November 26, 2008 by admin.

Vanderhoof Omineca Express

2008 11 26

Yes, a pipeline in our backyards

By Elaine Storey

In today’s market, the cost for Enbridge Inc. to snake an oil pipeline from Bruderheim, Alberta, through the center of British Columbia to Kitimat will range in the $4 billion price range. There will be more pubic hearings and consultations before the plan is ready for the regulatory application process in the summer of 2009. Upon regulatory confirmation, construction could begin as early as 2010 or 2011 and completed as early as 2014….(Full Story)
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Comment by folc.ca: The proposed pipeline will transport 525,000 barrels of petroleum a day from (west of) Bruderheim, Alberta (in Strathcona County’s Industrial Heartland), to Kitimat and 193,000 barrels of condensate a day from Kitimat back to Bruderheim.

The open-house posters by Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline are accessible here.

The open-house presentation by Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline mentions not a word of where the petroleum will be shipped to. Would it be wrong to speculate that the destination is China?

Nevertheless, what will be shipped out won’t be processed and refined in Canada.  Is that a good economic policy?  More of the hewers of wood and drawers of water philosophy.

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November 25, 2008 by admin.

Telegraph.co.uk

The world has never seen such freezing heat

By Christopher Booker
2008 11 16

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China’s official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its “worst snowstorm ever”. In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years….(Full Story)
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Comment by folc.ca: NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) committed such a serious blunder with erroneous reporting of the global average temperatures during this year’s October that it boggles the mind.

It is inconceivable how GISS can possibly recover any credibility at all.  GISS used fake-data, for two months running, data that showed increases in global temperatures, while across the world the evidence was to the contrary.

This story did not make the front pages. You better read it, so that you know to what extremes global alarmists will go to try to bamboozle us.

Steven McIntyre, someone who rides herd — and a good thing too — on the quality of NASA’s propagandist or quite plainly sloppy surface temperature record data (inherently flawed and prone to a large number of serious human errors), has this to say:

Let’s consider the opposite situation. Suppose that March temperatures had been inadvertently carried forward into April, yielding a massive cold anomaly in Russia. One feels that Hansen would have been all over the opposite error like a dog on a bone - he would have been his own bulldog.

In any event, we here at Climate Audit are always eager to assist NASA. On earlier occasions, we helped identify the lost city of Wellington, New Zealand, where NASA has been unable to locate climate records for nearly 30 years.

Today, we are able to provide NASA with up-to-date weather reports confirming that October in Russia is colder than September. Verhojansk temperatures are conveniently online here and temperatures are currently a nippy -18 deg C….(Full Story)

The satellite temperature record showed nothing out of the ordinary for this year’s month of October.  You would think that NASA would use that data instead of something that they either have no control over or that they willingly accept as the truth, whether reasonable or not, and even though the methods for collecting those data are outdated by about 150 years or more.  So, why doesn’t NASA promote the truth?  Why dosn’t the mainstream media report on a story of major importance that is already a month old?

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November 24, 2008 by admin.

Truth-Alert The Past Half-Century of Sea Level Rise: In his testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, NASA’s James Hansen stated “there is increasing realization that sea level rise this century may be measured in meters if we follow business-as-usual fossil fuel emissions.” Agreeing with Hansen, many people have been quick to jump on the CO2-induced global warming/rising sea level bandwagon. But how close to reality are the projections of a future sea level rise that is measured in meters?

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November 1, 2008 by admin.

5M Proven Technology in new Dimensions is a presentation on the specification, manufacturing and construction of a 5 MW wind turbine, by REpower Systems AG, Hamburg.

The complexities of the design, manufacturing and construction of the wind turbine of that size described and illustrated in the document are mind boggling.  Still, given that the document is in effect a sales brochure, there are implications that the document does not mention.  Just to bring up a few:

• The practical capacity of a wind turbine in about one quarter of its rated capacity at optimum wind speed.  That means that if using a wind turbine of the massive size promoted in the document practical power output would be 1.24 MW.  That would require the construction of 1,200 such wind turbines to replace a single thermo-electric power plant with 1.5 GW (average size).
• To locate that many wind turbines would require a total land area of about 286 square kilometers.
• A thermo-electric power plant produces electric power about 95% of the time, with maintenance shutdowns requiring to fire up large scale standby power generation that requires about three days to be put on line and therefore needs scheduling well in advance.  In contrast, when the wind stops blowing below the speed where a wind farm can produce even only a quarter of its optimum rated capacity (or if it need to shut down if the wind speed is too excessive), the demand for energy and the sudden lack of 1.5 GW of energy that the wind farm should be producing will bring the distribution network to its knees.  1.5 GW standby capacity cannot instantly be brought on line.  Even gas-turbine-generated energy requires as much as three hours to be brought on line.  However, even though that source of replacement or standby energy is feasible, natural gas is the most expensive conventional energy source.

Wind farms are not cheap, nor is the power they produce.  On account of the expensive nature of the absolutely necessary standby power generation required by wind farms during so much of their operating time, the power generated by wind farms is just about the most expensive electric power imaginable that is on the market.

A more detailed discussion of those issues is contained in Windmills for Suckers: Pickens’ Genocidal Plan (PDF file), by 21st Century Science & Technology.

More on the topic of alternative energy sources.

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