All you can really say is: WOW! Taller than the Eiffel tower.. stunningly beautiful, and it completes another link from Paris to the Mediterranean. The BBC has an excellent article include video background. It cost $US500 Million to contruct over nearly 15 years. It was actually built under a British/Franco partnership, but the contruction was …
Category Archives: Environment
My World for a Cardboard House
Ever play “house” with a refrigerator box when you were a kid? Well, now you really CAN live in one! Some Australian researchers have constructed a house almost completely out of cardboard… and 100% recycleable! Granted, I don’t think you’d want to build one of these things in Canada… slightly too cold and wet… but …
Oil Spill off Newfoundland
UPDATE 2: The CBC has a detailed report on what happened. It looks like a 2nd oil spill that occured yesterday spilled about 1000 litre of oil into the sea. The rigs have all been shut down in that field while the investigation continues. This has also heightened the debate on whether to lift the …