The debate over pipelines is in serious need of a heavy dose of common sense. Farmers, like the First Nations people, have to be fully involved in debate. Moving oil and gas long distances is a necessity in an area as large as North America. Pipelines are clearly the best option. It is true they […] Read more
Stories by Henry Heald
We need answers: could 2009 be the year? – Opinion
Heald is a retired agricultural communicator who lives in Ottawa. We enter 2009 with wars raging in the Middle East and Africa, with an economic crisis threatening world-wide depression, with famine and hunger stalking many poor countries, with a huge gap between the obscenely rich and the middle class and another between the middle class […] Read more
Carrot, stick combo required – Opinion
Heald is a freelance agricultural journalist based in Ottawa. One of the arguments that emerge as people get drawn into the turmoil of the climate change debate is whether people should be coerced into fighting greenhouse gas emissions or whether they can be enticed into doing it voluntarily. The skeptics argue that only some agency […] Read more
Compare the share, and farmers show loss – Opinion
Heald is an Ottawa-based agricultural writer. Ralph Ferguson, southwestern Ontario farmer, former Liberal MP and minister of agriculture in John Turner’s government, was well known for his “Compare the Share” campaign. He carried with him, wherever he went, a compendium of statistics and data detailing how small was the farmer’s share of the consumer’s dollar. […] Read more
Time to get serious about water – Opinion
Heald is an agricultural columnist based in Ottawa. “An issue with important implications for human development and global poverty reduction is how to manage water resources to meet rising food needs while protecting the access of poor and vulnerable people to the water that sustains their livelihoods.” Among the 420 pages of the 2006 United […] Read more
