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The eyes of the world’s environmentalists are increasingly turning towards the vast and relatively untapped oil resources of the Canadian state of Alberta, about which a policy debate is unfolding in multiple jurisdictions that could be a definitive moment in understanding mankind’s relationship with natural resources. The reason that the usually little considered topic of Albertan development . . . → Read More: Facts and fictions Biofuels Digest blotted its moral copy book in a recent article on palm oil development: The NGOs have manufactured yet another Western justification for the villages of Africa and Asia to be denied the very benefits of economic development that no sane Dane ever denied to Denmark. In moral terms, it reminds us of the man who . . . → Read More: In response to Biofuels Digest (@bdigest) on the World Bank, ‘World Growth’ and palm oil This in response to a post on Vinay Gupta’s blog. Vinay, I think that you’ve missed a fundamental point here. In both the UK and the USA, there is a sense in which these ‘supreme councils’ for the environment already exist – the Environmental Protection Agency and the Environment Agency in particular,and a handful of other quangos . . . → Read More: Response to Vinay Gupta’s musings about an environmental supreme court Environmentalists and campaigners in general are subject to many calumnies and injustices, such as being decried as ‘hippies’ in a broadly pejorative sense and seeing the credit for the changes they have worked on so hard for so long given to Bono. However, one habit of industries feeling unjustly targeted by environmentalist is to complain that . . . → Read More: Why don’t the environmentalists have anything to say about…? “One hundred years of refusing to acknowledge the world outside of their village had destroyed them; and races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on Earth.” BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up over two months ago now, and since that time the Macondo oil field has . . . → Read More: 100 years of oil spills? |
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