Hopefully Andy and Jim won't mind me posting this. Hopefully others will read and support the return of the nurse practioner.
DHA shows its true coloursAs of tonight, we have come to a stalemate in our attempt to get Karen rehired as our nurse practitioner. In the past 36 hours the DHA put forward a set of non-negotiable demands, which no one in their right mind would or could accept. The demands would be charitably described as punitive. Vindictive is another word that leaps to mind. In essence their demands are designed to humiliate rather than heal. Over the last eight weeks we have asked you to trust us…as we did in others we were dealing with. Our trust was misplaced. At the end, the knowledge our communities have that Karen is a wonderful nurse practitioner, who suits us just fine, didn’t matter to the decision makers. Some wanted blood. Others just wanted this whole thing to go away. In the end, the importance of “process” won out over our health care. There is nothing left to negotiate with the DHA. They have demonstrated beyond any doubt that our lack of confidence in them is entirely justified. We now have to explore our options, as Karen explores hers. Unless the Government is convinced to come up with a new plan soon, she will most certainly have to leave this place. Nova Scotia, and especially our Islands, are going to lose a top notch health professional because of the petty actions of health care bureaucrats. The community will have to come together soon to decide on the next steps we want to take. I, for one, am not defeated. The disregard these people have for what is right and important doesn’t just make me angry, it energizes me for the fight ahead. I’d propose a community meeting for Saturday afternoon at the Community Hall in Freeport. Andy and Jim
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Carbon Hunters
Carbon Hunters
Thursday November 26, 2009 at 8 pm on CBC-TV
Repeating: Friday November 27, 2009 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
Carbon Hunters
Watch the promo online.
2:01 minutes
Is it possible, considering the many obstacles, to stop global warming, or at least reduce its harm? Anticipating the important United Nations Climate Change Conference starting December 7 in Copenhagen, Doc Zone presents the World Premiere of a timely and intriguing new documentary by Vancouver filmmaker/journalist Miro Cernetig, Carbon Hunters.
Carbon Hunters delves into the controversial, little-understood, yet booming industry of carbon credit trading as a potentially workable mechanism towards solving what most people now acknowledge as the greatest crisis facing the planet: global warming.
This is a crisis with no easy solutions. Voters so far seem reluctant to accept carbon taxes so, while we wait for industry and governments to sign on to binding international agreements that will fix limits on air pollution, one possible solution is good to go right now: carbon trading.
Sometimes called emissions trading, carbon offset, or cap-and-trade, carbon trading is attractive to many because it is a market-driven solution that puts a fixed price on pollution, allowing those who pollute to pay and those do not pollute to profit from their position.
Enter Vancouver entrepreneur Shawn Burns. They say every cloud has a silver lining. In Burns' case, he thinks that cloud is global warming and that there may be a way to stop it and make money along the way. The CEO of Carbon Credit Corp. is a 'carbon hunter' - a whole new breed of entrepreneur in a booming new industry: global traders who scour the planet looking for carbon credits. Burns and his partners package those credits and sell them to polluters, taking a cut from the sale.
The plan for trading carbon as a global commodity was hatched at the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Today, that carbon trading market is a 'green rush' that's already worth $100 billion and climbing. But how does it actually work, and what does a carbon credit actually buy?
Filmmaker Miro Cernetig travels from BC to the Canadian prairie, and on to India, Philippines, Hollywood, Chicago, London and New York to find answers, linking seemingly disparate elements like the dung of sacred cows in India, the band Coldplay, Alberta wheat farmers, movie star Cameron Diaz, Filipino garbage scavengers, U.S. President Barack Obama, sea algae, the Assembly of First Nations in Canada, an English funeral director, the Amazon rain forest, and the Alberta Tar Sands.
Cernetig hears from supporters of this profit motive-driven solution, like influential Canadian Maurice Strong, who feels that carbon trading is "an essential element in the solution...and the most effective one that's actually working at this moment," and detractors, like Kevin Smith of the group Carbon Trade Watch and author of the book Carbon Neutral Myth - Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins, who argues that the carbon trading business is all smoke and mirrors. As for Shawn Burns, he concludes, "Rather than just exploiting resources now we can make money protecting resources. I think you can make money and save the planet at the same time. And I think you should."
And where does the average Canadian come into this? Cernetig talks to a Vancouver man who learned whether the tree he bought as a carbon credit to offset an airplane trip really made a difference. "This is the first film that takes a global look at how you buy a carbon credit and what you get - or don't get - when you do," says Cernetig. "In our travels we've discovered the difficulties and ethical quandaries behind creating a new commodity - carbon credits - to deal with climate change."
Carbon Hunters is produced by Force Four Entertainment in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporatio
Thursday November 26, 2009 at 8 pm on CBC-TV
Repeating: Friday November 27, 2009 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
Carbon Hunters
Watch the promo online.
2:01 minutes
Is it possible, considering the many obstacles, to stop global warming, or at least reduce its harm? Anticipating the important United Nations Climate Change Conference starting December 7 in Copenhagen, Doc Zone presents the World Premiere of a timely and intriguing new documentary by Vancouver filmmaker/journalist Miro Cernetig, Carbon Hunters.
Carbon Hunters delves into the controversial, little-understood, yet booming industry of carbon credit trading as a potentially workable mechanism towards solving what most people now acknowledge as the greatest crisis facing the planet: global warming.
This is a crisis with no easy solutions. Voters so far seem reluctant to accept carbon taxes so, while we wait for industry and governments to sign on to binding international agreements that will fix limits on air pollution, one possible solution is good to go right now: carbon trading.
Sometimes called emissions trading, carbon offset, or cap-and-trade, carbon trading is attractive to many because it is a market-driven solution that puts a fixed price on pollution, allowing those who pollute to pay and those do not pollute to profit from their position.
Enter Vancouver entrepreneur Shawn Burns. They say every cloud has a silver lining. In Burns' case, he thinks that cloud is global warming and that there may be a way to stop it and make money along the way. The CEO of Carbon Credit Corp. is a 'carbon hunter' - a whole new breed of entrepreneur in a booming new industry: global traders who scour the planet looking for carbon credits. Burns and his partners package those credits and sell them to polluters, taking a cut from the sale.
The plan for trading carbon as a global commodity was hatched at the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Today, that carbon trading market is a 'green rush' that's already worth $100 billion and climbing. But how does it actually work, and what does a carbon credit actually buy?
Filmmaker Miro Cernetig travels from BC to the Canadian prairie, and on to India, Philippines, Hollywood, Chicago, London and New York to find answers, linking seemingly disparate elements like the dung of sacred cows in India, the band Coldplay, Alberta wheat farmers, movie star Cameron Diaz, Filipino garbage scavengers, U.S. President Barack Obama, sea algae, the Assembly of First Nations in Canada, an English funeral director, the Amazon rain forest, and the Alberta Tar Sands.
Cernetig hears from supporters of this profit motive-driven solution, like influential Canadian Maurice Strong, who feels that carbon trading is "an essential element in the solution...and the most effective one that's actually working at this moment," and detractors, like Kevin Smith of the group Carbon Trade Watch and author of the book Carbon Neutral Myth - Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins, who argues that the carbon trading business is all smoke and mirrors. As for Shawn Burns, he concludes, "Rather than just exploiting resources now we can make money protecting resources. I think you can make money and save the planet at the same time. And I think you should."
And where does the average Canadian come into this? Cernetig talks to a Vancouver man who learned whether the tree he bought as a carbon credit to offset an airplane trip really made a difference. "This is the first film that takes a global look at how you buy a carbon credit and what you get - or don't get - when you do," says Cernetig. "In our travels we've discovered the difficulties and ethical quandaries behind creating a new commodity - carbon credits - to deal with climate change."
Carbon Hunters is produced by Force Four Entertainment in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporatio
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Industrial Wind Projects
When are MPP's going to take action and support an investigation into the complaints from people living within Industrial Wind Projects??? The Norfolk victims continue to try find an alternate place to live with little success. AIM Powergen has yet to provide these people with a solutions. Many of the Ripley, Amaranth and Melancthon residents have had to abandon their homes. MOE complains that they do not have a proper methodology to assess for uncompliant noise levels, yet use noise as the parameter by which setbacks are determined. Wind developers continue saying they are meeting the MOE noise guidelines and continue with construction of their projects despite MOE indicating that they are suppose to meet site plan agreements that were in place prior to the proclamation of the Renewable Energy approval process.
Is your political will so hampered by perception, that residents must be used as expendable collateral in order to promulgate an ideology that will never reduce greenhouse gases in significant amounts because it will never replace coal generation, will never provide long term jobs, or provide this province with a new "green" economy?
Can I ever expect an answer and solution to these problems?
Colette McLean
Essex County
Is your political will so hampered by perception, that residents must be used as expendable collateral in order to promulgate an ideology that will never reduce greenhouse gases in significant amounts because it will never replace coal generation, will never provide long term jobs, or provide this province with a new "green" economy?
Can I ever expect an answer and solution to these problems?
Colette McLean
Essex County
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