Category Archives: Energy Probe News

COP28 Preview

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Other News Sources

(November 30, 2023) What can we expect from Dubai?

Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Liquified Natural Gas, Oil | Tagged China, climate, COP28, energy, fossil fuels, green energy transition, Patricia Adams | Leave a comment

Measuring Canadian energy subsidies

Posted on August 17, 2023 by Other News Sources

(August 17, 2023) Controversies over the development of estimates for energy subsidies in Canada has impeded subsidy reform and elimination. A new report from the Fraser Institute looks at the extent of those controversies and the difficulties that have developed … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Renewables, Utility Reform | Tagged Canada, energy subsidies, Fraser Institute, Glenn Fox | Leave a comment

The energy transition Ontario really needs is to nuclear

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Lawrence Solomon

(June 9, 2023) When you factor in its reliability, nuclear is cheaper than solar or wind, which are available only intermittently.

Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Costs, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Economics, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety, Power Generation in Ontario, Radiation, Renewables, Utility Reform | Tagged electricity, fossil fuels, Lawrence Solomon, Nuclear Power, Ontario, power grid, renewables, solar, wind | Leave a comment

Junk Science Week — Lawrence Solomon: Levelling coal makes wind look good

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Lawrence Solomon

(May 25, 2023) U.S. use of ‘levelized costs of energy’ distorts by counting taxes and subsidies.

Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Renewables | Tagged coal, fossil fuels, hydro, Lawrence Solomon, levelized costs of energy (LCOE), nuclear, onshore wind power, renewables | 1 Comment

Canada’s rising carbon tax and the supreme court

Posted on April 3, 2023 by Other News Sources

(April 1, 2023) The expansion of federal control over the economies of resource-rich provinces will ensure those provinces, and all Canadians, will lose out through escalating energy prices that increase the cost of living generally.

Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels | Tagged Andrew Roman, carbon tax, gas, Impact Assessment Act, Oil, Supreme Court of Canada | Leave a comment

Electricity generation with 100% renewables is a fantasy

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Other News Sources

(December 3, 2022) Breaking down the high cost of renewables based on the data.

Posted in Costs, Energy Probe News, Renewables | Tagged Andrew Roman, electricity, IESO, renewables, solar, wind | Leave a comment

A 2nd Chernobyl

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Lawrence Solomon

(August 19, 2022) Who knows where the fallout from Zaporizhzhia, a nuclear power complex 50 percent larger than Chernobyl, might land?

Posted in Energy Probe News, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety | Tagged Chernobyl, nuclear, Russia, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia | Leave a comment

The impossible green dream

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Other News Sources

(July 12, 2022) Instead of refurbishing an old and deteriorating natural gas pipeline that has served Ottawa for 65 years, Ottawa is investing instead in a fantasy strategy it calls its Energy Evolution plan. Unfortunately, Ottawa is not alone in … Continue reading →