http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2009/12/20/vancouver-startup-saltworks-working-on-desalination-game-changer/ Trends, happenings and innovations in the clean technology market Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2009/12/20/vancouver-startup-saltworks-working-on-desalination-game-changer/comment-page-1/#comment-8610 Enoch Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:20:19 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/?p=1989#comment-8610 Mr. Warren, you should relax a bit (some pills may help). The world is not coming to an end. This type of technology is great for people who live in areas not blessed with the same water resources as Canada. Your approach is planet before people. People have already survived many climatic changes. RELAX. Mr. Warren, you should relax a bit (some pills may help).
The world is not coming to an end. This type of technology is great for people who live in areas not blessed with the same water resources as Canada.
Your approach is planet before people. People have already survived many climatic changes. RELAX.

]]> http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2009/12/20/vancouver-startup-saltworks-working-on-desalination-game-changer/comment-page-1/#comment-8596 Jp Warren Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:44:14 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/?p=1989#comment-8596 So communities can do without seasonal rains, glacier-fed rivers, base-flow, nor concern themselves with any downstream considerations. With the hydrological cycle straightened into linear form, the climate can continue its warped oscillations, since we've arrived at novel ways to 'sustain' ourselves amid the chaos. Come hunker in the bunker. Are we going to realize our place in the natural world and global humanity, or are we are we going to continue techno-tinkering along the edges of the ecosystems and natural cycles planetary life is utterly dependent on? Last week, the EPA, through its Clean Air Act, recognized GHGs as a threat to public health and welfare through an endangerment finding. This designation triggers regulation through emission caps. Whether those caps will be at the level science calls adequate, 350 ppm for carbon dioxide for instance, or instead at some level deemed politically realistic is a further question. However, the EPA must protect the health and welfare of American citizens. Will Environment Canada follow suit and harmonize with the US in this important step toward holding North America's politicians and emitters to task? Will Canada apply and implement new and existing laws and regulatory mechanisms that provide the emission cuts required by the UN scientists and the global South? So communities can do without seasonal rains, glacier-fed rivers, base-flow, nor concern themselves with any downstream considerations. With the hydrological cycle straightened into linear form, the climate can continue its warped oscillations, since we’ve arrived at novel ways to ‘sustain’ ourselves amid the chaos. Come hunker in the bunker. Are we going to realize our place in the natural world and global humanity, or are we are we going to continue techno-tinkering along the edges of the ecosystems and natural cycles planetary life is utterly dependent on? Last week, the EPA, through its Clean Air Act, recognized GHGs as a threat to public health and welfare
through an endangerment finding. This designation triggers regulation through emission caps.
Whether those caps will be at the level science calls adequate, 350 ppm for carbon dioxide for instance, or instead at some level deemed politically realistic is a further question. However, the EPA must protect the health and welfare of American citizens. Will Environment Canada follow suit and harmonize with the US in this important step toward holding North America’s politicians and emitters to task? Will Canada apply and implement new and existing laws and regulatory mechanisms that provide the emission cuts required by the UN scientists and the global South?

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