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SPEECH – An Expanded Commitment: DuPont and Sustainable Growth
(October 1, 2006) It’s a pleasure to be here today to discuss the imperative for an expanded commitment to sustainability and sustainable growth – for DuPont, for industry in general, and for all sectors of society. Continue reading
Posted in The Deniers
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Small-scale plants run rings around nuclear
(September 29, 2006) “If we don’t go nuclear, what type of energy will meet our future energy needs,” I’m often asked. “Do you think fringe fuels such as solar energy can take the place of nuclear? Or windmills? Bio fuels? Small dams? Tidal power? Burning garbage? Continue reading
Call Iran’s bluff
(September 28, 2006) If the United States imposes meaningful economic sanctions on Iran, let alone tries a military strike against its nuclear facilities, Iran threatens to play its oil card. Continue reading
Posted in Coal, Energy Probe News
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Radiation, ecology and the invalid LNT Model: The evolutionary imperative
(Sep. 27, 2006) Metabolic and energetic efficiency, and hence fitness of organisms to survive, should be maximal in their habitats. This tenet of evolutionary biology invalidates the linear-nothreshold (LNT) model for the risk consequences of environmental agents. Continue reading
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Radiation, Ecology and the Invalid LNT Model: The Evolutionary Imperative
(September 27, 2006) Metabolic and energetic efficiency, and hence fitness of organisms to survive, should be maximal in their habitats. This tenent of evolutionary biology invalidates the linear-nothreshold (LNT) model for the risk consequences of environmental agents. Continue reading
EP’s response to OPG’s proposed environmental assessment guidelines for new nuclear waste site
(September 22, 2006) Re: Comment on the Proposed Scoping Document (Environmental Assessment Guidelines) for Ontario Power Generation’s Proposal for a Deep Geologic Repository for disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive wastes in Kincardine. Continue reading
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EP’s response to OPG’s proposed environmental assessment guidelines for new nuclear waste site
(September 22, 2006) Re: Comment on the Proposed Scoping Document (Environmental Assessment Guidelines) for Ontario Power Generation’s Proposal for a Deep Geologic Repository for disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive wastes in Kincardine. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Nuclear Safety
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If we want to help the Third World, let’s promote nuclear power?
(September 13, 2006) Re: “If we want to help the Third World, let’s promote nuclear power” (Published by the Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va, on Sept. 13, 2006 – original article appears below) Continue reading
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Canada and the ethanol factory: A blend too good to be true?
(September 5, 2006) Sarnia, Ontario: It smells like a brewery, looks like a smal petrochemical plant, and what comes out the back end is at the centre of a debate over Canada’s energy future. Continue reading
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Scouring scum and tar from the bottom of the pit
(July 1, 2006) Faced with the undeniable reality of “Hubbard’s Peak” in global conventional oil supplies, the world’s largest multinational energy corporations are now hell-bent on squeezing oil out of tar in northern Alberta, like junkies desperately conniving for one last giant fix in a futile attempt to quench America’s insatiable “addiction to oil” (described so eloquently by President George Bush II). Continue reading
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