Hydro Ottawa halts replacement of older smart meters

(January 8, 2014) The move follows an Ontario Energy Board ruling that stops the utility from billing customers for cost. “Replacing meters while they are still functional simply because there is new technology available is a never-ending cycle,” Energy Probe said in its submission. “There will always be something new tomorrow.”
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While Canadians endured hardships during recent storms, customers in UK got compensated

(January 7, 2014) To help its most vulnerable customers cope, one UK power company provided them with Christmas dinners as well as hotel accommodation, all at shareholder expense.

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Book extract: Beyond the Microphone – The global warming con

(December 26, 2013) I would love to have a New Zealand equivalent of Lawrence Solomon, ‘a world renowned environmentalist, author and activist’ at the forefront of movements to stop nuclear power expansion and to save the world’s rainforests. Solomon did a series of columns on ‘denier’ scientists for the Toronto National Post. Those columns led to a book called The Deniers (2008) — the world-renowned scientists who stood up against the global warming hysteria, political persecution and fraud. I recommend it to anyone wanting a real grip on the science and why it is far from understood, let alone settled. — Leighton Smith, an Australian-born talkback radio host based in Auckland, New Zealand, named Best Talkback Host of 2013 at the New Zealand Radio Awards.

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Lawrence Solomon: For global warming believers, 2013 was the year from Hell

(December 19, 2013) Almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong for the cause of global warming.

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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.

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Parker Gallant: Minister of Energy Bob Chiarelli; firmly in control of our hydro bills

(December 11, 2013) Ontario’s Minister of Energy, Bob Chiarelli, on November 27, 2013, launched a new website reputedly designed to provide the populus with “Energy Literacy”.

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Lawrence Solomon: Why humans don’t have much to do with climate change

(December 9, 2013) Global cooling scientists look to Earth’s history for tomorrow’s climate forecast and have found temperatures on Earth have peaked, as they have peaked countless times before, and are now falling.

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Parker Gallant: OPG—whipping boy for the Ministry of Energy

(December 4, 2013) The Ontario Power Generation (OPG) announced its 3rd quarter results via a press release on November 14, 2013 and the media ignored it. It was full of bad news. 

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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.

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Lawrence Solomon: A billion dollars full of nuclear waste

(November 21, 2013) The Deep Geologic Repository is a make-work project.

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