Banking on Green Infrastructure

March 22, 2010 - 7:01 am

The Brits have just proposed a state-run “green investment bank” targeting funding for green initiatives as part of a pre-election budget: £1 billion of public sector money hopefully supplemented by a further £1 billion from the private sector to create 400,000 new jobs in the next five years on...

Tags: dictators, EDC, FCM, green investment bank, high-speed rail, nuclear, stimulus, wind

Poll: is the public best served by unions or the private sector?

June 25, 2009 - 11:38 am

Today, on my LinkedIn profile, I posed a topical question — in Toronto at any rate — "is the public best served by unions or the private sector?" You can have your say by voting directly or by commenting below.

The 100-Year Storm

September 26, 2008 - 12:35 pm

Statistically, a 100-year storm is an event that has a one per cent chance of occurring in any one given year. In the last five years, North America has had a handful of these storms. There could be several more in the next year or none for hundreds of years. In theory. Climate change is skewing...

Tags: climate change, CSA, Engineers Canada, Mike Hulley, tree huggers, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang, wastewater and stormwater systems., WaterTech 2008, XCG Consultants