I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
Taking on the Tax Havens Via Environmental Law I just read a good piece in the Economist about Tax Havens. In Belgium I am paying around 50% income tax. I don’t like. It is not like I am rich. It is also a bit grating that Belgium’s indolent upper class have written themselves a tax … Read more
Simple Works Environmentalists are an earnest low. They think people will be persuaded by science and reason. Asking people to change their lives is not easy. It is harder if the issue is not explained to them. On Climate Change there is often a battle of data between two sides. The politicians are confused and … Read more
Nucleur Power Station – Cracks Built In Belgium has a few nucleur power plants. They seem to have some cracks in them. The choose to stick one of them next to some chemical plants, oil refineries and one of europe’s largest ports. So, if any problems with those cracks, no problems at all. Incompetence 101 … Read more
I get the feeling that the DG Environment has last its way. From a political and legislative power house of the Commission in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, it has backed away. Until a 7th Environmental Action Programme is adopted, the only clear, although not perhaps coherent record of what Europe’s … Read more