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Category Archives: Alternative Energy
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
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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Why wind power is more complicated than people imagine
(Aug. 8, 2010) July 8 — a Thursday — was the height of Ontario’s heat wave, the day it reached 35 degrees in Ottawa, the day when air conditioners strained our electrical system to the limit. Continue reading
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Why wind power is more complicated than people imagine
(August 8, 2010) July 8 — a Thursday — was the height of Ontario’s heat wave, the day it reached 35 degrees in Ottawa, the day when air conditioners strained our electrical system to the limit. Ontario was drinking power at a rate of more than 25,000 megawatts — that’s 25 billion watts — in the late afternoon. Not a record, but far more than most summer days.
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Wind’s bad day
(Jul. 8, 2010) Yesterday’s scorcher scorched wind power’s reputation and its long-term bottom line, too. Continue reading
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Wind’s bad day
(July 8, 2010) Yesterday’s scorcher scorched wind power’s reputation and its long-term bottom line, too. This simple chart demonstrates why no company can make a profit supplying wind power to the electricity system without government subsidies, and why no society can count on wind power when the power is most needed. Continue reading
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Green elites meet the people
(May 28, 2010) On Wednesday evening, as part of a panel of energy insiders, I spoke in Toronto’s financial district before an audience of some 150, most of them professionals interested in the clean-energy industry. On Thursday evening, I spoke to some 300 of their victims, in a school auditorium in a residential neighbourhood 15 miles away.
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Forum blows hot over Scarborough wind farm
(May 28, 2010) Opponents of a proposed wind farm off the Scarborough Bluffs have adopted the old Bob Dylan folk classic, with their own spin, as a rallying cry: ‘the answer is not blowing in the wind.’ Continue reading
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Forum blows hot over Scarborough wind farm
(May 28, 2010) Opponents of a proposed wind farm off the Scarborough Bluffs have adopted the old Bob Dylan folk classic, with their own spin, as a rallying cry: ‘the answer is not blowing in the wind.’ Continue reading
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