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Canadians need to start thinking of themselves as a petrostate, and they need to start thinking of the kinds of controls needed to protect the country from the excesses of oil. Andrew Nikiforuk canadiancontrolcountry Change image and share on social
The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project. Andrew Nikiforuk boomcapitalconstruction Change image and share on social
The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work. Andrew Nikiforuk assumebusinesscap share on social
I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. Guy Pearce explorationfilmform Change image and share on social
My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor. Cole Hauser achieveactorangry share on social
Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market. Gray Davis companyderegulateenergy share on social