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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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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