Agenda 21 -- More discussion

Back again Looking at Agenda 21 again tonight we can see the following points of concern

Clause 1.3 refers the fact that the UN feels that it is addressing "pressing problems" and they feel they are preparing the world for the "challenges" of the next century and that it "Reflects a global consensus and political commitment".  The problem with this is that we are talking about an organization that is hard pressed to point to any significant accomplishments and the overplay of the consensus, probably 98 percent of the world's population has no a clue about what the UN is up to and is much more concerned with it's daily problems not what the UN thinks will happen in the furture.

Clause 1.4 sets out the the First World is going to pay for the emerging nations problems and also that they are also going to be funding the organisations that are going to assist in carrying this out.  have you ever wondered why NGOs emerged and how they function without having to raise their own funds, they are going to be sponsored by taxpayers through their respective governments contributions  

Agenda 21 - Glen Beck and the United Nations

Just finished watching Glen Beck talking about Agenda 21 on the Brian Lilley show ByLine with Brian Lilley and the story about UN's Article 21 was being discussed.  Glen Beck has just finished publishing a novel he co-wrote called Agenda 21.  Since it's news and it's interesting let's have a look.

1) Here is the actual information from the

UN:http://www.unep.org/documents.multilingual/default.asp?documentid=52


2) What are the key objectives of Agenda 21?  Looking at the preamble we see the following Malthusian issues, the world needs to be remodeled both economically and environmentally the world is getting worse and the UN is going to solve the problems.  A stark view and jaw jaw boys are going to solve the problems.
This seems to be the standard dark view of the world held by the left leaning side of politics.  In particular they are going to improve everyone's standard of living in a global partnership by integrating the environment with economic development.  As someone said, what we need more un-elected government?

Clause 1.2 pins Agenda 21 on UN General Assembly resolution 44/228 of December 22, 1989 which set up all of the UN conferences on Environment and Development.

here is the link for the entire resolution; http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/44/ares44-228.htm

Agenda 21 was developed and approved at the Rio Conference in 1992.   What a business we have developed.

Bill Whittle's advice

Hi:

Here is something that my friend Ed sent me and I want to share.

http://www.americanthinker.com/video/2012/11/bill_whittle_on_what_it_would_be_like_to_have_a_candidate_who_really_believes_in_conservatism.html

Enjoy!

PS Copy the link and it should work.

J

Okay, a confession, I have discovered I am addicted to Blogging and even though that this blog is so old I am still going to use it.

Let's Blog!

Well back to blogging - lets see if we can get this baby off the ground!

Don't know if you have tried blogging, but it is an interesting experiment in "self publishing", a sport similar to fly fishing, you look at the stream and try to figure out what the fish are rising to.  It is also like walking down a dark street - you feel like you are alone.  Assuming this is the case I am going to work through some interesting ideas which I find interesting.

Resource Plays - the Way of the Future

Recently, we were having a discussion about well costs and rates of return in the Canadian Oil Industry. We had spent the last couple of years developing Cardium projects in the W5 area of Alberta. If you are not familiar with the Cardium at an estimated 1.6 billion barrels recoverable, it was largest oil/condensate field discovered in Canada and is basically the last giant (a giant oilfield is traditionally thought to contain greater than 500 MM Barrels of oil/gas equivalent recoverable)oilfield discovered in Alberta. Discovered in the 50's, by Socony-Vacuum (which became Mobil) and Arne Neilson (who became it's president) most of the easy production had been discovered and produced. The conventional vertical drilling techniques where no longer proving to be economic. The revitalization of the play would have to come from the development of new drilling techniques, horizontal drilling and sequential fracing which would allow the tighter portions of the reservoir to produce hydrocarbons which had traditionally been unrecoverable with conventional vertical drilling. Continuing with our discussion was the problem of costs versus return and the concept of risk. Big problem with the Cardium is that for the most part it is too deep which forces costs up and lowers the rate of return.

The question of rate of return is key, what is the expected rate (IRR) of return a company must generate to be successful? Larger companies use 20% juniors strive for higher at 40%. With the problem with well performance that is seen by industry currently, how can you achieve such a high IRR?