Category Archives: Energy Probe News

Candu strike could threaten service to 34 units worldwide

(June 22, 2012) Even if the strike is not affecting Candu’s current business, and the engineers eventually return to work, Candu may end up primarily a servicing company for its old reactors. Meanwhile, skepticism regarding the completion of two new reactors planned for Darlington and the refurbishment of four existing units remains high. “The Darlington Refurbishment is like something from Alice and Wonderland,” says Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Drop effort to keep Somalia together

(June 1, 2012) Better to break up this artificial nation. Last in a series. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Capitalist haven

(May 25, 2012) British traditions boost the de facto state of Somaliland. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Occupy Somalia

(May 18, 2012) Behind the first onshore strike by European Union naval forces against a suspected pirate base on the coast of Somalia: oil wealth that could rival Kuwait’s. New series. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Green power failure

(May 11, 2012) Climate mania impoverishes electricity customers worldwide. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: The lost debate

(May 4, 2012) Readers resist the triumph of cosmic rays over CO2. Continue reading

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Another wind protest

(April 3, 2012) Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon presented at the third annual Ontario Feed-In Tariff Forum today on wind turbine development. Continue reading

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Israel: On brink of energy self-sufficiency?

(March 30, 2012 ) Israel could well become a net exporter of oil and gas in the near future, a forum on the Middle East was told. The claim was made by an environmentalist and a former Canadian diplomat at a conference on “Canada and the New Middle East.” Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: A world awash in oil

(March 30, 2012) The Middle East will go back to being an obscure backwater. Continue reading

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Canadian energy interests in the new Middle East

(March 27, 2012) Emerging energy technologies and new energy discoveries in Israel and the Middle East will transform that region, possibly more so than the Arab Spring uprisings, said Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon, at a conference on Canada and the new Middle East. Continue reading

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