or… what to do during the hardest days between two longtime friends. Imagine for a moment, a frigid day across Canada in mid-January, 2010. The Olympics are just around the corner, the athletes are already arriving, and the whole country is revving up with excitement. A cold snap comes… nothing new for Canadians… it reaches …
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The Electrification of Vancouver Island (passenger and freight rail)
(There is an addition to this article here) I’ve proposed to a number of people over the past few months that what needs to happen in order to limit our consumption of oil *and* our emissions of climate-change inducing fumes, is to electrify our transportation networks. With regular joes like myself, I usually get a …
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Meanwhile in Iran….
In case you forgot or have been smothered by MSM coverage of the Israel/Lebanon conflict… Iran took another step towards becoming another footnote in the transformation from the old to the “new Middle East”. Today, the UN Security Council issued a resolution setting a deadline of one month for Iran to stop all nuclear enrichment …