Letter re: Sustainable Forest Practices in BC

Dear Editors of the Alberni Valley Times and the Vancouver Sun, Blustery speeches and heart-felt complaints are all well and good, but they don’t get us very far. At the Public forum held by the Save Our Valley Alliance on May 4 in Port Alberni, I felt there was little in the way of a …

Wind Power Economics

In the comments of my previous post on Manitoba Wind Farms, David Billington asked, ” It would be interesting to know the economics of wind energy compared to fossil fuels as a source of electric power.” Indeed it would. And as if it were simply meant to be… out came a very timely article. It’s …

Bloggers Block… items of 2006

Call it fatigue.. call it New Years blaahhhgs.. call it laziness. The meat of the matter is that I just haven’t felt compelled to blog recently. Th news lately has been particularly uninspiring. The Ukraine and Russia… in a tiff over gas delivery at market prices… threatened to destabilize gas supplies for a large part …