Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Agrimoney.com | High winterkill to lift rape price, says Landkom
Shares in Landkom jumped 10% after the Ukraine farm operator's chief executive, Vitaliy Skotsyk, forecast that a rosy outlook for rapeseed prices following a "particularly hard winter" for crops.
» Gore Finally Responds to Question About Climategate, Sort Of… - Big Journalism
Gore is a former Vice President of the United States who has enormous influence in policies that will change the lives of every American. Why does he think he doesn’t need to answer to the press? And why isn’t the press more critical of his imperious attitude?
Ask the ministers: climate change and energy election debate | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Don't miss your chance to quiz the next minister of energy and climate change on their policies in a special Guardian debate
What’s Behind Obama’s Drilling Plan? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
I consider myself an environmentalist and have written at length about the problems of oil extraction, but I have a hard time getting upset about the decision to expand offshore drilling.

As a matter of global justice, why should America exclude its coastlines while coastlines all over the world are drilled for oil that goes into American gas tanks? Banning oil companies from operating in our waters while encouraging them to do so in other people’s waters — there’s a whiff of hypocrisy to that, a sort of outsourcing of oil pollution.

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