Tag: Alberta

  • US Climate Scientist Pushes For Canadian Carbon Tax Serfdom?

    US Climate Scientist Pushes For Canadian Carbon Tax Serfdom?

    (Calgary, Alberta) The Canadian Federation of Taxpayers (CTF) has issued a new report on global carbon taxes, showing most countries have frozen or rolled back carbon taxes, but US climate scientist James Hansen is pushing for a $210/t carbon tax in Canada by 2030. Hansen’s argument is that the tax has to be high enough that people will buy into…

  • Port Dover Hosts Biggest Single Day Biker Event In Canada

    Port Dover Hosts Biggest Single Day Biker Event In Canada

    Before you contemplate the pictures above lets flash-back to Friday 13th, 1984, when Chris Simons, a local biker, and a few of his buddies met in the “ZOO,” a local watering hole, to shoot the breeze and have a few cold ones. They agreed to meet every Fri. 13th and pass the idea on to…

  • Canada Methane Emissions Not Properly Regulated

    Canada Methane Emissions Not Properly Regulated

    We need to take steps NOW to make sure Canada’s methane (aka Hydrogen Sulfide gas which contains up to 90% methane) emissions are being properly regulated. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide – and its uncontrolled emissions affect everyone. The solutions to reducing methane emissions are actually…

  • It Will Cost Over $45 Billion To Clean Up Alberta Toxic Tailings Ponds

    It Will Cost Over $45 Billion To Clean Up Alberta Toxic Tailings Ponds

    The numbers are staggering. For over 50 years, the tars sands industry in Alberta has been producing a toxic brew of water, sand, silt and petrochemical waste products and storing them in what the industry refers to as “tailings ponds”.  And, the volumes are only growing – surpassing 1 TRILLION litres, covering an area greater…

  • Canada Was Being Transformed Due To Stephen Harper’s Government

    Canada Was Being Transformed Due To Stephen Harper’s Government

    MacLean’s columnist, Paul Wells, wrote a book on Prime Minister Stephen Harper entitled “The longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada 2006 –“.  In this book, the author warns that as the years pass with Harper in office, Canada is being radically transformed. Truthfully, Canada is being transformed because of Stephen Harper’s government in…