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New Brunswick ignores energy success up north and in Pennsylvania
In the recent New Brunswick election, an unremarkable engineering activity apparently took front and centre: hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking. The outgoing premier, David Alward, was clearly in favour of fracking. He ...
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Chronic worrywarts are the enemies of a cleaner future
Appeared in the Calgary Herald In The Future and Its Enemies The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress, a book published shortly before the millennium, author Virginia Postrel decried widespread pessimistic attacks on humanity's ...
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Not your grandmother's civil disobedience
Appeared in the Huffington Post Activists in British Columbia have responded to the National Energy Board's approval of the Northern Gateway oil pipeline with threats of illegal activism reminiscent of the 1990s. Greenpeace spokesman Mike Hudema, for ...
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Neil Young's utopian vision of Mother Earth
Appeared in the Calgary Herald In the 20th century, much of the divide in politics and policy was over how best to create jobs, incomes and keep people from starving how to create opportunity as part of the good life. Those on the "left' argued ...