Ontario ratepayers subsidize taxpayers

(November 15, 2011) Ontario ratepayers are helping to hold down municipal taxes and the provincial debt, writes Energy Probe director Parker Gallant.

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Lawrence Solomon: Democratic jackpot

(November 4, 2011) The energy-short ­democracies will become top producers.

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Lawrence Solomon: Divide Libya into its tribal parts

(October 28, 2011) Libyans are ill-prepared to govern themselves.

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Ontario Energy Prices: Frankly Bogus

(October 19, 2011) Parker Gallant responds to Minister Brad Duguid: it’s the government’s claims that are “bogus”.

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Lawrence Solomon: Exodus from the Arab Spring

(October 14, 2011) The downfall of Hosni Mubarak has set loose a wave of Islamist persecution. Egypt’s Coptic Christians are fleeing in droves – many to Canada.

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Lawrence Solomon: Harper’s next stand

(October 7, 2011) The PM spoke out for the seal hunt. Now he must support the Alberta oil sands.

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Ontario’s Power Trip: The $4000 electricity bill

(October 5, 2011) Energy Probe directors Glenn Fox and Parker Gallant, writing in the Financial Post, discuss their new study of Ontario’s renewable energy policy. Their projection? Electricity rates will double, making them among the highest in the developed world.

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Planet has been much warmer

(October 1, 2011) Alan Nicholl, writing in the Gisborne Herald, discusses myths about the greenhouse effect and the scientific ‘consensus’ around the 2007 IPCC report. Climate researcher James Renwick responds.

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Lawrence Solomon: New battle over Mediterranean gas

(September 30, 2011) Greece, Israel and Cyprus clash with Turkey over resource rights in the Mediterranean.

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Joubert on climate change science

(September 29, 2011) An article in The Gauntlet – the University of Calgary student newspaper – questions climate extremism and introduces some respected scientists who reject global warming.

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