This is by far the dumbest thing I have ever heard since... today. The companies that have dominated your lives by impeding the natural progression of scientific advancement throughout the years, while forcing you to burn up your credit on that which veils your multicellular nature are now dodging any responsibility for the consequences by being subsidized by you; the alienated fucktard, so to perpetuate this criminal model of development well into the future that awaits only rich people.
Instead of paying down a chunk of everyones student loan, or using that money to fund developing countries, maybe even healthcare, or perhaps even researching ALTERNATIVE sources of energy we are INSTEAD going to give it to these criminals all under the sacred guise of healing the earth... Please wake up now.
Or (DING DING DING!!!) just keep on thinking that someone up there gives a shit about YOU, and that
From the Leader Post
Shell gets $865M for carbon capture
By Dave Cooper and Lisa Schmidt, Canwest News Service
October 8, 2009
Shell Canada was first out of the gate in the carbon-capture effort Thursday, winning pledges of $865 million in aid from the federal and Alberta governments for its Quest pilot project.
The funding would cover nearly two-thirds of the project's estimated $1.35-billion cost, which critics called a subsidy for one of the world's largest energy companies.
But Alberta Energy Minister Mel Knight defended the expense on Thursday, saying government must play a role in helping develop the technology.
"We will not drive the cost of CCS (carbon-capture-and-storage) or any other carbon mitigation down without pursuing some of this technology," he said at a news conference.
"We realize at this point it's expensive. . . . We believe that these types of projects will drive the cost down and make this thing economic."
Alberta has signed a letter of intent to provide $745 million in funding for the Quest CCS project over the next 15 years. Ottawa is also contributing $120 million toward the project through its Clean Energy Fund.
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From Reuters
MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan soldiers on Thursday took control of boatyards and other assets belonging to oil service companies in the latest step by socialist President Hugo Chavez to tighten his grip on the industry.
Earlier in the day, Venezuela's legislature approved a law allowing the nationalization of a group of oil service companies. Chavez said the takeovers would quickly start in the Lake Maracaibo oil heartland in the western state of Zulia.
"Tomorrow, we will start to recuperate assets and goods that will now belong to the state, as social property, as they should always have been," Chavez said, adding that thousands of workers would be taken on by state oil company PDVSA.
But members of a Zulia business group that represents local oil firms told Reuters soldiers seized the installations of 20 companies on the eastern side of the lake late on Thursday.
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Nuclear Myth-Busting Series: Coalition for Clean Green Saskatchewan
Why Nuclear Power Is Not a Way to Create a Sustainable Society
By Jim Harding, Ph. D.
"Presented at “Planting the Seed: Development and Sustainability of Natural Resources in Saskatchewan,” 6th Annual nrt Conference, siast Woodland Campus, Prince Albert, March 12, 2009 What Does Sustainability Mean? The use of the term “sustainability” grows rapidly and is becoming a catchphrase for everything from “green products” that “sustain” profitable markets, to changing technologies to better “sustain” eco-systems. Some confusion comes from the term “sustainable development,” created in 1987 by the United Nations’ World Commission on Environment and Development. Many government and corporate bodies have defined sustainable development as sustaining perpetual economic growth. But this isn’t the fundamental meaning. In its Overview the un report says that “sustainable development” means humanity meeting “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”1 In a nutshell, sustainable development is about inter-generational justice – learning to think about “seven generations,” as some Indigenous cultures would put it. There are several aspects to this, the most challenging being reconciling human development with ecological carrying capacity and the limits to growth; also tackling glaring and growing global inequalities, and, as part of this, getting better at meeting basic human needs. Protecting watersheds and biodiversity is paramount."
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A new article by the New York times insists that contrary to popular belief, the more wealthy and prosperous a nation is the more ecologically friendly they become. It presumes that as a country develops and industrializes it adapts cleaner forms of energy and living practices which amount to less environmental impact. Apparently this author has no interest in statistics.
12% of the worlds population reside in America where 60% of the world energy is used. In the process they cause 53 times the environmental damage as average Chinese person, 35 times as much as an Indian person etc.
If everyone was as technologically advanced as the US we would be monumentally more screwed then we are now, and this isnt because technology is bad, rather its because its poorly managed and commonly stifled for the purpose of profit and industry. This is because the scientific trajectory towards the developing efficient ways of living is impeded by the market industrial complex, which amounts to a restriction of clean energy for the sake of profit. It may be that we move to cleaner forms of energy as we become more advanced, but we end up using 30 times as much. So in reality our lack of moral progress isnt conducive to this argument. Published by the same media agency who staunchly defends a unified taxation regime in order to ration fossil fuels, the New York Times is telling people its ok to have your cake and eat it too. All we have to do is get the rest of the world consuming like we do and everything will be ok!!! RIGHT!!! In their attempts to reconcile the fake oppressive economic system with the very real environment Ziovision insists that its developing countries who need to start consuming 30 times more clean energy in order to save the planet. Never will you see the media promoting reduced consumption, the green movement simply migrates our addiction into other economical viable markets.
The following video debunks the absurd suggestion that the more refined consumer is better for the environment.
Interesting documentary about the legal aspects of copyrighting genetic material.
Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today.
The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels.
"The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years ago," Shatrughan Sahu, a villager in one of the districts, told Down To Earth magazine
"Most of the farmers here are indebted and only God can save the ones who do not have a bore well."
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