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Windmills lining the pockets of Britain’s wealthy landowners
The British aristocracy has seen its power and economic clout over the common folk dwindle through the 20th century. But that might be about to change, as recent green energy subsidies are helping British dukes and other aristocrats rake in profits at the expense of the country’s taxpayers.
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Don’t bet on the Bloom Box
(Mar. 28, 2010) Investors could soon be scratching their heads over a rumoured $1.5-billion IPO for Bloom Energy and its fuel cell, a gizmo the size of a CD that can provide power to a home without needing to be connected to the electric utility’s power lines. Continue reading
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Don’t bet on the Bloom Box
(March 28, 2010) Investors could soon be scratching their heads over a rumoured $1.5-billion IPO for Bloom Energy and its fuel cell, a gizmo the size of a CD that can provide power to a home without needing to be connected to the electric utility’s power lines. Unveiled amid much hoopla on 60 Minutes last month, the Bloom fuel cell is touted for being able to run on natural gas or biofuels, for being more efficient than a conventional natural gas power station and for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: Playing with fire: The price tag for not complying with Kyoto
I would be very surprised if the Supreme Court (SC) rules in favour of Friends of the Earth (FOE). The problem is that the law of the land allows the PM to sign an international treaty without Parliamentary oversight. But to balance that power, the PM-signed/ratified treaty does not become law of the land unless/until Parliament passes domestic legislation that enacts the treaty in full.
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Lawrence Solomon: Sarkozy scraps France’s carbon taxes
(March 23, 2010) Two days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s crushing defeat in regional elections, he has called off his plan to impose a carbon tax on the French populace. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: Quota allocation schemes: the leaded gasoline example
Question: If Canada stopped selling leaded gas in 1986, and stopped making leaded gas in 1989—what happened in the intervening years when access to the US market was restricted? Why would our refiners eat the 30% premium to enter the US market? Is it just because they had to exhaust their leaded gas capital, or is there another story here? Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: Cap and trade and the goods-producing jobs sector
According to my research, Canada is the only country that experienced any growth in goods producing jobs between 1990 and 2007. In fact, Canada is the only country in the entire developed world that in 2007 had more goods-producing jobs than were in place in 1990.
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Aldyen Donnelly: Residential electricity users will finance any cap-and-trade or feed-in tariff scheme
I have pointed out, previously, that every nation that relies heavily on carbon taxes and/or feed-in tariffs as GHG mitigation/climate change measures has ended up delivering massive and continuing green subsidies to industry—while passing more than 100% of the incremental cost of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade compliance costs and Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) to their residential customer bases.
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The burden of believing in global weirding
(Mar. 9, 2010) We are all — yes, I think I can generalize here — desperate for some good news when it comes to global warming. Continue reading
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The burden of believing in global weirding
(March 9, 2010) We are all — yes, I think I can generalize here — desperate for some good news when it comes to global warming. Continue reading
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