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Toronto apartment renters to insulate single family homes

The City of Toronto today unveiled a clever new program, called HEAT, through which high-rise apartment dwellers get to pay for the home insulation of their low-rise neighbours. Apartment dwellers don’t consume much energy compared to house owners, the city undoubtedly reasoned, making the HEAT program (for Home Energy Assistance Toronto) of little use to the renters. Plus, since apartment dwellers already pay much more than their share of property taxes, having renters contribute a bit more so that homeowners may benefit merely continues a well established principle.

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City launches new home renovation grant program

(October 14, 2009) The City of Toronto today launded Home Energy Assistance Toronto (HEAT), a new incentive program offering residents up to $1,000 when they upgrade their home insulation. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: What do Kyoto and Copenhagen mean for Canada

Extracting cash from the resource sector

Since the mid-1980s, Norwegian law made it illegal for any corporate entity to extract oil or gas from Norway’s continental shelf other than in partnership with a government-controlled entity. StatHydro owns control of over 66% of Norwegian production capacity. 
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Excuses for Lack of Global Warming

(Oct. 13, 2009) “What Happened to Global Warming?” asks Science, the flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in its October 2, 2009, issue, before immediately answering, “Scientists Say Just Wait a Bit.” By a “bit,” AAAS means a “few years.” Continue reading

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Excuses for Lack of Global Warming

(October 13, 2009) “What Happened to Global Warming?” asks Science, the flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in its October 2, 2009, issue, before immediately answering, “Scientists Say Just Wait a Bit.” Bye a “bit” AAAS means a “few years.” Continue reading

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Climate change: The British are for turning

Great Britain has been the world’s biggest booster of man-made climate change since the 1980s, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher decided climate change would be a convenient club with which to beat back the coal unions while promoting nuclear power. Her Labour Party successors, Tony Blair and now Gordon Brown, have pursued climate change policies with even greater zeal: It was the Treasury Department under Labour that produced the Stern Review, the first official analysis to predict economic Armageddon from climate change.

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Global blushing

(Oct. 9, 2009) Growing ice, the mob and red-faced professors: Warmists are having yet another bad week.
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Global blushing

(October 9, 2009) Growing ice, the mob and red-faced professors: Warmists are having yet another bad week. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: Senate’s climate bill no better than the House’s

The President’s Strategy, Revealed

The K-B bill is seriously lacking and it would not be normal for a US Senate to pass anything that looks like this through 3rd reading. A number of telephone conversations I have completed with Washington insiders suggest that the President has asked Democratic senators to do what it takes to pass K-B in or before December 2009. 

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Breaking up Ontario's Hydro's Monopoly

Energy Probe is a well-respected public interest and research group that in 1975 gained national exposure with its disclosures about radiation contamination in Port Hope, Ontario. It has now taken on the monolithic bureaucracy of Ontario Hydro. This book is a pithy addition to the on-going campaign to bring this Frankenstein of the Ontario government’s creation under control. Continue reading

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