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Showing posts with label Gros Morne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gros Morne. Show all posts
25 October 2009

Kremlinology 10: Ah to be a Tory in Gander in October, when the dogs are fit to wag

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When the political going gets tough, what better way to handle it than to launch a phoney jihad against a completely imaginary enemy over a...
02 September 2009

A world of his own

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“If I had a world of my own,” said Alice, “everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn...
17 August 2009

Route around park shorter

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Contrary to claims by project supporters going around the province’s second UNESCO World Heritage site at Gros Morne would produce a shorter...
15 August 2009

A mid-summer night’s gambol

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“Love”, as Shakespeare put it, “looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” Of all the politi...
29 July 2009

When small could mean big

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As renewNewEngland.com reports, the Maine state legislature recently passed an initiative designed to encourage small, locally-owned green ...

The Wookey Hole Witch

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Wookey Hole Caves, near the village of Wookey, Somerset held a competition recently for the post of witch at the local tourist attraction. ...
26 July 2009

Tourism industry association caves on Gros Morne hydro towers

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The province’s hospitality industry now supports the provincial government’s plans for Gros Morne national park, expressing their belief tha...
07 July 2009

Gros Morne erections trump the unforgettable natural environment

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Natural ecosystems were worth protecting in 2007 – the election year – because they define us as a people. In 2009, yeah, maybe not so muc...

An equity stake in the province’s natural heritage

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A cynic, Oscar Wilde once wrote, is a fellow who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. There is no word, apparently for ...
05 July 2009

Kremlinology 3: Gros Morne version

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The provincial government’s  tourism folks love Gros Morne with all its beautiful views and its UNESCO World Heritage Site designation. Th...
04 July 2009

Gros Morne international status threatened

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Gros Morne national park could lose its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site if NALCOR Energy, the provincial government’s oil, gas ...
25 February 2009

“The most serious threat to Gros Morne”

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A report prepared as part of the 1987 application process to declare Gros Morne a World Heritage site labelled proposed transmission lines t...
23 February 2009

Williams backs hydro lines through UNESCO World Heritage Site; protests mount on line

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Danny Williams sees no problem. “When park officials look at what the trade-off happens to be for the benefits we get at the end of d...
13 February 2009

Hydro towers in national parks: first Gros Morne, now Mealy Mountain

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The proposed Lower Churchill infeed will also involve stringing an electrode from the main transmission line into the territory of the propo...