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New Approaches to Energy Conservation
(November 11, 2002) Ok conscripts, straighten up. Shoulders back, tummy in, turn down those thermostats. Uncle Jean wants you – and you and you – to reinsulate your homes, to change your driving habits and to think twice before you take the minivan to the corner store for a loaf of bread. Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Electricity, Energy Probe News
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Nuclear risk: Make ’em pay
(November 6, 2002) Nuclear power is absolutely safe, the nuclear industry is fond of saying. Only scaremongers, the ignorant and fools think otherwise, it maintains. Continue reading
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Critics blast Ontario power deregulation
(Nov. 2, 2002) The Ontario government has admitted it failed to protect consumers by ordering a review of the agency responsible for overseeing the new, competitive electricity market, representatives of the opposition parties charged yesterday. Continue reading
Critics blast Ontario power deregulation
(November 2, 2002) The Ontario government has admitted it failed to protect consumers by ordering a review of the agency responsible for overseeing the new, competitive electricity market, representatives of the opposition parties charged yesterday. Continue reading
Hydro bills jolt users; inquiry urged
(October 31, 2002) Electricity users in Toronto face increases of hundreds of dollars a year on their hydro bills to match the higher charges that have hit consumers across Ontario as a result of changes to the electricity industry, the provincial legislature was told yesterday. Continue reading
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Electricity rebates might disappoint
(October 30, 2002) Electricity users counting on a rebate from Ontario Power Generation should lower their expectations about how big it will be, says Energy Probe’s executive director Tom Adams. Continue reading
Posted in Power Generation in Ontario
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Less government, less greenhouse gas
(October 24, 2002) Contrary to the naysayers who claim Western countries would face economic ruin in meeting Kyoto’s greenhouse gas targets, three winning models are proven to exist and proven to yield spectacular results. Continue reading
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Bhabha atomic reactor refurbished
(October 18, 2002) Mumbai — The Cirus nuclear research reactor at the BARC has been reborn. The refurbishment of the reactor, which is nearly 40 years old, was completed recently after approximately five years, BARC’s reactor group director S.K. Sharma said. Continue reading
How to do Kyoto on the cheap
(October 16, 2002) This just in from the Kyoto doom watch: The global climate accord, the one Alberta’s environment minister warns would sound the “death knell” for the Canadian economy, is now forecast to cost an astounding, stupendous, catastrophic….$5-billion. That’s measured, not against current output, but as a reduction in expected economic growth over the next eight years. Continue reading
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Hydro bills pack power punch
(October 10, 2002) A hot summer has added up to record-high electricity bills for many Ottawa homeowners. Homeowners have been shocked by electricity bills of more than $200 for the two-month period covering July and August. Continue reading
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