Robin Williams on Canada (LOL)

[kristopher]

31. Robin isn't paying attention - they've caught the disease

Canada at Crossroads in Bid to Become Energy Superpower

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/canada-at-crossroads-in-bid-to-become-energy-superpower.html


A tailings pond at a Syncrude Canada Ltd. mining site near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Aug. 13, 2013.

Canada’s bid to become what Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls an energy “superpower” is at risk as approval delays for new pipelines threaten an industry already hurt by high costs and rival production.

The world’s sixth-largest crude producer can’t get its surging crude supplies to markets in Asia where prices are higher than in North America. Decisions in the next year or so on proposed pipelines designed to connect oil-sands production to supertankers on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts may set the tone for the future of the nation’s energy industry.

“There’s no doubt that over the next 12 to 24 months, there will be some significant decisions made on pipelines infrastructure in Canada,” Ian Anderson, president of the Canadian division of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, said in a Nov. 29 interview in Lake Louise, Alberta. “What’s important about the time frame is, there’s a window of opportunity here to build this infrastructure.” ...

Proud moment: The U.S. is no longer the world’s biggest jerk on climate change

http://grist.org/climate-energy/proud-moment-the-u-s-is-no-longer-the-worlds-biggest-jerk-on-climate-change/


What stood out most about the United States’ role in the United Nations climate talks that just wrapped in Warsaw, Poland, was how little the United States stood out.

While the U.S. is used to being the bad guy — or at least one of them — in the international climate arena, this year the Americans seemed perfectly happy to keep their heads down, quietly do their business, and let other big polluters take the punches.

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If you want to look at the Fossil awards as a reasonably good metric for analyzing the true “bad guys” in these climate talks — and, really, it’s the best tool I can think of — then the U.S. wasn’t even in the bottom five. Among the countries with worse Fossil showings: Australia, Poland, Canada, Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, and China...

(Thanks to xchrome for these contributions to the DUEE group)