Dutch Disease – Enbridge
What is Dutch Disease and how does it apply to the Northern Gateway Pipeline? In the previous post I outlined some of the economic issues associated with the Northern Gateway Pipeline. This pipeline increases the dollar value of oil in North America. A benefit for big oil and without the increased value there is simply [...]
The Price of our Energy Needs – Northern Gateway Pipeline
This article is in response to the news report today as Redford, Alberta’s Premier today rebuffed BC’s demands for a bigger return on oil revenues if BC is going to take the risk of an environmental disaster. This got me thinking about what is the price we as BC residents are willing to accept if [...]
Keeping Under 2% Change
The challenge now in moving forward is how do we keep under the 2% climate change projections when the politicians don’t maintain the commitment? The following is the follow up to the last article written by Kelly Rigg of the Huffington Post. In it she outlines what is required to keep us inside the 2% [...]
Pacific Rim BioEnergy seeks additional $250K
In Mission, BC Canada, Pacific Rim BioEnergy is seeking an additional $250,000 in R&D funding to finish up its validation process before it moves into its beta stage of commercial development. Pacific Rim’s technology is based on a high density growth process that it feels will revolutionize the industry. We will be posting more information [...]
Update on BC Mandates
I have been meaning to write this retraction on the BC Biodiesel mandates, but I have been way too busy. I must say that following that initial blog post I wrote, I got a wide variety of emails and phone calls. It was quite inspiring to chat with individuals out there who are trying to [...]
Is BC’s Biodiesel Mandate a Sham?
Something seems to be very wrong here in this province. I keep searching and searching and searching but I cannot for the life of me find any evidence that BC is importing BioDiesel to achieve its biofuel mandates. These mandates were set up in the early to mid 2000′s by the Campbell Government as a [...]
Algae – An Economic and Environmental Model
I though I would share with you part of my presentation in my keynote address to Squamish Climate Action Network just before Earth Hour 2011. It was so nice to see that many people coming out to an earth hour event. A special thanks to Ana Santos for putting the event together. When I do [...]
