If you are connected to the Government ( where subsidies are called investments with no return) or if you are connected to a renewable industry ( subsidized and going laughing to the bank for cash), there is only one way that the truth will surface. The Government releases the contracts it has signed with the renewables industries. This will prove conclusively if there are subsidies (direct, hidden, collectable in the future, taxes avoided, indirect etc.)

A map of radiation levels from Catalyst’s journey through Fukushima, created by data from a Safecast bGeigie attached to our crew car and carried off road. Radiation levels are in CPM (ionisation counts per minute) and µSv/h (microsieverts per hour)

Not at all. Just addressing that “Alberta Advantage” so many people are desperately clinging to, that’s now morphed into the ultimate “Alberta Corporate Advantage.”

Companies could also face additional monitoring and environmental compliance costs under the ISA exploitation rules, which are due to be finalised by 2020.

While the lead times are a little bit shorter than 2018, still a long lead time item for us. And then carbon fittings and flanges and stainless steel, and general product for us are all about where we expected 2018 ended up. So if not a big change except the big swing would be shorter lead times in the carbon pipe — line pipe area.

THE ART OF THE BRICK, presented by M&T Bank, at the Buffalo Museum of Science will be on display from February 9 through May 4, 2019, and presale tickets will be available just in time for the holidays on December 1, 2018.

That was absolute tosh. Somewhere buried in that sensationalist fear mongering were some valid questions, but you wouldn’t know it. For starters, how about defining what you mean by "chemical"? Water is a chemical, sugar is a chemical, so where are you drawing the line? This was neither a thorough investigation of the current science, nor a contribution to gaps in the science. It was merely quoting a hand picked group of experts. Disappointing, Catalyst.

Big Agnes does not publish (and from what I can tell, does not test in-house) R-values, which is a precise measure of a pad’s resistance to conductive heat transfer. These values are useful in comparing the absolute and relative warmth of a sleeping pad.

During the last campaign, the NDP promised to review royalties. Once in power, they did so. But the NDP’s new royalty regime actually lowered rates that former Alberta Energy executive director Barry Rodgers had concluded were ‘too low … the lowest royalty rates in the world.’

I have made many changes in my home,but convincing others is very difficult. I have joined a shopping club where I buy products that do not have the chemicals chlorine,phosphates,sulphides and formaldehyde in house hold cleaning products and I do not use plastic in the microwave.My hygiene products are safe for me and my children as well as the environment.The products are of high quality and do not cost a fortune. They are safe for the septic tank. If I can convince other people to change their habits and stop buying products that are full of chemicals then I would have achieved something. My life’s journey is almost over but my great grand children’s are just beginning and I want them to be smart,healthy and grow up in a safe environment.

Another thought-provoking investigation challenging institutionalised orthodoxy. While plastics are ubiquitous in our lives we can only make informed choices if we are informed in the first place – go girl!!

Understandably, the boy was overwhelmed. “I had a sense of rootlessness,” he remembers. “I was always the outcast.”