Traffic blamed for greenhouse gas emissions increase in Austria
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VIENNA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Traffic emissions are the biggest obstacle for Austria to achieve its Kyoto targets as the country reported an increase in greenhouse gas emissions this year for the first time since 2007.
For all of 2010, traffic was expected to produce a total of 23 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the maximum benchmark of 18.9 million tons as set by the Kyoto Protocol, the Traffic Club of Austria reported Thursday.
Statistics from the Federal Environment Agency of Austria show that traffic has always been a major source of greenhouse gas emissions in the country.
In 2008, Austria produced 8.5 million more tons of greenhouse gas than that of 1990, although domestic heating, waste management, agriculture and energy gases together reduced 5.3 million tons of emission.
In that year traffic alone, however, caused an increase of 8.6 million tons of emissions, compared with an increase of 5.1 million tons caused by industry.
Special Report: Global Climate Change
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Hopes Raise for Yarmouth Ferry
NS: Optimism high for ferry service
By Tina Comeau, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Vanguard, Aug. 5/10
[Yarmouth, NS] – The interim CEO of the Yarmouth Area Industrial Commission says he is very optimistic with how efforts are progressing to gain local control of the ferry terminal on Water Street and reestablish ferry service.
“I’m very optimistic that something is going to fall into place here and by mid September or so we’ll be able to have a very positive announcement,” says Dave Whiting.
Since March, work has been taking place with Transport Canada to gain local control of the ferry terminal on Water Street. The terminal is owned by the federal government and leased to Bay Ferries. The divestiture of the terminal is needed to move forward with ferry service.
The local town and municipal councils chose to have the Yarmouth Area Industrial Commission serve as the lead agency in the divestiture.
“That’s the piece that has to fall into place. The difficulty is everybody has to justify everything. You have to be seen as fair,” Whiting says. “So if (the government is) going to lease the premise to us, it has to be a fair lease to all taxpayers. They can’t look at Yarmouth and say we’re going to give it to you for $1 without justifying it. So there is work being done in that regard.”
Whiting says he believes he can safely say at this point that the area will start out with a temporary resolution to the terminal issue and then move forward into a permanent, long-term resolution.
“And that would be acquiring the terminal on behalf of the people of the region,” he says.
As previously reported, there has been upwards of seven companies expressing interest in operating a ferry service. For those who have done their homework and groundwork ahead of time, Whiting says there is time to get a ferry service up and running for the 2011 season, even if the pieces only fall into place this fall.
Summing up the efforts involving divestiture of the terminal and the reestablishment of ferry service that have been taking place, Whiting says, “It’s come a long way and at this point I’m extremely optimistic. I think in the next little while we will be moving forward, getting documents prepared and getting people to actually come forward.”
By Tina Comeau, Transcontinental Media
Source: The Vanguard, Aug. 5/10
[Yarmouth, NS] – The interim CEO of the Yarmouth Area Industrial Commission says he is very optimistic with how efforts are progressing to gain local control of the ferry terminal on Water Street and reestablish ferry service.
“I’m very optimistic that something is going to fall into place here and by mid September or so we’ll be able to have a very positive announcement,” says Dave Whiting.
Since March, work has been taking place with Transport Canada to gain local control of the ferry terminal on Water Street. The terminal is owned by the federal government and leased to Bay Ferries. The divestiture of the terminal is needed to move forward with ferry service.
The local town and municipal councils chose to have the Yarmouth Area Industrial Commission serve as the lead agency in the divestiture.
“That’s the piece that has to fall into place. The difficulty is everybody has to justify everything. You have to be seen as fair,” Whiting says. “So if (the government is) going to lease the premise to us, it has to be a fair lease to all taxpayers. They can’t look at Yarmouth and say we’re going to give it to you for $1 without justifying it. So there is work being done in that regard.”
Whiting says he believes he can safely say at this point that the area will start out with a temporary resolution to the terminal issue and then move forward into a permanent, long-term resolution.
“And that would be acquiring the terminal on behalf of the people of the region,” he says.
As previously reported, there has been upwards of seven companies expressing interest in operating a ferry service. For those who have done their homework and groundwork ahead of time, Whiting says there is time to get a ferry service up and running for the 2011 season, even if the pieces only fall into place this fall.
Summing up the efforts involving divestiture of the terminal and the reestablishment of ferry service that have been taking place, Whiting says, “It’s come a long way and at this point I’m extremely optimistic. I think in the next little while we will be moving forward, getting documents prepared and getting people to actually come forward.”
Noah Richler on Books
My Books, My Place
Canlit on the beach
Noah Richler takes time out from reading on Sandy Cove Beach. Canlit's baying snipers should not read anything into the fact he appears to be sleeping. The Globe and Mail
Noah Richler on three universal stories rooted in the places they are written
Noah Richler
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Sandy Cove, an exquisite and storied village halfway down Nova Scotia's Digby Neck, is the hideaway I could not do without. This week I have been reading three Canadian novels – not a plan, just the way it is.
The first of these, Allan Donaldson's Maclean, is a short, crisply written novel of a soldier returning to his New Brunswick village from the Great War, and his alcoholism and inability to fit in. There is the toughness of David Adams Richards here, and an eye for male estrangement of the early Richard Wright – and in all this weariness, there is light.
Kathleen Winter's novel, Annabel, is another that is absolutely riveting from the very first page. At its most basic, Annabel is the story of a hermaphrodite child raised in Labrador. It is about the struggle of genders within one child, and how that struggle makes the child another thing entirely, though effectively about any kind of suppression. Its language is breathtaking and her subject is thrilling because – hard to manage these days – it is so very new. I have friends I worry about handing this novel to, because of its subversive, but beautiful, power.
I have followed the work of Kathleen's equally talented brother Michael for years. He is a clever and highly original writer whose every book is entertaining, but at the same time a declaration against his craft. In his new novel, The Death of Donna Whalen, he has decided that the best way to write the murder of a woman who was stabbed 31 times in St John's, Nfld., is to hand over all right of representation to the characters themselves, selecting verbatim from their court testimony. True to form, his book puts the value of the novelist's contribution on trial, though still doesn't manage to convict him. There is artifice here, plenty of it – and, as with his sister's and Donaldson's novels, there is not just a rooting in place but an outright love of it. Pace CanLit's tedious, baying snipers, there is nothing provincial at all about any of these books. Great literature is local.
Noah Richler is the author of This is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada.
Canlit on the beach
Noah Richler takes time out from reading on Sandy Cove Beach. Canlit's baying snipers should not read anything into the fact he appears to be sleeping. The Globe and Mail
Noah Richler on three universal stories rooted in the places they are written
Noah Richler
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Sandy Cove, an exquisite and storied village halfway down Nova Scotia's Digby Neck, is the hideaway I could not do without. This week I have been reading three Canadian novels – not a plan, just the way it is.
The first of these, Allan Donaldson's Maclean, is a short, crisply written novel of a soldier returning to his New Brunswick village from the Great War, and his alcoholism and inability to fit in. There is the toughness of David Adams Richards here, and an eye for male estrangement of the early Richard Wright – and in all this weariness, there is light.
Kathleen Winter's novel, Annabel, is another that is absolutely riveting from the very first page. At its most basic, Annabel is the story of a hermaphrodite child raised in Labrador. It is about the struggle of genders within one child, and how that struggle makes the child another thing entirely, though effectively about any kind of suppression. Its language is breathtaking and her subject is thrilling because – hard to manage these days – it is so very new. I have friends I worry about handing this novel to, because of its subversive, but beautiful, power.
I have followed the work of Kathleen's equally talented brother Michael for years. He is a clever and highly original writer whose every book is entertaining, but at the same time a declaration against his craft. In his new novel, The Death of Donna Whalen, he has decided that the best way to write the murder of a woman who was stabbed 31 times in St John's, Nfld., is to hand over all right of representation to the characters themselves, selecting verbatim from their court testimony. True to form, his book puts the value of the novelist's contribution on trial, though still doesn't manage to convict him. There is artifice here, plenty of it – and, as with his sister's and Donaldson's novels, there is not just a rooting in place but an outright love of it. Pace CanLit's tedious, baying snipers, there is nothing provincial at all about any of these books. Great literature is local.
Noah Richler is the author of This is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada.
The Ombudsman
The following is a retraction from a blog post I made earlier: The Ombudsman's Office is one step you can take if you are looking into how to deal with government matters. I had an incredibly less than respectful experience with one of the staff members there, and so my earlier negative post.
However, other staffers may not be that way, and even this person who had no regard for the issues she was dealing with, was able to find a useful piece of information for me. Your experience with this office may be vastly different than mine in terms of respect and consideration, so do give them a try, you never know what they may turn up for you! Christine, the supervisor, (I believe that may be the title of her position), is a wonderful person.
However, other staffers may not be that way, and even this person who had no regard for the issues she was dealing with, was able to find a useful piece of information for me. Your experience with this office may be vastly different than mine in terms of respect and consideration, so do give them a try, you never know what they may turn up for you! Christine, the supervisor, (I believe that may be the title of her position), is a wonderful person.
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