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Category Archives: Fossil Fuels
Power sector air emission control: winning and losing approaches
Presentation to Air and Waste Management Association Canadian Clean Air Policy ConferenceThe Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa
Air emission management is a lot like combining the children’s games of hide and seek with snakes and ladders. In moving through the steps of the game, we should aim to climb up the most ladders and slide down the fewest snakes. A principal challenge is that the ladders and snakes can be obscured or disguised. In air emission control policy ladders are often mistaken for snakes and there are some nasty snakes disguised as ladders.
Posted in Smog
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Ontario’s Roadmap
(March 10, 2008) Energy policy isn’t just consuming U.S. lawmakers. It’s also dominating the Canadian agenda and particularly the province of Ontario. Continue reading
Power Unplugged in China
(February 21, 2008) What is going on in China’s electricity sector? A month ago, power failures during China’s coldest, snowiest winter in decades left millions without heat or running water. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Tar Sands
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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
Posted in Clean Coal, Coal, Energy Probe News
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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) risks by Tom Adams
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is rapidly gaining in policy popularity and commercial interest in North America. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels
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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
Posted in Coal, Energy Probe News
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Scouring scum and tar from the bottom of the pit
(July 1, 2006) Faced with the undeniable reality of “Hubbard’s Peak” in global conventional oil supplies, the world’s largest multinational energy corporations are now hell-bent on squeezing oil out of tar in northern Alberta, like junkies desperately conniving for one last giant fix in a futile attempt to quench America’s insatiable “addiction to oil” (described so eloquently by President George Bush II). Continue reading
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Haldimand County : Coal Fired Plant in Ontario Not As Dirty As Reported
(October 7, 2005) A report by Energy Probe says coal-fired power stations such as Nanticoke’s aren’t as big as a polluter as originally thought. Continue reading
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Next best thing to oil
(Sept. 18, 2004) U.S. President George W. Bush’s top energy regulator sparked stupor in Quebec this week when he said it might be possible for liquefied-natural-gas plants proposed for eastern Canada to meet much of the energy demand of New England. Continue reading
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Next best thing to oil
(September 18, 2004) U.S. President George W. Bush’s top energy regulator sparked stupor in Quebec this week when he said it might be possible for liquefied-natural-gas plants proposed for eastern Canada to meet much of the energy demand of New England. Continue reading
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