Posted in June 20, 2010 ¬ 17:53h.
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David O Williams from The Colorado Independent says BP may in the coming months have to look to its lucrative natural gas fields in southwestern Colorado to recoup the massive financial hit it’s taking in the wake of the worst oil spill in American history.
According to Williams a BP America spokeswoman this week told the [...]
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Posted in June 14, 2010 ¬ 18:14h.
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KEVIN DAMASKIE believes that now the 2010 Games are over, we can really celebrate what makes Whistler so successful — stunning natural assets and biodiversity.
For the rest of 2010 we get to examine Whistler’s nature through the International Year of Biodiversity, the other 2010 celebration. In support of Enviro-Fest, this Saturday (June 5), the Association [...]
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Posted in June 14, 2010 ¬ 18:01h.
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Here is the Abstract from an article published in Society & Natural Resources, Volume 8, Issue 1 January 1995 , pages 49 – 56. The author is Paul D. Gottlieb.
“Growth management is the branch of urban planning concerned with the timing and sequencing of land development and the policies designed to mitigate the more [...]
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Posted in June 14, 2010 ¬ 13:24h.
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This article is by Adam Davey, Managing Partner of BDO Chartered Accountant.
Adam tells us that like so many fables, the meaning of killing the goose that laid the golden egg is blindingly simple yet understood by few of us.
A successful business, (and I’m talking about the 95% of all New Zealand businesses being small or medium sized where [...]
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Posted in May 23, 2010 ¬ 14:31h.
WayneStrong
AFP journalist Madeleine Coorey writes from Sydney that Australia’s proposed new tax on mining profits has prompted a fierce struggle between the industry and the government for the extraordinary riches of the Asia-led commodities boom, analysts said.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plans to impose a 40 percent levy on the so-called “super profits” of resources firms was [...]
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Posted in February 6, 2010 ¬ 14:48h.
WayneStrong
An interesting artcile was posted recently on a Reuters blog where they tell us that Germany is understandably proud of its renewable energy sector — wind and solar power supply more than 15 percent of the country’s electricity. Its Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has fuelled its rapid growth over the past decade and been copied by [...]
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Posted in December 23, 2009 ¬ 08:12h.
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Lets not give away the goose that lays the golden egg…
Bill Parish at the Huffington Post reports at the international climate talks going on right now in Copenhagen, Denmark, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to launch a major assault on global warming. Besides deciding emission targets and the legal structure of an [...]
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Posted in October 3, 2009 ¬ 15:06h.
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“Nature is the goose that lays all the golden eggs. We don’t want to squeeze her to death…If we don’t take care of nature, we won’t have a civilization someday.”
If you happened to catch the Film “The Corporation” the person making this quote will be well known to you. He is Ray Anderson founder and [...]
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