Category Archives: Alternative Energy

Why are our electricity bills going up?

(Jan. 27, 2010) Now we’re told that our hydro bills will increase 46 % over the next 4 years. Why? What caused it? 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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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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Lawrence Solomon: Green collapse

(Dec. 04, 2010) Across the world, unsustainable subsidies for wind and solar are being cut back. Ontario is next. Continue reading

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Ontario’s Crusade to Cut Coal

(Oct. 26, 2010) Ken Silverstein looks at Ontario’s quest to eliminate coal-fired power plants. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Lady Godiva Rides Again

(Oct. 25, 2010) More citizens plan to speak out against wind power. Continue reading

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Wind: The new nuclear

(Oct. 23, 2010) Both technologies are immature and premature, writes Lawrence Solomon. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Ontario power lesson

(Oct. 13, 2010) Notes for a speech that Ontario’s Opposition leader could give, but won’t, on the state of the province’s electricity sector. Continue reading

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Watch Energy Probe’s Executive Director Lawrence Solomon debate “green protectionism” on BNN

(Oct. 08, 2010) Lawrence Solomon was recently involved in a debate on “green protectionism” on the Business News Network (BNN). Continue reading

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Governments spend too much on unnecessary programs

(Oct. 4) Don Soule, writing for The Record, says political leaders need to stop funding projects that are mostly about buying votes. Continue reading

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