Measuring Canadian energy subsidies

Posted on August 17, 2023 by Other News Sources

(August 17, 2023) Controversies over the development of estimates for energy subsidies in Canada has impeded subsidy reform and elimination. A new report from the Fraser Institute looks at the extent of those controversies and the difficulties that have developed in achieving a consensus on key definitions of what constitutes a subsidy.

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The energy transition Ontario really needs is to nuclear

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Lawrence Solomon

(June 9, 2023) When you factor in its reliability, nuclear is cheaper than solar or wind, which are available only intermittently.

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Junk Science Week — Lawrence Solomon: Levelling coal makes wind look good

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Lawrence Solomon

(May 25, 2023) U.S. use of ‘levelized costs of energy’ distorts by counting taxes and subsidies.

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Canada’s rising carbon tax and the supreme court

Posted on April 3, 2023 by Other News Sources

(April 1, 2023) The expansion of federal control over the economies of resource-rich provinces will ensure those provinces, and all Canadians, will lose out through escalating energy prices that increase the cost of living generally.

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Climate Porn: the hottest day on record

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Other News Sources

(March 22, 2023) If you value independent thought, you have to be able to identify the bubble wrap and break free. Legal expert Andrew Roman offers an escape from climate alarmism bubble wrap.

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Electricity generation with 100% renewables is a fantasy

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Other News Sources

(December 3, 2022) Breaking down the high cost of renewables based on the data.

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A 2nd Chernobyl

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Lawrence Solomon

(August 19, 2022)  Who knows where the fallout from Zaporizhzhia, a nuclear power complex 50 percent larger than Chernobyl, might land?

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The Big Green Lie almost everyone claims to believe

Posted on August 3, 2022 by Lawrence Solomon

(August 2, 2022) The claim that the “science was settled” on climate change never withstood scrutiny. What is settled is the abject failure of the three-decade-long attempt by the bureaucracies of the 195 countries of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to convince anyone other than themselves, a credulous media, and a relatively few gullible people that climate change represents an existential threat.

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The impossible green dream

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Other News Sources

(July 12, 2022) Instead of refurbishing an old and deteriorating natural gas pipeline that has served Ottawa for 65 years, Ottawa is investing instead in a fantasy strategy it calls its Energy Evolution plan. Unfortunately, Ottawa is not alone in these pipe dreams to achieve net-zero no matter how unachievable and painful for Canadians.

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Russia’s war has started The Great U-Turn

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Other News Sources

(June 26, 2022) The West’s net zero policies, pursued too rapidly, with the wrong technologies, and without regard to energy security, has financed Russia’s war on Ukraine. The Great U-Turn back to fossil fuels has already begun in Europe.

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