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Category Archives: Fossil Fuels
Parker Gallant: Environmental Defence, hypocrites or hypochondriacs
(February 11, 2014) Riddle me this! What do the Cement Association of Canada, United Steelworkers, Xerox and Middlefields Resource Funds (investors in oil and gas exploration and development) and Environmental Defence have in common?
Posted in Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Pipelines, Renewables, Tar Sands
Tagged carbon tax, Climate Change, green energy, Oil, Parker Gallant
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Parker Gallant: Environmental Defence blame others for their CRA problems
(February 9, 2014) The CBC in an news item February 6, 2014, announced that the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) had launched an “audit” of some of Canada’s well known environmental charities and included on that list was Environmental Defence (ED).
Lawrence Solomon: Lavish energy lifestyles
(January 9, 2014) With energy becoming abundant, we’ll be heating our sidewalks and bringing back large cars – all part of a new Age of Plenty. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Oil, Shale Gas
Tagged energy surpluses, lifestyle changes, OPEC Oil Crisis
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Lawrence Solomon: Environmentalists for a foreign agenda
(December 12, 2013) Canadians have no clue when the exhortations coming from Sierra Club, Greenpeace or the David Suzuki Foundation are financed by U.S. interests. Continue reading
Parker Gallant: Thunder Bay, gored with the Wynne
(November 24, 2013) Seen by the Liberals and Environmental Defence (ED) as a breath taking moment for Ontario, the high priest of Global Warming, Al Gore arrived in Toronto to heap praise on the Premier and the Ontario Liberal Party at an event at MaRS Discovery District on November 21, 2013. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Manitoba, Nuclear Power, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Renewables, Utility Reform
Tagged Al Gore, Ontario, Ontario Liberals, Parker Gallant, Thunder Bay
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Lawrence Solomon: Fossil fuels now beat wind and solar on environmental as well as economic grounds
(November 14, 2013) When governments try to impose large-scale renewable technologies, they lay waste to nature. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Renewables
Tagged China, environmentalism, fossil fuels, pollution, renewables, solar energy, sustainability, sustainable development, wind power
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Lawrence Solomon: Russia’s rise — a threat to the West
(November 8, 2013) America’s demise in the Middle East has made Russia the region’s preeminent power, and a threat to the West. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Oil
Tagged Egypt, energy, middle east, Obama, Oil, Putin, Russia, saudi arabia, Vladimir Putin
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Lawrence Solomon: Favour free markets, not Keystone XL
(September 17, 2013) Cutting carbon dioxide emissions to appease Obama would hobble the Canadian economy. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: The new cold war
(June 6, 2013) Russia and Iran are now aligned against the U.S. and Sunni states. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil
Tagged Europe, iran, natural gas, pipelines, Russia, Syria
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Lawrence Solomon: The oil war dividends
(May 31, 2013) Who stands to gain financially from war and unrest in the Middle East? Arms exporters? Yes, but their take is as nothing compared to the main profiteers from war – oil exporters. The more war looms, the higher the premium they fetch. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Oil
Tagged Hugo Chavez, Lawrence Solomon, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, oil exports, Syria
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