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Does the religion & crusade of global warming impact the mining industry?
Posted in About the news, Church, Global Warming, Investing & Finance, opera, tagged conference, copenhagen, Global Warming, mining, Rio Tinto, Uranium on December 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Climate change; carbon footprint; oil sands; and traffic to Fort McMurray
Posted in brandy, First Nations, Global Warming, mining, North America, Oil sands, tagged carbon capture, Fort McMurray, Global Warming, mining, Oil sands, pollution, traffic on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Three days in Fort McMurray, Alberta, and the center of oil sands mining. Here are some thoughts prompted by driving from city center to mining center.
Mining Investments in Global Warming: Buy Rio Tinto who support the Climate Action Partnership.
Posted in blogs, Global Warming, Investing & Finance, Peru, tagged climate action partnership, Global Warming, investment, mining, porn, Rio Tinto on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monday morning is the time to review your mining investments. The question I will consider this week is: Should I invest in Rio Tinto because they are members of the United States Climate Action Partnership? Here are some of my background thoughts on this investment decision.
Global warming via geotechnical change
Posted in Global Warming, Heap leach, Waste Rock on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Can you quantify global warming by measuring changes in slope stability? I cannot imagine how. But a fellow geotechnical engineer is off to China soon to meet with ten other geotechnical engineers to talk about monitoring geotechnical structures in an attempt to determine if global warming is affecting the geotechnical structures.
Rare earth mining in California — can we out-mine the Chinese?
Posted in Global Warming, Investing & Finance, Uncategorized on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tim Dyhr of The Mines Group is a long-time colleague. Today he reminded me of another of those conundrums of mining and environmental protection, namely the need to mine the rare metals needed to make electric cars, or more specifically the batteries for such cars. He writes in an e-mail, in which he quotes the [...]
Global warming good for mining
Posted in About the news, Church, Global Warming, People on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Australia rejects a cap and trade on carbon dioxide control. Ian Plimer a professor of mining geology is given credit for killing the bill to act on global warming. He has called global warming “the new religion” noting that:
Three mining ladies duke out global warming and religion
Posted in Church, Global Warming, mountaintop mining on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The rich and the religious are different from the rest of us. At dinner the other evening, a rich lady told me of her trip in her 44-ft yacht to Catalina, that rather desolate island off the coast of Orange County. She was complaining about the lady in the 38-ft yacht, who apparently had the timidity [...]
Mining professor denies global warming and espouses evolution
Posted in Church, Enviromental, Global Warming on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The heat is bringing out the nuts. The low hanging fruit are the professors who are doing silly things and making asinine statements. We all know about that Harvard fellow who got the President into a pickle—or was it the president who blundered into another misjudgement of old men who sound profound, but who in [...]
Oil Sands, National Geographic, and Dead Ptarmigans
Posted in About the news, First Nations, Global Warming, Human relations and mining, Oil sands, People, Reclamation, tagged dead, ducks, First Nation, forests, Jim Boucher, mining, National Geographic, Oil sands, Pond 1, ptarmigans on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As a blogger I reserve the right to be wrong. I reserve the right to attack folly and verbal excess. I reserve the right to criticise the National Geographic and First Nations. I reserve the right to defend dead ducks, dead ptarmigans, the oil sands, and Fort McMurray.
SME, climate change, and mining risks & challenges
Posted in About the news, Enviromental, Global Warming, tagged Diavik, Ekati, fire, floods, Global Warming, mining, Rio Tinto, SME on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
SME is over and now we have time to slip the CD of Preprints into the computer to read the technical papers. The sad part is that most of those who presented talks did not bother to prepare a paper. And no provision has been made to collect, disseminate, or archive their PowerPoint presentations. [...]
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