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Category Archives: Natural Resources
Lawrence Solomon: Can Earth handle 29 billion people? Easy
Natural resources don’t limit our population’s ability to grow ever larger. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Why environmentalists are the losers in Supreme Court land ruling
Natives do not view Canada’s north as a vast theme park. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: When Quebec will leave
(March 13, 2014) If Quebec becomes a have-province obliged to subsidize English Canada, Quebecers will vote for independence. Continue reading
Posted in Nation states, Natural Resources
Tagged Anticosti, fracking, Hydro-Quebec, oil and gas, Quebec, sovereignty
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Lawrence Solomon: Harper’s mission
(February 3, 2012) He is the only PM in memory who has shown any spine in his dealings with China’s brutal plunderers. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Natural Resources
Tagged China, China trade, environmental lobby, foreign investment, Gateway, Hu Jintao, Keystone, Lawrence Solomon, Obama, Stephen Harper, trade
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The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”
(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Natural Resources, Political reforms, Taxation, Utilities
Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, renewable energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms
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