Y2Kyoto: State Of Aneroxia Envirosa

Little Known Facts 22 Comments

WSJ;

The EPA’s new standards are currently under review by the Office of Management and Budget but could end up on the president’s desk in the next few days. If implemented, they would reduce the existing 0.075 parts per million (ppm) ozone standard under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program to 0.070 ppm or even 0.60 ppm.
This will mean that up to 85% of the counties currently monitored by the EPA would fall into “nonattainment” status, exceeding the air-quality ozone standards and triggering a cascade of federal and state controls.
The EPA estimates these new standards could cost business anywhere from $20 billion to $90 billion annually. New or expanding companies would be required to obtain emission offsets and install controls. Existing businesses would face expensive new retrofit requirements just to keep operating as they have for years.

Because of the children.

Do The Two Even Talk Anymore?

Roadkill 24 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
CBC, July 27th – Britain is expelling all Libyan diplomats and unfreezing assets to help fund the National Transitional Council, the group now officially recognized by Britain as the legitimate governing authority in Libya.
Politico, July 25th – The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs’ pronouncement today that Libya is a “stalemate” would, I think, have gotten a bit more attention but for the debt debate.
Get our pilots out of there.
Related: Forget Gaddafi outlasting Obama. At the rate things are going, the Lockerbie bomber is going to outlast Obama.

More Pavilions At Folkfest

More Pavilions At Folkfest 34 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Edmonton Journal, July 26th – But of course, what Merkel, Cameron and Sarkozy were talking about isn’t multiculturalism as we know it here. In fact, you might say it’s the complete opposite – an inversion and perversion of the way we in Alberta, the political birthplace of Canadian multiculturalism, mean the word.
880am News, July 20th – This murder is the latest in on-going violence within Edmonton’s Somali community. However, the arrest is a good sign for police who have been having a tough time finding suspects in other murders involving Somalians.

Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

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Rigzone;

Bottlenecks in oil and gas plan and permit approval activity in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) since 2010’s Macondo well disaster are costing some $44 billion in U.S. gross domestic product and 230,000 jobs, according to a new IHS CERA/IHS Global Insight study. […]
The study examined plan and permit activity levels in the six months since the lifting of the moratorium in the GOM in October, 2010. The analysis found:
* 86 percent decline in the pace of regulatory approvals for plans
* 38 percent increase in the time to reach each regulatory approval for plans
* 250 percent increase in the backlog of deepwater plans pending approval (from an average of 18 per year to a current pace of 67 per year)
* 60 percent decline in drill permits (combined shallow water and deepwater)

h/t Adrian

Oslo: The Christian Response

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Our correspondent in Fort Worth approached Pastor Billy Graham-Wafer of the 30,000 strong Fort Worth Jesus is Lord Cathedral. Although Wafer refused an interview, he did say that Christians are joyous because today was the day that God had struck a blow against the Great Cultural Marxist Devil.

… the details.

This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed

Religion Of Submission 29 Comments

Jerusalem Post;

When the severed head of a wolf wrapped in women’s lingerie turned up near the city of Tabouk in northern Saudi Arabia this week, authorities knew they had another case of witchcraft on their hands, a capital offence in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom.
Agents of the country’s Anti-Witchcraft Unit were quickly dispatched and set about trying to break the spell that used the beast’s head.

Moral Question

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A friend, knowing I’m finalizing my car purchase today, called this morning. He insisted that I, just hours before the sale is to be completed, contact a car broker acquaintance of his to see if I can get a better deal elsewhere. This would mean foregoing all the time the salesman and other personnel at the dealership have spent with me, test driving several cars, arranging financing, etc.
I immediately rejected my friend’s suggestion, as I view it as unethical. I won’t be changing my view but am curious whether you might have a different one?
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Y2Kyoto: State Of Aneroxia Envirosa

Great Moments In Socialism 45 Comments

They won’t be satisfied until we’re all shivering in the dark;

My name’s Ronnie Bryant, and I’m a mine operator. I’ve been issued a [state] permit in the recent past for [waste water] discharge, and after standing in this room today listening to the comments being made by the people…. [pause] Nearly every day without fail — I have a different perspective — men stream to these [mining] operations looking for work in Walker County. They can’t pay their mortgage. They can’t pay their car note. They can’t feed their families. They don’t have health insurance. And as I stand here today, I just … you know … what’s the use? I got a permit to open up an underground coal mine that would employ probably 125 people. They’d be paid wages from $50,000 to $150,000 a year. We would consume probably $50 million to $60 million in consumables a year, putting more men to work. And my only idea today is to go home. What’s the use? I don’t know. I mean, I see these guys — I see them with tears in their eyes — looking for work. And if there’s so much opposition to these guys making a living, I feel like there’s no need in me putting out the effort to provide work for them. So as I stood against the wall here today, basically what I’ve decided is not to open the mine. I’m just quitting. Thank you.


Via Instapundit. And read the comments.

Update: the site is getting hammered right now, so you may have to wait a while to get in. Here’s the Google cache.
Atlantic Jim;

25 years ago the mining start up that I was working for wanted to rehab an old gold mine from the 1920’s.
The shaft and tunnels off of it were in surprisingly good shape after being flooded for more than 60 years. Test drilling showed a profitable at the time quarter ounce per tonne. We were going to be using the only method allowed in NS at the time for extraction, a combination of shaker tables to extract the gold which was considerably more expensive than using a cyanide leach.
All was good to go. Then the provincial environment dept informed the owners that they were required to completely clean up the tailings and old buildings from the 20’s. The cost from this put the profit point at around a third of an ounce per tonne.
End result? No mine, no jobs, no taxes, no revenues from the gold for anyone.
The site had sat for 60 years and the govt was perfectly happy with it like it was. It still sits like that today. The only real difference is that no gold has been taken from the site and the shaft and tunnels are once again full to the top with water.

Y2Kyoto: Another Graduate

Climate Cult 9 Comments

Of the Suzuki School Of Climate Science;

If a tabloid used a single spell of cold weather to try to pooh-pooh the theory of global warming, it would rightly be accused of unscientific nonsense. Yet Sir John Beddington, the government’s scientific adviser, has proposed that the government do the same in reverse. In a report entitled ‘International Dimensions of Climate Change’, he calls upon the government to use weather-related disasters as ‘policy windows’ to push through unpopular policies to cut carbon emissions.Every time there is a flood in Bangladesh, in other words, we can expect another couple of pence of duty on a litre of unleaded.

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