-
Support our campaign
to stop disastrous global
warming policies!
Getting Zapped: Ontario electricity prices increasing faster than anywhere else
Read Our Report On Wind Subsidies in Ontario
Category Archives: Energy Probe News
Break up Pakistan
(September 11, 2010) This artificial nation has already lost Bangladesh. Now floods give good reason to dismember the rest. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, International
Leave a comment
Have you looked at your electricity bill lately?
(September 8, 2010) Electricity bills are begining to send shockwaves as ratepayers discuss the latest round of price hikes. Residents and businesses alike are being caught off guard. Continue reading
Looking at NB Power numbers
(August 28, 2010) As Prime Minister Harper rattles around the Arctic pumping the need for fighter planes and Arctic sovereignty and warning of Russian bomber threats that justify the recently announced $9 billion dollar purchase of U.S. manufactured fighter planes, NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command says that at no time did Russian bombers enter Canadian airspace this week.
Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, New Brunswick Power
Leave a comment
N.B. Tories promise energy rate freeze, but expert questions wisdom behind plan
(August 24, 2010) Fredericton – New Brunswick’s Conservative leader is promising to freeze power rates for 2 1/2 years if he’s elected next month, but one expert questioned the wisdom of that proposal as the province’s utility grapples with a massive debt. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, New Brunswick Power
Leave a comment
Bank’s investment in Lepreau 2 ‘extremely remote at this point’
(August 23, 2010) Sector: Experts agree: David Hay’s comment regarding CIBC’s investment in nuclear project purely speculative. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, New Brunswick Power
Leave a comment
Hydro prices ‘going up like a rocket’
(August 23, 2010) Electricity prices in Ontario are “going up like a rocker,” fuelled in part by the Ontario government’s Green Energy Act, says a longtime observer of the province’s energy scene. Continue reading
Lepreau delays force Quebec to postpone work on its nuclear reactor
(August 17, 2010) Lepreau delays force Quebec to postpone work on its nuclear reactor. Mounting delays to the refurbishment of the Point Lepreau reactor have prompted a postponement of similar work at the Gentilly 2 station in Quebec. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, New Brunswick Power
Leave a comment
Why wind power is more complicated than people imagine
(August 8, 2010) July 8 — a Thursday — was the height of Ontario’s heat wave, the day it reached 35 degrees in Ottawa, the day when air conditioners strained our electrical system to the limit. Ontario was drinking power at a rate of more than 25,000 megawatts — that’s 25 billion watts — in the late afternoon. Not a record, but far more than most summer days.
Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News, Renewables
Leave a comment
Work on N.B. nuclear plant delayed again, another year added to schedule 6/08/2010
(August 6, 2010) Fredericton – The refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant in New Brunswick has been delayed by at least another year, putting the project 2 1/2 years behind schedule and driving the cost beyond the $2 billion mark. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, New Brunswick Power
3 Comments
Climategate and the Big Green Lie
(July 15, 2010) That isn’t my headline. It comes from The Atlantic, where Clive Crook its senior editor, yesterday took apart the recent spate of verdicts exonerating the Climategate scientists. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, The Deniers
2 Comments
Energy Probe 