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Capitol Hill Book Forum with Lawrence Solomon
(April 18, 2008) Thank you, Richard (Vigilante) and Myron (Ebell), for those introductions and thank you all for coming to this book forum. I am especially grateful to CEI and the Cooler Heads Coalition, to Myron, and to Fred Smirth, for the integrity and tenacity that he and they have shown during this entire global warming debate. Continue reading
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The New Dissidents: review of The Deniers
(April 17, 2008) “In recent years, I too have been slandered as a global warming “denier” in the blogosphere, despite having never denied manmade climate change. I have felt the urge — as Solomon says his deniers have — to downplay my dissidence. Reading The Deniers, however, has strengthened my resolve. Continue reading
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The Deniers: review
(April 17, 2008) Most enviro-weenies with whom you’re apt to argue trumpet Al Gore’s “consensus” and go straight to name-calling. Continue reading
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Capitol Hill Book Forum with Lawrence Solomon, Author of the Deniers
(April 17, 2008) On Friday, April 18, Lawrence Solomon will make an appearance as guest speaker of the Capitol Hill Book Forum, at the invitation of The Cooler Heads Coalition. Program information. Continue reading
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Power sector air emission control: winning and losing approaches
Presentation to Air and Waste Management Association Canadian Clean Air Policy ConferenceThe Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa
Air emission management is a lot like combining the children’s games of hide and seek with snakes and ladders. In moving through the steps of the game, we should aim to climb up the most ladders and slide down the fewest snakes. A principal challenge is that the ladders and snakes can be obscured or disguised. In air emission control policy ladders are often mistaken for snakes and there are some nasty snakes disguised as ladders.
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Don't show your bill
"Don’t show your bill," watchdog warns Ontario consumers
Energy Probe, a national consumer and environmental watchdog, is warning consumers to avoid showing their gas and electricity bills to door-to-door representatives of energy marketers.
'Direct Energy' still misleading Ontario electricity consumers
A document released Feb. 6, 2002, by Opposition leader Dalton McGuinty shows that Direct Energy is continuing to mislead consumers. See previous Energy Probe reports on these problems at: http://www.energyprobe.org/energyprobe/index.cfm?DSP=titles&SubID=623.
The document – a Direct Energy Q&A intended for training door-to-door sales staff – contains a number of misleading statements.
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Bring back strong regulation – and corporate responsibility
Dear Friend:
Three years ago, when Enron tried to bring a California-style power system to Canada, Energy Probe, working with the Canadian regulatory system, stopped it dead in its tracks. That ended a risk of needless blackouts and bankruptcies that devastated the California economy.
Electricity supply for Ontario
Oral Questions
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The Speaker: New question. The leader of the third party.
Mr. Howard Hampton (Kenora-Rainy River): Speaker, a question for the Premier. Today will go down as the day that Dalton McGuinty hit the nuclear button: $40 billion for expensive, unreliable and environmentally risky nuclear plants; $4 out of every $5 of your electricity scheme for nuclear plants, not counting cost overruns.
Wikipedia’s Zealots
(April 13, 2008) As I’m writing this column for the Post, I am simultaneously editing a page on Wikipedia. I am confident that just about everything I write for my column will be available for you to read. I am equally confident that you will be able to read just about nothing that I write for the page on Wikipedia. Continue reading
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