Author Archives: energyprbe

Update on California’s cap-and-trade plan

(Dec. 23, 2010) More on California’s recent draft for cap-and-trade regulation. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: US Department of Energy report and what it means for Canada

(Dec. 20, 2010) The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its early summary of its 2011 Energy Outlook this morning. There is great deal in this new release that matters to Canada and the Canadian economy. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Ontario’s odious obligations

(Dec. 18, 2010) Could Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s green-energy contracts be reversed? Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: Getting the carbon market right

(Dec. 15, 2010)  Aldyen Donnelly talks about the best way to reduce carbon emissions in Canada.

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Aldyen Donnelly: The real debate over a climate change agreement

(December 13, 2010) Aldyen Donnelly looks at some of the stumbling blocks to a global climate change agreement. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Carbon burial scheme goes under

(December 13, 2010) The UK’s first commercial scale CCS facility – a plant at a colliery in Yorkshire that would capture carbon and then pump it for burial in old gas-wells under the North Sea – has itself gone under after failing to raise the £635 million needed to fund its construction. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: How to renege on egregious green contracts

(December 11, 2010) Risk-free contracts pay up to 20 times market value. Continue reading

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WikiLeaks dump lists U.S. interest in Canada’s energy assets

(Dec. 06, 2010) The energy economies of Canada and the United States are highly integrated says Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe, to the Globe and Mail—adding that it’s not surprising Americans would attach importance to maintaining the security of energy facilities in Canada. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Climategate gang is writing the script for Copenhagen

(December 7, 2010) The Copenhagen Diagnosis, a year-long study to be unveiled at the Copenhagen climate change meetings that begin today, was designed to dramatize how little time we have left to save the planet from catastrophic climate. Continue reading

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Will biomass and/or natural gas save OPG Nanticoke

(December 06, 2010) As we continue down a path of shunning power at four cents per kWh for power at 80 cents plus, columnist Toby Barrett recommends heeding a warning by Energy Probe’s Executive Director Lawrence Solomon that, “the grave government is digging this time is big enough to bury the province as well as the power sector”. Continue reading

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