Right in the centre - Good intentions gone astray
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- Published on Friday, May 17, 2019
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
My last week’s column about the shortcomings of Efficiency Manitoba and those of the previous Power Smart program touched off a few reactions. The problem is that with both programs, the assumption is correct. People should want to use less electricity and therefore, save money. There is nothing in it for Manitoba Hydro, as selling less power is not good for the utility. To use money from Hydro and their customers to convince people to do what they should do naturally is simply silly.
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My perspective - Stepping outside our comfort zone
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- Published on Friday, May 10, 2019
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
What is your comfort zone? How do you react to events or opportunities that push you beyond it? This week, for the ag section that ran in the Neepawa Banner & Press, that question came up in a couple of the interviews I did. It wasn’t a major focus of either one, but something that stuck with me as I talked to HyLife co-founder Claude Vielfaure and Zach Johnson, a fifth generation Minnesota farmer who runs a popular YouTube channel.
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Right in the centre - PC government wrong on Efficiency Manitoba
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- Published on Friday, May 10, 2019
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
For 30 years, an undetermined number of bureaucrats gnawed away in the offices of Manitoba Hydro, under the Power Smart program. Well-intentioned souls, they dreamed up ways to “save” Manitobans money by using less hydro.
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My perspective - Perception? Or something more?
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- Published on Friday, May 3, 2019
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
Last week, news broke that the majority stake in Manitoba success story, HyLife Ltd., will be sold to a Thai-based agricultural conglomerate. The rest of the company had previously been purchased by a Japanese general trading company, Itochu. I also heard recently about some Manitoba equipment dealers being purchased by a European company. These are two examples of recent business sales, but each year, there are more. I’m hesitant to draw conclusions from a handful of examples, but do we have a problem in Canada?
Right in the centre - Recycling’s house of cards is falling down
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- Published on Friday, May 3, 2019
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
There are a few factors coming out now that clearly show what some of us have been saying for many years about the fragility of the recycling industry.
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