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Category Archives: Alternative Energy
Lawrence Solomon: North America slow to reverse renewables projects, but its turn will come soon
(April 7, 2014) Only those in fantasyland should expect a contract to be sacrosanct when one party to the transaction makes the law. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News, Renewables
Tagged democracy, Ontario, Ontario Liberals, renewables, subsidies, wind energy, wind turbines
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Lawrence Solomon: America’s LNG exports won’t counter Putin
(March 28, 2014) Europe is prospecting for gas in the wrong place in asking for U.S. LNG. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Liquified Natural Gas, Shale Gas
Tagged Crimea, Lawrence Solomon, LNG, Russia, shale gas, Vladimir Putin
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Ontario to follow Germany in renewable failure
(March 21, 2014) Germany has been experimenting with its renewable energy law for 14 years and is now highlighting its failures. Ontario, which copied that law, will likely do the same.
Posted in Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Renewables, Utility Reform
Tagged Brady Yauch, consumer policy institute, electricity, energy, Energy Probe, green energy, Ontario, Ontario electricity, Ontario Power Authority, Renewable Energy, renewables, solar power, wind
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Governments rip up renewable contracts
(March 19, 2014) Companies ‘do not have a right [to expect the compensation] not to be changed’.
Parker Gallant: Ontario Power Generation: then and now
(March 12, 2014) Ontario Power Generation (OPG) on March 7, 2014, released its results for the year ended December 31, 2013, which claims they eked out an after tax profit of $135 million on gross revenue of $4.9 billion. Continue reading
Parker Gallant: Biomass is carbon neutral, and the world is flat!
(March 5, 2014) The largest coal generation plant in the UK is transforming itself by converting half of its coal burning generation units into biomass (wood pellets) by 2016.
Parker Gallant: Ontario’s Ministry of Energy “Achieving Balance” would be a surprise
(February 18, 2014) As a part of the revised Long-Term Energy Plan (LTEP) announced by Minister of Energy, Bob Chiarelli, on December 2, 2013, his ministry released a myriad of other information perhaps meant to either confuse or dazzle the reader. Continue reading
Parker Gallant: Environmental Defence, hypocrites or hypochondriacs
(February 11, 2014) Riddle me this! What do the Cement Association of Canada, United Steelworkers, Xerox and Middlefields Resource Funds (investors in oil and gas exploration and development) and Environmental Defence have in common?
Posted in Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Pipelines, Renewables, Tar Sands
Tagged carbon tax, Climate Change, green energy, Oil, Parker Gallant
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Parker Gallant: Environmental Defence blame others for their CRA problems
(February 9, 2014) The CBC in an news item February 6, 2014, announced that the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) had launched an “audit” of some of Canada’s well known environmental charities and included on that list was Environmental Defence (ED).
Lawrence Solomon: Lavish energy lifestyles
(January 9, 2014) With energy becoming abundant, we’ll be heating our sidewalks and bringing back large cars – all part of a new Age of Plenty. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Oil, Shale Gas
Tagged energy surpluses, lifestyle changes, OPEC Oil Crisis
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