http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_trashblaster/all/1 From the highway, one of the biggest landfills in the US doesn’t look at all like a dump. It’s more like a misplaced mesa. Only when you drive closer to the center of operations at the 700-acre Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington, Oregon, does the function of this place become clear. Some 35,000 tons of [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2012’
Legco votes down tariff motion
08-02-2012 The Legislative Council has voted down a motion to force the disclosure of details of the two power companies’ tariff increase proposals, by invoking the Powers and Privileges Ordinance. CLP Power and Hong Kong Electric have provided a Legco panel with part of the information, but asked for some data to be kept confidential. [...]
Subsidy only encourages power use
Clear the Air says: no doubt this is a backdoor pacifier payment after dragging the power companies before Legco for trying to apply the legal binding agreement that the inept Government had signed with them under the Scheme of Control. Subsidy only encourages power use A long time ago, the government said it would combat [...]