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13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The Constitution: what... · 1 reply · +2 points

Danke. Fixed.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Geek-out election maps... · 0 replies · +1 points

Good question. I wrote about Trois Rivières the 2008 campaign, and the same reasoning applies to Sherbrooke. (http://tinyurl.com/3o9g9qb)

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Geek-out election maps... · 1 reply · +2 points

Pas vrai! J'en ai vu au moin trois sur la rue Charlevoix à P-S-C...

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Bloc blocks Maclean's ... · 2 replies · +20 points

Subscriptions make great gifts!

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Max, Max, Max... · 0 replies · +1 points

Damn you, James from Halifax!

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - How gassy · 1 reply · +1 points

You misread the post. There may very well be plenty of evidence supporting the relative safety of shale fracturing. If that evidence exists, and I don't doubt you when you say as much, it needs to be packaged and sold to the public at large. This is exactly what Bouchard did in the case of the Hydro lines and the natural gas pipeline—he sold them to a (very) wary public. "Go read a website" is not a PR strategy, and I think Bouchard is keenly aware of as much. The Charest government did not assuage public concerns, leading the public at large (if the half-dozen polls are any indication) that the process is unsafe. Ditto Caillé: he arguably made the situation worse for himself and the association he leads.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - How gassy · 0 replies · +1 points

Eh? Having to truck your water in all of a sudden because the stuff you used to drink now catches on fire? Sign me up!

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - How gassy · 4 replies · 0 points

If the gift of flammable water is bestowed on a resident only *after* shale gas operations begin in the area, there is a problem. If the resident must use water from cisterns installed by the gas companies after a lifetime of using their own well water, there is a problem. If a resident suddenly has oodles of methane in their drinking water where none was before the shale gas operations, there is a problem.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Straight Outta Winnipe... · 0 replies · 0 points

True enough. Will change. Thanks. mp/

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - A whoopsie and a plug · 0 replies · +3 points

Er, whoops. Fixed now. Danke.

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