Angus Taylor, Author at BEST Futures

Canada oil and gas firms to drill 8% more wells next year

Nov 24, 2023 | News

Amid forecasts that Canada is not on target to reach its emissions reductions goals, on Friday the Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) predicted nearly 500 more wells next year, to 6,229 projects.

The seaweed farms that could feed us all – at a cost

Nov 16, 2023 | Articles

Mammoth efforts to grow seaweed are springing up in the Philippines and beyond, and they’re in line for Elon Musk’s ‘largest incentive prize in history’. Meddling with the ocean to grow them, however, has some scientists troubled.

After a record year of wildfires, will Canada ever be the same again?

Nov 9, 2023 | Articles

Unprecedented blazes tore through boreal forest, unleashing vast carbon emissions in what may be a permanent change of state.

Secularism in Iran

Nov 6, 2023 | Opinion, Politics & Human Rights

Postcolonial intellectuals and Iran’s rulers agree that secularism is just Western imperialism in disguise. They are wrong.

Satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts

Oct 26, 2023 | History, News

Declassified cold-war spy satellite images have thrown new light on the workings of the Roman empire by revealing hundreds of previously undiscovered forts, with dramatic implications for our understanding, experts have said.