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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 9th, 2012
I wasn’t surprised at what Alberta Premier Alison Redford recently said, namely: The Alberta government is looking to clear a path for the oil sands through British Columbia by upping the economic benefits for its western neighbour – including the option of paying to modernize and expand West Coast ports. Premier Redford’s government stressed Tuesday […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 8th, 2011
I’m writing this in Bergen, Norway, after a cruise from Leith (Edinburgh) Scotland that took us past many oil rigs – giving pause to remember that we’re as dependent on oil as we ever were – in fact, perhaps more so. A day or two ago I read in an article in the Guardian Weekly […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 28th, 2010
Excerpt: “What madness this all is! Wasn’t the idea that we’d wean ourselves off oil and concentrate our efforts and our money on substitutes? Can’t we see that by extracting oil that can only be viable if the price of oil is near $100 a barrel that we’re in fact making the high price of […]
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