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Keystone controversy
Posted by Toledo Blade: None Given on January 16th, 2015
Toledo Blade: President Obama is taking flak by advocates on the left and right for his failure to provide decisive action on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would cut across the United States to transport Canadian oil to the gulf coast.
But for all the controversy the pipeline project has created, it doesn't offer much in the way of economic benefits, as its advocates claim. Nor would it spell climate disaster, as environmental activists assert. The pipeline shouldn't distract Americans from more salient issues...
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Great Lakes wind controversy blowin’ strong
Posted by Toledo Blade: None Given on January 1st, 2014
Toledo Blade: Wind power is, predictably, generating more controversy each day it grows.
No surprise there. Now one of America's fastest-growing forms of new electricity, wind power is no longer a boutique industry.
But as the controversy and drama builds toward some sort of crescendo, here's one word you often don't hear: Fascinating.
o me, a veteran journalist who's been following the wind power industry longer than it's had a foothold in the Great Lakes region, the national debate evolving over it...
Climate issues important to our region
Posted by Toledo Blade: None Given on August 22nd, 2012
Toledo Blade: A new scientific paper asserts the Earth is warming even faster than expected. As the United States, including the Great Lakes region, endures one of the worst droughts in history, an effective strategy to address climate change requires a stronger commitment from Washington and the private sector to control greenhouse gases.
The study, whose principal author is NASA's James Hansen, blames the 2011 Texas-Oklahoma drought, the 2010 heat waves in Russia and the Middle East and the 2003 European...