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It will be interesting to see whether the news that — putting aside issues of inaccessibility, geopolitical disputes and environmental risk — the Arctic probably has 90 billion barrels worth of oil will cool the rhetoric of those yearning for a modern-day version of the Apollo project .

When Parliament resumes sitting April 16 after a two-week Easter break, its first order of business will be a vote on the Conservative government’s Clean Air Act, which has been greatly amended by the opposition parties. That’s the good news. It may also be good news that Harper may feel confident enough to test his legislation at the polls. If so, we’d better understand the issues.

It’s uncanny how two “former” climate-change deniers can use all their old anti-Kyoto arguments even as they claim to support the treaty. But the prevarication that worked three years ago didn’t work yesterday, and critics are roasting Baird and Harper.

According to the Guardian News Service, the U.N. anticipates that by 2030 a quarter of the world’s energy needs will be provided by clean sources. The cause of this optimism: an unprecedented amount of investment in green technologies over the past 18 months.

That’s good news for everyone. Zerofootprint would prefer to see that figure at 50% or greater — we can hope.