The Oil Drum

Thanks for the great article. Well presented, clear explanantions without overuse of technical terms, and a horrifying picture or two. Well, I personally find it horrible that we're considering strip mining an area that size. I hope against hope that the entire operation will grind to a halt, but fear profitablility will continue to be provided by our ever-generous to large corporations government.

The removal this year of a significant tax advantage for Canada's income trusts
For those who don't know that may be talking about, income trusts were essentially a tax loophole that had major corporations re-defining themselves as income trusts, to avoid what are already low corporate profit tax rates. It was a rare sensible taxation move from the conservative government.