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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Wednesday, March 28
You think you're heating bill is high ...
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DavidAkin
on Wed 28 Mar 2007 12:02 PM EDT
Monday, March 26
Engineering their own defeat
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DavidAkin
on Mon 26 Mar 2007 06:51 PM EDT
A few days ago I signed up at Facebook and wondered here how I might find it useful. Well, here’s one useful reason to be there: Many of the people I cover are there. Here’s Liberal MP Mark Holland, for example, writing on Facebook live from the C-30 (Clean Air Act) committee ... more »
Corn prices set to soar - driven by demand for ethanol
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DavidAkin
on Mon 26 Mar 2007 11:22 AM EDT
In a research note released this morning, analyst John Roy of W.R. Hambrecht and Co., says that U.S. farmers must plant at least 93.2 million acres of corn for the price of a bushel of corn to stay at (U.S.)$4.10. That is still a very high price — the ... more » Friday, March 23
Desrosiers on Vehicle Efficiency Initiative
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DavidAkin
on Fri 23 Mar 2007 10:59 AM EDT
Dennis Desrosiers of Desrosiers Automotive Consultants says the Vehicle Efficiency Initiative announced this week in the federal budget may be the most expensive program yet in terms of dollar per tonne of reductions of greenhouse gases:
Thursday, March 22
Biz mag names its Top 10 'green' giants
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DavidAkin
on Thu 22 Mar 2007 04:17 PM EDT
Fortune wrote: “In a survey of ... more » Saturday, March 10
Suncor's annual report - revenues, production and emissions intensity
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DavidAkin
on Sat 10 Mar 2007 11:39 AM EST
Suncor Energy Inc. released some of its annual disclosure documents today, including the company’s annual report for the year ended Dec. 31, 2006. It was a very good year for Suncor, which marks its 40th year in 2007 in the oil sands business in northern Alberta. Suncor posted ... more » Friday, March 9
EU pledges absolute targets on greenhouse gas emission reductions
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DavidAkin
on Fri 09 Mar 2007 09:42 PM EST
Canada will shortly announce its plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. All indications are that Canada’s targets will be “intensity” targets. In other words, Canada will want its pollution per unit of economic output. Greenhouse gas emissions can still rise under this scenario if economic output continues ... more » Wednesday, March 7
Conservatives' secret meeting with Calgary's oil and gas sector
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DavidAkin
on Wed 07 Mar 2007 06:10 PM EST
On September 28, Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn, and then Environment Minister Rona Ambrose held a secret closed-door meeting with the country’s most powerful oil-and-gas executives. The next day, I filed an Access to Information request with the appropriate federal government departments to get “memos, ... more » |
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Suncor Energy, one of the biggest operators in Canada’s oil sands (and, as a result, one of the country’s biggest generators of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming) has been named as one of the 
