Category Archives: Costs, Benefits and Risks
Lawrence Solomon: Insured disaster
(November 21, 2011) The insurance industry has been behind the global-warming fraud since the 1970s. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Tinkering with climate
Global warming and global cooling arguments have this in common — the scientific quest to dominate nature. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Energy Probe News, The Deniers
Tagged Climate Change, climate change scandal, climate change sceptics, climate control, climate modification, geoengineering, Global Warming, global warming scandal, global warming sceptics, Lawrence Solomon, SPICE
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Lawrence Solomon: Our cosmic climate
(September 2, 2011) CERN experiment overturns global-warming orthodoxy The 20-year-long global warming debate is in its final stages, the controversy having been settled over whether manmade causes such as carbon dioxide or natural causes such as the Sun dominate climate … Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Tyranny of the north
(August 19, 2011) Venezuela’s dictator, Hugo Chavez, was in the news this week for brashly announcing an expropriation of the mineral rights of the citizens of his country. We don’t seize private property that way in our democracy. We seize it silently and in plain sight, as seen in the province of Alberta, which so deftly passed stealth legislation two years ago that most Albertans are only now discovering the government’s audacious takeover of their property rights. Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Power Industry, Climate Change, Coal, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Tar Sands
Tagged Alberta, carbon dioxide, centralization, Climate Change, CSS, Global Warming, Hugo Chavez, Lawrence Solomon, oil sands, sequestration, tar sands, transmission lines
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Lawrence Solomon: Carbon burial scheme goes under
(December 13, 2010) The UK’s first commercial scale CCS facility – a plant at a colliery in Yorkshire that would capture carbon and then pump it for burial in old gas-wells under the North Sea – has itself gone under after failing to raise the £635 million needed to fund its construction. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: How to renege on egregious green contracts
(December 11, 2010) Risk-free contracts pay up to 20 times market value. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Costs, Benefits and Risks
Tagged Energy Probe, Lawrence Solomon
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Will biomass and/or natural gas save OPG Nanticoke
(December 06, 2010) As we continue down a path of shunning power at four cents per kWh for power at 80 cents plus, columnist Toby Barrett recommends heeding a warning by Energy Probe’s Executive Director Lawrence Solomon that, “the grave government is digging this time is big enough to bury the province as well as the power sector”. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: The $7-billion carbon scam
(December 05, 2010) Loopholes in the EU’s carbon credit trading scheme bring $7-billion in profits to scam artists. Continue reading
Ontario’s Green Energy Act: Explained in animation
(December 01, 2010) Energy Probe is mentioned in this comedic look at the Ontario Green Energy Act. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Costs, Benefits and Risks
Tagged Energy Probe, Ontario Green Energy Act
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Lawrence Solomon: Europe’s press (and Canada’s) turns against global warming
(Nov. 28, 2010) More media outlets express their global warming scepticism. Continue reading
