Wednesday-Night

Light Bulbs to Light Trucks, Efficiency Shapes New Energy Law
WASHINGTON, DC, December 19, 2007 (ENS) - Congress on Tuesday passed a new energy bill and sent it along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House in a hybrid Prius car. Today President George W. Bush signed the measure, which includes the first increase in […]

How to design a future-proof nuclear waste bunker
Every now and then, we find an item that intrigues and/or amuses us but does not fit easily into a category. The delightful and thought-provoking piece from The Economist is one such, reminding us of the opening of the  cult science fiction book of the late ’50s […]

 
26 oct 2007
L’industrie nucléaire canadienne devrait jouer un rôle plus actif pour résoudre les problèmes liés à l’entreposage des déchets nucléaires sous la terre, selon un environnementaliste américain.
Le directeur du programme nucléaire du Conseil américain pour la défense des ressources naturelles, Thomas Cochran, croit que le Canada, comme tout pays producteur d’énergie nucléaire, devrait développer […]

26 September 2007
This is National Biotechnology Week which we would have expected to produce great chest-thumping from our city, given that Montréal is [not only] a highly regarded biotechnology R&D centre, [but also] home to the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) of the National Research Council (NRC) . Absent the expected municipal chest-thumping vaunting the region’s […]

We are very happy to introduce this week two heretofore-unknown cousins of Diana’s from Louisville, Kentucky, Laura Thébaud Gibb and her husband Gary. Neither has ever been to Montreal and this unfortunately will be a 24-hour flying visit. Laura was the director of a Kentucky county public library near Louisville. Gary, a native Louisvillian, was […]

12 July
Georgia, Washington and Moscow: a Nuclear Geopolitical Poker Game
(GlobalResearch.ca)Moscow has stepped up ties with the two small republics against the backdrop of Georgia’s NATO bid and Western recognition of Kosovo’s independence from Serbia. Russia, however, has not formally recognized Abkhazia or South Ossetia.
Moscow has long backed Abkhazia’s de facto independence however. It has granted […]

4 July 2007
The Invitation
We hope we have not exhausted all the verbal fireworks during last week’s “lively” discussion , which will surely be reviewed and reprised many times. Andrea was a great guest and participation from Right to Left was enthusiastic.
After that demanding exercise in public policy, we turn to a more eclectic collection […]

Jun 25th 2007
Environmentalism has begun to splinter
AMONG the many targets of “The Life of Brian”, a satirical Monty Python film, is the tendency of radical left-wing political movements to splinter….
The environmental movement–which, at least at first, shared many of its members with the far left–had until recently managed to avoid a similar fate. […]

Canada Approves Plan To Bury Its Nuclear Waste
June 15, 2007 — By David Ljunggren, Reuters
OTTAWA — Canada said Thursday it had approved the idea of burying nuclear waste from its power plants deep in the ground at a single location, a proposal that green activists immediately condemned as too risky.
Natural Resources Minister Gary […]

The Invitation
WHEW! We escaped the threat of a July election in Québec by a hair (actually two votes), but now PLQ will have to decide the fate of Jean Charest. Virtually everything to be said about the unfortunate budget has been said by commentators, so we will drop the topic — for now.
One of our […]