The Drama Queen Files – Exhibit #2
An oil pipeline is described as a “carbon bomb” that will impact the “children of all species forever.” In the same week that the UK arm of Greenpeace was equating energy legislation with the historic...
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The Sierra Club is “outraged” by a Keystone pipeline report. This is as newsworthy as saying the Pope is Catholic. Late yesterday, an arm of the US government released a 2,000-page report that...
View ArticleOil Spills By the Numbers
Opposition to oil pipelines has led to sharp increases in train transport. Not only is that method less safe, it costs significantly more. The proposed Keystone pipeline, which is intended to move oil...
View ArticleMark Jaccard, Counterfeit Nobel Laureate
Canadian economist Mark Jaccard is falsely described as a Nobel laureate in the headline of a press release – and then on the front page of a newspaper. .click to read the entire text Last week,...
View ArticleLab Coats Don’t Make You Infallible (Oliver vs Hansen)
Scientists who step into the political arena deserve to be challenged. This isn’t an attack on science – it’s an exploration of competing political perspectives. Those of us who’ve worked as...
View ArticlePutting the ‘Activist’ in Scientist
29 people have submitted a statement regarding the Keystone Pipeline. Purely political opinions are being camouflaged as ‘scientific judgment.’ click for full story I grew up thinking that scientists...
View ArticleNeil Young’s Hiroshima – Exhibit #10 in the Drama Queen Files
Rockstar's rhetoric about Canada's oil sands is intemperate, offensive, and ill-informed.
View ArticleUK Adventure
Having touched down in London, I'm chuckling over a Charles Krauthammer column titled Stop Jerking Canada Around.
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