As scientists continue to revise their climate predictions for the worse, it's clear that the time has passed for the world to avoid serious consequences from global warming. With superstorms and floods competing with droughts and wildfires to break records somewhere around the world year-round, the weather is already getting pretty weird. So now, the real question is how … [Read more...]
How farmland became Canada’s hottest real estate market
Buy land, advised Mark Twain, because, as the punch line goes, they ain’t making any more of it. Fast forward to 2013 and that advice, as a look at prices for farmland shows, seems as prescient as ever. As any farmer will readily tell you, the agriculture business has had a tough run. Agriculture was once an economic mainstay. Turn back the clock to 1950 and the sector … [Read more...]
Citing mystical vision, Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline
Cutting short a permit review process expected to conclude this summer at earliest, President Obama today announced that he has decided to block the Keystone XL pipeline planned to carry more than 700,000 barrels a day of Canadian tar-sands crude into the country. "After a careful process of deliberation, and a prophetic vision after Easter service on Sunday, I have … [Read more...]
WTI-Brent spread costing Canadian producers over $1 billion a month
Buy Fluoxetine online buy Super Cialis Facing growing political and environmental opposition in the US to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline (now indefinitely delayed, a victory for pipeline opponents -- ed.), Canada’s landlocked options for exporting its oil have never appeared more costly. Not only has deadheaded oil in Cushing, Oklahoma, the present terminus of the … [Read more...]
Cocktails at the oil crash
Set in the cocktail lounge of a hotel at Toronto's airport in the present day, Douglas Coupland's fictional vision of an oil-crisis apocalypse is so frightening because it seems so plausible. Make it a double Player One starts out as an unremarkable meeting of middle-class North American types reminiscent of Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated … [Read more...]