"The project costs at least US$12,000 per household that it lifts from poverty—about 34 times the annual incomes of those households. This highlights once again the importance of independent and transparent evaluation of development projects. ... The same $12,000 in a bank account at 5% interest would yield $600, every year, year after year, forever. That interest, given to the households as cash, would cause their incomes to nearly triple, permanently and certainly.** I stress: this effect on income would be permanent."
"Unfortunately, doctors may not be prepared to deal with the problems cancer survivors face. ... Long-term effects from the treatment, including chemotherapy and radiation, and from the cancer itself can be debilitating. ... Just as pressing may be the psychological effects"
"Pizza, beer, and ice cream are actually staples for some elite athletes, who gorge themselves on mountains of unhealthy food to meet 6,000-calorie daily quotients" (Read through the examples)
"To their surprise, Professors Schieman and Glavin found that the more you have control of your schedule, the more autonomy you have at work, and the more challenging your work then the more likely it is you will be subjected to contact about work outside regular work hours, presumably with a negative effect on your family life."
In 2010 alone, he observes, pipelines in Alberta carrying either oil or some combination of oil, gas or distillates failed on average every 1.4 days and they spilled roughly 3.4 million litres of oil.
Sounds bad, but just how big a fraction of what's transported is that? Looking up numbers (2010 figures generally) it seems as though Alberta produces 525000 bbl/day of oil and over 1.6 million bbl/day from the oilsands. Add to this 4.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in 2010. So far now I'll assume that there's 2.125 million bbl / day of oilish stuff flowing through pipelines (which might double-count some stuff, but doesn't figure in the natural gas). Discover that a barrel of oil (bbl) is about 159L and run the math.
Looks like about 3/1000s of a percent (i.e. 3/100000ths of oil was getting spilled on an annual basis). That'd be comparable to spilling about 1 millilitre when pumping 40L of gas into your vehicle. It's also a rate less than 1/3 that of auto-related deaths as a proportion of the population.
