Pipeline Safety, Dilbit, Captive Regulators and Smart Pigs
The issue of pipeline safety is clouded enough with a slew of "captive regulators, from Alberta to the United States, but the situation gets even more sticky because the Enbridge Northern Gateway...
View ArticleWhy Empires Fail - the Unconquerable World
This interview with Jonathan Schell exposes the core of power as it decays from within. Based on long years of observation of the failure and sometimes the fall of empire, Schnell concludes that...
View ArticleGreed and Black Liquor Fuel Pulp Trade Wars
by Rob Wiltzen When US lawmakers unveiled the new Highway Act of 2005, they likely weren’t aiming to ignite a global trade dispute in the forest products sector. The Act was allegedly designed to...
View ArticleSeeking Sanity in an Insane Time
The ending of this beautiful rant by Phil Rockstroh, After The Fireworks Have Faded: Intimations of Bosons Among a Cacophony of Bozos, concerns the value of working within the system of madness we...
View ArticleUrban Farming - It's Here and Now
by Delores BrotenSometimes everything just falls together in one simultaneous movement. In the case of urban farming, it’s hard to unravel the factors that have melded. Health, politics, maybe even...
View ArticleCanada Supplies US Oil Addiction in Corporate Global Energy Plutocracy
by Arthur CaldicottAmericans are addicted to oil. George W Bush said it himself.Actually, the entire industrialized world is addicted to oil. And those countries that aren’t yet fully wired onread more
View ArticleQuestioning 9/11 - Scepticism Needs to Become Mainstream
by Jim CoopermanThere are not too many examples in history when a one-day event has shaped the course of an entire decade and perhaps even an entire century. What occurred on September 11, 2001 was...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Vs. Global Poisoning - What's Green About Nukes?
by Delores BrotenGeorge Bush is doing it. So is China, and the province of Ontario. Not too surprising, but some of the other proponents of new nuclear power plants are startling. If it will allow...
View Article2004 Weyerhaeuser Shareholder’s AGM
The AGM was held at Weyerhaeuser Centcom on their massive sprawling complex 25 miles south of Seattle. Weyerhaeuser Way winds through acres of 2ndgrowth forests of fir and cottonwood and leads right to...
View ArticlePark Protection in BC Weakened
For a decade new park protection in BC has slowed to a crawl as the BC Liberal government has mounted a relentless attack on the province’s wild places and wild life.by Joe FoyIt’s time to rise,...
View ArticleVietnam and the Opening of Hell
“If one man and his tiny team could claim more KIAs [killed in action] than an entire battalion without raising red flags among superiors; if a brigade commander could up the body count by picking off...
View ArticleLatin America Mourns Chavez: Canada and US Isolated
http://www.alternet.org/world/america-isolated-latin-american-leaders-mourn-hugo-chavez-us-expresses-contemptObama and Harper are looking like arrogant, stupid rich boys that don't want (or don't...
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