-
Support our campaign
to stop disastrous global
warming policies!
Getting Zapped: Ontario electricity prices increasing faster than anywhere else
Read Our Report On Wind Subsidies in Ontario
Category Archives: Fossil Fuels
Air quality in Ontario
Environment Minister Tony Clement put his best smudged face on a dirty air policy yesterday. And dirty it is – potentially a lot dirtier than what we have.
Clement’s spin on his policy was that it was “tough new actions” that will “strengthen an already aggressive campaign to improve air quality in Ontario.”
Posted in Smog
Leave a comment
Energy Probe's position on emission reduction trading
This is a summary of Energy Probe’s concerns over the Ontario Emission Reduction Trading (ERT) program announced in January. The government’s ERT program fails to meet the objectives of its November 1997 White Paper on electricity reform and should be substantially revised to achieve environmental improvement.
Posted in Smog
Leave a comment
Gasoline refiners reducing sulphur
Canada’s major oil refineries are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to rid themselves of the well-deserved reputation of producing North America’s dirtiest gasoline.
Canadian lawmakers have already given refiners a Jan. 1, 2005, deadline to lower sulphur content by 97%.
The Irving Oil Co. has already achieved part of that requirement with a $1-billion retrofit of its New Brunswick refinery.
Posted in Smog
Leave a comment
Comments on EBR Registry Number RA01E00020
John Hutchinson, Senior Policy Advisor
Air Policy and Climate Change
4th Floor, 135 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario, M4V 1P5
re. Comments on EBR Registry Number RA01E00020
Dear Sir,
Energy Probe has reviewed the above noted registry and makes the following comments.
Posted in Smog
Leave a comment
Ontario air worse than it appears
Fighting for air: Andrea Long and her daughter Callan both suffer from asthma and worry about the quality of air in Toronto.
Steve Russell/Toronto Star
The truth about the air we breathe in Ontario is about to be revealed.
And it’s going to be ugly.
Posted in Smog
Leave a comment
Lawrence Solomon debates Jeff Rubin's new book, Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Welcome to the first installment of the National Post’s non-fiction book club, Speaking Volumes, an ongoing series that features National Post writers and expert guests. In this edition, we examine Jeff Rubin’s new book, Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller (Random House Canada) on peak oil and the end of globalization.
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels
1 Comment
No Peak Gas
(April 15, 2009) Is the United States running out of natural gas? Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Liquified Natural Gas, Natural Gas
1 Comment
U.S.: It’s Got Gas
(April 15, 2009) Is the United States running out of natural gas? Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Liquified Natural Gas
Leave a comment
A Voice From the Harem
(April 13, 2009) This article from the archieves of the New York Times describes a first-hand recounting of the life of a Turkish slave girl and argues for the abolition of slavery in Turkey. Continue reading
Posted in Pipelines
Leave a comment
Horrible Traffic in Circassian Women—Infanticide in Turkey
(April 13, 2009) In the early 1860s, after Russian conquest of their region of the Caucasus, nearly half a million Circassians migrated to Turkey. Many Circassian women, prized for their beauty, were sold into slavery. This article, which originally appeared in a London newspaper, describes this slave economy in detail, including the speculation that the unwanted children of African slaves and Turkish masters were disposed of by infanticide. Continue reading
Posted in Pipelines
Leave a comment
Energy Probe 