Archive for June 26th, 2008
Gas prices to fuel vehicle ‘exodus’
CALGARY — It won't mean the end of the traffic jam as we know it or turn Deerfoot Trail into a lonely country road, but if a startling prediction by two Canadian economists holds true, there will...Oilsands vacation site tempts visitors with ‘toxic lakes’
Greenpeace has launched a tongue-in-cheek website touting the tourism potential of the Alberta oilsands.Oilsands vacation site tempts visitors with ‘toxic lakes’
Greenpeace has launched a tongue-in-cheek website touting the tourism potential of the Alberta oilsands.Carbon tax reaction
We asked Vancouver Sun online readers: Do you have plans for your $100 'climate action dividend'?Campbell steps into the breach
VICTORIA - The day began with what looked to be a serious breach between the B.C. Liberals and the federal Conservatives, the sometimes friendly political parties who disagree profoundly over the...B.C. prefers NDP’s carbon tax plan
British Columbians are almost evenly divided on whether Premier Gordon Campbell's new carbon tax is a good idea and the vast majority prefer an alternative proposal put forward by the NDP, a new poll...A walk through a tunnel or two
In got really lucky. I happened to be online when an email sent to all local members of the Institute of Transport Engineers came into my inbox. It was an invitation to a site visit to the Canada Line construction site under False Creek. There were a very limited number of places, and as I was one those who responded straight away I got on the tour.
Work is still continuing. Track is laid in only one of the tunnels, and there is no electrification yet. Work is currently busiest in the station boxes, but in general the project is actually ahead of schedule. I also understand that contrary to what may appear in some of my earlier pieces, there is capacity in the stations for three car trains, but initially they will all be two cars.
The engineers are of course all quite pumped to see the thing getting closer to completion. Actual constriction being much closer to their hearts than the long process of deciding what should be built and where. And of course int his case that process was rushed and not at all inclusive, and we could go on for days about what else could have been done. But what is being done now is impressive.
Alberta’s mission: convert oil sands skeptics
Alberta's government aims to educate Washington, D.C.'s powerful about the oil sandsPay Dirt: Martian Soil Fit for Earthly Life [News]
Martian soil around NASA's Phoenix Lander is slightly alkaline and has enough different minerals that it could support Earthly plants and--more to the point--microbes beneath the Martian surface, according to the first results from the probe's wet chemistry experiment released today. [More]
