(Sun Prairie, WI) – Northern Wisconsin is one of the hardest hit areas of the state with respect to joblessness. Recent labor statistics indicate that the unemployment rate in Iron county is 11.9%, the second highest in the state. AB1/SB1, the mining bill currently being considered by the Wisconsin State Legislature, is a pathway to…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
General
Note the lethality of Non – Firearm Homicides ….. like baseball bats.
Let’s see here, between tobacco and alcohol, there are 636,000 deaths per year, or 55 times as many as with firearms. Motor vehicles are 3 times as many as firearms. Seems to me we need to have special licenses for smokes and booze, with classes required, and background checks. That should occur at least every…
Paul Driessen
Real sustainability versus activist sustainability
Activist sustainability concepts don’t meet environmental, humanitarian or sustainability tests By Paul Driessen Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is – or isn’t – sustainable? Former…
Kelvin Kemm
The carbon trading money tree
If the carbon trading business seems too good to be true, maybe there’s a good reason By Kelvin Kemm The COP-18 environmental conference held in Doha has come and gone. In the wake of high expectations for a successor treaty, the Kyoto Protocol was extended, but only after bitter debate – and several countries have…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT
The Week That Was February 9, 2013 Quote of the Week The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil. Former Saudi oil minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani (NYT “The Breaking Point, Aug 21, 2005) ******************************* Number of the Week 2%…
Heartland Institute
Understanding the Many Costs of Corporate Welfare
When Congress and President Obama in January came up with their beyond-the-lastminute deal to put off addressing the coming fiscal crisis, The Wall Street Journal turned the spotlight on a little-noticed, yet too typical aspect of Washington’s machinations: “The bill’s seedier underside is the $40 billion or so in tax payoffs to every crony capitalist…