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Avatarred and Feathered: Mining Gets Titanic Smear Job
I have malaria, said one of the haggard figures that emerged from the dense tropical jungle. I need medicine. It was 1996. We gave him what we had. Our tiny plane had just landed on an impossibly small runway littered … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, Avatar, brazil, environmentalism, exploration, gold, james cameron, jungle, mining
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Crisis, No Crisis; the Case for Nuclear
As a result of pure chance, I ended up on CBC national television during Canada’s hotly debated Fall 2008 federal election. Producers of a program called the “X-Challenge” were looking for 100 “necessary polluters” to make up a studio audience … Continue reading
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Tagged canadian politics, economics, environment, global warming, mining, nuclear, power, uranium
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Crisis, No Crisis; the Case for Nuclear
As a result of pure chance, I ended up on CBC national television during Canada’s hotly debated Fall 2008 federal election. Producers of a program called the “X-Challenge” were looking for 100 “necessary polluters” to make up a studio audience … Continue reading
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Tagged canada, canadian federal election, carbon footprint, cbc, energy, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, mining, nuclear, politics, power, uranium
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