run oil sands venture. This sort of 50-50 model represents the wave of the future, in terms of Aboriginal people entering the economy on a more equal field.
Environment
Real Sustainability Versus Activist Sustainability: Activist sustainability concepts don’t meet environmental, humanitarian or sustainability tests
Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is – or isn’t – sustainable?
McGuinty’s Legacy is a Green Nightmare
On the morning of Jan. 5, workers with a fleet of heavy equipment mounted a stealth assault on a bald eagle’s nest near the shore of Lake Erie. Their mission was to remove the nest – one of only a few dozen bald eagle nests in Southern Ontario – to make way for an access road to the site of a new industrial wind turbine. Wind power is supposed to be environmentally friendly. But a lot of environmentalists don’t think so.
Book Review – Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists are Destroying our Natural Heritage
In today’s society, few issues rile up people as much as the environment. You know the drill: Everyone has to go green, make an ecological impact, control your carbon footprint, keep the planet sustainable, manufacture biodegradable products, tackle climate change and so on. The environmental movement’s never-ending supply of manufactured talking points are enough to make your head explode.
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The Tourism Economic Sector Impacted by COVID-19: Time to Reopen
The COVID-19 crisis led to significant travel restrictions in the world and in Canada. The country has totally or partially closed its national borders to tourists and non-essential travellers. Within Canada, travel between provinces has been restricted. Indeed, some...
New-ish LNG Project has Nisga’a First Nation Backing, Aiding its Launch, but Will Not Guarantee It
Recently, a previously-mooted huge, estimated $55 billion Liquefied Natural Gas, ‘LNG’, project taking natural gas from Northeastern British Columbia to its northwest coast at Pearse Island received the blessing and explicit financial and political backing from the...
Global Warming Ethics, Pork and Profits
The ink has barely dried on its new code of conduct, and already Congress is redefining ethics and pork to fit a global warming agenda. As Will Rogers observed, “with Congress, every time they make a joke, it’s a law. And every time they make a law, it’s a joke.”...
Using the Environment to Save the Market
Conservatives’ efforts to convince Canadians they’re serious about global warming continue, with results that are best described as pyrrhic. Media reports on each new Tory environmental initiative — which is to say each old Liberal environmental initiative — are...
Not ‘The Hottest Years on Record’
Average global temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions over the past 600 million years show present temperature and CO² levels at low measures on a geological history basis. FC027
Why There’s Nothing New About Climate Change – PowerPoint
Powerpoint slides from Lunch on Frontier with Historical Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball, January 26th, 2007 in Winnipeg.
Toxic Statistics
You have to hand it to Junk Science maestro Rick Smith and his lobby group, Environmental Defence. Persuading Rona Ambrose - who was yesterday relieved of her Environment portfolio – and Health Minister Tony Clement to donate body fluids for chemical analysis was a...
The Coming Tory War on Prosperity
An editorial of the Suzuki Foundation’s report ranking environmental records of countries.
Energy Diet For a Starving World?
Marlo Lewis’ reply to Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Changes in Energy Industry – With David Yager
Listen to David Yager speak about changing energy industry here. (54 minutes)
Seeing the Wood
A new way of counting trees finds more of them than was thought.