Wednesday-Night

More on tar sands
26 June
Brilliant move by Greenpeace. Bravo!
Jeffrey Jones, Reuters
(National Post) CALGARY — If it’s sand you crave on your vacation, then Greenpeace might have just the travel idea for you.
But you could have some hefty cleaning bills by the time you get home.
In an increasingly heated debate over the ecological impact of Canadian […]

More on www.wednesday-night.com with link to photos
Happy Fête nationale to one and all!
This week we are very pleased that Guillaume Lavoie, a seasoned international observer and consultant in government relations has offered to come to Wednesday Night to discuss his recent trip to Iraq, and more particularly, Iraqi Kurdistan.
He “got to […]

More on Agriculture & Food

[…]

June 17
More floods threaten south China
Dykes and embankments are being reinforced in southern China amid some of the worst storms in decades.
1.66 million people had been evacuated from the hardest-hit areas over the past 10 days. Up to 70,000 of those being evacuated are from Wenchuan county in Sichuan - the epicentre of May’s deadly […]

More on Biofuels and Agriculture & Food - World Hunger
July 23
Uprising Against the Ethanol Mandate
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily waive regulations requiring the oil industry to blend ever-increasing amounts of ethanol into gasoline.
Some biofuels better than others
“Biofuels” is a broad term that includes lots […]

June 5
The Race for Survival
(Newsweek June 9) Enlisting endangered species in the fight against global warming is either a brilliant tactical maneuver—or an arrogant abuse of the law.
… And it certainly isn’t any part of Kempthorne’s plan for the polar bear to save the Earth. That was Siegel’s idea: that the law requires […]

June 2, 2008
The World Is Upside Down
Roger Cohen, NYT Op-Ed
See the developed world as depending on the developing world, rather than the other way round. Understand that two-thirds of global economic growth last year came from emerging countries, whose economies will expand about 6.7 percent in 2008, against 1.3 percent for the United […]

…the first principle of Arctic sovereignty is: Use it or lose it
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Resolute Bay, August, 2007

M. Cpl. Kevin Paul/Canadian Forces
The Canadian flag flies from the back of a snowmobile at sunset during a 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group patrol of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, March 29, 2008.

Background: “Polar vision or tunnel vision: […]

An unexpected treat … Chil Heward will be bringing his son Geoffrey, Senior Vice-President and Director of G.F.G. Heward.
Geoff began his investment career over 25 years ago working in London England as an Equity Dealer on the London Stock Exchange for Cazenove and Co, returning to Canada with Merrill Lynch […]

More on carbon on Wednesday-night.com see also Carbon trading at Montreal Exchange
The interrelated topics of Energy, the Economy, Environment and Food are on the agenda. It seems that there are none of our panoply of topics that one, if not all of these, does not affect directly or indirectly.
Carbon emissions trading (for the uninitiated […]