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Canada's nuclear threat
Letter to the editor:
As India and Pakistan brandish their nuclear weapons at each other, Canadians should remember the role that our federal government has played facilitating nuclear proliferation there.
Canadian General Electric supplied Pakistan with a Canadian-designed reactor in the 1960s. Canada donated a research reactor to India that was used to produce plutonium for India’s first nuclear weapon test in
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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) risks by Tom Adams
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is rapidly gaining in policy popularity and commercial interest in North America. Continue reading
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Hydrogen: Running energy policy on hype
Californian Sam Leach knew that hydrogen was a winner. Near the time of the first Middle East Oil crisis in the early 1970s, Leach convinced gullible American investors to give him US$1-million on the strength of his claim that he had built a car that used ordinary water as a fuel. His "invention" used electrolysis assisted by his secret catalyst. He claimed to be able to decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen, and then use the hydrogen as a fuel to run the engine and generate more electricity than he started with. The claims turned out to be false, but by then Leach and the money had moved on. Continue reading
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LEDs signal energy revolution
While governments have diddled for decades in the energy marketplace, subsidizing a 500-megawatt nuclear plant here, a 5,000-kilometre Arctic pipeline there, the big energy gains have come via pint-sized innovations in conservation and energy-efficiency. This decade, the biggest little gainers on the planet are LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, those gizmos that first entered the public consciousness in the 1970s through calculators and digital watches.
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Wind at our backs
In a pinch, Canada could meet 100% of its electricity needs with wind power, numerous studies indicate. A report released last week by the authoritative General Accounting Office in the United States shows just how attainable a 100% wind power society would be.
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Energy non-savers
Letter to the Editor
Globe and Mail
December 2, 2005
Re: Biofuel Revolution ‘beginning to happen now’ (December 1)
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Lessons of the August 14th blackout in the U.S. and Canada
Energy Probe’s presentation to the US-Canada Power System Outage Task Force 2003
Thank you, on behalf of Energy Probe, for the opportunity to present our ideas on how to reduce the risk of widespread power disruptions in future.
Energy Probe is a 24 year old citizen-based environmental and consumer research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting environmentally responsible and economically efficient solutions to Canada’s energy problems.
Energy Probe is the only organization with a plan to save Ontario's energy system
The Tories under Ernie Eves had no plan, only a hodge-podge of contradictory policies – price freezes, billions in new spending on the nuclear industry, subsidies to conservation, pretenses at deregulation. That way lay ruin.
Privatization's power
Governments that privatize electricity generators provide their citizens with cheaper, dependable power. Why is Ontario heading into darkness?
With bankruptcies and blackouts on Ontario’s electricity horizon, the Ontario government is poised to shelve plans to create a competitive market. Instead, it will remain with the monopoly system that has brought Ontarians some of the highest costs on the continent. To boot, it is likely to soon become one of the continent’s most unreliable power systems.
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