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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Ottawa is committing suicide

Posted on June 24, 2022 by Lawrence Solomon

(June 24, 2022) Will Ottawa be the first capital city to die a woke death?

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Russia, Ukraine, NATO: What now?

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Other News Sources

(June 13, 2022) In every war the first casualty is always the truth.

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Peskotomuhkati Chief denounces Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s public hearing process as a ‘feel good exercise’

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Other News Sources

(June 9, 2022) Indigenous sovereignty, sustainable non-nuclear futures, and critical perspectives lost in the fray.

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All that glitters isn’t green. Or renewable.

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Other News Sources

(February 3, 2022) “Green” is used as a political obedience button. We are expected to agree, without closely examining proposed laws and policies. After all, how could it be bad if it’s green? We are not expected to ask “green in comparison to what?” Or “green at what cost, to whom?” If you were to ask these questions it is unlikely that government officials would provide any useful answers. Legal expert Andrew Roman looks closer at what it means to be Green.

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COPOUT26 — Face, farce and fiction, from Greta to Trudeau to Modi

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Other News Sources

There is no way to remove fossil-fuel emissions from the world without causing economic chaos.

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Planet Earth is healthier than ever, thanks to global warming

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Lawrence Solomon

C02, while a blessing to Earth’s ecology, has been a curse to Earth’s economy.

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The city has been trying to rein in executive bonuses at Toronto Hydro. Last year the CEO took home a bonus of more than $640,000

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Other News Sources

Straddling both the private and public sectors, Toronto Hydro is tricky to define. Its executive payouts call into question: who runs the show? Energy Probe is quoted in this look at Hydro exec earnings by the Toronto Star’s Christine Dobby.

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The right wing will win Israel’s election Tuesday

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Lawrence Solomon

In Israel, the Western world’s most right-wing country, the left isn’t really on the ballot.

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