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Category Archives: Fossil Fuels
Lawrence Solomon: Trudeau will learn a painful lesson — voters really dislike climate crusading
Global warming is so yesterday. There’s pretty much nothing the public cares less about than climate change. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels
Tagged carbon taxes, Climate Change, election, Global Warming, politics, public opinion
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Lawrence Solomon: Here’s the truth about Energy Probe’s alleged links to Big Oil
Lawrence Solomon: I’m called a lobbyist for the oil industry, a shill, a mouthpiece, and some not-so-nice words, too, all of it made up. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, The Deniers
Tagged Energy Probe, Lawrence Solomon
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Lawrence Solomon: Carbon bounties (not taxes) could save us from the next Little Ice Age
With scientists increasingly predicting a long period of global cooling, we may need incentives to put additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Paris is dead. The global warming deniers have won
Since his pullout in June, Trump has repeatedly reaffirmed the wisdom of pulling out of the “bad deal” for the U.S. that was Paris. Continue reading
How megaprojects bankrupt utilities
Brady Yauch, executive director of Consumer Policy Institute, describes the looming threat to public institutions – and to our pocketbooks. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: The Paris accord always was a sham
The accord allowed politicians to pay lip service meanwhile raising taxes in the name of the environment. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels
Tagged Donald Trump, Paris climate agreement
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The Kinder Morgan pipeline: permits or permission?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline has raised a storm of protest about its predicted impacts on the orcas, climate change, First Nations’ rights, as well as concerns about the project’s “flawed” approval process and lack of “social licence”. Lawyer Andrew Roman contextualizes some of the hot-button issues raised by critics. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Yes, Ontario’s Liberals can cancel their terrible renewable power contracts—and they should do it now
There is no compelling case for Ontario to honour its odious renewable power deals. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Everyone’s a climate change leader, until their claim becomes quantifiable
There may not be a metric for sincerity and earnestness but there is a metric for something else: fuel poverty. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: How Trump shattered the alliance between environmentalists and Big Labour
(June 9, 2016) The stage is set for a knock ‘em down, drag ‘em out fight with Donald Trump making an unapologetic play for the hardhat vote and Hillary Clinton promising to “put coal miners out of work” and all but eliminate fracking. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil
Tagged Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jobs and Labor, Nature and the Environment
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