Lawrence Solomon: Just a (nuclear) waste

(September 9, 2011) Canada’s nuclear industry is again plying the back routes of Ontario’s northlands, looking for a willing host in places like Hornepayne (population 1209) and Ear Falls (population 1153) for a multi-billion-dollar long-term storage facility for the country’s nuclear wastes.

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Dirty Business: The reality of Ontario’s rush to wind power

(September 9, 2011) Dirty Business, a new book that focuses on wind power’s impacts on Ontario’s power systems and rural communities, features three Energy Probe directors (retired banker Parker Gallant, economist Michael Trebilcock and Globe columnist Margaret Wente), and a past executive director (Tom Adams).

Other works include those by Ross McKitrick and Rick Conroy.

Dirty Business, to be released Monday, September 12, is published by Wind Concerns Ontario Inc. Publications. Click here to learn more about the book and how to order a copy.

 

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Harvey M. Sheldon: Candidates Disappoint on Science and Climate

(September 9, 2011) American Thinker – The Republican candidates failed to explain clearly to the American people why the Democrats’ stated concerns over climate change are wrong.  Asked essentially to name a scientist who does not believe in man-made global warming, Rick Perry dissolved into almost a-mumble that the “theory” of man made climate change is unproven.  While that is fine, its only his assertion, not evidence, and it is not a direct answer to the question posed.  Jon Huntsman proved himself a gullible nitwit by adopting the so-called consensus.

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Lawrence Solomon: Our cosmic climate

(September 2, 2011) CERN experiment overturns global-warming orthodoxy

The 20-year-long global warming debate is in its final stages, the controversy having been settled over whether manmade causes such as carbon dioxide or natural causes such as the Sun dominate climate change on Earth.

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Lawrence Solomon: It’s in our interest to break Syria into pieces

(September 1, 2011) If Assad is given the boot, the West should take charge and break it up.

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Windmills: If you see one of these starting to smoke…RUN!

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Parker Gallant: OPG’s creative accounting

(September 1, 2011) Ontario Power Generation recently released its 2nd Quarter results.  On the surface all seems well with OPG — it announced an after tax (Payments in Lieu of taxes) profit for the quarter of $114 million for the 6 months ended June 30, 2011 versus $40 million for the comparable quarter in 2010.

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Lawrence Solomon: Science getting settled

(August 27, 2011) New, convincing evidence indicates global warming is caused by cosmic rays and the sun — not humans.

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Aldyen Donnelly: California stars and Canadian environmentalist protest Alberta heavy oil

(August 24, 2011) Californian stars and Canadian environmentalists protest Alberta heavy oil while making no effort to stop the California regulators from going out of their way to over-allocate excess free GHG quota to subsidize more GHG-intensive California heavy oil.

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Parker Gallant: Turning OEFC’s “Stranded Debt” into Political Spin

(August 22, 2011) The Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation (OEFC) generally has its annual report completed by mid to late June or just a couple of months after its March 31st year-end.  The public doesn’t get to see the report until it has been tabled in the Ontario Legislature by the Finance Minister and that process for the past several years can take as much as a full year. This year the first part of the pattern was normal however; the March 31, 2011 annual report has just been released without the aforementioned tabling of the report by the Finance Minister in the Legislature.   The Auditor General’s report is dated June 21, 2011 but the Legislature has not sat since June 1, 2011 so we must conclude the report has not been tabled. 

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