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Wind opponents blow off steam in Creemore
(March 9, 2010) A March 6 meeting, outlining the downside of wind turbines, drew close to 200 people to Creemore’s Station on the Green. Continue reading
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Blowing away taxpayers
(March 6, 2010) The Ontario government’s rush into renewable energy, and industrial wind turbine generated electricity in particular, is likely to reveal the law of unintended consequences. Continue reading
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Fowl surprise! Methylmercury improves hatching rate
(Mar. 5, 2010) A pinch of methylmercury is just ducky for mallard reproduction, according to a new federal study. The findings are counterintuitive, since methylmercury is ordinarily a potent neurotoxic pollutant. Over a two-month feeding trial, treated adults produced more offspring — and young that at least initially grew faster — than did mallards dining mercuryfree. Continue reading
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Fowl surprise! Methylmercury improves hatching rate
(March 5, 2010) A pinch of methylmercury is just ducky for mallard reproduction, according to a new federal study. The findings are counterintuitive, since methylmercury is ordinarily a potent neurotoxic pollutant. Continue reading
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Audit the Ontario government’s green programs, says Trebilcock-Wilson report for Energy Probe
(March 5, 2010) Ontario’s strategy of picking winners likely to fail. Ontario’s provincial auditor or other independent groups should periodically audit the programs and subsidies being offered through the recently passed Green Energy Act to ensure the programs are producing the promised environmental and economic benefits, says an Energy Probe report published today by Michael Trebilcock, Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto, and James Wilson, a recent University of Toronto Law School Graduate. Continue reading
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Al Gore’s global warming claims aren’t fooling Americans
(March 5, 2010) Once, there was a short-lived sitcom about two lovable but hapless New York City cops who, whenever chaos reigned, always seemed to be elsewhere on some laughable misadventure. As the opening credits rolled, a frustrated dispatcher could be heard mournfully pleading, “Car 54, where are you?” Continue reading
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Global warming: a theoretical fact
(March 5, 2010) The concept of manmade global warming – the idea that global temperature is increasing as a result of the green house effect from pollutants like CO2 that come from the industrialization of society – has become widely known. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: Is it a “fact” just because a tenured professor says it is?
Dr. Jaccard said: "When the price of oil fell in the 1960s…"
Neither the nominal nor the inflation-adjusted price of oil changed much during the 1960s—at least compared to other decades. After a significant post-WW II hike, the inflation-adjusted price of oil fell during the 1950s and did not really change much until 1974, when the price went through the roof.
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Policy Analysis: The perils of picking technological winners in renewable energy policy
(February 28, 2010) An Energy Probe study by Michael J. Trebilcock and James S.F. Wilson. Continue reading
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It’s pretty easy to be green
(Feb. 27, 2010) Clean technologies are a $1-trillion per year global industry. Who will snatch this prize by being among the clean tech leaders? Continue reading
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