Lately, Kevin Libin has done three outstanding pieces in the National Post on the folly of certain environmentalist methods:
Blue Bin Blues – explaining how overly aggressive recycling programs are not helping the environment and are costing more than they can possibly be worth. I was always suspicious about the City of Calgary’s plan to recycle a lot of material that wasn’t wanted by the industries and markets (like glass and some plastics). Mr. Libin has exposed that the emissions costs are very high for some of these “recyclables”.
Feed the world: grow fish in Alberta’s badlands – explaining how technology and applying a “dirty” farming method could solve a lot of problems – but the NGOs won’t like it…
Rethinking Green: Save the environment: Don’t take transit – explaining how public transit isn’t the solution to reducing emissions if the buses and trains are empty a lot of the time.
I await the remaining two parts to this series!
1 comment
Hoarfrost says:
8 December 2009 at 18:37 (UTC -7 )
Kevin Libins artcle on Public Transit was insightful. The major point to me was the fact that primary routes were efficient in reducing pollution (And so-called greenhouse gases). It seems to me that with a little thought we could design a better method to get commuters to the primary line. Perhaps we could save a great deal of unsavoury pollution and save money on these short quick routes if the primary system was adequate.
The other articles were just as useful. Who says Conservatives do not care about the environment. In Alberta they do not throw out the fish with the bathwater.