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The End of KiwiRail? - by frog
I recently attended an ISCR seminar on the future of rail. According to the speaker, Dave Heatley, there’s basically no future for rail. Rail is unfixable in its present form, he argued, without making some “heroic assumptions” about how we measure externalities and the opportunity cost of keeping rail. Heatley’s damning report (available soon on the [...] read moreFebruary 19, 2009 4:49 pm - 106 Comments -
Debating climate change - by frog
I’ve returned from across the road at Rutherford House where the ISCR was holding a public debate on ‘should New Zealand fight climate change‘. The two debaters were Victoria University’s Prof. Jonathon Boston and ISCR’s Research Principal, Richard Meade. Meade said for the purposes of the debate he would take as a given the IPCC [...] read moreApril 15, 2008 3:12 pm - 17 Comments
