Month: October 2017

Alberta Leadership Candidate Proposes Oil Pipeline to Arctic As World Aims to Get Off Oil

Alberta Leadership Candidate Proposes Oil Pipeline to Arctic As World Aims to Get Off Oil:

allthecanadianpolitics:

As the leadership contest for Alberta’s newly formed United Conservative Party heats up, it’s no surprise pipeline politics are front and centre.

As four major oilsands pipeline projects from Alberta sit abandoned, stalled or awaiting review, one contender is proposing to beat the pipeline gridlock through an entirely new route.

It wouldn’t be through the west or east coast but through the Arctic — namely Churchill, Manitoba, the polar bear capital of the world, nestled in Hudson Bay.

“Churchill has Canada’s only deep-water port facility, and it could be capable of sending 250,000 barrels/day of Alberta oil to global markets so we can secure the premium price,” states a media release from Jeff Callaway, former Wildrose president and now leadership contender for the United Conservative Party.

The president of the Churchill Chamber of Commerce blasted the proposal as ecologically dangerous.

“Everyone always wants jobs and security that way but oil is pretty scary business, especially on the edge of the Arctic,” Dave Daley, an avid dogsledder and owner of Wapusk Adventures, told CBC.

“As soon as that article hit town here there was a big uproar about ‘Say no to oil.’ “

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smithsonianlibraries: Come see works from our natural history…



smithsonianlibraries:

Come see works from our natural history rare book collection in the National Museum of Natural History. We’re celebrating the most diverse group of animals, insects, in our newest exhibition, Dazzling Diversity. It will be open through October 2018. Can’t make it? All of the books featured have been digitized and made available online in the @biodivlibrary Dazzling Diversity collection, with illustrations from each in this Flickr collection.

The animated ones above are from Papillons d’Europe, peints d’après nature, t.1 [Atlas] by J.J. Ernst.

More Butterflies!

books0977:Reading in fashion. Robe de gabardine á volants brodés…



books0977:

Reading in fashion. Robe de gabardine á volants brodés á la main (Gabardine dress with hand embroidered ruffles), pl. 162: from Journal des dames et des modes, no. 71, 1914. Gerda Wegener. Pochoir.

The Journal was designed to appeal to the elite of Paris. It incorporated high fashion plates, an expensive layout, society columns, poetic texts, colourful annotations and fashion reports, using high quality paper and artwork.