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Category Archives: Energy Probe News
Hampton outlines incentives for industry to save jobs
(August 10, 2007) NDP Leader Howard Hampton has promised to cut electricity costs for Ontario’s large industries — if they promise to keep jobs in the province. Continue reading
The Deniers, Part XXXI: In the eye of the storm over global warming
(July 28, 2007) He’s called the world’s most famous hurricane expert, not because he likes to fly into hurricanes to experience them up close – which he does – but because of what he’s learned from them, up there, buffeted by the fury of nature. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XXX: What global warming, Australian skeptic asks
(July 17, 2007) Bob Carter, a professor at James Cook University (Queensland) and the University of Adelaide (South Australia), is a paleontologist, a stratigrapher, and a marine geologist. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XXIX: Models trump measurements
(July 7, 2007) We are doomed, say climate change scientists assoiated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body that is organizing most of the climate change research occurring in the world today. Continue reading
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Open mind sees climate clearly
(June 29, 2007) He’s the world’s most cited climatologist, according to an analysis in the journal of the British Institute of Geographers. He’s also the fifth-most-cited physical geographer in the world, and the 11th most cited among all geographers. Continue reading
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Canada’s nuclear role
(October 11, 2006) A response to Doug Saunders’ article for the Globe and Mail. Continue reading
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Small-scale plants run rings around nuclear
(September 29, 2006) “If we don’t go nuclear, what type of energy will meet our future energy needs,” I’m often asked. “Do you think fringe fuels such as solar energy can take the place of nuclear? Or windmills? Bio fuels? Small dams? Tidal power? Burning garbage? Continue reading
Call Iran’s bluff
(September 28, 2006) If the United States imposes meaningful economic sanctions on Iran, let alone tries a military strike against its nuclear facilities, Iran threatens to play its oil card. Continue reading
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EP’s response to OPG’s proposed environmental assessment guidelines for new nuclear waste site
(September 22, 2006) Re: Comment on the Proposed Scoping Document (Environmental Assessment Guidelines) for Ontario Power Generation’s Proposal for a Deep Geologic Repository for disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive wastes in Kincardine. Continue reading
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House Hansard: Session 38:2, April 26, 2006
(April 26, 2006) Mr. Howard Hampton (Kenora-Rainy River): My question is for the Acting Premier. We know that the McGuinty government’s real energy plan is to spend $40 billion on very expensive, unreliable and environmentally risky nuclear power plants. So today, on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, I believe the McGuinty government owes the people of Ontario some straight answers on nuclear power and the potential risks. Will the McGuinty government make public today any emergency plans, briefing notes or studies in its possession that assess the impact of a potential nuclear disaster on human health, the environment and the economy? Continue reading
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