I’ve said before that the environment isn’t my main focus. I hate camping. I hate flies and mosquitoes. I like cities, books, bars, … that sort of thing. Then there’s the science. It’s all I’ve got to grasp political-economy, … were someone to come up with some scholarly paper about soil depletion, global warming, ocean […]

And if you ain’t got no money nobody gives a shit what you think anyway!
Disturbing, disturbing, highly disturbing stuff from Alison at Creekside and the passionately anti-NDP Eugene Forsey. It seems that the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment has decided to shred all the evidence from its past six meetings and all the […]

Canadians should know all about the environmental damage extracting oil from the ground can cause. After all we have the Alberta tar-sands, an extraction process which spews a lot of extra carbon into the air, making our Kyoto commitments “impossible” according to our government. These kinds of decisions are ridiculous in a country as wealthy […]

All through this week, the Conservative government has been occupied in busily painting itself Green. But like most slapdash jobs, they have done a bad job of it. The government seeks to convince the people that it is truly concerned about global climate change, and is taking action to fix it. That is just a […]