Interesting Links for 24-03-2021

[andrewducker]

Amazon sell sex toys. If your affiliate links to them are from a site with adult content then they'll drop you and keep the money you earned

(tags:Amazon sextoys OhForFucksSake )

Chances of eliminating Covid from UK or around the world 'close to zero'

(tags:pandemic thefuture )

One of the world's largest cargo ships is stuck blocking the Suez Canal

(tags:canal shipping epicfail )

UK seeks to drill more oil and gas from North Sea

(tags:oil gas UK globalwarming Doom )

How Penny Arcade manages PAX tickets - and why your idea to fix them won't work

(tags:tickets pennyarcade )

Boris Johnson faces barrage of criticism for claiming 'greed' is behind Covid vaccine success

(tags:vaccine UK BorisJohnson conservatives )

Unpaid environmental damages from fossil fuels are a $600B annual subsidy

(tags:environment usa electricity energy subsidies )

Comments

[dewline]

Jason Kenney is absolutely an oil industry devotee in his role as premier of Alberta. Anything he can do to screw up everything else in that province in order to put the oil industry first, he will try to do. And if the oil price further tanks worldwide, both he and Johnson will be taking that pain in the political neck.

[danieldwilliam]

Sounds like Jason Kenney is deliberately getting in the way of non-oil and gas industries.

IIRC Alberta has lots of shale oil and similar?

[dewline]

"And similar", definitely. Shale oil in the southern end of the province more than likely near its border with American states Montana and Idaho. The more infamous Tarsands region is up north of Fort MacMurray at the other end of Alberta.