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Cameron M. Thomson, PhD
Cameron is Regulatory Affairs Associate at Utility Advocates Inc., a leading independent cost management firm specializing in sustainable solutions to reduce energy, telecommunications, freight, petroleum, industrial gases, courier, waste, scrap metal, chemicals, and raw materials expenditures. Contact Cameron at cthomson@ utilityadvocates.com or (416) 223-5199.
Aremarkable contrast exists between links, parkland, and heath, where a man or woman stands—wood, wedge, iron, or putter in hand—to contemplate the lay of things, and the chaos that runs the world ragged, beyond ridge, rough, and treeline.
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Golfers know what it is like to be present and to be in control of one small thing, for a moment. The ball does not move, after all, unless you make it move. And when it moves, it moves as you (working with, or against, the laws of flight) make it.
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In 2022, Canadian golf clubs are faced with new, perhaps unfamiliar, challenges as they work to facilitate this marked contrast— more marked than ever—between order and chaos, which is so crucial for their golfers. And one quarter from which this challenge is arising, now, is the soaring, unpredictable increase in fuel commodity prices.
THE RISING COST OF PETROL
As of this writing (June 2022), petrol prices are up 48%. The cost of diesel, natural gas, and propane are similarly affected. The situation is urgent. A 34.8% year-on-year rise in energy prices in the past year has pushed Canada’s consumer price index up 6.3% overall. Rising fuel commodity prices drive
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