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Category Archives: Alternative Energy
Legislature’s gas-plants committee a gong show
(April 26, 2014) Digging up important facts becomes secondary to doing, or dodging, political damage. Former Energy Probe executive director, Tom Adams, implored the Queen’s Park committee probing the cancellation of a pair of power plants in Oakville and Mississauga, to cut the bull: “I urge you to pass the baton of sorting out the issues of document destruction to the OPP, the courts and the Information and Privacy Commissioner,” he told them. “My pitch is, do not allow the gas scandal investigation to get waylaid again.” Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News, Natural Gas
Tagged gas plant scandal, investigation, Liberals, Queen’s Park
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Perspective: Consensus not the way to prove truth on climate issues
(April 21, 2014) There is a growing realization that the Green Movement and its focus on carbon dioxide emissions may be not fully justified by the facts. Lawrence Solomon is quoted in this opinion piece by a contributor to the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Oil, The Deniers
Tagged carbon dioxide emissions, Climate Change, IPCC, Lawrence Solomon, The Deniers
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Green sell-out
(April 21, 2014) Before proceeding with a project to install solar cells on town buildings in Deep River, Renfrew County, Ontario, under the provincial Feed In Tariff (FIT) program, council and taxpayers alike would do well to read what Lawrence Solomon wrote in “North America slow to reverse renewables projects, but its turn will come.” Continue reading
Energy bills go up again, regulator points finger at renewables
(April 21, 2014) Ontario’s renewable energy producers are largely to blame for the coming price hike for ratepayers.
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.
