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Re: Climate change will endanger caribou habitat, study says

Dan Pangburn — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:46:44 -0000

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Re: Introducing Green Energy Futures

Terence Milbourn — Thu, 31 May 2012 00:49:10 -0000

The three main high street banks in the UK (Barclays, HSBC and the Royal Bank of Scotland) are all involved in providing significant sums of project or corporate finance for oil extraction from Canadian tar sands.

I would urge you to consider deeply the implications of their actions, in the hope that YOUR organisation is able to see beyond short term profits and recognise your responsibility to both current and future generations.

And maybe you could do the same as me and just close your HSBC account and move it to a bank which takes more seriously the ethical issues involved in their investment policy ~ and that won't be RBS or Barclays.

How else will they ever learn if we keep condoning what they do with our money?

I only regret I didn't study the ethical issues and draw the line when they gambled on food prices, which makes people go hungry in poor countries. Perhaps I should have.

I din't call it a day when corporate governance didn't make them more transparent about their lending and investment practices. I really should have taken more notice.

I should have picked up on them not paying their fair share of corporate tax ~ the most basic tenet of good citizenship and, supposedly, corporate governance ~ I don't have an excuse, I just didn't.

But when I found out they were financing Armageddon for profit, with my money, I decided what to do and wrote about the ethical issues here and said...

Uh, uh. No way.

Game over!

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Re: Shrinking environmental monitoring budgets in Alberta - thegreenpages - Alberta

Jonathan Brun — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:16:01 -0000

Do you have a link to the Greenpeace charts?

Re: E. coli alert prompts hamburger recall

Janet Hapner — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:51:07 -0000

My husband and I ate at a fast food restaurant on 1-16-10 at 4:00p.m. Several hours later we got violently ill. Is it possible that the restaurant used the Canada or California tainted beef?

Re: E. coli alert prompts hamburger recall

Janet Hapner — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:48:23 -0000

We ate at a fast food restaurnat on the 16th and several hours later we both got violently ill. Could the restaurant have used hamburger from California or Canada?. Las Vegas,NV

Re: Wilderness Homes Builds Greenest Home in Canada

stumpy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:32:15 -0000

I wish this was a joke...thought it was a joke! Really... a story on a green network site! 3,000ft home, SINGLE family and $2mill price tag...hmmm...oh yeah GRANITE counter tops...vaulted ceilings...sounds pretty energy efficicient and globally responsible...does this REALLY meet 120 of the MOST STRINGENT green building requirements. Must be most stringent only in Canada...HMMMM...I think we should look into different requirements. You should be ashamed.

Re: Weyerhaeuser and Ducks Unlimited Canada Team Up To Protect Alberta Migratory Bird Habitat

thegreenpages — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:46:06 -0000

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Re: Alberta Bishop decries the Athabasca Oil Sands

F. Los — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:29:01 -0000

I notice you confine your comments to the relevance or irrelevance of Christian leaders' point of view on this topic - that's some very arguable points you make, but I don't really think they are on topic.
Are you also implying that the oil sands industry is not a cause for concern for Alberta and Albertans right now?...let alone the larger negative effects of fossil fuel use worldwide?
Do you have any comment regarding that?

Re: Alberta Bishop decries the Athabasca Oil Sands

human being 14 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:07:58 -0000

The Oil Sands Morality Crusade of several Canadian church leaders is risible. Some comment is required, if only to point out the soaring wooly-headedness of this plucky little posse of priests.
Mercifully, media coverage has been scant, due perhaps to embarrassment for these Christian gentlemen, their sheer irrelevance, or editorial decisions that minimal ink be splashed out on an idea so high on the nuttiness scale that even on a good day Alberta's provincial legislature would have a hard time surpassing it.
I barely know where to start, but where do these men of the cloth get off on targeting what once was - and may again be - the engine of Alberta's economy? Not just separation of church and state, but except at the Sunday collection plate, separation of church and matters economic, surely? Given their organizational history, starting with the Crusades, these religious leaders' qualifications to judge the morality of anything seem shaky, to say the least. And their itch to pile on to the latest bandwagon while shamelessly pandering to the aboriginal population of northeastern Alberta is an insult to the intelligence of Canada's indigenous people. -The sound of the pious apologies for residential schools have hardly faded away, for goodness sake.
Like the answer ("Who cares?") to the question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, what these New Age missionaries know or don't know about the oil sands and environment protection is not just beside the point. There is no point. Cancel the junkets, boys, and get back to your churches.

Re: Alberta Bishop decries the Athabasca Oil Sands

F. Los — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:29:01 -0000

Are you also implying that the oil sands industry is not a cause for concern for Alberta and Albertans right now?...let alone the larger negative effects of fossil fuel use worldwide?

Do you have any comment regarding that?

Re: Alberta Bishop decries the Athabasca Oil Sands

human being 14 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:07:58 -0000

The Oil Sands Morality Crusade of several Canadian church leaders is risible. Some comment is required, if only to point out the soaring wooly-headedness of this plucky little posse of priests.

Mercifully, media coverage has been scant, due perhaps to embarrassment for these Christian gentlemen, their sheer irrelevance, or editorial decisions that minimal ink be splashed out on an idea so high on the nuttiness scale that even on a good day Alberta's provincial legislature would have a hard time surpassing it.

I barely know where to start, but where do these men of the cloth get off on targeting what once was - and may again be - the engine of Alberta's economy? Not just separation of church and state, but except at the Sunday collection plate, separation of church and matters economic, surely? Given their organizational history, starting with the Crusades, these religious leaders' qualifications to judge the morality of anything seem shaky, to say the least. And their itch to pile on to the latest bandwagon while shamelessly pandering to the aboriginal population of northeastern Alberta is an insult to the intelligence of Canada's indigenous people. -The sound of the pious apologies for residential schools have hardly faded away, for goodness sake.

Like the answer ("Who cares?") to the question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, what these New Age missionaries know or don't know about the oil sands and environment protection is not just beside the point. There is no point. Cancel the junkets, boys, and get back to your churches.

Re: Alberta's Green Energy Future

F. Los — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:13:06 -0000

Believe it or not, Bill Clinton had been on about this for awhile, and expecially since last fall when the economic crisis struck.

Check out my greenpages post after Canada's election regarding the rejected carbon tax plan ('green shift aftermath'). Clinton has argued that overcoming oil depletion and attaining energy independence is actually a huge opportuntity to simutaneously cure our economic woes.

This is essentially the 'Green New Deal' being touted by the UN right now.

It is the greatest opportunity for pushing economic sustainability we have ever known. Let's not waste it.

Re: Alberta's Green Energy Future

F. Los — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:13:06 -0000

Believe it or not, Bill Clinton had been on about this for awhile, and expecially since last fall when the economic crisis struck.
Check out my greenpages post after Canada's election regarding the rejected carbon tax plan ('green shift aftermath'). Clinton has argued that overcoming oil depletion and attaining energy independence is actually a huge opportuntity to simutaneously cure our economic woes.
This is essentially the 'Green New Deal' being touted by the UN right now.
It is the greatest opportunity for pushing economic sustainability we have ever known. Let's not waste it.

Re: Alberta's Green Energy Future

http://openid.aol.com/Maraschi — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:16:27 -0000

Jeff Wilson has a really good new book out called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. He explores our uses of oil besides gasoline, our depletion, out reserves and stores as well as viable options to replace oil.Oil is finite, it will run out in the not too distant future. WE need to take some of these billions in bail out bucks and bail America out of it's dependence on foreign oil. The historic high price of gas this past year did serious damage to our economy and society. WE should never allow others to have that much power over our economy again. I wish every member of congress would read this book too.

www.themanhattanprojectof20...

Re: Alberta's Green Energy Future

http://openid.aol.com/Maraschi — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:16:27 -0000

We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources.OPEC will continue to cut production until they achieve their desired 80-100. per barrel. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. Oil is finite. We are using oil globally at the rate of 2X faster than new oil is being discovered. We need to take some of these billions in bail out bucks and bail ourselves out of our dependence on foreign oil.
Jeff Wilson has a really good new book out called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence Now. He explores our uses of oil besides gasoline, our depletion, out reserves and stores as well as viable options to replace oil.Oil is finite, it will run out in the not too distant future. WE need to take some of these billions in bail out bucks and bail America out of it's dependence on foreign oil. The historic high price of gas this past year did serious damage to our economy and society. WE should never allow others to have that much power over our economy again. I wish every member of congress would read this book too.
www.themanhattanprojectof20...

Re: ACTION ALERT: Call Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach and Prime Minister Harper to Demand Action on the Toxic Tar Sands! - Sierra Club of Canada

angelin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:05:32 -0000

Turning tar sands into oil requires almost as much energy input as they contain at the end of the processing - so they are barely a "source" of energy. To date, vast quantities of natural gas have been used to make the steam to process the tar sands to create something resembling petroleum, but natural gas has its own supply problems that make dedicating gas to tar production difficult to maintain. There are serious proposals to build nuclear reactors next to the tar sands, which is a sign of lunacy, to be polite about it.

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Re: ACTION ALERT: Call Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach and Prime Minister Harper to Demand Action on the Toxic Tar Sands! - Sierra Club of Canada

angelin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:05:32 -0000

Re: Alberta studies high-speed train between cities

Jay — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:22:21 -0000

I for one, am hoping, and looking forward to a Mag-Lev train between Edmonton & Calgary, with a second track which stops in Red Deer.
I do believe it is something which has become necessary to reduce the numerous vehicles traveling between Calgary & Edmonton, which will in turn reduce the CO2 emitted into the atmosphere, and reduce the consumption of Gasoline, and/or Diesel of the majority of people living in Mid, Central, and/or Southern Alberta. (Reduced fuel consumption may have a direct affect on the price per litre, reduced demand for fuel could prevent some of the "crises" which are planned by the "People Behind The Iron Curtain," people who control the Mass Media, and are attempting to have Canada, Mexico, and US integrated, renaming the whole continent, "The North American Union," after the EU.

Re: Alberta studies high-speed train between cities

Jay — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:22:21 -0000

I for one, am hoping, and looking forward to a Mag-Lev train between Edmonton & Calgary, with a second track which stops in Red Deer.

I do believe it is something which has become necessary to reduce the numerous vehicles traveling between Calgary & Edmonton, which will in turn reduce the CO2 emitted into the atmosphere, and reduce the consumption of Gasoline, and/or Diesel of the majority of people living in Mid, Central, and/or Southern Alberta. (Reduced fuel consumption may have a direct affect on the price per litre, reduced demand for fuel could prevent some of the "crises" which are planned by the "People Behind The Iron Curtain," people who control the Mass Media, and are attempting to have Canada, Mexico, and US integrated, renaming the whole continent, "The North American Union," after the EU.

Re: Alberta studies high-speed train between cities

Kevin Macpherson — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:40:21 -0000

I'd just like to say that the rail link to Calgary from Edmonton must be a MagLev Train and their should be TWO separate tracks, one direct between Edmonton and Calgary and the other one stopping in Red Deer

Re: Alberta studies high-speed train between cities

Kevin Macpherson — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:40:21 -0000