Lawrence Solomon: Why gasoline wins

(September 28, 2012) Electric and CNG cars cost more but do less.

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Lawrence Solomon: Evacuation a worse killer than radiation

(September 21, 2012) The Fukushima calamity claimed almost 16,000 lives, with another 3,500 missing and feared lost. This toll from one of the worst natural disasters of all time was then followed by a tragedy of another kind.

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Lawrence Solomon: Israel and Russia join forces over gas

(September 10, 2012) A deal unfolding between Israel and Russia represents a diplomatic and business masterstroke for both parties and shows how, when the energy business is at play, geopolitics is often the driver.

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Lawrence Solomon: The Romney boom

(September 3, 2012) Romney would make good his pledge of energy self-sufficiency and lift the blanket of insecurity stifling the U.S. economy.

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Listen to Energy Probe on Green Majority

(August 21, 2012) Energy Probe’s Director of Research, Norman Rubin, joined a roundtable on nuclear energy in Canada hosted by the environmental news radio program ‘Green Majority’ (CIUT FM 89.5), which you can listen to in full at the link supplied.

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Great scams of our time

(July 20, 2012) Canadian poet and essayist David Solway explores his picks for the three greatest scams of our time. Number two on his list is man-made global warming. Solway says the political ideology driving global warming alarmism “rides on the deeper, rhizomatous sense of spiritual vacuity that characterizes the modern age. In effect, political science has coalesced with dominical theology.” Lawrence Solomon’s work is noted.

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Taking green seriously

(July 20, 2012) A new report finds the provincial government’s renewable energy policies are jeopardizing Ontario’s economy and inflicting unnecessary environmental costs and health risks on communities.

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Candu strike could threaten service to 34 units worldwide

(June 22, 2012) Even if the strike is not affecting Candu’s current business, and the engineers eventually return to work, Candu may end up primarily a servicing company for its old reactors. Meanwhile, skepticism regarding the completion of two new reactors planned for Darlington and the refurbishment of four existing units remains high. “The Darlington Refurbishment is like something from Alice and Wonderland,” says Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin.

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Lawrence Solomon: Drop effort to keep Somalia together

(June 1, 2012) Better to break up this artificial nation. Last in a series.

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Lawrence Solomon: Capitalist haven

(May 25, 2012) British traditions boost the de facto state of Somaliland.

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