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Mon, 2007-02-26 07:37Ross Gelbspan
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Climate Big Winner in TXU Takeover

Texas' largest electric utility last night tentatively approved a record $45 billion takeover bid by two private equity firms in a deal hailed by environmentalists as a major turning point in the battle against global warming. 

Tue, 2007-02-20 08:05Ross Gelbspan
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Enron-Type Accounting Used to Calculate "Carbon Offsets"

The carbon offset industry is using the same sort of ‘future value accounting’ that caused the collapse of energy giant Enron, according to a watchdog group.

When companies like Climate Care and the Carbon Neutral Company sell the public carbon offsets, carbon savings expected to be made in the future are counted as savings made in the present. This is the same technique used by Enron to inflate its profits with such disastrous consequences.

Tue, 2007-02-13 09:36Ross Gelbspan
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Investor Group Blacklists Ten Corporations For Climate Inaction

A group of US investors with more than $200 billion in assets have blacklisted 10 companies, including the oil giant ExxonMobil, the financial services group Wells Fargo and the utility TXU, for not doing enough to respond to global warming, in a sign of increasing shareholder activism on environmental issues. The group also includes: Dominion Resources, Allegheny Energy, Massey Energy, Consol Energy, ACE, ConocoPhillips and  Bed Bath & Beyond.
Mon, 2007-01-15 13:40Bill Miller
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Vancouver credit-union official joins climate-change crusade

The top executive at British Columbia’s largest credit union attended training sessions recently on how to make the case for action against global warming.

Mon, 2006-12-04 14:50Ross Gelbspan
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Want to Save The World? One Place to Start Is At Home!

One Small Step for Man -- One Giant Step etc.
Tue, 2006-10-03 09:03Richard Littlemore
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Sophomoric Province Newspaper Looking for a Silver Lining

In the face of a chilling caution from the Forest Products Association of Canada (that the pine-beetle infestation currently ravaging British Columbia's our forests will be followed by further pestilences brought on by warmer weather), the sage editorial staffers at the Vancouver Province newspaper have bid us to "look at the bright side of global warming."
Mon, 2006-04-24 07:39Jim Hoggan
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Why Are There So Few "Friends of Science"?

Rounding up the usual climate change "sceptics" on the domestic (Canadian front), we have the website www.friendsofscience.org, "Providing Insight on Climate Change."

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