How different politics, and honour, can be in other countries. South Korea’s prime minister offered his resignation and an apology Tuesday for playing golf while a national rail strike disrupted his country. Lee Hae-chan’s resignation was accepted by the country’s president If only other leaders were so honourable and held to such impeccable standards. Need …
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Major Wind project in Manitoba takes flight
Manitoba is looking to rival Alberta as a major player in the growing Wind energy market in Canada. Westman (NRC profile). The CBC reports on a $1.5 Billion (CAD) project with the potential to produce as much as 1400MW of electricity. Enough to power “hundreds of thousands” of homes. The first phase is slated to …
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Do what we say not what we do.
In another wonderful example of American (and not necessarily only Bush&Co) hypocrisy… we have this story. The Bush administration is developing plans to design and deploy refurbished or replacement warheads for the nuclear stockpile, and by 2030 to modernize the production complex so that, if required, it could produce new generations of weapons with different …