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Category Archives: Energy Probe News
Extreme competition, but not extreme enough
(February 7, 2008) Since Maggie Thatcher broke up the United Kingdom’s dysfunctional energy monopolies two decades ago, costs plummeted, as did prices for consumers, as a wave of new entrants into the energy business led to a textbook example of the benefits of competition. Continue reading
Geo-pipe dreams
(January 26, 2008) With climate change threatening us with extinction, many of the best minds going are working on methods to save us from oblivion. Here they are, and how they propose to save us from ourselves: Continue reading
The Deniers, Part XLI: Geo-pipe dreams
(January 26, 2008) With climate change threatening us with extinction, many of the best minds going are working on methods to save us from oblivion. Here they are, and how they propose to save us from ourselves: Continue reading
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The Nuclear Power Baseload Myth
(January 18, 2008) MR.RUBIN: Madam Chair, my comments deal with issues concerning nuclear power, and we offer them to urge this Board to do two things: To stipulate and construe the nuclear issues as broadly as possible; and, in particular, to seek mechanisms to ensure that Ontario ratepayers and taxpayers are protected from the peculiar risks presented by nuclear power. Continue reading
The Deniers, Part XL: Carbon as currency
(January 12, 2008) To lower our carbon footprint to levels deemed necessary to prevent climate change, we’ll need to do more than limit our air travel, buy fuel-efficient cars and switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs. Continue reading
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Coal enters rehab
(December 7, 2007) Coal, chock-full of substances of known toxicity, epitomizes dirty fuel. The perils in coal burning – and this is an abbreviated list – include fly ash and heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, mercury, sulpher, vanedium, beryllium, cadmium, barium, chromium, molybdenum, zinc, selenium, radium, uranium and thorium. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part Part XXXV: You still need your parka in Antarctica
(November 15, 2007) Antartica – a vast territory whose sea-ice growth in winter effectively doubles its size to envelop an area three times that of Canada – is the world’s coldest continent by far, its permanent ice sheet regulating the Antarctic atmosphere. Continue reading
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Energy Probe Appoints Lawrence Solomon as New Executive Director
Energy Probe Research Foundation, one of Canada’s leading environmental organizations, is pleased to announce the appointment of Lawrence Solomon as executive director of its Energy Probe division. Mr. Solomon, a founder of the foundation in 1980, remains its managing director and the executive director of its Urban Renaissance Institute. His Energy Probe book, Breaking Up Ontario Hydro’s Monopoly, led to the demise of Ontario Hydro, one of the western world’s most polluting power utilities.
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Atomic Energy of Canada Limited responsible for 12% of national debt
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Subsidies to Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), the federal nuclear promotion agency, are responsible for 12% of today’s federal government debt, according to a new study from Energy Probe. Since its inception in 1952, $74.9 billion of today’s federal debt is attributable to subsidies provided to AECL.
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Power rates to surge 10%?
New Brunswickers should brace themselves for a hefty increase in their monthly electricity bills with NB Power poised to announce its annual rate increase today.
"I would not be surprised by a 10-per-cent increase because of the trends in fuel prices and the troubled liabilities that the utility is carrying related to Orimulsion and (Point) Lepreau," said Tom Adams, executive director of the Toronto-based Energy Probe.
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