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KTM factory rider Marc Coma took one step closer to victory in the Sardinia Rally on Monday, finishing fastest in both timed specials in Stage Three. The Spanish rider and multiple Dakar winner goes into the penultimate stage on Tuesday with a five minute advantage over his arch rival Cyril Despres.
Riders were out on the track on the Italian island for 293 km on Monday following Sunday's marathon stage where they were not allowed any mechanical assistance overnight. Taking care of tires on Monday was therefore an issue because they were the same that riders used on Sunday.
Marc Coma: "I am very happy because I didn't make any big mistakes but today was very difficult. It was necessary to stay very focused because of the worn tires and you could say that the last part we rode when the tires were really finished." Coma retained his lead in the aggregate times after both timed specials on Monday – the first of 115 km and a shorter second special of 55 km.
The opening days have included a lot of navigation and both Coma's factory teammates, Ruben Faria of Portugal and Poland's Jakub Przygonski have admitted that the terrain and the unseasonal cooler weather has made it difficult. Faria is currently ninth and Przygonski is thirteenth. The weather is set to improve on the final two days of competition.
Riders travel from Arborea to Sa Itria on Tuesday over a distance of 303 km, crossing to the opposite side of the Italian island. "We cross the mountains and again it will be very stony and very technical," Coma predicted. There will again be two timed specials of 120 km and 82 km. Organizers have also ensured that the race will go down to the wire with the longest stage of the rally on the final day Wednesday. This will include one long, 211 km timed special before they reach the finish at San Teodoro.
The Sardinia Rally is part of the six-leg 2013 World Cross Country Rally Championship series and Coma, the reigning World Champion is looking to further extend his points lead. After an enforced injury pause in the winter that kept him out of the Dakar Rally he has made a strong comeback this season by winning both the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge and the Sealine Rally in Qatar to have a perfect scorecard with 40 championship points.
Results Stage Three Sardinia Rally (aggregate results after two timed specials on Monday)
Total distance 293 km (two timed specials of 115 and 55 km)
1. Marc Coma (E), KTM, 8:15.17 h
2. Cyril Despres (F), Yamaha, +5:03 min
3. Alessandro Botturi (I), Yamaha, +7:37
4. Paolo Ceci (I), Yamaha, +7:48
5. Joan Pedrero (E), Beta, +8:31
6. Paolo Goncalves (P), Honda, +8:58
7. Andrea Mancini (I), Beta, +11.36
8. Jordi Villadoms (E), GasGas, +14:16
9. Ruben Faria (P), KTM, +14:35
10. Helder Rodrigues (P), Honda, +22:30
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Cardinals reunite with former foes in Houston
Astros' Harrell faces Westbrook in battle of former NL Central rivals
The Astros and Cardinals still aren't used to life without each other as division rivals. The former National League Central opponents square off in Houston on Tuesday, briefly rekindling their history with a two-game series.
Once playoff combatants for the National League crown in back-to-back years in 2004-05, they're now Interleague foes. Despite the separate leagues, a lot has remained the same from their more recent history.
The Cardinals are 47-29 and sit atop the NL Central, perhaps primed for another deep playoff run, while the Astros got off to a slow start in the American League West, where they sit in last place.
But Houston has shown itself considerably better of late, going 14-11 since May 29 and winning seven of its last 11, some in thrilling fashion.
There was a walk-off homer on Thursday against another former NL Central rival in the Brewers and a ninth-inning suicide squeeze against the Cubs on Saturday.
Astros manager Bo Porter said he's been using those late-game situations to try and manage more to his roster's strengths during the last month.
"If you give me a roster, give me my players' skill sets and give me an opponent, and we're going to do everything we can that day to win the ballgame," Porter said.
"Using our guys' skill sets, we're going to put ourselves in a position to be successful, if that means hitting and running, squeezing, sac bunting. If you've got eight guys in your lineup that are capable of hitting the three-run homer, then you sit and you wait for the three-run homer."
Houston originally planned to start left-hander Erik Bedard, but righty Lucas Harrell will get the nod instead. Bedard will oppose the Cardinals' Lance Lynn on Wednesday.
Harrell has hit a groove in June, going 1-1 with a 1.73 ERA in four starts. In that span, the righty has struck out 17 batters and walked four across 26 innings. Only Ervin Santana of the Royals has been better in June among AL pitchers with at least 20 innings.
Harrell, who struggled in April, has now allowed three earned runs or fewer in seven of his last nine starts. After posting a 3.76 ERA over 193 2/3 innings last year, his first full season in the Majors, the right-hander is again looking like a prominent starter for a rebuilding team.
"I'm back to getting my mechanics like they were last year," Harrell said. "I was inconsistent early in the year, but now I haven't been walking anybody. I was just battling today, trying to keep the team in it. It was one of those days you had to bear down and grit it."
The Astros went 5-2 in a seven-game run at Minute Maid Park last week.
St. Louis hopes to stunt that home cooking with righty Jake Westbrook, who was brilliant over seven innings of scoreless work in a 4-1 win against the Cubs on Wednesday.
The Cardinals have recently dominated the matchup with Houston, claiming 21 of the last 30 games and five of the last six season series before the Astros changed leagues prior to this year.
For St. Louis, the turn of the schedule toward American League parks should give Matt Adams the chance to get some playing time at designated hitter and maybe even first base if Allen Craig is shifted to the outfield.
"I love getting him out there," St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said. "Every time he plays, I don't think that we've sacrificed a lot. And that's saying a lot with a lineup like ours and how it has been producing. Our guys take a day, and I know that he has the potential."
Astros: Cisnero proving Porter right in relief
Houston reliever Jose Cisnero wasn't on the Major League roster when the season began. Now, he might be the best bullpen arm the Astros have.
The righty is 2-0 with a 0.42 ERA in his last 10 outings with 23 strikeouts. He's done that while being the go-to long-relief option for Porter, pitching at least two innings in 11 of his 15 appearances this season.
"Gradually, we've put him into some more intensified situations, and he's answered the bell every time," Porter said. "I think moving forward, he's gaining more confidence, we're gaining more confidence in him, and we believe that he'll be a vital part of the success of this organization for many years moving forward."
Cardinals: Off-days provide time to piece together rotation
The Cardinals may not have a fifth starter in the rotation after Tyler Lyons was optioned back to Triple-A Memphis, but they may not need one soon.
With three off-days between Monday and July 8, Matheny has ample room to maneuver his rotation to fit.
"It's just a lot of puzzle work to see how that fits," he said. "We've drawn up easily a dozen models already, trying to think of the pros and cons of each. The off-days offer some options. … We don't have to make a decision today, so we're not going to."
Worth noting
• This is Houston's third straight series against former NL Central rivals, having played the Brewers and Cubs in three-game sets over the last week.
• The Cardinals recalled righty reliever Michael Blazek in place of Lyons on Saturday. That makes 10 rookie pitchers to appear on St. Louis' active roster this season.
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Gonzalez makes second start since coming off 15-day disabled list
Baltimore won five of its seven series within the American League East entering its four-game set with Toronto, and it will have a chance to make that six of eight with a win Sunday. The Orioles are 13-11 in games within the division this season.
Despite Toronto sitting at the bottom of the AL East, the Blue Jays have the respect of Orioles manager Buck Showalter, who knows the importance of winning within the division.
"They spent their money very well on good players and developed good players," Showalter said. "Those people are very good at what they do in Toronto. Managing, front office, coaching, they do what they do. And that's why it is so gratifying if you can pull it off, because you know you are competing against the best in the world."
The Blue Jays will call on right-hander Chad Jenkins, making his second start of the season, to try to split the series. Because of the way the schedule has worked, Jenkins last pitched two weeks ago, when he allowed two earned runs on seven hits in five innings and earned the win over the Red Sox.
"We want to give Jenkins a shot at doing it. Take advantage of the opportunity and see what we got," manager John Gibbons said.
Gibbons also said Jenkins has continued to throw on the side to stay sharp, and he was even available out of the bullpen Saturday if the manager needed him. Gibbons added the long rest between starts is "not ideal," but Jenkins sounded up to the challenge.
"It's like I've said before, I did it last year," Jenkins said. "There was a couple of times where I had nine or 10 days off. It's tough, but at the same time you enjoy the rest while you have it."
Miguel Gonzalez will start for the Orioles on Sunday. He allowed two runs over seven innings and struck out five batters on May 21, his first outing off the 15-day disabled list.
Orioles: Johnson recalled to fortify bullpen
The Orioles recalled pitcher Steve Johnson from Triple-A Norfolk on Saturday. Johnson had been starting for the Tides, but he pitched out of the Orioles bullpen Saturday, where he will likely remain while on the Major League club.
After starter Freddy Garcia lasted just five innings, Johnson picked up the slack with 2 2/3 frames, in which he struck out five batters and only walked one. He allowed two earned runs on three hits.
The right-hander was 1-2 in four starts for Norfolk, with 24 strikeouts and eight walks in 19 2/3 innings.
To make room on the 25-man roster for Johnson, Baltimore placed reliever Pedro Strop on the 15-day disabled list with a lower back strain.
Blue Jays: Offense on a tear in May
Toronto's offense has averaged 5.67 runs per game through the first three games of the series, and Jose Bautista and Adam Lind are on a tear.
Each player has a batting average higher than .300 and an on-base-plus-slugging percentage higher than 1.000 in May. Bautista, who went 3-for-5 Saturday, raised his slash line for the month to .366/.489/.592.
Lind was also 3-for-5, raising his May slash line to .316/.385/.632.
Worth noting
• Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis has a 10-game hitting streak. He singled in the fourth inning Saturday to keep his streak alive.
• O's first baseman Chris Davis had another extra-base hit Saturday, lining an RBI double down the right-field line in the first inning. Davis leads with the Orioles with a .718 slugging percentage, the highest total for any batter that qualifies for the batting title. Baltimore as a team is slugging at a .456 clip, the best in baseball.
• Jenkins faced Baltimore once last season in his rookie campaign. He pitched 3 1/3 innings out of the bullpen on August 25, when he surrendered four earned runs on six hits with two walks and a strikeout.
Derek Wetmore is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DerekatDotCom. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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So remember the post when I wrote about the rumors of Bethanie Mattek's wedding based on tennis scribe Stephanie Myles' story in The Montreal Gazette? And remember when I confirmed the rumors with images and info from her November nuptials??
Well someone wasn't too happy with me.
Imagine my shock to find this oh-so pleasant email from Stephanie greeting me this morning in which she assumes I got the photos from her (false) and not B's publicist at CMPR (true), calls me "irresponsible", and makes all kinds of other strange statements:
Hi Rich,
Please remove the Bethanie Mattek wedding photos from your fabulous blog.
They're not yours to reproduce there; they were obtained by my newspaper and remain our property.
You can link to my blog, but that's as far as it can go. It's called intellectual and copyright property. You haven't even given me the courtesy of doing that, which is irresponsible.
A word of advice. If they cared to, Getty Images could also tell you to take all the photos they own off your blog, too, by the way. They're a for-profit company that charges people for the use of their photos. If bloggers just take them and use them for free, they'd be out of business pretty quickly. They probably just haven't found you yet, because from what I can see, you abuse the notion pretty freely.
Just because it's on the internet, doesn't mean anyone can just use stuff free of charge. A stunning concept, I know.
For example, I can use Getty and AFP on my blog because our newspaper has a contract with them and pays them, even though I don't often do it, because I have a huge log of photos that I took the last 12 months at all the Grand Slam tournaments and others. But that's the distinction.
Thanks for you prompt attention to this.
Stephanie Myles
The Gazette
Wait - no "thanks" for linking to her (maybe) highly read and insightful Open Court column? No invitations to "do lunch" and gossip about the Tours and dating rituals of other ballers (and drink ourselves silly of course)??
There's appreciation for you.
(image via www.impress-photo.com)
Friday, January 16, 2009
Stephanie Myles wants to rip someone a new one - but why is it me?
Labels: Bethanie Mattek, media, tennis
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- AnonymousJanuary 16, 2009 at 7:03 AM
and her photos are from a blog dated 16th Jan... Meanwhile, you reported on this on the 14th! Very impresive if you had got them from her blog!!
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 16, 2009 at 7:14 AM
Please leave up your getty images!! They're the best! Don't let this lady get you down
ReplyDelete What a bitch!! It's one thing she's writing to you under the impression you "stole" her pictures, but another thing HOW she does it.
"It's called intellectual." Did she just call you stupid??
"A stunning concept, I know." Did she just call you stupud AGAIN??
And what is with her on that Getty thing? Is she like, their lawyer?
Sorry, you Stephanie person you, but to me it sounds like someone's really bitter her column isn't as popular as this blog.
You wouldn't make such a fuzz if you didn't believe the pictures would be offered to a much wider audience here, would you?*shaking in my valentino boots*
Color me shocked guys! And what was with all the veiled threats?
Apparently she thinks I'm just some loser blogger sitting in my pj's at a desk in my parent's basement eating insects for food and stealing her work.
Fine I may be in my one-piece pajama with footies but that's it!- johanneJanuary 16, 2009 at 8:04 AM
I also like how she claims the pictures are the property of the newspaper. Ummm, what would Bethanie say about that??
Stop being such a snatch, Steph. "Apparently she thinks I'm just some loser blogger sitting in my pj's at a desk in my parent's basement eating insects for food and stealing her work."
*paranoia setting in*
Ah well. Steph needs to practice some relaxation.
At least you have the boots, Rich. Are you sure that's not the ones you borrowed from me last fall?She's pissed because in another year or two her newspaper will be put to pasture like most other papers. As a advertising exec, we know that newspapers are on their last leg.
Keep rocking the blog, Rich. We get timely news and gossip from you, not from hacks at dying pubs like Stephanie's.- AnonymousJanuary 16, 2009 at 9:27 AM
I was always wondering how you mangage to put all this pics on your site, because there of the copyright question.
Also I don't think that she is offending. - AnonymousJanuary 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM
It might be condescending of her, but I think it's poor form to post her e-mail and also to mock her in public when she addressed you/the issue in private! This blog seems to have gotten more snarky and unpleasant this year.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 16, 2009 at 12:04 PM
I completely disagree with the above comment. Stephanie is the one in poor form for falsely calling you out, insulting you, and threatening you. Good for you for not letting her bully you.
Why should her distasteful, delusional self-importance be kept hidden as she would likely prefer?
Not that i read her stuff, but now that i know how important she is (or rather, how important she thinks she is), i know to stay away. Thanks! - AnonymousJanuary 16, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Lol at Anom at 1:10PM: Stephanie - are you smarting a bit honey and thought you'd come back for Round 2?
Pathetic if that Anom was Stephanie... well anon, there isn't an issue, and of course we're gonna mock her attempt of accusing man of STEALING, when nothing has been stolen!
i mean, to attack someone when not knowing for sure he's quilty is elementary school lame!she should have at least check politely with Rich if he infact did took her pics, then adress the "issue" like a human being.
this way she created of herself an issue-and it's called "being a total ass"!
so, who's laughing now?i bet she's not, she should click send, after knowing the situation!
Rich,we love ya, and your blog!!Hey there Rich. She must be assuming that tennis bloggers are losers.
Obviously she doesn't know time have changed and tennis bloggers do get 'inside' info and press releases and photos from players' publicists too.
I guess she just want to take advantage of your popularity and make a name for herself.
By the way I agree with Jo, internet + copyright = failure. And you're not making a cent from all these info and photos too.- Youppi's goneApril 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM
A blast from the past and considering that Ms. Myles has been "imploding" on another blog this blog was early evidence of her blogger hate.


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Me too.
But I live in EU, so no software patents. Those unfortunate souls that live in USA, will have to go without floating point textures. But the most probable scenario is that whole WORLD won't see those patches enabled, because of USA law (unless and until they will compile it themselves)


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I still can't believe how big she is!:sigh:She's groovy :)
SO cute! ;)
Baby Audrey says "HAAY"!!!
Adorable! I think I had an outfit like that when I was in grade school. :)Looks like your LOVING that camera! I have links to some of my favorite learning sites on my blog. :)
That's awesome! Love that smushy face. :)
I could just eat her! She is TOO cute!
I love it! Look at those yummy thighs. She is so beautiful. She's my grand-daughter! I am so proud.
She is beautiful!
I'm pretty sure I had a romper just like that almost 30 years ago....lol
The lighting is beautiful. Both the warm glow and her outfit remind me of photos from my childhood. Are terry halter tops with matching shorts coming back next?
Baby Soup says HOOOOOOOOH
Z says "word." Or something like that.
Hay I saw Ivy on Kireei today and I thought: "Well don't I know that little one!" only then did I go l searching through all the foreign language for her name!!! Nice to spot friends around the web... I hope you guys are up and well soon... I live in terror of stomach flu.
Those eyes. So sweet.
She is just so damn cute!!
That title made me giggle really loud! I was thinking that her birthday is coming up soon, isn't it? Love her sweet, summer outfit!
That picture & caption: Perfect!
Ha! That's great. She is so cute!
Love the title to this post! I laughed out loud when I saw the picture- perfect captioning! She has the yummiest chubby legs ever! And your new camera is just amazing :)
hahaha, GREAT PICTURE!
Haaaaaay, Ivy!
LOL! That is THE perfect title for this post. What a cutie patootie!
bianca says, "haaaay, girl! you wear this, and i'll wear my black jumpsuit next time we're together at the park!"
SO cute! I love the wave!
What a cutie pie!!! And your title was so cute too!Your camera is awesome!
When my sister and I used to be barflys in college we'd always see these people dancing that had their hands up in the air, kind of pumping them, just like Ivy has hers. We called it the Up with People dance. Cracks me up to see Little Miss Ivy doing it now too!
Could she be ANY MORE GORGEOUS?? I could just eat her up!
I also think I had a similar outfit when I was a toddler.
She is just incredibly adorable. Love those colors, too.
Oh she is just so cute!
So adorable! Seriously. Love the cute little jumpsuit too! :)
Very sweet. I hope all the babies in the house are well now, too.Nell
I'm with MiMi. Look at those yummy thighs! She is too sweet! Hopefully Miss Thang avoided whatever everyone else had...
So sweet!
Loving this photo!
HAHA, I needed that giggle. Love it!
That is so retro! LOVE it
Ooh, yummy rainbows! What a sweetie.
She is a doll.
So beautiful. And you're tearing it up with that new camera! WOW!
I love that outfit! I wish I could buy one for Emily with my $100 K-Mart gift card I won - because of you! But, I can't find it in store or online. Hmm, I guess it's not out yet. Anyway, thanks for letting us know about the giveaway!
Steph, that girl is just radiant. She must get some goooood loving!
This is so cute! True summer style...
This is award winning. Everything about it.
ADORABLE!!! She is absolutely darling!!! Love the title!
Chipmunk's favorite song is "All the single babies."She's adorable.
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its great to see phorornix supporting projects that can take a good old tried and true engine and add on features and modifications that can totaly wreak any performance and compatibility it previously may of had with little to no real visual or architectual improvements while we gain hardly any real statistical value. seriously if the phoronix test suite game list was a family tree it would probobly be illeagal for any of them to ever have any more offspring.
i know its not easy to find games that offer an easy way to measute frame rate, but come up with some sort of a way to count the buffer swaps or something to allow you to use games loke heroes of newerth or trine or some game that doesnt have its code based on some anchient Id game. when you list world of padman and then quake 3 and whatever other quake 3 engine game it means nothing more than if you just mention one of them. at least put ut2k4 in there, actualy the worst part sofar has been that weve been whining about mesa 3.0 and 4.o compatibility with mesa, but phorornix test suite hardly even covers most of the opengl 1.4 specification (doom 3 and ut2k4 was about the end of 1.4, right before we moved onto 2.0) so i dont even feel like we have much of a test for 2.0 specifications, much less than the newly aquired 3.0 capabilities mesa has. just because someone modified the q3 engine to use 2.0 or 3.0 stuff doesnt mean it really stesses the spec (it shure as hell doesnt look like it most of the time)
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Carbon Capture Won't Solve the Tar Sands - Canada's Environment Minister
Carbon Capture Won't Solve the Tar Sands - Canada's Environment Minister
it's official. Canadian Environment Minster Jim Prentice fessed up to what experts have been saying all along: that carbon capture and storage (CSS) is close to useless for mitigating the massive emissions from the Alberta tar sands.
Canadian Prime Minister Harper is no doubt pissed that his potential leadership rival has gone off message on such an important issue of spin.
In an editorial board meeting with Globe and Mail Prentice admitted: "CCS is not the silver bullet in the oil sands."
Strange. That's not what his boss said when he committed at least $650 million in taxpayer's dollars towards this bitumen boondoggle. Harper is a big booster of CSS, stating that:
"This new technology, carbon capture and storage, when fully commercialized … will collect carbon dioxide emissions from oilsands operations and coal-fired electrical plants and seal them deep underground."
It also obvious that Harper either didn't read, or care about, the secret memo from his own scientists several months earlier stating exactly the opposite:
"Only a small percentage of emitted CO2 is 'capturable' since most emissions aren't pure enough," the notes say. "Only limited near-term opportunities exist in the oilsands and they largely relate to upgrader facilities."
Even using CSS at upgraders is largely a red herring since these facilities are increasingly nowhere near the tar sands. Much of the raw bitumen is now bound for processing south of the border.
So if CSS has almost no utility for reducing tar sands emissions, why does the Prime Minister of Canada keep claiming it does?
The simple reason is that Harper and the Alberta government are terrified that meaningful cap and trade legislation moving through the US Congress will make the already marginal economics of the tar sands even worse.
A recent report showed that oil prices might have to top $110 per barrel to make meaningful emission cuts profitable.
Even with a whopping $2 billion in additional CSS funds from the Alberta government, tar sands operators are giving this supposed panacea a pass.
This year, Shell Oil reneged on a commitment to reduce carbon emissions from a $13.7 billion expansion to conventional levels, even though this exposes them to litigation from environmental groups that threatens their project permitting.
Of course even if CSS worked perfectly at the tar sands without evaporating profitability, it would do nothing about the enormous downstream emissions from burning all that refined oil in cars – four times the production emissions.
None of this has stopped the Harper and Alberta government from shoveling billions in Canadian taxpayers money towards this unproven technology that has yet to be commercialized anywhere in the world.
Yet in the last federal budget, Harper allocated virtually all "green" stimulus money towards CSS - giving virtually nothing, to wind, solar or other green technologies such as modernizing the grid or promoting energy conservation.
Renewable industry representatives were naturally disgusted. Canadian Wind Energy Association president Robert Hornung predicts that existing federal funding may even run out before the end of the coming fiscal year.
"Our ability to compete with the United States for investment in wind energy projects and manufacturing opportunities will decline as a result of this budget. At a time when the United States has made measures to support renewable energy deployment a key component of its plans to stimulate the US economy, Canada is moving in the opposite direction."
In contrast, President Obama has invested $67 billion towards the renewable energy, stating clearly this is a pillar of the US economy in the coming century. The US is now investing six times as much per capita towards growing their green energy sector.
"We all know that the country that harnesses this new energy source will lead the 21st century," Obama told the world.
That country will clearly not be Canada.
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If I weren't a confirmed atheist this would be proof there is a god. Not only does it indicate that the public concensus is coming around to the scientific one, it also is a pretty good sign that the wheels are coming off this minority government. If Harper can't keep his environment minister on a short leash on this issue, one that he is so massively concerned with, I think maybe we should be cueing up the "Na-na, na-na na na, Hey Hey Hey – goodbye" audio for Steve.
The times, they are a' changin'
What's really sad about the whole thing is the fact that they are throwing money around like our problem with the environment is a high-stakes poker game. Totally unconscionable. They should be ashamed of themselves. What we need is consistent, constant and concerted effort to stop harmful practices so that we can save the environment, for real.
Jim Davis Inc
5% to 15% more CO2 emitted in total then regular oil production and consumption is massive??
Until the world stops using oil, the tar sands will be here. They provide a critical security of supply that Middle Eastern countries and others can not offer.
The reason the world is using tar sands now, soon to be oil shale next, is because its becoming increasingly rare to find easy oil. These are far less effecient and expensive so its really a sign that peak oil looms.
The oil sands are touted as a resource equivalent to a second Saudi Arabia. This is the last thing the world needs. There are only so many fossil fuels we can burn while still having a decent shot of avoiding catastrophic climate change. As a result, fossil fuels are an industry with no long-term future. This is indirectly demonstrated by the shamefully weak greenhouse gas mitigation targets adopted by Alberta. They know that even if CCS development progresses perfectly, it will not let them bring their emissions in line with what is sustainable. That's why they can only hope to have reduced emissions to 14% below 2005 levels by 2050, when the world as a whole needs to have cut them to around 80% below 1990 levels, and rich places like Canada will need to have cut by even more.
More: http://www.sindark.com/2009/02/07/carbon-capture-cannot-redeem-the-oil-sands/
Oil is a blessing, not a curse. Even if the world reduces CO2 emissions, oil will remain a critical and invaluable fuel supply.
Its likely a combo of both not an either or. People of the past would have said much the same about horses forever being a critical and invaluable part in the transport of people and goods but we know things change. While it seems likely that oil will be a significant part of our lives the nature of its limitedness means the world will eventually have to move on
In a world where carbon emissions are constrained, either through carbon taxes or cap-and-trade systems, companies which proactively position themselves can both reduce their business risks and find new sources of competitive advantage. Specific opportunities might be: If the carbon emissions from power plants, oil refineries and petrochemical plants are capped, companies that find a cost effective way of reducing their emissions will be able to Effective carbon management will come only through :
If oil and oil products are taxed on the amount of carbon dioxide generated in producing that oil, then oil is no longer just a commodity. Significant cost and marketing advantages will accrue to the company that delivers "low carbon" oil.
The first step in great leadership is facing reality. My hearty congartulations and encouragement, Jim. One small correction, however, if you don't mind. They are called the Athebasca Tar Sands. Always have been and you know it. Calling it "oil sands" is like calling iron ore "cars." Apart from that, please do consider that
1. Whether within 10 years or 40, the entire planet will be substantially converted to alternative energy sources; and
2. The longer Canada buries it's head in tar sands and other fossil fuels, the greater will be our handicap as an energy provider in the world of our kids.
It's just good business to start the change, Jim. As well as being responsible husbandry of a beautiful planet. Good on ya. Really good.
When so many in the media are writing alarmist nonsense about alleged
catastrophic humanmade global warming, and Earth is now actually cooling,
it is immaterial whether the Alarmists are liars or mere imbeciles.
Climate alarmists are all engaged in a huge costly deception which will
place excessive, almost limitless political power in the hands of the ruling
elite, at the expense of the average human being, democracy and freedom.
Climate alarmists advocate massive misallocation of scarce global
resources to address the false crisis of global warming, when real crises
that kill tens of millions every year, like poor sanitation, malaria and
poverty, go wanting.
This is a highly immoral act of historic scope, yet Alarmists have the gall
to say that "Deniers" are immoral!
Kyoto and other such costly, wasteful and wholly ineffective CO2 abatement programs are supported by scoundrels and imbeciles, and they are masters of dishonesty and misinformation.
As the truth becomes more apparent with time, let these climate alarmists
bear the full shame of their odious behaviour for the rest of their lives.
You know how to turn a loaf of bread into a chicken? "Phlogiston" (the man who dares to be known by not his real name) does…… just repeat it ten times….
has finally lost it.
(Not that he ever had "it.")
Poor Mr Harper is just trying to get some climate brownie points and some dumb subordinate gets the idea tat green talk is supposed to accomplish something.
No Mr. Minister - get it straight - green talk is for nothing at all beyond political optics. That basic principle goes beyond government and oil companies. It's pretty universal.
It's all a big show minister - you're messing up your lines.
Harper is indeed trying to win points with the 'green crowd' with this sort of talk. Canada has A LOT Of Oil under the Tar Sands. I think they should be more concerned about extracting and utilizing it than the environment. I believe all this global warming stuff is mumbo jumbo. Most of the CO2 goes in the atmosphere from volcanoes anyway.
What people tend to forget is that the purpose of a political party (and so politicians) is to be elected, the aim is to make the electorate grateful. What is going on here it seems to me is that Minister has a different view of the electoral gain by saying something different to the Prime Minister. This is not as cynical as it sounds.
You either give hope and push for more jobs, wealth etc. or you tell the truth. One appeals to the greed and business part of the electorate the other to the more mature and thinking part of the electorate. Politicians will always defend what they do and say by talking about the public good or progress. The truth is very few would do something that would be for the genuine benefit of society if that action was guaranteed to have them voted out of office.
Until public opinion is firmly, and electorally significantly, on the green side of politcs we can expect more and more politicians being appologists for big business with others taking a more progressive stand, with an eye to the future.
Seems like Canada is taking the short term perspective on the energy situation. Being an American, I am proud of Obama's focus on renewable energy and cleaner sources of power. While they may cost us a big dollar in short term, it will pay off in terms of job creation, reduced dependence on foreign oil.
actually we are very sad about selling all of the sources in the earth…. As a usual, everything can be a money…. We should think about our environment first, before we do something ……be aware that the earth is too old for giving the pardon to human being that usually take many sources…..in the end, the earth can angry in form of disaster……..
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I agree with Canada's Environment Minister. Not all carbon capture solve the main problem the tar sands. Keep try another choice to make better goal.
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