Fair Hydro Plan advertisements: fact check

(September 29, 2017) The Fair Hydro Plan ads being rolled out by the province contain a number of misleading claims. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Paris is dead. The global warming deniers have won

(September 22, 2017) 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.

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Grounds for Thought presents: Paris is dead

(September 18, 2017) Join us for the return of the Grounds for Thought discussion night with our most controversial topic to date. Oh, it’s a doozy alright!

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How megaprojects bankrupt public power utilities and leave regulators in the dark: report

(September 6, 2017) Government-owned power utilities across Canada are pushing ahead with multi-billion dollar megaprojects, while undermining the regulators put in place to protect consumers from such reckless behaviour, according to a new analysis from the Consumer Policy Institute.

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Lawrence Solomon: Singing the praises of coal — the virtuous stone that liberated humanity

(August 25, 2017) Among coal’s virtues is its small ecological footprint, in startling contrast to the clodhoppers that are renewable energy.
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Ontario’s green energy experience: sobering lessons for sustainable climate change policies

(August 15, 2017) A new report from the C.D. Howe Institute finds Ontario’s green energy policies have yielded moderate environmental gains while drastically increasing energy prices.

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Lawrence Solomon: How Tesla’s Elon Musk became the master of fake business

(August 11, 2017) Musk’s genius is primarily in the subsidy-seeking realm. By 2015, U.S. governments alone had given his companies US$5 billion through direct grants, tax breaks, cut-rate loans, tax credits and rebates.

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Ontario’s conservation program another corporate welfare handout

(August 3, 2017) Ontario ratepayers will pay $100 million for a conservation program that experts admit is unnecessary. Continue reading

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How megaprojects bankrupt utilities

(June 26, 2017) Brady Yauch, executive director of Consumer Policy Institute, describes the looming threat to public institutions – and to our pocketbooks.

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Ontario’s public power failure redux

(June 22, 2017) Ontario is repeating its failed public power experiment. Continue reading

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