Canadian energy interests in the new Middle East

(March 27, 2012) Emerging energy technologies and new energy discoveries in Israel and the Middle East will transform that region, possibly more so than the Arab Spring uprisings, said Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon, at a conference on Canada and the new Middle East.

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Lawrence Solomon: Free global gas prices

(March 23, 2012) There is a silver bullet for lowering gas prices: a return to a free market in gasoline.

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Old King Coal

(March 19, 2012) Listen to Energy Probe’s Parker Gallant on “Demon Coal” – an in-depth look at the fossil fuel that made the industrial revolution happen, it’s demonization in the 21st century, and why coal is still a fuel of the future.

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Parker Gallant: Toronto Hydro — exaggerated hype or sophisticated spin

(March 12, 2012) “The aggregate total of incentive payments to the top five active executives in the five years ending 2010 was $2.9 million!” That sentence caught my eye in an article that appeared in the January 27, 2012 Toronto Star.

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Lawrence Solomon: Vladimir the Great

(March 2, 2012) After centuries of serfdom, Putin has delivered prosperity. But, it is also easy to foresee a Russian economic collapse if Putin follows in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessors: Peter the Great and Catherine the Great.

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Lawrence Solomon: Israel’s gas diplomacy

(February 24, 2012) Israel: ‘Gas is our strategic interest for new partnerships’.

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Parker Gallant: The Ontario Power Authority – helping to create the rural urban divide

(February 24, 2012) Where you live in Ontario will have a bearing on what constitutes a “green” energy project by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) under their program(s) and what they will pay per kilowatt hour (kWh) – as the town of Bancroft discovered.

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Lawrence Solomon: New glory for Greece

(February 17, 2012) A deregulated free-market Greece — in tourism, energy, transportation — could transform the broken country.

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Energy consultant cautions against capital spending cuts for NSP

(February 14, 2012) Former Energy Probe director says systems upgrades necessary to ensure power service reliability.

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The Galileo of Global Warming

(February 10, 2012) Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark seems to have discovered the most important factor that actually regulates Earth’s climate, and is quietly in the process of proving it. Lawrence Solomon is quoted for this article.

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