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Time to give shale gas industry a closer look before we’re totally fracked

November 9th, 2011 · · Comments Off · Climate change, Economy, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, First Nations & Aboriginal, Uncategorized

Despite the recent release by Canada’s natural gas industry of a set of guiding principles governing the controversial gas well “stimulation” method known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, and despite the almost immediate endorsement of those principles by BC Premier and industry cheerleader Christy Clark, more and more British Columbians are justifiably worried about what [...]

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Remembering Gideon Rosenbluth

August 18th, 2011 · · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Below is the text of the obituary for Gideon Rosenbluth, a renowned progressive economist, and a past president of the Canadian Economics Association. Gideon was a long-time Research Associate of the CCPA, and served many years on our Research Advisory Committee. **** Gideon Rosenbluth January 23, 1921 ­ August 8, 2011 Gideon Rosenbluth died suddenly [...]

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