Parker Gallant: The wind industry’s spin

(August 2, 2011) In Greek Mythology Aeolus was the “King of Wind” but in Canadian Mythology the King of Wind is CanWEA; a not-for-profit association of 420 members including public and private companies, legal firms, manufacturers, etc. and others who feed off of the largess of taxpayers and ratepayers to ensure they retain their mandated (Ontario’s Green Energy Act) place on the energy podium.

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Lawrence Solomon: Fix Your City – KPMG cuts are merely cautious

(July 29, 2011) Few taxpayers would notice any diminution of service.

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Lawrence Solomon: If Europe breaks Palestine, it will have to clean up the mess

(July 27, 2011) There is something the Europeans, who assume a hypothetical, independent Palestine, have overlooked: Without Israeli good will, a Palestinian state couldn’t support itself.

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A Summary of Michael Trebilcock’s “Speaking Truth to Wind Power”

(July 6, 2011) The Ontario government’s hurried decision to subsidize renewable energy sources – specifically wind turbines – has created losses for energy consumers and tax payers, according to a study by Michael Trebilcock, a Law and Economics Professor at the University of Toronto. 

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Lawrence Solomon: It’s official – climate alarmists know less and can’t count too well

(July 5, 2011) Surprising findings lead researchers to recommend science be taught differently, to enable skeptics to arrive at correct conclusions.

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Lawrence Solomon: Liberate U.S. oil

(July 5, 2011) The United States can have energy security whenever it wants it.

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The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”

(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost.

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Lawrence Solomon: Polar opposites

(July 1, 2011) A decision by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan becomes a different story through a media lens.

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Aldyen Donnelly: A Response to Peter Foster’s “The Demons in Krugmanomics”

(June 29, 2011) The following is a response to Peter Foster’s article published in the Financial Post on June 29, 2011. To read The Demons in Krugmanomics, click here.

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Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics

(June 24, 2011) The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming skeptics.

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