robert_viera Posted March 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 (edited) I decided to see if I could find any of the information that seems to have gone missing from the public disclosure section of Natural Resources Canada's web site, but could find nothing using Google Cache or Archive.org. The error message I got from Archive.org provides some insight: Robots.txt Query Exclusion.We're sorry, access to http://www2.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/in...=r.q〈=eng has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt. For those of you not familiar with 'robots.txt' files, they allow web site administrators to instruct search engines not to index web sites, or particular portions of web sites, so that they don't show up in search results. Here are the contents of robots.txt file on the Natural Resources Canada web site that contains the public disclosure information: User-agent: *Disallow: / Source: http://www2.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/robots.txt Those directives instruct search engines not to index any of that web site, including the public disclosure information. I decided to do a survey of other government web sites that contain public disclosure information to see if they instructed search engines not to index that information. I checked for a robots.txt file in the top-level folder of each of the web sites listed at the following web site: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pd-dp/gr-rg/index-eng.asp What I found was that most of the web sites containing public disclosure information either did not have a robots.txt file (at least not in the top-level folder), or did not instruct search engines not to index the part of the web site containing public disclosure information. Here are the exceptions: http://www.pc.gc.ca/robots.txtUser-agent: * Disallow: /apps/ http://www.fja.gc.ca/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /fja-cmf/pd-dp/ http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /gc-sc/ http://support.crtc.gc.ca/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: / http://www.ct-tc.gc.ca/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: / I've included only the lines relevant to the public disclosure information from the robots.txt files. Here are some more web sites which either exclude only part of the public disclosure section of the web site from being indexed by search engines, or which exclude folders whose names suggest public disclosure information: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/robots.txtUser-agent: * Disallow: disclosure_e.htm Disallow: disclosure_f.htm http://www.pch.gc.ca/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /pc-ch/chrch-srch/ http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/robots.txt Disallow: /gncy/grnts/2006-2007/ http://www.privcom.gc.ca/robots.txt user-agent: * disallow: /pd-dp_rev/ Edited March 29, 2009 by robert_viera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_viera Posted April 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) I was checking the Natural Resources web site today and found that one of the entries that had disappeared from the public disclosure section dealing with grants for the 3rd quarter of 2008-2009 has re-appeared: Recipient Name ROTHSAY BIODIESEL MEMBER OF MAPLE LEAF FOODS,INC Location GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA Date 2008-12-02 Value $39,200,000.00 Type: Contribution (Non-Repayable) Purpose: Operating Incentive to support a renewable alternative to diesel project. Comments: - Grant or contribution awarded and spanning more than one fiscal year. http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...356&strt=41 Here are the URLs for the rest (still missing): http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...422&strt=31 http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...375&strt=31 http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...373&strt=41 http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...339&strt=71 http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...352&strt=71 http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...353&strt=71 http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...354&strt=81 http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...324&strt=81 http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...356&strt=41 http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...330&strt=81 Stll no information for the 4th quarter of 2008-2009 yet. Edited April 26, 2009 by robert_viera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_viera Posted June 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 More subsidies for the biofuel industry in the 4th quarter of 2008-2009 courtesy of our federal government: BIO-DIESEL QUEBEC INC. SAINT-ALEXIS-DES-MONTS, QUEBEC, CANADA 2009-03-30 $10,840,000.001700097 ONTARIO LIMITED (TRADING AS WOODS BIO-DIESEL) ENGLEHART, ONTARIO, CANADA 2009-03-27 $36,000,000.00 NORTH WEST TERMINAL LTD. UNITY, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA 2009-03-26 $12,500,000.00 NOROXEL ENERGY LTD. TILLSONBURG, ONTARIO, CANADA 2009-03-26 $9,300,000.00 GREENFIELD JOHNSTOWN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP BRAMPTON, ONTARIO, CANADA 2009-03-17 $103,600,054.00 CITY-FARM BIOFUEL LTD. DELTA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA 2009-03-05 $5,250,000.00 TERRA GRAIN FUELS INC. REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA 2009-02-17 $74,750,000.00 HUSKY OIL LIMITED CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA 2009-02-17 $72,800,000.00 HUSKY OIL LIMITED HUSKY DOWNSTREAM GEN. PARTNERS CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA 2009-02-17 $71,800,000.00 IGPC ETHANOL INC. AYLMER, ONTARIO, CANADA 2009-02-13 $41,227,264.00 METHES ENERGIES CANADA INC. MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, CANADA 2009-02-10 $5,360,000.00 Source: http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cf...2009&qrt=04The 'robots.txt' file seems to have been removed from the www2.nrcan.gc.ca web site, but I still can't find much information using Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_viera Posted November 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 More of your taxes going to subsidize the biofuel industry: Recipient Name: QFI BIODIESEL INC. Location: SAINT-IGNACE-DE-STANBRIDGE, QUEBEC, CANADA Date: 2009-07-02 Value: $34,100,000.00 Type: Contribution (Non-Repayable) Purpose: Operating incentive to support a renewable alternative to diesel project. Comments: - Grant or contribution awarded and spanning more than one fiscal year. http://www2.nrcan.gc.ca/dgc-dposc/index.cfm?fuseaction=r.d〈=eng&fisc=2009-2010&qrt=02&id=2682&strt=121 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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