Preparing for the Final Boom

Here is another guest post but Richard Schneider who will be at Reboot Alberta PREPARING FOR THE FINAL BOOM  Since the advent of big oil, boom and bust cycles have been a fact of life in Alberta. Consequently, Albertans face the current economic crisis with a quiet resolve born of the knowledge that, soon enough, another [...]

TIME TO REBOOT ALBERTA

Here is our first Guest Blog post by Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD who worte this  for Troy Media and gave us permission to post it here: As Alberta looks increasingly like a Province blowing in the wind – mounting deficits, no meaningful strategy to reduce spending or increase taxation, a government paralyzed by a leadership review [...]

China Goes Green?

Here is a link to Economist Thomas L. Friedman’s take on the impact and import of China going green.  As always he has an interesting perspective.  I noted in my earlier blog post on the Recession Alphabet that one of the most interesting things to watch coming out of this  be the new role of India and China [...]

Has the IPCC Head Offered a Simple and Wrong-Headed Solution to Canada’s GHG Lethargy?

To every complex problem there is always a simple answer that is wrong.  The recent call by the Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)is reported to be calling for Canada to “consider closing down Oilsands projects in northern Alberta” is an example of a seemingly simple but wrong-headed answer to a complex [...]