Surprisingly, a few of us from Wenzel found ourselves in Edmonton this weekend for the Alberta Sciencce and Technology Gala Awards. Of interest to us was Alberta Ingenuity's prize-winning Centre for Machine Intelligence, but also recent oilfield developments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The plan, nominated for best scientific development, involved pumping carbon dioxide emissions into oil reservoirs where they can react, in a process similar to the smelting of metallic ores, to produce methane gas and, we assume, lower mass carbon chains. British journalist George Monbiot discusses the idea in his latest book, Heat, and we look forward to talking to him about it next week.
In other news, the Kenya Round of Climate Change discussions kicks off this week, and did so in humourous fashion. Canadian delegates, highlighting their disappoinment with Federal Enivromnetal Minister, and current President of the UN Commission on Climate Change, Rona Ambrose, dismissing her simply as having "nice hair". Ambrose has been rather lacklustre in her duties as President, as the group estimates she has spent less than 24 hours in meetings with the commission in the past year. We feel that is accurately reflects our own impressions of Ambrose and the Conservative portfolio for the enviroment as largely irrelevant and counter-productive. Elsewhere, remours are beginning to circulate that the Conservatives are planning some form of carbon exchange, though it appears too early to offer much details.
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