I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
Aaron Environment Commissioner, Janez Potočnik, is an ambitious and tenacious man. In the dying days of this Commission, he is trying to push out perhaps his most ambitious law to date and overhaul Europe’s Waste law. One of the last acts of his fellow Commissioners will be to back a call to effectively ban the landfill … Read more
Longitude by Dava Sobel What if the great problems of our day, problems that cost the lives of thousands could be solved relatively quickly and cheaply? What is a technique existed that could spur on these solutions? And, what if the side effects of the innovation was the creation of new industry, prosperity and lower … Read more
I’ve just got back from a day trip to England. People seemed to be prospering, although a lot of people seemed to have drunk the cool aid that things were so much better before the UK joined the EU in 1972 than they were today. I was curious. The UK car industry is touted … Read more
The lifeline to Europe’s biofuel industry of state subsidies is about to end. Last Wednesday commissioners backed new environmental state aid guidelines that will ban state subsidies for Europe’s first generation biofuel production. Instead taxpayers money will only be allowed for second-generation biofuels. The detailed guidelines can be found here. This can come up no surprise since … Read more