A lot of the criticism of the Occupy phenomenon has centred on its general incoherence on substantive policy. What do the Occupiers want? The movement started with Occupy Wall Street, which might suggest disapproval of the Wall Street bailouts from 2008 and 2009 and a belief that the Street brought the financial calamity on...
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Occupy Ottawa update: why they’re using gasoline
Following on my rather judgmental November 16 post, I just spoke to some of the protesters at Occupy Ottawa. Very friendly people. I asked about the gasoline generator that is providing power to the site: couldn’t they just plug into the grid? They told me the National Capital Commission (NCC), which owns Confederation Park,...
What lights up Occupy Ottawa? It could and should be clean energy, but it’s not
This is the first of a three-article series. The other articles are “Occupy Ottawa update: why they’re using gasoline” and “Occupy Ottawa update II: it’s still possible to run on grid power.” I wonder when Bob Dylan’s classic “The Times They Are a-Changin’” will become the anthem for the Occupy protests that have swept...
Japanese MP drinks water from Fukushima basement, and lives to tell the tale
It has been 434 days since not one, not two, but three nuclear fuel bundles melted at the Fukushima-Daiichi generating station in northeastern Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11. Nobody has died from radiation so far. That includes a Japanese member of parliament, who last Monday drank a glass of...
How to pay for new nuclear in Ontario: introducing the “Climate Change Contribution”
In the run up to the Ontario provincial election, I participated in a televised debate the subject of which was the electricity bill. (You can view the video at the bottom of this post.) The Ontario power bill is full of confusing and contentious line items. Few are more confusing and contentious than the...
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