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Clear financial rewards
Power: Profit, savings are the factors influencing P.E.I. and Quebec(in their talks about a possible electrical energy deal), experts say
HALIFAX – Cheap power and domination of the regional electricity grid.
According to energy experts, those are the two biggest factors influencing Prince Edward Island and Quebec in their talks about a possible energy deal.
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Op Ed: Oba Mao in China
Most of Obama’s many foreign trips have been hurtful to American interests. Don’t expect anything to change now.
No president has travelled more than Barack Obama in his first year — his current trip to Asia is his eighth. The first seven took him nowhere. In the afterglow of each, his prestige declined as his results proved ephemeral.
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May the Brightest Bulb Win
(November 13, 2009) In 2012, the incandescent light bulb will be banned in Canada. Which new bulb will win the race to replace it?
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'A boon for New Brunswick'
Clearwater Seafoods director says proposed sale of NB Power to Hydro-Québec would help province retain and attract business.
HALIFAX – One of the region’s top entrepreneurs says the sale of NB Power, combined with recent tax cuts, would be a "boon" for New Brunswick industry.
On Thursday, fisheries magnate John Risley said the proposed sale of NB Power to Hydro-Québec would help New Brunswick both retain and attract business.
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Climate change concern declines – 8 per cent decline since 2008
During the past year there has been an eight per cent decline in Canadian concern for climate change, yet students continue to be highly active in advocacy, according to a Climate Confidence Monitor survey released November 2.
26 per cent of Canadians "consider global warming among their chief concerns," according to Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe.
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Numbers racket
(November 6, 2009) Politicians the world over claim that 4,000 scientists believe in global warming. Depends on who’s counting. Continue reading
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Talks with Hydro-Quebec about NB Power at 'critical' stage, N.B. gov't says
FREDERICTON — Negotiations that could see key assets of New Brunswick’s public utility company sold to Hydro-Quebec are at a crucial stage, the government of Premier Shawn Graham said Monday as two other Atlantic premiers expressed concerns about a possible deal.
The New Brunswick government has been under pressure in recent days to reveal details of their discussions with Quebec amid fears that the province could give up control of NB Power, a Crown corporation.
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The high risks of climate-change policy
(October 23, 2009) Earlier this week, I addressed a meeting of the Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for National Security in Winnipeg. An abbreviated version of my presentation appears below. Continue reading
The free luncher: Exelon
(October 17, 2009) Fourteen principled companies abandoned the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week in protest over climate change. Let’s investigate their principles. Continue reading
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Climate change dominoes fall
(October 16, 2009) Australians are the latest citizenry to turn against climate change catastrophism. For the first time, according to a Lowy poll released this week, a majority of the population turned thumbs down to the proposition that “global warming is a serious and pressing problem. Continue reading
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