Category Archives: Climate Change

Unfortunately, the Danish wind industry is living up to my prior forecasts—evidence can be found most easily in the fact that here were no new turbines built in Denmark between 2006 and 2009.  

In 2009 the Danish government approved applications for developers to site 1,300 MWs of capacity onshore—1/3 of which were replacement turbines, not incremental capacity.  But the condition of approval was that from then on all new wind power project developers would be required to compensate affected Danish landowners for declines in their property values.  
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The myth that carbon/energy taxes translate into green goods-producing job growth is namely that, a myth. In fact, 100% of the incremental job growth in carbon/high energy tax policy-dominated nations has been in the public sector, as goods-producing jobs flee.
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The Ontario government’s plan to turn off coal and switch to biomass at the Atikokan Generation Station is a VERY expensive way to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

I am all for the generation of electricity from biomass/pellets. But EVERY European biomass-fired and co-fired electricity generation unit also produces a significant amount of heat (steam and/or hot water) that is supplied into a district heating system.
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Implementing tariffs to discriminate against environmentally subsidized imports is a horrible—and very 1950s—idea.

When we decided that it was unhealthy to sell toys in Canada that were covered with leaded paint, did we: (1) prohibit the manufacture of leaded paint in Canada and (2) put a tariff on leaded paint and leaded painted toy imports? Certainly not. Everyone involved agreed that would have been a stupid idea. So why are we seriously contemplating such a stupid idea to address the damage of GHGs and other pollutants?

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