Ontario’s Green Energy Backlash: Politicians Exploit Growing Opposition To Wind Turbines, Solar

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 27, 2011) Ian Harvey of the Huffington Post takes a look at how would be premier Hudak’s proposed policy changes will affect renewable energy in the province of Ontario. The entry notes Energy Probe’s conclusions that the FIT scheme is a “disaster” as it breeds reliance on nuclear energy on days when the weather is not conducive to renewable energy generation.

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Lawrence Solomon: Time is on Israel’s side

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 27, 2011) The world’s dependence on Israel’s enemies is dwindling Continue reading →

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Lawrence Solomon: More evidence it used to be really hot out there

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 26, 2011) A linchpin in the global warming theory is the claim that we now live in a time of unprecedented warmth. Unfortunately for those who assert this theory, the history books all said it was hot during the centuries immediately before and after 1000 AD – the time known the Medieval Warm Period. Continue reading →

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Hydro One: Time to break it up

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 23, 2011) In November 2003 the C. D. Howe Institute released a report entitled “What will Keep the Lights on in Ontario: Responses to a Policy Short-Circuit”.  Continue reading →

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Lawrence Solomon: Go fish — wind developers forced to shut down to protect salmon stocks

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 19, 2011) Wind farms not only threaten the landscape, they also threaten marine life, as wind developers in Washington State just learned to their dismay. The Bonneville Power Authority, a major power utility in the Columbia River system, has ordered wind producers feeding unwanted power into its grid to shut down their operations to protect salmon stock. Continue reading →

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Aldyen Donnelly: The indispensable report

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Other News Sources
(May 18, 2011) I attach a copy of one of a series of Xcel workbooks that, since 1999, the UK Treasury publishes as part of a set of “Pre-Budget” documents.  It shows the estimated impact of all government taxes and transfers/benefits (cash and in-kind) on working families, by income decile.  The Treasury also publishes a similar analysis for retired and not working families, and a workbook that combines all families. Continue reading →
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Lawrence Solomon: Renewables now bigger than nuclear

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 18, 2011) The world now has more renewable electricity capacity than nuclear capacity, according to a recent report from the Worldwatch Institute.  According to its World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010–2011, just four types of renewables — wind, small-scale hydro, solar, and biomass – accounted for 381 gigawatts (GW) of capacity at the end of 2010, edging past nuclear power’s 375 GW of capacity. Continue reading →

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FP Letters to the Editor: We are green, EDC says

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 12, 2011) Re: “Greening Harper,” Lawrence Solomon, May 7 Continue reading →

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Too much of a good thing

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 12, 2011) An Edmonton Journal article takes issue with the views of Lawrence Solomon — and most scientists — on carbon dioxide. Continue reading →

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Lawrence Solomon: What Hudak failed to say

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 11, 2011) In a much ballyhooed speech yesterday, would-be Ontario Premier Tim Hudak promised to kill the financing method that Premier Dalton McGuinty uses to build wind turbines. But Hudak doesn’t promise to kill wind turbines. He merely proposes some alternative financing method, not yet described, to bring Ontarians more wind turbines. Hudak’s wind turbines will also be uneconomic, just less so than McGuinty’s. Continue reading →

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