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Quoting David Patriquin <davidgpatriquin@yahoo.ca>:
> Some of the rationale for these statements at
> http://versicolor.ca/biomass/docs/PatriquinUARB24July2010.pdf
"The NSP/New Page Biomass Project proposal lacks comprehensive quantitative
life cycle modeling that is required to substantiate proponents’
claims that the
project will reduce GHG emissions and that the resource can be sustainably
harvested."
> My efforts to get some response from NDP and Liberal Governments &
> DNR on these issues have been totally futile.
* this is so true of so many of these "renewable energy" projects!
Being sustainable is supposed to mean you're taking into account the
entire big picture, but so many of these seize on one aspect of the
solution - wind, solar, tidal, hydroelectric, or biomass - and
implement it in the same way conventional "resource extraction" has
been done: as if fiscal exploitation of an opportunity made available
by gov't, rather than solving the problem the programme is trying to
address, was the only goal. We've coined the provincial motto "Green
is Black" for the way these things have been done in Ontario.
The way the Paris talks completely focused on emissions, rather than
including sequestration, so annoyed the wife and me that we're
thinking of doing one of our painting and documenting trips on the
theme of the potential for carbon sequestration in mature communities
and wetland soils, and Nova Scotia is included in the tentative
trajectory, so next summer we may be knocking on the doors of some of
you whom we've so far known only through NatureNS.
(see
http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2012/10/precious-wild-rivers-calendar-for-2013.html and the comments for an idea of how these trips
work).
fred.
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and refutation of Popper - have little place in the usual conception
of intelligence. If something is to be dismissed as inadequate, it is
surely not Darwin [, whose] works manifest the activity of a mind
seeking for wisdom, a value which conventional philosophy has largely
abandoned." Ghiselen, 1969. Triumph of the Darwinian Method, p 237.
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