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Category Archives: Alternative Energy
Winds of change
(January 23, 2010) In signing ceremony Thursday for a $7-billion deal with Samsung to build wind and solar facilities, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said: “This means Ontario is officially the place to be for green energy manufacturing in North America.” Continue reading
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Winds of change
(Jan. 23, 2010) In a signing ceremony Thursday for a $7-billion deal with Samsung to build wind and solar facilities, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said: “This means Ontario is officially the place to be for green energy manufacturing in North America.” Continue reading
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Running on veggies
A round trip from Orillia, Ont., to Toronto is 270 kilometres, and William Cox recently made the drive in his 1979 Mercedes. Total fuel cost: $1.25.
How is this possible? Cox runs his car on used vegetable oil he gets for free from local restaurants, along with a little diesel fuel at the start and finish of each trip, which accounts for the $1.25 expenditure.
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Windmills: Bigger waste than eHealth
(October 1, 2009) Wind reduces CO2 emissions at a subsidy cost of about $124 per tonne — one of the most expensive plans in the world. Continue reading
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Ottawa-area solar farm gets thumbs up from residents
(July 12, 2009) As controversies over green-power projects erupt across Ontario, Ottawa is quietly leading a revolution in solar farming that will soon make the nation’s capital home to one of the largest solar-energy plants of its kind in North America. Continue reading
Norman Rubin discusses solar power in Ottawa
(July 12, 2009) Energy Probe’s own Norman Rubin was recently quoted in an article in the Ottawa Citizen examining the approval of subsidies for a 200-acre farm in West Carleton, just west of Ottawa. As part of the program, the government will pump at least $100-million for the construction of 300,000 solar panels. Continue reading
Choices, choices: Is it time to lock in . . . or float?
With most things we buy, the price isn’t much of a moving target. It can vary between one store and another, but once we’ve decided what to buy, the only big decision left is where.
For some products, however, the choice is not as easy. With mortgages and natural gas, for instance, the sellers have given us some additional options – to lock in at a certain rate for years ahead, or take one’s chances with the current rates and hope they don’t go up too much.
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Danger overhead
(April 17, 2009) Toronto’s plan to mandate green roofs on new buildings could seriously threaten the city’s building stock. Continue reading
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No Peak Gas
(April 15, 2009) Is the United States running out of natural gas? Continue reading
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Two Types of Greens
(April 7, 2009) My wife and I (like many other residents) chose a retirement home in Grey Highlands because it is one of the scenic treasures of southwestern Ontario, dominated by the Niagara Escarpment, Beaver Valley, Lake Eugenia, the Saugeen River, and rolling rural countryside, woodlands and wetlands. Continue reading
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