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Feb. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Sound of a Vacuum Filled

That’s the Gordon Campbell I know. Over 30 initiatives were announced in yesterday’s Throne Speech to respond to global warming…
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Feb. 05, 2007 / Gordon Price

Cheney's Fund Manager Attacks U.S. Energy Policy

Frankly, I would have guessed this was a hoax … until I read the article. Step forward, Jeremy Grantham —…
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Feb. 05, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm: Quotes 3 (The Deal)

Here’s the deal: those who deliver reliable quantities of hydrocarbons at an affordable price get to run things. At least,…
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Feb. 02, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm: Quote 2

So it begins.  From the Calgary Sun: EDMONTON — Alberta can’t make absolute reductions in greenhouse gas emissions during the…
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Feb. 01, 2007 / Gordon Price

Affordable Housing? Vancouver?

Solutions to the housing crunch in Vancouver? Ways to create more affordable housing? For everyone? Enough with the questions.  Time…
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Jan. 30, 2007 / Gordon Price

A Good Question for Gordon Campbell

An Op-Ed in today’s Sun:  The 2002 B.C. Energy Plan strongly promoted fossil fuels, supporting coal-fired power plants, coal-bed methane…
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Jan. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm: Quote 1

There is going to be a huge amount of response to the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC on Feb 2…
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Jan. 26, 2007 / Gordon Price

Denigrating Mr. Sullivan

The most circulated article around City Hall yesterday was Gary Mason’s column in the Globe and Mail. (Here, if you’re…
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Jan. 24, 2007 / Gordon Price

GATEWAY BLINDNESS

On Thursday, Council will be discussing this report from the Vancouver Economic Development Commission: I did a quick search, wondering…
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Jan. 23, 2007 / Gordon Price

MORAL IMPLICATIONS OF ETHANOL

President George Bush in his State of the Union message tonight is expected to call for increased production of ethanol…
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Jan. 21, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Fourth Assessment

In the next few weeks, the full force of Science will redefine the climate-change debate.  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
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Jan. 18, 2007 / Gordon Price

THE DAILY ALARM: A DIFFERENT KIND OF SURGE

I went looking for coverage of the storm battling Europe, but found this as the lead article in The Guardian:…
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Jan. 17, 2007 / Gordon Price

NYT Pipeline: Who Cares About the Price of Gas?

I subscribe to the New York Times Select – the stuff you have to pay for to see on the…
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Jan. 10, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm

More evidence, here in The Independent, that the passivity which characterizes our current attitude to climate change is dissipating fast…

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