More on cross country travel with kids and grandkids: today we traversed the plains east of Denver, leaving behind the Rockies and entering the land of farming. Now we are in Nebraska, surrounded by corn and RVs in the KOA. It takes a trip across the wide open spaces to come to grips with the [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Cars and Kids across corn fields
Posted in About the news on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Milk and mines: travel with kids and grandkids
Posted in About the news on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Absence of fresh content so far this week is explained by the fact that I am travelling across country with my daughter and three grandkids on route to Iowa from California. At a KOA in eastern Colorado, I have managed to connect to the internet and post this piece. This morning we traversed the Rockies [...]
New consultants to solve new problems?
Posted in About the news, North America on June 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes a fresh look at a problem by new people sheds light on the hidden obvious. Sounds like a platitude; and maybe it is. We all, however, grow inbred in our attitudes and perspectives and can benefit by standing on the other side of the platform. Not easy to do, as I discovered again this [...]
The Cline Coal Mine versus Glacier National Park: Montana versus British Columbia a mere subplot in US versus Canada?
Posted in About the news, Coal, Enviromental, North America on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As regular readers of this blog may have discerned, I spend time in Canada and time in the United States. All my kids and grandkids are American, and my empathies are Canadian. So I am berated both sides of the border. In Canada, I am regarded as an ugly American, although my accent is bastard [...]
How to sustain a resource: open Elliot Lake and produce more uranium?
Posted in About the news, Mining history, North America, Uranium on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Talking of sustainable development, talk of remining old mines. I am not sure how reworking old mines, their waste rock dumps, and tailings impoundments constitutes sustainable development, but use of the term sure helps. The waste rock dumps and tailings impoundments of the Witwatersrand that were my childhood playground are all gone: reworked for residual [...]
Tailings Consolidation
Posted in About the news, Tailings on June 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The mine wastes, some call it tailings, but the regulators would term it a significant waste, was placed in a lined pond. Beneath the liner is a leak detection system. And above the liner is a drain “spine.” Rain has kept the materials wet and during the wet season, water ponds on top of the [...]
Statistics or global warming to blame for Australian coal delivery interruptions?
Posted in About the news, Australia and New Zealand, Coal, Global Warming on June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Now we have it on good authority from any number of experts that there is no such thing as global warming. So the storms that now play havoc with Australia are just part of the natural pattern of things. I wonder what the Recurrence Interval (or Return Period as some hydrologist call it) is of [...]
How to cool on a hot summer day: consider Canada’s ice roads
Posted in About the news, Global Warming, North America on June 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today was nice and hot in Southern California. We spent time on the yacht moored in San Pedro harbor and took five kids around the Cabrillo Aquarium–a quaint, informal place that cost but a dollar to get in. Then to the hot sands of the beach and toes in water that is still cold, at [...]
Labor shortage due to sparse rural populations of young people accustomed to hard outdoor work in rough locations
Posted in About the news, Jobs and Salaries on June 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a refreshingly honest, if politically incorrect, statement about why there are labor shortages in the drilling and mining industries–Francis McGuire the CEO of Major Drilling Group International is reported to have told a conference the following: “On the quality of equipment, there is no doubt that you see, as you always have (at [...]
The myth of sustainable development continues to feed the propaganda machines
Posted in About the news, Community relations, Global Warming, Human relations and mining on June 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just had a stiff gin and tonic with a friend across the road. Over the weekend he was an honored guest at the induction of somebody important at Caltech. He talked with a Noble Prize winner about sustainable development. Apparently the professor of chemistry maintained that sustainable development is a myth based on propoganda objectives. [...]
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