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Category Archives: Energy Probe News
Why I wrote Deniers
(April 5, 2008) Global warming has become a question for citizens, and not only scientists. Citizens must decide how serious the threat is and what to do about it, which cures make sense, and which might be worse than the disease. Continue reading
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Ontario’s Energy Crunch
(April 2, 2008) Good morning. I have some good news for you this morning. The good news is that Ontario has an easy and painless way out of the energy fix that we’re in. I have some bad news for you, too. Our government doesn’t know it, and, I am certain, neither do most of you in this room. Continue reading
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Apocalypse now?
(March 29, 2008) To most of us, the consequences of a meltdown or some other catastrophic accident at a nuclear reactor are unimaginable. Continue reading
Kyoto’s latest victim
(March 20, 2008) Climate change continues to wreak havoc throughout the world, Egypt being the most recent example. In the last year, bread prices have climbed 36%, leading to rioting by the hungry. Bread riots are also occuring in Yemen and Pakistan, as they have in other countries over the last year, while in other nations food protests have taken other forms. Continue reading
Burning in the dark
Nuclear runs all night, can’t be ramped up in day.
After scores of bankruptcies and bailouts, many if not most energy analysts recognize nuclear electricity for what it has been: the single biggest business disaster in history.
But nuclear power’s failings extend beyond the red ink on the balance sheets to the limitations in the technology. The nuclear reactor, though efficient in medical and military applications, is ill-suited for the production of electricity in a sophisticated power market of diverse customers with diverse needs
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Nuclear giant plans 4 reactors; Bruce Power proposes $10B
(March 14, 2008) The only private operator of nuclear plants in Canada, Bruce Power LP, plans to bring nuclear power to Alberta, saying Thursday it hopes to build a $10-billion-plus generating complex near Peace River. Continue reading
The Polluter Overpay Principle
(March 12, 2008) The UK is clobbering well-engineered automobiles in a move to re-engineer society. A Land Rover will soon face a tax of £950 when purchased, and then an additional £455 per year. Saab owners are hit less hard (£425 in year one, then £270) and Audi owners even less (£155 and £155). Continue reading
Warmed-over nukes
(March 8, 2008) The world is whooshing to nuclear energy. Just this week, Britain announced 18 new nuclear reactor sites in its bid to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is on a Mid-East nuclear-selling spree, to cash in on interest in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, and Libya. Continue reading
Nuke sector on upswing?
(March 7, 2008) Two Canadian mega-projects in works, but critics still battling. CALGARY – With two nuclear mega-projects planned for Alberta and Ontario, the sector is showing signs of growth for the first time in decades, but critics warn those sorts of major projects are fraught with risk. Continue reading
Power to consumers, not monopolies
Fifty million North Americans suffered inconvenience and expense in the Great Blackout of 2003. Not one will receive any compensation.
Millions of companies also suffered inconvenience and expense, and lost business that they will never make up. Amid the ruins, however, lie a lucky handful of companies who will have their losses covered. The lucky are among the electricity monopolies that brought us the Great Blackout of 2003.
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