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Category Archives: Alternative Energy
Wind turbines – clearly not needed
(October 30, 2019) Energy blogger Parker Gallant looks at a day of wind in October and finds that just one day provides a good example of what wind turbines do on spring and fall days. While ratepayers take a beating, the president of CanWEA talks up wind’s reliability and low-cost! Continue reading
USMCA could kill Canadian retailers. Here’s how to save them (without handouts)
Under the new trade deal, shopping in Canada will often be too pricey to compete. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Natural Gas, Toll Roads, Transportation
Tagged Canadian retail industry, toll roads, USMCA
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Lawrence Solomon: Trudeau stands alone as Canada — and the world — abandons green energy
Wind and solar have become the fossils of the energy industry; oil, gas and coal remain the fuels of the future. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Renewables
Tagged China, coal, Germany, Oil, renewables
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Shut the Pickering reactors down
Tonight! March 27, 8:30 pm @Green_Beanery – stop by for our new Grounds for Thought discussion. Join Shawn-Patrick Stensil of Greenpeace as he focuses on the Pickering problem and why he wants nuclear power out of Ontario’s energy mix. Continue reading
The bad, very bad and very very bad of the Ontario PC energy plan
(November 28, 2017) The Ontario PC’s energy plan doubles down on a couple of poor policies.
Posted in Costs, Nuclear Power, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Renewables, Utility Reform
Tagged Brady Yauch, conservation, Darlington Refurbishment Project, electricity, electricity rates, energy, Energy Probe, fair hydro plan, Hydro One, Ontario, Ontario electricity, Ontario Energy Board, Pickering
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Lawrence Solomon: Why the ‘e’ in e-car actually stands for evil
Electric vehicles are for city folk. For most rural residents, their role is to give, give, give. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News
Tagged electric cars, Lawrence Solomon
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Lawrence Solomon: Paris is dead. The global warming deniers have won
Since his pullout in June, Trump has repeatedly reaffirmed the wisdom of pulling out of the “bad deal” for the U.S. that was Paris. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Singing the praises of coal — the virtuous stone that liberated humanity
Among coal’s virtues is its small ecological footprint, in startling contrast to the clodhoppers that are renewable energy. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Clean Coal, Renewables
Tagged Clean Coal, nuclear, Renewable Energy
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Ontario’s green energy experience: sobering lessons for sustainable climate change policies
A new report from the C.D. Howe Institute finds Ontario’s green energy policies have yielded moderate environmental gains while drastically increasing energy prices. Continue reading
How megaprojects bankrupt utilities
Brady Yauch, executive director of Consumer Policy Institute, describes the looming threat to public institutions – and to our pocketbooks. Continue reading
