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Aldyen Donnelly: The environmental myth of carbon taxes
The myth that carbon/energy taxes translate into green goods-producing job growth is namely that, a myth. In fact, 100% of the incremental job growth in carbon/high energy tax policy-dominated nations has been in the public sector, as goods-producing jobs flee.
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A line in the sand: wind power’s ill effects
Two academics from the same university stand on either side of the divide on whether wind farms have negative health effects. According to a recent report, the two professors—Dr. Bob McMurtry, dean of the medical school at the University of Western Ontario from 1992 to 1999 and Dr. David Colby, an associate professor and medical officer of health in Chatham-Kent—are likely to be witnesses on opposing sides in a potential landmark case in Ontario’s Edward County challenging the province’s ambitious and controversial Green Energy Act.
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Aldyen Donnelly: The expensive (Ontario) way to reduce emissions
The Ontario government’s plan to turn off coal and switch to biomass at the Atikokan Generation Station is a VERY expensive way to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
I am all for the generation of electricity from biomass/pellets. But EVERY European biomass-fired and co-fired electricity generation unit also produces a significant amount of heat (steam and/or hot water) that is supplied into a district heating system.
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Aldyen Donnelly: Use product standards, not tariffs
Implementing tariffs to discriminate against environmentally subsidized imports is a horrible—and very 1950s—idea.
When we decided that it was unhealthy to sell toys in Canada that were covered with leaded paint, did we: (1) prohibit the manufacture of leaded paint in Canada and (2) put a tariff on leaded paint and leaded painted toy imports? Certainly not. Everyone involved agreed that would have been a stupid idea. So why are we seriously contemplating such a stupid idea to address the damage of GHGs and other pollutants?
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Looking at NB Power numbers
(Aug. 28) Norm Rubin with the Toronto-based energy watchdog group Energy Probe says he is concerned that NB Power might be forced to go too far in cost-cutting efforts in order to freeze the power rate, postponing such things as required maintenance, writes W.E. (Bill) Belliveau in the Times and Transcript. Continue reading
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Looking at NB Power numbers
(August 28, 2010) As Prime Minister Harper rattles around the Arctic pumping the need for fighter planes and Arctic sovereignty and warning of Russian bomber threats that justify the recently announced $9 billion dollar purchase of U.S. manufactured fighter planes, NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command says that at no time did Russian bombers enter Canadian airspace this week. Continue reading
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Looking at NB Power numbers
(August 28, 2010) As Prime Minister Harper rattles around the Arctic pumping the need for fighter planes and Arctic sovereignty and warning of Russian bomber threats that justify the recently announced $9 billion dollar purchase of U.S. manufactured fighter planes, NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command says that at no time did Russian bombers enter Canadian airspace this week.
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N.B. Tories promise energy rate freeze, but expert questions wisdom behind plan
(Aug. 24, 2010) FREDERICTON – New Brunswick’s Conservative leader is promising to freeze power rates for 2 1/2 years if he’s elected next month, but one expert questioned the wisdom of that proposal as the province’s utility grapples with a massive debt. Continue reading
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Lawrence Solomon: Global warming has not increased damages from weather disasters: American Meteorological Society study
(August 24, 2010) “Climate change is often seen as the culprit of increasing economic losses from weather disasters. The scientific literature, however, shows that there are other causes up to now.” Continue reading
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N.B. Tories promise energy rate freeze, but expert questions wisdom behind plan
(August 24, 2010) Fredericton – New Brunswick’s Conservative leader is promising to freeze power rates for 2 1/2 years if he’s elected next month, but one expert questioned the wisdom of that proposal as the province’s utility grapples with a massive debt. Continue reading
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