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Category Archives: Energy Probe News
The burden of believing in global weirding
(March 9, 2010) We are all — yes, I think I can generalize here — desperate for some good news when it comes to global warming. Continue reading
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Wind opponents blow off steam in Creemore
(March 9, 2010) A March 6 meeting, outlining the downside of wind turbines, drew close to 200 people to Creemore’s Station on the Green. Continue reading
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Blowing away taxpayers
(March 6, 2010) The Ontario government’s rush into renewable energy, and industrial wind turbine generated electricity in particular, is likely to reveal the law of unintended consequences. Continue reading
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Audit the Ontario government’s green programs, says Trebilcock-Wilson report for Energy Probe
(March 5, 2010) Ontario’s strategy of picking winners likely to fail. Ontario’s provincial auditor or other independent groups should periodically audit the programs and subsidies being offered through the recently passed Green Energy Act to ensure the programs are producing the promised environmental and economic benefits, says an Energy Probe report published today by Michael Trebilcock, Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto, and James Wilson, a recent University of Toronto Law School Graduate. Continue reading
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It’s pretty easy to be green
(February 27, 2010) Clean technologies are a $1-trillion per year global industry. Who will snatch this prize by being among the clean tech leaders? Continue reading
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Faith in fission
Environmentalism is the religion of the left, commentators often pronounce: “The Church of the Environment,” as conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer puts it.
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Is there absolute truth about anything?
(February 17, 2010) In the 1950s Leighton Ford, brother-in-law to Billy Grayham, brought a religious crusade to Tillsonburg. Choirs from area churches united voices for the services, some in St. Paul’s United Church, some in the old Capitol Theatre on Broadway. Continue reading
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Who am I?
Who am I? Whenever I wonder, I check in on Wikipedia, to get the latest surmise. At different times I’ve been described as a writer, blogger, coffee-shop owner, global warming denier, astroturfer and entrepreneur. One description I haven’t usually found on Wikipedia, at least not over the last 18 months — is of me as an environmentalist, the only occupation I’ve continually engaged in over the last 30 years.
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Norm Rubin discusses the Samsung deal on "The Agenda"
(February 9, 2010) Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin on “The Agenda” discussing the recent Samsung deal and Ontario’s renewable energy future. The show originally aired on February 2, 2010. Continue reading
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Lawrence Solomon discusses climate change on "The Agenda"
Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon was recently on “The Agenda” discussing the future of climate change in the wake of the failure at Copenhagen to reach a new agreement and the leaked email scandal at the University of East Anglia.The show originally aired on January 28th. 2010.
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