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Category Archives: Fossil Fuels
The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”
(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Renewables
Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, Renewable Energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms
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Israeli Oil: Black Gold in the Holy Land
(June 18, 2011) On Tuesday, June 14, Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. announced it had requested a petroleum exploration permit to develop large shale oil deposits in the Shfela Basin, 30 miles west of Jerusalem. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Shale Gas, Shale Oil
Tagged Energy Probe, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Oil, OPEC, Sarah Siskind, saudi arabia, Shale Oil
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Lawrence Solomon: Israeli oil could bust the OPEC cartel
(June 13, 2011) The old energy order in the Middle East is crumbling and a new energy order is emerging to give the West some spine. In this new order, Israel is a major player. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Oil, Oil
Tagged Harold Vinegar, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, POEC, shale
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Oilsands greenhouse gas emissions up in 2009
(June 6, 2011) New calculation; Substantial rise in pollution: report… Aldyen Donnelly responds. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Oil redeems Israel
(June 6, 2011) A huge strike will bring back a world bought by oil interests.
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Oil
Tagged Human Rights Commission, Israel, Oil, oil prices, OPEC, Palestine Liberation Organization, United Nations, Yasser Arafat, Zionism
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Lawrence Solomon: Ontario power lesson
(Oct. 13, 2010) Notes for a speech that Ontario’s Opposition leader could give, but won’t, on the state of the province’s electricity sector. Continue reading
Avertible catastrophe
How U.S. labour and environmental rules blocked Dutch spill-cleanup technology.
Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality.
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels
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Avertible catastrophe
(Jun. 26, 2010) Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality. Continue reading
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