Parker Gallant: Pumped storage equals pumped energy prices

(November 18, 2013) As Hans and Franz of SNL fame used to say, “we want to pump you up,” and that appears to be what Northland Power Inc. want to do with a water-filled abandoned iron ore mine in Marmora, Ontario. Continue reading

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Parker Gallant: Wynne Government picks ratepayers pockets for wind turbine developers

(November 16, 2013) While Premier Wynne was out jogging in the countryside – sans any turbines in the background – for the recently released Liberal promo, many of us ratepayers were having our pockets picked.

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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.

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The coming revelation of the ‘global warming’ fraud…

(November 12, 2013) … resembles the Obamacare lie, writes Peter Ferrara for Forbes.com, who says the real world has shattered the falsehoods behind both global warming and Obamacare because the motivation for both ‘frauds’ is the same: expanding government power. Lawrence Solomon’s work is cited.

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Scientists increasingly moving to global cooling consensus

(November 2, 2013) Scientists are now beginning to rethink their climate change models and are seriously discussing the possibility the earth is entering into a period of global cooling. Lawrence Solomon is quoted on declining solar activity.

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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.

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Is ‘global cooling’ the new scientific consensus?

(November 1, 2013) “The global cooling hypothesis may have been right after all … Earth may be entering a new Little Ice Age.” The Daily Caller pursues Lawrence Solomon’s line of thought on climate.

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Lawrence Solomon: A global cooling consensus

(October 31, 2013) Solar activity is now falling more rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years.

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Parker Gallant: Street Lighting and other Liberal “Revenue Tools”

(October 30, 2013) How “conservation” drives up your realty taxes.

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Lawrence Solomon: Big Brother takes the wheel

(October 17, 2013) ‘Smart roads’ would take the task of driving out of the hands of human drivers.

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