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		<title>The B.C. Economy in Transition</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/05/03/the-b-c-economy-in-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 18:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, a paper that I prepared on the BC economy was released.  I hope readers will find  it of interest.  The paper can be found at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30728436/Looking-Forward-The-BC-Economy-at-a-Crossroads
The paper was prepared at the request of the Leader of the BC Official Opposition, who wanted a background study and analysis of the economy.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spinning Green Energy: Science, Independent Advisers, and Advocacy</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/27/time-to-separate-politics-from-un-climate-change-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A highly respected climate change scientist has taken aim at fellow members of the UN&#8217;s International Panel on Climate Change who engage in political advocacy.  Andrew Weaver, a professor at the University of Victoria, is concerned that some panel members have become involved in advocating particular climate change policies and actions rather than serving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ontario Makes Sense on Green Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/22/ontario-makes-sense-on-green-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2010/01/22/ontario-makes-sense-on-green-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One province has finally got it right on green energy.  Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has just announced a $7 billion deal that will have Samsung commit to a major transformation of the electricity generating system.  Samsung will invest in a big way in wind and solar energy as part of a move away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harper&#8217;s  Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/29/harper-in-copenhagen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been said about Canada&#8217;s performance at Copenhagen, much of it negative.  Many are disappointed that Canada did not take a stronger stand and provide greater leadership.  Harper says it was a success and that the world followed Canada&#8217;s lead.  However the government&#8217;s response has been seemingly halfhearted, seeming to confirm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danish Investigate Policy Copied by Campbell</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/19/campbell-embraces-unfortunate-danish-energy-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/12/19/campbell-embraces-unfortunate-danish-energy-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vancouver Sun profiled Premier Gordon Campbell on Friday in Denmark endorsing not the Copenhagen Accord, but the Danish policy of subsidizing private wind power at the expense of taxpayers.  He claimed that Denmark sets an example for us if we want to develop clean energy.  And indeed it appears that his government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BC To Spew Out More Global Warming Gases</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/19/bc-pushes-more-gobal-warming-gases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I argued that the sole reason the BC Campbell government ordered BC Hydro to take the Burrard Thermal gas generating station off its base supply is to make room for newly rich private owners of high cost hydro plants to make piles of money at our expense.  Campbell claims it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salmon Inquiry Should Act Before BC Kills More Salmon</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/13/waht-do-governments-not-get-about-salmon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/13/waht-do-governments-not-get-about-salmon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ink is hardly dry on Stephen Harper&#8217;s press release setting up the Salmon Inquiry.  Now we have the news that the BC Government (you know, the one that keeps telling us how green it is) will be removing gravel from the lower Fraser River this winter, even though all the experts know this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MacKenzie Gas Pipeline Doomed</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/10/mackenzie-gas-pipeline-doomed-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MacKenzie Gas Pipeline Project has been part of the lore of generations of Canadians, particularly in Northern Canada, since the 1970&#8217;s.  It was then that the dream of building a huge natural gas pipeline from the delta of the MacKenzie River to southern Canada first took shape.  At that time it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough Blame To Go Around for Salmon Inquiry</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/06/salmon-inquiry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Government has established an inquiry into the management of west coast salmon stocks.  This has long been sought by John Cummins, MP from Delta, BC, who lays the primary blame on the First Nations and the aboriginal right to fish.  It has also been sought by the NDP, who profess to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BC Government Must Explain Look of Corruption</title>
		<link>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/05/corruption-in-hydro-policy-in-bc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.policycentre.ca/2009/11/05/corruption-in-hydro-policy-in-bc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word corruption is one not normally given much credence as an explanation of government behavior in Canada.  I have of late written much about the pervasive corruption of the Karzai government in Afghanistan.  Now an essay by a reputable economist and analyst has raised the spectre of corruption in the recent behavior [...]]]></description>
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