“There are several flaws in the new uranium rules. The move from blue ribbon staking to an electronic claims staking system will keep property owners in the dark about any claims made on their property. This is especially worrisome for those who do not have online access to the information,” stated Randy Nason of the Grand Lake Watershed Guardians.

“Besides mandatory public consultation, the public would be surprised to learn that quarries and exploration do not require Environmental Impact Assessments in this province. Since all mining activities and phases involve an environmental impact, we want to see it all subject to an EIA,” stated Inka Milewski.

–The Green Party falls into this category.

–The Green Party falls into this category.

–The Monthly Review has Minqi Li’s article on climate change available on its website. Please consider getting a subscription if you like what you read.

–The provincial government continues not to live up to its democratic responsibilities in New Brunswick. The people demand jobs, programs to build value added production, and to stop corporate give-aways to companies not based in this provice.

Liquidating the Forest Must Stop:
Time to get serious about protecting our forest
July 21, 2008
Conservation Council News Release

Fredericton ­ The Conservation Council is calling on the N.B. government to immediately stop exports of raw timber from the public forest after learning that the province’s three largest license holders, Fraser Papers, UPM Kymmene and J.D. Irving have been given permission to export wood from their Crown licenses. The government has exempted the companies from a clause in the Crown Lands and Forests Act that states that companies with licences to cut wood from Crown land must process the wood in that region.
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–More regulation is needed as corporations continue to flaunt laws without consequence.

“A company that owns a closed-down paper mill in Miramichi has been granted permission to export pulpwood from Crown land in New Brunswick.”

Exporting our forest without adding any value with our labour. This is actually being harvested by Irving as a sub-licensee.

www.conservationcouncil.ca will have a press release on this later regarding the impact on the environment and labour.

In the Worldwide Fund for Nature’s 2007 report, Cuba was the only country listed as having an ecologically sustainable economy. In 1959 we inherited a totally devastated country. Eight-six percent of the natural ecosystems of the country were wiped out.

While admitting the Cuban revolution wasn’t “green” until the collapse of the Soviet Union, a vital remark was made:

“when the revolution gained sovereignty over the resources of the country, especially the land and the minerals, this was the base for sustainability. You cannot think about sustainability if your resources are in the hands of a foreign country or in private hands. Even without knowing, we were creating the basis for sustainability.”

–Massive re-investment in upgrading infrastructure for efficiency pours over into the the US from Venezuela.

–Counter-productive, I would say.

–Needed to be said.

–This is such a bad idea I am not sure where to start. Have people lost their minds?

–Conservatives continue to be the leading cause of global warming.

–Crazy to think that we are having this much effect on the climate. Crazy to think that we, as a society, still have not done anything to fix the problem.

–It strikes me that politics at the municipal level in the US is rather different than at the federal level. Good move by the mayors.

–More about the Liberal’s “green” flat-tax scheme.

–Duncan Cameron sets the record straight. The market cannot help us here, we must take the polluters and emitters on as a society.

The most obvious problem with the Green Shift proposed by Stéphane Dion is that the Liberal party plan will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly, if at all. The hidden assumption is that if the new carbon tax works, it will reduce the revenues available to the federal government (i.e. for needed investments in green energy). The biggest shortcoming is that the Liberal Green Shift relies on market pricing to fix a massive market failure that threatens the extinction of the planet.

–It is about time the BBC ran a headline like this. Of-course, this is not an indepth analysis by the BBC, it is a report on Oxfam. Food prices do not have to rise that much to force millions into poverty — or worse. For Lula to claim that it only increases food prices 3% is insulting and narrow-minded. There may be a way to produce fuel from algae, but that technology is not the answer to our problems right now as it will be years before we can use it. We must have a plan for implementing currently available technology to reduce emissions and it must be done in a planned and regulated way for it to actually reduce emissions significantly.

–The oil companies and others that ran an extremely well funded campaign to try to convince people that there is no such thing as climate change for their own profit margin should be treated as criminals.

–Great news for all those that care about the wheat farmer. Independent farmers need the Wheat Board if they are going to survive in the face of the monopolies of the Agro-Corps.

–When the price of something is balanced in the markets by, on one hand, the price of an unrelated fuel and, on the other hand, safety concerns, then we should be very skeptical of its long-term prospects as an area of State investment. We should not look at it at all in my opinion as only the poorest places seem to produce it and only the richest places (with lots of subsidies) seem to be able to keep the reactors going. Long-term investment strategies must focus primarily on “renewables” and efficiency of hybrid central/de-centralized energy production.

–A look at Monsanto.