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Ontario Energy Prices: Frankly Bogus
Omitted Costs, Inflated Benefits, a study I co-authored with Glenn Fox for the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society a week ago, has been discovered by the media and the Ministry of Energy. While we will have to wait until October 20th to hear the cabinet appointments by Premier McGuinty, that didn’t stop the Legislature’s most recent Minister of Energy, Brad Duguid from commenting on the study. Continue reading
Ontario’s Power Trip: The $4000 electricity bill
For the average ratepayer, an annual electricity bill will escalate from $1,700 per year to $2,800 by 2015 and by the time the renewables envisaged in the LTEP are largely in place (expected in 2018) an average ratepayer will be paying in excess of $4,000 annually — well over a doubling. Put another way Ontario’s ratepayers will be paying in excess of 40¢ per kWh, placing them on a par with Denmark, which suffers the highest cost of electricity in the developed world. Continue reading
Joubert on climate change science
To the extent that global warming has increased awareness of the environment and encouraged respect for our planet, it is definitely good, but I do not believe it right to create unnecessary fear. To contend that there is a scientific consensus on global warming is outright deception. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Tinkering with climate
Global warming and global cooling arguments have this in common — the scientific quest to dominate nature. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Energy Probe News, The Deniers
Tagged Climate Change, climate change scandal, climate change sceptics, climate control, climate modification, geoengineering, Global Warming, global warming scandal, global warming sceptics, Lawrence Solomon, SPICE
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Lawrence Solomon: Warmed right over
The global-warming theory is nearing its end as evidence against it mounts. Continue reading
Academics: Aliens may threaten to destroy Earth
Columnist Robin Beres asks, if aliens were coming to judge us for fossil fuel use, wouldn’t they have passed sentence several hundred years ago for, say, coal. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power
Tagged Al Gore, Alien Energy Shields, Climate Change, Director, Energy Probe Research Foundation, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Food, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Habibullo Abdussamatov, Lawrence Solomon
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Lawrence Solomon: It’s in our interest to break Syria into pieces
If Assad is given the boot, the West should take charge and break it up. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, International
Tagged Assad, Bashar al-Assad, Islam, Kurds, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, Middle East politics, Syria, Syria protests
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Parker Gallant: OPG’s creative accounting
(September 1, 2011) Ontario Power Generation recently released its 2nd Quarter results. On the surface all seems well with OPG — it announced an after tax (Payments in Lieu of taxes) profit for the quarter of $114 million for the 6 months ended June 30, 2011 versus $40 million for the comparable quarter in 2010. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: If Europe breaks Palestine, it will have to clean up the mess
(July 27, 2011) There is something the Europeans, who assume a hypothetical, independent Palestine, have overlooked: Without Israeli good will, a Palestinian state couldn’t support itself. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, International
Tagged Europe, European Union, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Palestine, Palestinian State, U.S, UN
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