Calculating Commuting Costs on Vancouver Island

This will be the first post in a series as I work through this data. First, full disclosure, I work at Malaspina (Vancouver Island University) in Nanaimo and live 80KM away in Port Alberni. It's a 1 hour drive morning and night, so yes, I have a vested interest in this topic. I am also …

What Private Lands is Sayers talking about in TFL44?

Hi everyone. I've had lots of discussions lately on www.alberni.ca about TFL44 and all the terrible forest practices going on on lands that have been deleted from the TFL. This is what I've found. What I'm trying to find out is... are the lands granted to Robert Dunsmuir for the E&N the "private" lands and …

Former Talisman Energy CEO discusses Peak Oil

From the EnergyBulletin After last weeks admission by the CEO of Shell that cheap oil will peak around 2012. Now we have the former CEO of Canadian energy jewel, Talisman Energy. Dr. Jim Buckee thinks we'll see $150-$200 oil by Q3 or Q4 2008.. And that will be the point where price rationing begins, as …