Parker Gallant: The debt retirement charge — Premier Wynne’s $6.2 billion “revenue tool”

(April 11, 2014) The Auditor General’s report released December 10, 2013, highlighted some of the problems inherent with taxpayer-owned Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG), particularly it’s above-market human resource costs.

Continue reading

Posted in Utility Reform | Tagged , , | 6 Comments

Lawrence Solomon: North America slow to reverse renewables projects, but its turn will come soon

(April 7, 2014) Only those in fantasyland should expect a contract to be sacrosanct when one party to the transaction makes the law.

Continue reading

Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News, Renewables | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Lawrence Solomon: America’s LNG exports won’t counter Putin

(March 28, 2014) Europe is prospecting for gas in the wrong place in asking for U.S. LNG.

Continue reading

Posted in Alternative Energy, Liquified Natural Gas, Shale Gas | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Ontario to follow Germany in renewable failure

(March 21, 2014) Germany has been experimenting with its renewable energy law for 14 years and is now highlighting its failures. Ontario, which copied that law, will likely do the same.  Continue reading

Posted in Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Renewables, Utility Reform | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Governments rip up renewable contracts

(March 19, 2014) Companies ‘do not have a right [to expect the compensation] not to be changed’. Continue reading

Posted in Alternative Energy, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector, Renewables | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

Wikipedia on Global Warming

(March 12, 2014) In this piece published by American Thinker, Paul Austin Murphy investigates Wikipedia’s biased and one-sided handling of entries regarding ‘anthropogenic global warming theory,’ first exposed by Lawrence Solomon in his series on ‘Wikipropaganda’ — also quoted here by Murphy.

Continue reading

Posted in Climate Change, The Deniers | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Parker Gallant: Ontario Power Generation: then and now

(March 12, 2014) Ontario Power Generation (OPG) on March 7, 2014, released its results for the year ended December 31, 2013, which claims they eked out an after tax profit of $135 million on gross revenue of $4.9 billion.

Continue reading

Posted in Electricity, Nuclear Power, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Renewables | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Parker Gallant: Biomass is carbon neutral, and the world is flat!

(March 5, 2014) The largest coal generation plant in the UK is transforming itself by converting half of its coal burning generation units into biomass (wood pellets) by 2016. Continue reading

Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Electricity, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Renewables | Tagged , , , , , , | 14 Comments

Parker Gallant: Ontario’s Ministry of Energy “Achieving Balance” would be a surprise

(February 18, 2014) As a part of the revised Long-Term Energy Plan (LTEP) announced by Minister of Energy, Bob Chiarelli, on December 2, 2013, his ministry released a myriad of other information perhaps meant to either confuse or dazzle the reader. Continue reading

Posted in Climate Change, Conservation, Electricity, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Renewables | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

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?

Continue reading

Posted in Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Pipelines, Renewables, Tar Sands | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments